Colorado Republicans may not have been able to pick a presidential candidate at their caucus on March 1, but a former Coloradan just weighed in with the major vote against Donald Trump. Stephanie Cegielski, a graduate of the University of Colorado Denver who got a law degree from the University of…
Prohibitionists beware: Support for marijuana legalization has reached a record high among Americans. According to a study conducted in February by the Associated Press NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 61 percent of the 1,042 adult Americans polled support the legalization of marijuana — the highest percentage ever recorded in…
In the March 24 edition of Westword, we published the winners of our fourth annual Comics Contest. For more comic relief, you can read “May Gal, the Zombie” and many of the other cartoon entries here. Denver’s gay community has lost a couple of its favorite spots recently, with the…
Former East High School student Elhadji Samba Dioum has taken a plea deal in a criminal trial connected to a police lockdown that occurred on East High’s campus on December 3. On Friday, March 25, Dioum pleaded guilty to third-degree assault – a misdemeanor – as part of a deal…
Harrison Fast went missing while attempting to speed fly the Jungfrau in Switzerland on March 26. A graduate of Cherry Creek High School and the University of Boulder, he was on vacation from his job as a mechanical engineer at Real D in Boulder and was set to meet a…
The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful spring day in Denver. But reminders of last Wednesday’s storm linger, in the form of broken branches, broken travel plans and piles of snow in private parking lots that give no signs of melting before July. The ire of certain residents may…
On March 26 a delegation of interfaith leaders met with concerned community members at the Colorado Muslim Society, the largest mosque in the Rocky Mountain region, to openly denounce Islamophobia at “Building Bridges with the Muslim Community.” The gathering was organized by the newly-formed Coalition for an Inclusive Colorado, and offered break-out…
Much has been written about spring, and rightly so. After all, it’s the season when the world seems to come alive again: The days grow longer, the birds return, and there’s green everywhere. (No, that’s not a marijuana reference.) Spring might have officially started on March 20, but it really…
Inside a nondescript brick building on the corner of Colfax Avenue and Glenarm Place, directly across the street from the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse, is a room filled with trash cans. They’re the same kind of trash cans that many Denver residents roll out to the curb each week – green, with…
A recent Comment of the Day claiming that Nebraska and Oklahoma are ass-backward about marijuana was prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a lawsuit filed by the states against Colorado over Amendment 64. A reader subsequently offered a strong argument for why Nebraska’s anger at cannabis from…
Denver blogs would like another one, barkeep. At Westword Food & Drink, Jonathan Shikes reports that Vail’s Big Beers Festival could end without a new location and financial help. Denver Egotist shares a video focusing on local commercial filmmaker Shelby Smith’s around-the-world trip. Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel highlights Brighton Boulevard reconstruction…
Looks like Denver residents will be voting in November on whether they want to allow marijuana social clubs and special events in the city. Advocates of the concept just submitted the proposed language for such a measure to the city, as proponents had told us they would earlier this month…
In February 2015, we told you about a death on Java Court that was being investigated as a homicide. The victim was later identified as Francis Canham, known to friends and neighbors as Frank. Within days, Daniel Gonzales was arrested for the crime even though he’d traveled across the country;…
So…you’ve just been caught using your phone to capture video of a pregnant woman in a health-club shower. Do you acknowledge your creepy actions and beg for forgiveness? Or do you run like hell and hope you don’t get caught? According to a just-filed lawsuit, a health-club worker in Colorado…
No need to pretend there’s the slightest suspense: Estately’s new list of the “most marijuana-enthused states” puts Colorado in the number one position. By a lot. As for which other states made the cut, the answers aren’t exactly shocking — but some interesting facts and figures determined their order. The…
Plenty of popular television shows depict stories that supposedly happened in our great state, including Dynasty, Mork & Mindy and South Park. But as we’ve noted, there have been lots of TV series most viewers didn’t know were set in Colorado, in part because they didn’t last long. It’s too soon to…
It’s been a year since we last shared a Texts From Last Night collection from the 303 area code. And since we last checked in, thumbs have been busy. So have a lot of other things, judging by the hilarious weirdness of the messages that follow.. Continue to experience our…
The phrase “justice delayed is justice denied” doesn’t quite fit cold cases. In such instances, convictions of guilty parties are always preferable to situations in which offenders are never punished for their illegal actions. But the story of one woman’s abuse at the hands of Warren Foster represents a close…
Medical marijuana patients who’ve had their cards for more than five years talk about Denver dispensaries with a “back in my day” tone that quickly gets annoying. Because if your “day” was back in 2009, there’s a good chance that everyone else older than 23 experienced it, too. Still, comparing…
We recently wrote about the arrest of Kim Burgans, a nurse in Frisco who’s accused of stealing the painkiller fentanyl. This particular opioid has been at the center of other similar cases in which former medical pros such as Rocky Allen and Kristen Parker have been implicated. Many of the…
Denver blog posts are the cat’s meow. Our Westword Arts crew explains that the Denver County Fair’s Kitten Pavilion, which replaced the Pot Pavilion last year, will feature Venus the Two Face Cat. Mile High Report’s Ian St. Clair on how the Broncos are hanging on to Jordan Norwood. The Colorado Independent’s…
We seem to remember a saying that goes like this: Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. But apparently the folks at Denver Public Schools can’t. In February 2015, we reported about criticism of DPS for the lateness of a snow-day call — a delay that prompted…
