Movoto, the “real estate made easy” site that also makes it really easy to hype its lists, recently revealed “10 Things Only People From Denver Will Understand.” But many people from Denver didn’t understand a number of inclusions: “I’m native Denver, I don’t own fleece, smoke weed or snowboard. I…
In February, we shared ten of the toughest Best Of categories to win twice. From the best bartender (Courtney Wilson) to the best burger in Denver (Highland Tap & Burger), the winners were a tableau of Mile High success. As turns out, only one of those ten winners would come…
Look out below! For almost a decade, Doug Holread and the Pinon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition have been alert for any furtherArmy incursions into Pinon Canyon, a stunning swathe of rangeland in southeast Colorado. Last year, a senior Army official assured ranchers that the Pentagon has no plans to expand…
The Colorado Department of Public Health is looking to limit the number of patients that private medical marijuana caregivers can serve, as well as put a cap on the number of plants an individual may grow. Currently, caregivers can serve more than five patients by applying for a “medical necessity”…
The story of Kamryn Renfro, a nine-year-old Grand Junction girl who was briefly banned from the Caprock Academy charter school because her bald head violated the school’s dress-code policy — she’d shaved it in solidarity with her best friend, who is battling cancer — made us think about some of…
In honor of the Best of Denver, our stoner picked two of his top questions from last year. Have a fresh one? Send it to marijuana@westword.com or call 303-293-2222. Dear Stoner: If a mosquito bites you while you’re smoking a joint, will it get high?Buggin’ Out Dear Buggin’: What a…
Despite the start of recreational sales, there was no drop in active-patient red cards in January. According to statistics released by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment last week, the number of registered medical marijuana patients in the state actually grew by a few dozen people between the end…
Denver blogs go on a journey. On Westword’s Backbeat, Bree Davies shares dispatches from her trip to Treefort Music Festival. Tessa Cheek explains why attack ads are an early favorite in Colorado’s Senate race on the Colorado Independent With less than a week of spring training left, Purple Row’s Greg…
Yes, that was Amendment 64’s author Mason Tvert — not John Belushi — standing outside the Governor’s Mansion last Friday in a bedsheet toga, complaining that John Hickenlooper was turning the place into an Animal House knock-off by installing a draft system that dispenses Colorado craft beers, liquid assets from…
Jaime Leon Rivas turned nineteen years old yesterday. But he didn’t spend his birthday with his girlfriend, his friends or his family. No, the Summit County resident spent it inside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, where his girlfriend says he’s the youngest person in the custody of federal…
For thirty years, we’ve been compiling the top things to do, see, eat, visit and more in our annual Best of Denver issue. In that time we’ve had some pretty unusual categories, running the gamut from the Best Bus Line to Best Obscene Phone Call Reported to Police. To celebrate…
It’s March Madness time, when everyone decides to create their own Sweet Sixteen matchups for everything from movies to hot dog condiments. And speaking of hot dogs, Progress Now’s 22 state affiliates have tapped twenty politicians that they consider the “most outrageous, radical, out of touch right-wingers” for their “March…
What is the first thing you think of when you think of Colorado? Skiing? The Broncos? Movoto.com recently published their list of “10 things Denverites know to be true,” and you can bet the Broncos, snow and a few others are on there. What do you think of Movoto.com’s list?…
Just over three years after 21-year-old Jose Medina, a valet at the now-defunct Rockstar Lounge at 940 Lincoln Street, died after getting struck by a hit-and-run driver, Governor John Hickenlooper signed House Bill HB14-1191 into law and created the Hit and Run Medina Alert Program, the first of its kind…
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado attorneys can advise medical and recreational marijuana shops to follow state laws, even though such laws are in complete contradiction to federal laws that Colorado attorneys all vow to uphold. Back in December, the Colorado Bar Association had released a formal opinion…
Denver blogs are only there for the sopapillas. Bree Davies pays tribute to the four-decades-old Casa Bonita on Westword’s Show and Tell blog. At The Colorado Independent, Mike Littwin considers Cory Gardner’s personhood flip-flop. SBnation’s Eddie Maisonet looks back on the career of former Denver Nugget Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, who…
Three entrepreneurs who made their bones in Colorado’s marijuana industry are starting a new venture focusing on weed’s sober stepsister, hemp. It’s called Hemp Box and the idea is that subscribers will pay to receive one box per month filled with samples of hemp body-care and food products (as well…
While Colorado fans have been waving the flag — which only ranked twelfth in a national list of the best state flags, we’ve been buried in producing the Best of Denver, our annual celebration of everything we love about living in this state. Our thirtieth anniversary issue will hit the…
The tumbleweed invasion is nigh. Over the past few weeks, gaggles of the rolling desert shrubs have taken over portions of central Colorado, clogging streets and driveways, and trapping a few residents in their homes. Some communities around Colorado Springs have even resorted to clearing away the plants with snowplows…
Renegade Colorado crafters will be out in force this morning, delivering handmade “no thank you” cards to Attorney General John Suthers and telling him that birth control is #NotMyBossBusiness. Suthers filed a friend-of-the court brief in the Sibelious v. Hobby Lobby case, which the Supreme Court will hear today along…
Giving birth to a child is arguably the most intensely painful experience a human being can have. After nine months of more-or-less blissful pregnancy, childbirth is the dark side of reproduction — and it’s understandable that many women prefer to bypass the full experience through drugs or surgery, given the…
Reporters generally do a lousy job of analyzing the incarceration rate in the United States — which, despite recent sentencing reforms, remains the highest in the world, with more citizens per capita behind bars than in Cuba, Rwanda or Russia. That’s why a recent report by the Prison Policy Initiative,…
