Dear Mexican: What’s up with the bull stickers on the trucks? Is this a secret business, something earned at some unmentionable contest south of the border, or a brotherhood of sorts? Native Californian Whitey Dear Gabacho: The bull sticker is no cloak-and-dagger marker. Toros on trucks are just cultural archetypes,…
“The Heat Is On” this weekend in counties across the state, as the Colorado Department of Transportation gears up its DUI enforcement program. Because Halloween this year falls on a Saturday, this weekend is one of the “Heat Is On” program’s twelve enforcement periods of 2015, meaning that CDOT has provided…
There’s just one statewide measure on the ballot this November: Proposition BB. If passed, it would allow the state to retain and spend $66.1 million in revenue from marijuana collected through the first year of Proposition AA taxes. If it fails, that money will be refunded to taxpayers (it would…
Worried about the possibility of police brutality? There’s an app for that. Yesterday the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado launched Mobile Justice Colorado, a new police accountability tool that not only details your rights to witness and record police interactions, but also allows you to submit cell-phone videos of civil…
All three Pure Medical Dispensary locations now cater to the recreational crowd, but their employees are quick to tell you that their patient-friendly practices remain the same as always. I had never tried any of Pure’s flower before stopping by the original shop on Bannock Street, and I was interested…
Fourteen Republican candidates for President headed to Boulder yesterday for the third debate, broadcast (and not very broadly) on CNBC. But did the debate make a difference? Not to Michael, who says. First of all, Republicans and Democrats are the same exact thing. Owned by the same people at the…
Well. That was the least crazy Republican debate in recent memory. Those who are familiar with my personal politics know that this admission comes with some amount of sadness. For so many reasons, I’m not particularly fond of this batch of 19 Duggars and counting — er, Republican presidential candidates. In…
Like Taylor Swift’s countersuit, Denver blogs come from behind. Yesterday superstar Taylor Swift announced that she is countersuing the DJ who allegedly grabbed her ass backstage at a private meet-and-greet in Denver in June 2013. David Mueller had sued Swift earlier this year for losses he allegedly suffered after the…
Bowing to public sentiment and the urgings of the dental establishment, the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District voted 3-2 last week to lift a controversial ban on fluoride in its drinking supply, which had been imposed last July. That prompted one water board member — whose wife had been one…
“Ben Carson looks high as hell.” “I bet Jeb would give me a warm kiss.” “Ugh! Carly Fiorina’s smile is so fake.” Such was the commentary from University of Colorado Boulder students as they watched last night’s GOP presidential debate in their student center, where hundreds packed the Glenn Miller…
Generations of Coloradans know Heritage Square as an elaborate homage to their state’s prospecting past. But this weekend will be their last chance to see the fun-sized frontier town on the edge of Golden, renowned as one of the oldest theme parks in the world and initially designed as a…
“Or even some famous Colorado brownies.” On the day that Democratic — make that self-labeled “democratic socialist” — Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced that he supports removing marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule 1 drug by the federal government, in effect leaving its regulation up to the states,…
With Halloween just days away, there’s no time like the present to make sure your costume is planned and ready. But in case you’re still searching for last-minute costume ideas, there was plenty of inspiration to be found among protesters outside of yesterday’s GOP presidential debate in Boulder. Throughout the…
Haunted locales may come and go (rest in peace, Flossie McGrew’s), but it’s their stories that make the standouts stand out. Here are six of Colorado’s most unusual spooky sites, guaranteed to give you the creeps not just on Halloween, but on any dark night. 1) Cheesman Park, between Humboldt…
Dear Stoner: What is a moratorium? It doesn’t seem to be friendly to the dispensaries based on my Facebook feed. Allison Dear Allison: A moratorium is a temporary prohibition of an activity, and Amendment 64 gives local municipalities the right to ban or freeze marijuana-related applications, so your Facebook friends…
Denver blogs know that you’re never too young to love zombies. On Arts, Cory Casciato reports on the Kickstarter that local cartoonist Stan Yan will launch this weekend, to cover the cost of publishing There’s a Zombie in the Basement, a book that should be a monstrous hit for children…
Will the legalization of cannabis in Colorado become a point of contention in tonight’s Republican presidential debate? It’s already become an issue on the road to Boulder, where Smart Colorado has placed one of two billboards with the message that “marijuana potency has more than tripled since the mid-1990s”; the…
Back in the lock-’em-up frenzy of the 1990s, the Colorado Department of Corrections became increasingly reliant on private prison operators to stash its excess supply of felons. Those private companies tended to build their McPrisons in small towns on the eastern plains, far from the occupants’ families, promising to hire…
When the University of Denver hosted the presidential debate three years ago, who was the big winner? Not Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, but DU itself, which looked great on national televsion and got a big boost for its new brand (and paid $1.6 million for that boost). And who…
Sandy Widener, co-founder of Westword and the paper’s first managing editor, was killed in a horrific car crash in December 2007 that also took her husband, John Parr, and the couple’s daughter Chase. The only survivor was then seventeen-year-old Katy. But Sandy and John also left behind quite a legacy of…
If you didn’t score a ticket to tonight’s Republican presidential debate, you’re in good company: CNBC is only allowing 1,000 of the 11,000 seats at the University of Colorado’s Coors Events Center to be filled. But if you’re in Boulder, there will be plenty of action outside the arena. Here’s our…
World War II was over and the Cold War was just heating up when a metaphorical Atomic Age bomb burst in Colorado. The American science-fiction community was still in an uproar over the Shaver Mystery, “The Most Sensational True Story Ever Told,” according to Amazing Stories magazine, a publication whose…
