Yesterday, we told you about controversy stirred by a painting of a KKK-hood-wearing cop pointing a gun at an African American child that had been displayed as part of a student art show at the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building. After the National Latino Peace Officers Association branded the image “hate…
On occasion, we warn readers in advance about potentially disturbing material in a post. We do so again in the case of Colby Messer — and we really, really mean it. According to an arrest affidavit, Messer, a Canadian citizen, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met in…
A travel ban in Denver? Say it isn’t so! Denver International Airport, bill as the “all-weather airport,” was closed, as were the roads leading to it, as of 12:34 p.m. today, March 23. The spring snowstorm, which has exceeded 24-inches of accumulation in some parts of the state, took the entire…
Next week, we’ll be unveiling Westword’s Best of Denver edition for 2016. Included among the winners will be this year’s choice for Best Hair on a TV Personality for both females and males — annually two of our most competitive categories. The 2016 champ will join our Follicle Hall of…
Yesterday’s spring storm closed Denver International Airport for only the second time ever (DIA is open again, but delays remain) and turned some of the highways in and around the metro area into parking lots for hours at a time. I know about the latter from personal experience. I was…
Dear Stoner: Where can I find house rentals to cultivate marijuana with a landlord who will approve? Jeannette Dear Jeannette: It’d take some serious balls to ask if you can cultivate pot in the property owner’s basement right before signing the lease — and those big balls would probably get…
We recently re-shared a vintage post featuring ten online reasons not to move to Boulder. And once again, the items prompted widely varied responses from readers. One of our favorites is the following, in which the author uses withering sarcasm to decimate stereotypes about the community. Here’s what he had…
Denver blogs are feeling festive. At Westword Music, Bree Davies highlights ten great spring music festivals in Colorado. Mile High Report’s Scotty Payne shares Broncos coach Gary Kubiak’s theory about how to replace Malik Jackson. Colorado Pols: “Trump Slushes Up Controversial Local Mail Vendor.”…
Is there any topic that gets Denver residents going more than growth — and what comes with it? All over town, people are talking about high rents, displaced tenants, traffic congestion and, in my neighborhood, renewed parking wars, with two entire blocks now lost to a project that’s closed two…
Update below: Earlier this year, we told you about a challenge to Obamacare’s contraception mandate filed in Denver by Little Sisters of the Poor, an organization jointly based here and in Baltimore. Moments from now, oral arguments are due to be presented in the case, which an organization backing the…
It wasn’t long ago that Ty Lawson was the face of the Denver Nuggets, who promoted him as one of the premier point guards in the NBA. Now, he’s barely playing for his third team in less than a year — and he’s just been convicted of driving under the…
The March 2016 report from ApartmentList.com shows that rental prices in the Denver area have moderated to some degree from their crazy highs of the past year or so. In fact, a stats show that rent prices in Colorado as a whole have actually been rising faster than the ones in…
The image, part of a Denver Public Schools student art show displayed at the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building in Denver, is obviously meant to provoke. After all, it features a police officer in a KKK hood holding a gun on an African American child in a white hoodie against…
The inclement weather currently pounding the Denver metro area aren’t idea when it comes to investigating an officer-involved shooting in which one man died. But that’s precisely what’s happening at this hour. Late last night, cops with the Thornton Police Department killed a thus-far-unnamed individual. He first came to an…
Last July, as we reported, the Colorado Board of Health declined to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions legally treatable by medical marijuana following a meeting that left many advocates frustrated. For example, Sue Sisley, a physician awarded a $2 million Colorado grant for a study on pot…
As we’ve reported, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a marijuana lawsuit filed against Colorado by Oklahoma and Nebraska. The complaint has been controversial since it was filed in 2014 — and the Obama administration filed a brief favoring Colorado’s position late last year. Our readers overwhelmingly approved of…
Denver blogs leave the gun but take the cannoli. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation reveals that Godfather’s Pizza is returning to Denver after twenty years. The Colorado Independent: “Tears Flow Over Weakened Conservation Easement Bill.” Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger on reports that the Broncos are willing to take a…
A lawsuit brought by seven current and former teachers against Denver Public Schools will be taken up by the Colorado Supreme Court, the state’s highest court announced Monday. As reported in the April 2014 Westword cover story “Wrong Answers,” the teachers allege that DPS is misusing a part of the…
There’s a new chapter to a long-running northwest side story: This morning, the city is slated to sign a deal for the sale of the Bosler house, the circa 1875 mansion at 3209 West Fairview Place, right off Federal Boulevard. Designated a Denver landmark in 1984, it was purchased by…
Lauren Mann, who grew up in the small, Western Colorado town of Paonia, is making news across the planet for the worst possible reason. She was found dead in her apartment in Vienna, where she was working as an au pair, and police are investigating the case as a homicide…
Colorado colleges often fail to score great grades on national surveys. Last year, just two Colorado institutions made the top thirty in an NPR roster of premier U.S. colleges. And in recent weeks, we noted that a ranking of America’s best public colleges featured just one Colorado school in the top…
Earlier this month, we told you that Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller would take part in Dancing With the Stars’ new season. Last night, His Vonness made his debut on the program alongside dancing partner Witney Carson. And while, as ESPN noted, he didn’t dominate the competition as he…
