A few months back, we posted about the setting of the September 16 marijuana tax holiday, which some ganjapreneurs see as potentially becoming the second 4/20 of 2015. In the context of that piece, we also provided info about House Bill 15-1367, an effort by the State of Colorado to hang on…
Early this month, we reported about a couple attacked on the 16th Street Mall for complaining about littering, as well as complaints about a fourteen-minute delay in police response to the incident, which is said to have involved somewhere between ten and twenty teens. The couple was badly beaten and…
Last month, we published “How Much You Need to Make to Have an Adequate Standard of Living in Denver.” The post used number complied by the Economic Policy Institute — and there’s a lot more data about Colorado available. EPI’s website includes a tool dubbed the Family Budget Calculator, which “measures the income a…
Another summer weekend, more reports of gun violence. The good news: No one died in two weekend shootings in Denver — at least not yet. One person was critically injured. The bad news: No suspects have been apprehended in either case — and one of the incidents took place very…
PT’s Showclub, at 1601 West Evans Avenue, is a historic venue — the former home of The Family Dog, a rock-and-roll venue that played host to late ’60s-early ’70s legends such as the Doors and the Grateful Dead before being transformed into one of the city’s longest lasting exotic-dancing joints…
We recently posted about a report suggesting that the profusion of marijuana grows in Denver has created a warehouse-space shortage for other types of businesses. Another apparent side effect: rapidly rising rent costs. Readers had a wide variety of opinions about this development, with one of the most memorable suggesting that…
Denver blog posts have long memories. At our Arts blog, Brad Weismann takes you on a virtual tour of ten long-gone Denver landmarks. Denver Egotist screens a snowboard movie shot in Steamboat by Andrew Burns. The Colorado Independent’s Addie Glickstein: “No sparkly smiles for Denver’s anti-fluoride activists.”…
Dear Mexican: I recently received the biography of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. While reading about his friendship with Jimi Hendrix, I came to a part in which Ronnie describes Jimi as part black, Cherokee and Mexican. I’ve always read about Jimi’s grandmother being Cherokee, but this was the first…
Earlier this month, we told you about a plan to stamp all marijuana edibles with a red stop sign emblazoned with the letters “THC” as a way of warning folks that the product was cannabis-infused. The notion prompted outcries and eye-rolling from many pot consumers and members of the marijuana industry…
Twitter brings people together — and so did a certain bear whose run through Arvada yesterday briefly captivated all of Colorado. By the time the ursine star was captured and taken away, humorous tweets about the situation, and the live coverage of it by multiple Denver TV stations, had been…
Here at Schmuck of the Week headquarters, we like to pass along knowledge gleaned from the stories of award winners, in the hope that we can prevent future Schmucks from being featured in this space. (Don’t worry about us possibly running out of schmucks. There seems to be an endless…
Earlier this week, when we shared our latest collection of “You Know You’re From Denver When” punchlines, we asked readers to share their favorite way to complete that sentence. Plenty did so — and we’ll be featuring many of them in a future post. First, though, come the contributions of Matt…
My drive to Westword’s offices each morning takes me past Denver Health Medical Center — and when I saw the emergency room parking lot jammed with police vehicles and ambulances, I knew something substantial had happened. And it has. A police officer was reportedly injured during a traffic stop on…
Phil Garnier was listed at number eighteen on Colorado’s most recent list of its 100 most wanted sex offenders. But he won’t be there for much longer — and the reason’s not a good one. Garnier was arrested in Colorado Springs early on Wednesday, August 26, after a tipster alerted…
The City of Denver recently argued that an order banning protests outside the courthouse where Dexter Lewis’s death penalty trial is underway should be upheld because there might be civil unrest if Lewis is sentenced to die when Aurora theater shooter James Holmes wasn’t. As court documents note, Lewis is…
Most drivers see a detour as a reason to turn red in the face and cuss out Siri — but thanks to the density of pot shops in metro Denver, I usually see it as an opportunity. A wrong left in Aurora recently had me passing by Rocky Road Remedies…
Denver blog posts have plenty of meat on their bones. At our Food & Drink blog, Mark Antonation has the details about Carve Barbecue’s planned South Colorado Boulevard opening. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein breaks down the Denver Nuggets 2014-2015 schedule. Want the latest update on the 701 Sherman project? Denver…
As we’ve reported, U.S. District Court Jude William Martinez issued a preliminary injunction against an order that blocked protests at Lindsey Flanigan courthouse in Denver — an action prompted by the arrests of Eric Brandt and Mark Iannicelli for distributing jury nullification pamphlets. Jury nullification is the act of jurors finding…
The first post in Westword’s Aurora Theater Shooting archive was published early on July 20, 2012. It’s very simple headline reads, “Videos: Aurora Century 16 Shooting at The Dark Knight Rises.” Since then, we’ve published hundreds of posts about the horrific acts that took place that night, with topics including the first…
Back in May, we posted about the ten Denver neighborhoods with the highest crime to that point in 2015, as measured by crime density statistics complied by the Denver Police Department. This post is both an update and a much broader look at the topic. Once again, we’ve drawn upon DPD stats…
In November 2012, we published a post entitled UNSOLVED MURDERS IN COLORADO: READ TEN MORE PERSONAL STORIES OF VICTIMS, featuring cold cases highlighted by the invaluable Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website. Among the tragedies we featured was the murder of Carolyn Jansen, who likely died in 2003, around…
The folks behind the Tinder dating app are getting ready for a particular busy time: the start of another the academic year at colleges across the country. Not that scholastic achievement is the focus of a new post on the Tinder blog. Instead, Tinder has come up with its list…
