Earlier this week, we rounded up the cool reaction by some national pundits, including the New York Times’ David Brooks and the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown, to the start of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Among those with negative responses to the pieces we mentioned was Betty Aldworth, deputy…
Yesterday, we posted about negative reactions after 9News posted about the bikini bridge, an online hoax suggesting that women thin down so that there’s a gap between their stomach and the suit’s fabric when it’s stretched hip to hip. Some readers were unhappy at our suggestion that striving for such…
Denver blog posts have a keen eye. At our Backbeat blog, Shea Serrano details the many ways Pitbull’s “Timber,” video, featuring Ke$ha, sucks. The Colorado Independent on day one of the legislative session: No rockin’ the dome. Denver Egotist: Will this intense PSA cure you of speeding?…
Major sporting events attract big money and big crowds. But Michael Ocello, who owns several Denver strip clubs and co-founded Club Operators Against Sex Trafficking, says they also attract a specific type of crime: men and women, girls and boys who are brought to Denver and forced to work as…
The national debate over fracking may be unfolding in the halls of Congress, but the battle over where oil and gas drilling takes place is being waged at the grassroots level — which is why the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org has announced plans to funnel money, training and “strategic support”…
In 2010, mom and onetime Leadville resident Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was indicted for giving material support to terrorists — among them Colleen LaRose, also known as “Jihad Jane.” Eventually, Paulin-Ramirez started singing about LaRose, as well as her hubby, an Algerian terrorist. But the tune only went so far considering that…
It’s a suitably strange conclusion to a bizarre case. Back in December 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Bryson Dewberry against Chang Ho Yi, a liquor store owner who’d shot him in the face after he’d shoplifted a bottle of Grey Goose vodka. Now, a jury has…
Last April, we told you about the strange story of Stephen Amador, a high-school basketball referee accused of groping four female players while they were on the courts during games — and presumably in full view of their parents and loved ones. The latest? Amador has been found guilty of…
Chargers QB Philip Rivers, who Broncos fans love to hate, will bring his many ridiculous expressions to Denver on Sunday for a playoff match-up against the Broncos. No doubt he’ll be wearing a bolo tie of the sort that San Diego boosters see as a good-luck charm — hence their…
Houstonian Joe Mattingly likes the finer things in life. Namely, he enjoys expensive ski trips to Vail, Beaver Creek, Utah and Lake Tahoe. And now he’s thinking about visiting Steamboat Springs. The only problem? Colorado legalized marijuana and this Texan doesn’t want it interfering with his vacation. In fact, he…
Folks who ride the bus at night in Denver tend to be hyper-vigilant — and the experience of a woman late on Wednesday demonstrates why. According to police, a rider tried to sexually assault her shortly after she disembarked, and only her scrappiness prevented an awful situation from being even…
It had been about three years since I was last in The Herbal Cure to check out the herb. And within a minute of my most recent visit, it was easy to tell that the shop has done a lot of, um, growing in that time. Not that the herb…
Melanie Asmar’s post about a drunk woman who got into an elephant exhibit at the Denver Zoo notes that new signage is intended to prevent something like this from happening in the future. In the view of one reader, though, the Zoo shouldn’t be considered off the hook for what…
Denver blog posts like it raw. At our Cafe Society blog, Amber Taufen notes a Hapa Sushi ad featuring a menu that pairs food items with marijuana strains. Roundball Mining Company’s Kalen Deremo on trade prospects for disgruntled Nugget Andre Miller — including, possibly, Jimmer Fredette. Denver Frank introduces Breaking…
In this week’s cover story, I profile John Friend, who built his Texas-based Anusara yoga school into a global empire before losing it all in a lurid 2012 scandal and moving to Denver to start anew. While Friend’s fall from grace captured major media attention, he was far from the…
As we’ve reported, attorney and conservative talk-show host Dan Caplis, whose KHOW show with fellow lawyer Craig Silverman ended in June 2012, returned to the airwaves this week at KNUS, an outlet that also provided a refuge for ex-KHOW mainstay Peter Boyles. And on his debut program, he immediately made…
Earlier this week, we told you about three New Year’s assaults in downtown that bear strong resemblances to the “knockout game” — sucker punches intended to render random strangers unconscious. Now, the Denver Police Department is facing criticism for taking the better part of a week to let the public…
Earlier this week, we told you about satirical news stories on Colorado pot sales that some people appeared to be taking seriously, including one whose headline claimed that “Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37.” Have the citizens of Internet Nation learned anything from these experiences? Not all of them, apparently. Enough folks…
Outside of January, when the National Western Stock Show is in town, you don’t see a lot of bolo ties in Colorado anymore, even though they’re as much a part of Western garb as cowboy boots. “Bolo ties are not a high-volume seller,” says Rockmount Ranch Wear owner Steve Weil,…
What are the hundred things everyone should do in Colorado before they die? We posed this question to our writers and editors, and over the next week, we’ll be rolling out their answers across our blogs. We shared Denver Bucket List picks 25-16 last week. Next up are 15-6. Count…
As of today, it’s been one week since legal recreational marijuana sales launched in Colorado, and Westword’s photographers have been hard at work covering the story. Get an inside look below via samples from three separate slide shows: January 1’s “Recreational marijuana sales begin in Denver,” January 3’s “Behind the…
A search for the phrase “bikini bridge” on the 9News Facebook page this morning scores no hits — meaning that it’s presumably been scrubbed out of existence. But there was enough hubbub about coverage of what’s now seen as an Internet hoax to convince young women that emaciation is in…
