A hearing today in the case of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes dealt with one question: If Holmes, who has indicated that he’d like to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, does not cooperate with a court-ordered mental examination, should he be allowed to call his own expert…
It’s been almost three years since I checked out Pure’s original location, on Bannock just south of the Denver Art Museum. Since then, the shop has expanded to two other locations quietly selling cannabis with what seems like little to no media presence. No cannabis cups and no obnoxious Internet…
A post yesterday featured the Independence Institute’s Dave Kopel talking about a lawsuit targeting Colorado’s new gun-control laws — and featuring the support of Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith and 54 of his colleagues around the state. As you can imagine, this topic fired up folks on both sides of…
Photo courtesy of Mercy for AnimalsThis week’s story, “The Ag Gag War,” goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between animal rights groups and Big Agriculture. For years organizations like the Humane Society and Mercy for Animals have being going undercover at America’s largest farms, using hidden cameras to…
Denver blog posts are putting their back into it. Big Media’s Jason Salzman thinks the press in general, and the National Journal in particular, has no justification for calling Congressman Mike Coffman a moderate. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels congratulates the latest Broncos Ring of Famer, Tom Nalen. Denver Infill’s…
When Governor John Hickenlooper announced yesterday that he’s offering a reprieve to Nathan Dunlap, who was convicted in 1996 of killing four people at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, he never uttered Dunlap’s name. Instead, he chose to call him “offender number 89148,” reasoning that he’d already gotten enough notoriety…
The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force has dubbed a crew of bank robbers the Trick or Treat Bandits because surveillance footage shows one member holding a pillowcase like a goodie bag. And goodies they’ve collected. The feds suspect them of knocking off nine banks or the like from…
We recently shared a study by University of Colorado academics whose results contradicted sugar-daddy-and-cougars stereotypes. Their analysis suggested that people who marry much older or younger partners are seldom either wealthy or attractive. Au contraire, insists Brandon Wade, CEO of SeekingArrangement.com, which he touts as “the world’s largest Sugar Daddy-dating…
Moments ago, during an appearance on Peter Boyles’s KHOW talk show (and while surrounded by TV cameras), former Congressman Tom Tancredo announced that he’s running for governor…again. “I announced 5 minutes ago my intention to seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado and look forward to fighting for jobs,…
Our Melanie Asmar has been reporting about efforts to attract more moviemakers to Colorado — and one great selling point is to check out the classics that have been partly filmed here over the years. Below, count down our ten favorites, as culled from the flicks listed on the FilmInColorado.com…
Yesterday’s decision by Governor John Hickenlooper to grant murderer Nathan Dunlap a reprieve from the death penalty — one that will stand as long as Hickenlooper is in office but can be reversed by successors — doesn’t stand alone. As noted by the Death Penalty Information Center, more than 270…
Yesterday, in announcing a reprieve for quadruple murderer Nathan Dunlap noted that Lisa Clements remains against the death penalty even after what happened to her husband, the late Colorado prison chief Tom Clements. What happened to Clements is that Evan Ebel allegedly murdered him, then took off for Texas, where…
Dear Stoner: I recently read some quote from Thomas Jefferson about smoking bowls on his patio. Did our Founding Fathers actually smoke the hemp they were growing? History Buff Dear Buff: The quote that is falsely attributed to T.J. — “Some of my finest hours have been spent on my…
Over the past decade, Westword has profiled some of the major streets and arteries that give Denver life. For this year’s project, we return to Colfax Avenue, the subject of our first profile, to examine the many changes that have taken place along Denver’s main street over the past ten…
Latest Word, May 16 Book Mark Westword mentioned my name and book in the context of the tempest-in-a-teapot controversy over naming a library after Rodolfo Gonzales. What I find hilarious about how serious the debate has become is my clear memories of Gonzales’s comments in the 1970s, when Congress was…
What kind of tattoo would a three-year-old get? That’s probably not the first question that most of the people walking or driving by Certified Customs Tattoos on South Broadway ask when they look at the new mural painted on a huge wall on the side of the building. Who the…
Cody Carlson had no way of preparing for this moment. He was a Manhattan kid, days removed from working as an analyst for a business-intelligence firm, where he scrutinized corporations and their executives. Now he was standing in a bleak barn at New York’s largest dairy farm. There was a…
Reverend Brandon Baker, leader of Colorado’s Greenfaith Ministries — a cannabis-centric congregation out of Nunn, just east of Fort Collins — thinks that not only is the new pot-driving law unnecessary, but that it also unfairly targets medical and religious users of cannabis. In fact, he sees it as such…
Moments ago, Governor John Hickenlooper announced his decision regarding the scheduled execution of Nathan Dunlap, who was convicted in 1996 of killing four people and seriously wounding a fifth during an assault three years earlier at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Rather than granting clemency, as had been requested by…
We love it when folks comment on older posts — especially when their takes are timely. A case in point: A March 2012 item in which Patricia Calhoun deemed state Senator Tim Neville the Schmuck of the Week for likening the Obama administration to Nazis. One reader thinks this comparison…
In order to make a movie, you need a crew. To that end, the Colorado Office of Film, Television & Media has launched an online tool called Colorado Reel-Crew, which will “enable the state’s film industry workforce and support service companies to showcase their skills and services to producers considering…
Filmmakers Josh Fox and Phelim McAleer are having quite an argument, but mostly on film and not in the same room. Both men will be in Boulder tonight at the same time to present documentaries that claim to expose the truth about using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in natural gas…
