In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation introduces you to three eateries offering rare tastes of Caribbean cuisine in Denver. The Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland: “Forgery Accusations Won’t Keep Jon Keyser Off the Ballot.” Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger on Broncos quarterback Mark Sanchez’s thumb surgery…
MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. She was eighteen years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. Rarely do misdemeanors draw notice. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008…
Transportation issues could create a real traffic jam in Denver today. A coalition of local and national business, environmental and transportation groups are hosting the second annual Live.Ride.Share, a conference devoted to the growing technology-driven transportation trends, at the Colorado Convention Center. Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx will be…
Since 2013, we’ve been covering the murder of Martel Thomas, a veteran who was buried with full military honors. There’s no suspense about who took Thomas’s life: In 2015, Ken Mackey was convicted of the crime, which involved a cocaine deal gone wrong, gunplay and a battle with a samurai…
Back in February, we reported about Nuggets and Avalanche owner Stan Kroenke’s purchase of a Texas ranch the size of a country. Shortly thereafter, the folks at the SelfStorage.com Moving blog proved it via a series of maps that compared the ranch’s size to that of Panama, Puerto Rico and a…
Last July, Troy Tulowitzki, among the best players in Colorado Rockies history, was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, where he appears to be flourishing. Tulo helped lead the Jays to the playoffs last year, and on Sunday, he belted his eighth homer of the season, raising his slugging percentage…
Pueblo’s Ken Ramos didn’t quite become a Major League Baseball star — but he was good enough to spend ten years in the pros and earn his way into the Pueblo Sports Hall of Fame. Now, however, the 48-year-old is dead in what the Pueblo coroner has determined was a…
In recent years, we’ve written plenty about Wyoming’s unhappiness over Colorado’s marijuana laws. Back in January 2015, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead said his state wouldn’t be joining a (failed) lawsuit filed against Colorado by Oklahoma and Nebraska over Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational cannabis sales here. However, he made…
We’re still collecting comments on a recent post that attempted to pin down why the price of marijuana has been falling at Colorado dispensaries. Plenty of readers have offered their own theories, but this one goes beyond explanation to offer predictions about where prices will go from here. Spoiler alert:…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Brett Callwood highlights the ten best DJs in Denver right now. Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel: “Denver Union Station Expands Bicycle Infrastructure.” Purple Row’s Ryan Freemyer on the Colorado Rockies completing a sweep of the New York Mets with a little help from Ryan…
The Denver City Council is about to get a crash course on one of Denver’s most enlightened citizens: Emily Griffith. The legendary educator got her start in Denver as a substitute teacher, became a deputy superintendent of schools for Colorado in 1904, and founded the Opportunity School a century ago. Its…
There was a time when the Church of Scientology basked in the reflected glamor of its celebrity adherents, from Tom Cruise and John Travolta to the likes of Isaac Hayes and Chick Corea. But in recent years the religious organization launched by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard seems to have…
We’ve been reporting about the disturbingly high number of officer-involved shootings in Colorado of late. Between Halloween and mid-December 2015, for example, eleven officer-involved shootings took place along the Front Range — and the pace of such incidents has remained troubling in 2016. Recall that late last month, we told you…
Last week, we told you about an Anonymous video warning Denver mayor Michael Hancock that if he didn’t resign, the organization would expose his alleged ties to the Denver Players prostitution ring. This clip followed one in March that ripped Denver (and threatened doxxing) over the city’s homeless policies. Now,…
Residents in some Denver neighborhoods routinely live shorter lives than folks who make their homes across town. And the differences can be striking. That’s the takeaway from data compiled by the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU researchers have mapped life expectancy on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood level…
Actor Shia LaBeouf is, to use a technical term, one weird son of a bitch. Once a prepubescent/teen crush thanks to roles in Even Stevens and Holes, not to mention the Transformers movies, LaBeouf has, in recent years, actively shunned celebrity via his version of performance art. Take this Dazed account of…
According to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Joe Thompson reacted a woman leaving his car in the midst of an argument in an extreme way. By running over her. Indeed, the woman is said to have wound up underneath the vehicle after the incident, in which Thompson, 32, faces a…
We recently posted about a new American Automobile Association study that concluded Colorado’s marijuana driving standard, which establishes intoxication at 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood, is not based on science. This came as no surprise to many of our readers. Cannabis advocates have long argued that the…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation offers a photo tour of the new Illegal Pete’s on Colfax, which has transformed an old IHOP. Colorado Pols feasts on what it calls “Jon Keyser’s Epic On-Camera Meltdown.” Denver Egotist spotlights a Donald Trump display with a secret…
Going out for a night on the town but pretty sure you’re going to be partaking in cannabis? Loopr to the rescue. The “mobile cannabis lounge” is a marijuana-friendly concept bus ride, similar to The Hopper, that’s like a shiny new Uber for stoners. Loopr revved up this week, with rides from 4 p.m. to…
We’re not in the habit of advising people how not to become a Schmuck of the Week. That would be bad for business. Still, it’s just common sense to avoid drawing attention to yourself while committing a crime. Apparently, though, common sense is one thing Denver’s Nicholas Broviak lacks. So, too,…
A former Trinidad district attorney has abruptly dropped out of the race to replace Frank Ruybalid, the embattled top prosecutor in Las Animas and Huerfano counties, saying that the office is so badly underfunded by state and county officials that “the safety of the citizens of this district is at…
