Denver blog posts can definitely cut a rug. At our Backbeat blog, Drew Ailes lists the six reasons he won’t dance at your wedding. Number 5: “No One Here Wants to Have Sex With Me.” Colorado Pols thinks Representative Jared Wright is going full rogue in his career’s final days…
With Republicans determined to take back control of the U.S. Senate by unseating a handful of vulnerable Dems and polls showing the race between Senator Mark Udall and challenger Representative Cory Gardner devolving into a dead heat, it’s hardly a surprise that interest groups on both sides are pouring money…
Here at Schmuck of the Week headquarters, we’re all for families that stick together through thick and thin. But even this fine quality can be taken too far. As evidence, we submit the strange story of Monique Armstrong, a twenty-year-old from Grand Junction who reacted to her brother being jailed…
Fool me twice, shame on me? This saying resonates in the latest news about Matthew Caulk, a notorious sex offender who’s been the subject of multiple nationwide searches. Last year, Caulk vanished after taking advantage of a passive GPS system — a device we’ll explain below. He was subsequently recaptured…
Earlier this month, Senator Linda Newell, sponsor of two controversial bills intended to clarify the definition of a drug-endangered child, refuted claims that the measures could criminalize any parent who legally smoked marijuana. Nonetheless, the measures failed this week after a tricky political maneuver. They actually passed before a reversal…
The American Lung Association’s massive State of the Air report for 2014 is out, with the organization grading places all over the country in terms of air pollution, including Colorado. Ozone-pollution figures for fourteen Colorado counties were available, and the ALA’s judgments are harsh: Eight of the counties get grades…
This is Desiree Gallimore, who goes by “Dez” — and it’s appropriate she’s got a nickname of her own, since she’s been charged alongside the Packer brothers, aka “Chrome” and “Jazz,” in a disturbing child prostitution case. Chrome is only one of the alleged lawbreakers featured in our April mug-shot…
Justin Wayne Lamb, 29, has the sort of ink that makes him an unlikely candidate for an office job. Not only do his tats cover the majority of territory on his head and neck (as well as his chest, which provides home for a swastika) — but the one on…
In the year or so since photos of what looks to be a clean, well-lit and well-stocked Flavored Essentials were posted on the dispensary’s Facebook page, the shop doesn’t appear to have done much upkeep. Lights were out all over the place, and the only illumination came from the few…
The comments continue to pour in regarding Patricia Calhoun’s post about the Ballpark Neighborhood Association’s opposition to a new day center for the homeless. This reader sees those who object to the project as a problem rather than the solution…
Denver blog posts are feeling salty today. Our Cafe Society blog notes that Benny’s is raising its beer and margarita prices — and puts the blame on a shortage of limes. Coyote Gulch reveals that watering restrictions are off the table in Colorado Springs this season. Big Media’s Jason Salzman…
Lawyers for Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes have until May 5 to ask the Colorado Supreme Court to review a decision by Judge Carlos Samour to have Holmes undergo a second sanity evaluation. Samour ordered the second evaluation after prosecutors alleged that the first one, done last summer, contained…
The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division held a session on product potency yesterday at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, where a working group discussed how to make sure that marijuana edible serving sizes are safe for consumers. Much of the talk focused on packaging, and how to make…
Members of the armed services face enough threats on the job that their home life should be a safe haven. But that certainly doesn’t appear to be the case for one Fort Carson soldier. A criminal complaint against her civilian husband, Mitchell Gibson, documents years of abuse and punishment capped…
This past October, we told you about sex-assault charges against Bojan Vuckovic and Dennis Hanson, a pair of Fort Collins men accused of getting two girls drunk and violently raping them. Vuckovic was subsequently convicted, but only of supplying alcohol to minors — an outcome so shocking that a group…
Earlier this week, an effort to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions legally treatable by medical marijuana in Colorado failed — a development cannabis advocate Brian Vicente described as “shameful.” Veteran Sean Azzariti offered emotional testimony in favor of the bill and admits to being frustrated that…
Earlier this week, we posted about the ten Denver neighborhoods where you’re most likely to get your car stolen, using Denver Police Department data from 2009 to 2013 obtained by Fox31. But that was only one of several offenses for which figures are available. Today, our focus is aggravated assault,…
Fox31 has discovered a list of passwords being circulated among government employees in charge of driver’s license suspension hearings. They include such gems as SuckFail, CuzUDrnk (“Because You’re Drunk”) and URSkrood (“You Are Screwed”). At this point, it’s unclear whether the passwords, designated for each month from 2011 through 2014,…
In 2010 and again in 2012, Commerce City police officers shot and killed dogs. The incidents were mired in controversy — and a lawsuit is still pending in the latter, involving a dog named Chloe whose death helped inspire a bill signed into law last year that requires police to…
“Bloody Ludlow,” Alan Prendergast, April 17 Blood and Guts I used to read Westword but seldom pick it up anymore. “Bloody Ludlow” caught my attention. My mother’s family is from Trinidad. My great-grandfather settled in Trinidad in 1880 after emigrating from Glasgow, Scotland. He worked as a coal miner and…
Small-town boy Joe Machetta loved Las Vegas. “I used to gamble with Dino; he always liked the number-one chair. I always sat in the middle, with the rest of the guys on the other side; Dino always had three or four gals around him all the time,” Machetta says, crediting…
Joe Machetta isn’t the only member of his family to get hooked on the movie business. For more than fifty years, Machetta’s aunt and uncle, Edna and George Kelloff Sr., and their children ran Movie Manor in Monte Vista — the world’s only known drive-in movie theater with an attached…
