Denver blog posts don’t cry over spilled ink. Over at our very own Backbeat blog, Dave Herrera shares a video of Filter drummer Jeff Fabb being turned away from Brothers Bar & Grill for having visible neck tattoos. Really. Coyote Gulch: Flood relief dough is starting to flow. Colorado Pols…
How much is the sanctity of our nation’s honored dead worth to David Gillespie? If he’s guilty of what authorities believe, the answer is $124. The dollar amount is specific because Gillespie, 26, got that amount for cemetery urns he allegedly stole off grave sites, most of them occupied by…
Yesterday, we marked World Day to End the Death Penalty by sharing a post spotlighting ten horribly botched executions. But the tales of capital punishment gone awry didn’t change the minds of many supporters of the ultimate penalty. Here’s one of many passionate posts on the subject…
When the League of Women Voters recently made an analysis of issues on the November ballot, it couldn’t find a group to make the case against 2H, a proposal to extend the City of Boulder’s moratorium on new oil and gas drilling for another five years. “There is no organized…
Today at 2 p.m., marijuana activists Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente will hold a press conference decrying a new proposal that would potentially criminalize marijuana smoking in one’s own home if its odor can be smelled outside it. In a press release announcing the event (see it below), Tvert and…
After scoring some cameos in Fast and Furious 7 that are expected to bring $13 million to Colorado but only cost the state $700,000 in rebates, the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media won approval this week to award incentives to two more (much smaller) projects. One is a…
Nathan Starks is one of the most highly recruited high school football players in the country — but he couldn’t get on the field for Cherry Creek High School, coached by ex-NFL pro and voice of the Broncos Dave Logan, because he’d been ruled ineligible by the Colorado High School…
As we’ve reported, yesterday was World Day to End the Death Penalty, and to mark the occasion, capital punishment opponents gathered at the State Capitol to decry the ultimate penalty with time-tested arguments and new statistics from a white paper and infographic assembled for the occasion; see both below. Among…
Earlier this week, we shared Mapquest’s picks for the top ten Denver neighborhoods, and quite a few of our readers disagreed with the company’s picks. So we looked around for other choices and found a couple of notable ones — top-five Denver neighborhood lists put together by real-estate blog Movoto…
It had been more than a week since a murder had taken place in the Denver metro area — the kind of stretch that we don’t see nearly enough. But this homicide-free streak was broken last night in an extremely violent way, via multiple gunshots that ended the life of…
When Jadin Bell hanged himself at age fifteen earlier this year, his dad, Joe Bell, did more than mourn. He launched Joe’s Walk for Change, a cross-country trek intended to raise awareness about bullying — behavior with which Jadin, who was gay, had been victimized. Joe didn’t reach his destination:…
I could probably hit the Mile High Green Cross sign from the front door of Westword’s 10th and Broadway offices using a slingshot. I point that out because, despite being the closest medical marijuana dispensary to my desk, I’ve only been there a handful of times. But a fellow Westword…
This week, we’ve been posting about an attack at the 30th and Downing light-rail station — the third such incident over recent months in the metro area, following a pair of incidents that took place in June. The startling video footage of the assault got a lot of our readers…
Update: Earlier today, we posted about a letter sent to U.S. Attorney John Walsh by attorney Rob Corry on behalf of No on Proposition AA, the campaign opposed to a marijuana tax measure on next month’s ballot; see our previous coverage below. In the missive, Corry asked Walsh to state…
Denver blog posts make learning fun. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on the dismissal of a domestic-violence case targeting Nuggets star Ty Lawson and his girlfriend, Ashley Pettiford. Colorado Peak Politics shares kickoff videos for the gubernatorial runs of Scott Gessler and Mike Kopp. Denver Frank introduces us to Miss Ping…
From Facebook to Vine, social media is changing the way we follow news. At the 2013 Westword Web Awards, we’ll celebrate the people and organizations that use it best — and we want your help finding them. There are two ways you can help us pick this year’s winners…
Last week, we told you about the beginning of America’s first hemp harvest in more than fifty years, which started in late September in southeastern Colorado. This past weekend, that harvest continued with 45 volunteers from six different states, who converged on grower Ryan Loflin’s 55-acre hemp plot to finish…
Fact: A lot of men who think they’re irresistible ladykillers are actually incredible creeps. A case in point is a thus-far-unknown man who’s wanted by the Longmont Police Department for illegal use of the hands, times three. Specifically, this perv grabs random women on the ass, then blows kisses to…
This season, there’s been nary a discouraging word said about Broncos QB Peyton Manning, who’s on one of the most spectacular runs in NFL history. But the medical journal Pediatrics is an exception to this rule. A new study just shared in the publication evaluates athlete endorsements in food marketing…
Remember the print edition of the Weekly World News, the supermarket tabloid that specialized in stories about rock music curing a deaf girl, JFK and Hitler still being alive and Hillary Clinton adopting an alien baby? Well, we found an amazing archive of its “reporting” from the Reagan era into…
At 10 a.m. in the State Capitol, capital punishment opponents, including Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, will commemorate World Day to End the Death Penalty. Among other things, the event is scheduled to feature “reflections of the death penalty’s biased and unjust application.” But what about when executions go wrong?…
Loli-chan is a modern-day Rapunzel, locked inside a South Miami fortress of rust and weeds on a dead-end street. She rarely leaves a guest house that sits in a jungle-like yard overrun with six peacocks and half as many junked cars. Ten paces away is her parents’ place. Wooden boards…
