Halloween is tonight, and that means you can’t go two steps in Denver without tripping over a pumpkin. The gourds are everywhere: on people’s doorsteps, in their windows, in their pies and lattes. But when dawn breaks on November 1, all of those seasonal squashes are going to seem suddenly…
A popular trope in horror movies involves a family that finds out a just-purchased house is haunted — and then can’t get anyone to buy it. In the real world, such properties wind up on the market, too…hopefully with less dreadful consequences for purchasers than those in, say, The Conjuring…
This past January, we shared our first collection of Tom Brady hate memes just before the Broncos met the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, which Denver won. This Sunday in New England, the Brady-Peyton Manning rivalry will be renewed again — and lo and behold, we found a brand…
Even the name of Doctor’s Orders seems gimmicky to me, especially paired with the cartoonish image used by the shop, featuring a burnout hippie doctor who writes pot recommendations for any ailment under the sun. I know that goes on; I’m not naive. But it doesn’t represent the majority of…
A Denver Blogs post about the Illegal Pete’s name controversy raging in Fort Collins found loads o’ readers sharing their thoughts. Here’s how one person from FoCo responded to a question about whether he found the name to be offensive. See also: Are You Offended by the Name of Illegal…
Denver blog posts go door to door. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies points you toward eight great local shops for last-minute Halloween costumes and accessories. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery tracks Peyton Manning-Tom Brady match-ups through the years. Denver Frank posts about the Knockout, a beer shotgun…
This has been a tricky election year, with bogeymen from outside Colorado pouring tens of millions of dollars into a grab bag of candy-coated campaign gimmicks. A week from now, it will all be over but for the shouting…and the indigestion. In the meantime, here are the top six tricks…
The two women shot to death at the French Quarter apartments weren’t the only homicide victims in the metro area this week. Also slain was Robert Goldsberry, a sixty-year-old who was gunned down in the parking lot of a South Parker Road Walmart. The man being held for the crime…
Last October, Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov was arrested for allegedly abusing Evgeniya Vavrinyuk, his girlfriend, only to have the case dismissed a couple of months later. Now, Vavrinyuk has filed a civil suit against Varlamov, claiming years of horrific abuse in Russia and beyond leading up to the Denver…
When Rachel Maddow teased her appearance in Denver this week, she cited a governor’s race that was “off the hook,” yet she made little mention of the contest in the actual Tuesday night broadcast from the Viewhouse Ballpark. Last night, however, we found out what this allusion meant via a…
Seeking Arrangement is devoted to pairing self-proclaimed sugar daddies (and a few sugar mommies) with students and other young people willing to trade companionship for financial support. It’s a controversial service in some quarters, but also a popular one in Colorado. Earlier this year, Seeking Arrangement revealed that CU-Boulder was…
There have been other DIA-bound passengers busted for unwanted sexual advances on flight attendants over the years. But the accusations contained in an affidavit aimed at Vadym Pecherskyi, a 42-year-old from Kiev, Ukraine, hit new heights of creepiness, with one alleged victim saying she felt he would have raped her…
“Bro v. Hipster,” City Limits, october 23 Hipster, Bro…or Douchebag? This is just retarded. What a load of crap. Westword, you need to focus on what made you popular in the first place, which was focusing on legitimate entertainment and arts around Denver. Stop with all this BS. You’re just…
Dear Stoner: Do you think the Denver Police Department is right, and kids are going to get pot candy in their bags?Frank N. Stein Dear Frank: Not at all. This is just an updated version of the tired old story that fearmongering cops — and paranoid parents — have been…
Colorado and Washington might get some company next week. Marijuana legalization initiatives are on the ballots in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., and the proposals all strongly resemble what Colorado voters approved in 2012. See also: Pot Lies Being Used to Justify Police Shootings of Young Black and Brown Men,…
Our post about a Denver Police Department campaign focusing on trick-or-treaters and the possibility they might be given pot edibles for Halloween sparked fresh accusations of fear-mongering. But this reader suggests that something like this could actually happen — although not for the reasons hyped by the DPD. See also:…
Denver blog posts rock on. Our Backbeat blog raises a clenched fist for Denver’s nine best rock bars. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek and John Tomasic on Colorado Democrats’ ground game. Denver Egotist salutes the skull-tastic teaser by Denver’s Adam Schmisek for Starz’s Black Sails. See also: Are You Offended…
If you ask those in favor of Amendment 67 and those opposed to it what it would do, you’ll get very different answers. Opponents say it would ban abortion. Supporters say that’s not the point. The point, they say, is to make it so unborn babies are treated the same…
As any comic-book fan knows, superheroes that seem dead can later come back to life — and something similar has happened with a superhero-centric lawsuit filed by Colorado-based Stan Lee Media, Incorporated (SLMI). The complaint seemingly died last year, but an appeal revived it, leading to a hearing held in…
As we’ve reported, prominent addiction specialist and Project SAM principal Dr. Christian Thurstone stirred controversy via a blog post implying that marijuana contributed to — and perhaps even caused — the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting by a police officer caused weeks of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri. Thurstone subsequently…
In our preview of Rachel Maddow’s broadcast from Denver last night, we noted that she’d touted the show at the Viewhouse Ballpark by noting that the race for Colorado’s governor was “off the hook.” In the end, though, she spent little time talking about this contest during the highly entertaining…
We don’t know if the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records would consider awarding a world-record honor for a post about the Guinness Book of World Records — but if they do, Estately is definitely in the running. The site discovered and ranked world records for every state…
