Alabama football fans’ favorite saying is “Roll Tide!” Now, boosters of CU Buffs basketball have changed it to “Roll Tad!” — as in head coach Tad Boyle, who’s energized the program in precisely the way CU football coach Jon Embree has failed to do. While the pigskin squad was falling…
Those of us accustomed to living 5280 feet above sea level often have little tolerance for lowlanders who gripe about the thin air when they visit Denver — as if they didn’t know it was called the Mile High City? These emotions fueled a list originally featured in Westword’s Off-Limits…
The play of Peyton Maning and Von Miller couldn’t be more different stylistically. The former is a perfectionist who sometimes marks TDs with the hint of a smile, but usually not, while the latter is an exuberant goofball who said one of his sack celebrations yesterday was inspired by Sonic…
Thirty-eight claimants will soon receive a portion of the $5.3 million raised through the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, according to an announcement by Governor John Hickenlooper’s office. As per a protocol developed by fund “special master” Ken Feinberg, those who lost family members in the Aurora theater shooting and those…
The University of Colorado is no longer subject to a gag order related to the case of accused Aurora theater shooter and former student James Holmes. Judge William Sylvester has ruled that it’s now up to the university to decide what information to release. In another motion made public today,…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Cloud essential oil personal vaporizers…
Whew! The votes have been counted. The winners have been announced. The photos have been Instagrammed. The tweets have been…tweeted. This year’s Denver Web Awards went off with a bang at last night’s party at RedLine, but we’re still taking in the responses. If you took part in the experience,…
In addition to facing criminal and ethics investigations into his alleged misuse of public dollars, Secretary of State Scott Gessler has spent months responding to criticisms that he has intimidated voters with his anti-fraud crusade. And just a week before the race, his staff got a hold of a document,…
Denver blog posts are the most from coast to coast. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmonslaments that big games by JaVale McGee and Kenneth Faried weren’t enough to upset the Heat. Mile High Mamas’ Lisa Vratny-Smith on staying sane parenting the spitfire and the saint. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Mulligan on West Corridor…
Update below: Representative Mike Coffman, a Republican, is announcing today his support of legislation that would exempt Colorado from federal marijuana policy. It’s a noteworthy move from Coffman, who is against the legalization of marijuana but respects Colorado’s ballot process and the support Amendment 64 received last week, when voters…
A lot of us have fantasized about ways we might be able to talk our way out of jury duty — but Susan Cole actually pulled it off, by casting herself in the role of a crazy person. Problem is, she bragged about her gambit on a radio program heard…
In the past year or so, we’ve chronicled the big spending of part-time Colorado resident William Koch, billionaire financier of conservative causes and avid collector of Old West goodies like a Billy the Kid photo and an entire vintage town. Now, however, he’s the target of an oddball lawsuit filed…
Sam Levin’s post about an Anschutz Medical Campus shooting noted that the occurrence, in which no one was seriously hurt, may have been the first for someone with a concealed-carry permit on a state campus. A gun rights advocate saw it as an isolated incident, but one reader wasn’t convinced,…
Earlier this week, we got a tip about a strange city policy from a citizen who’d worked as an election judge. As a temporary employee, the city gave the tipster its official drug and alcohol policy. Most of it was standard — no drinking or drugging on the job –…
Amendment 64 proponent Mason Tvert thinks mainstream media attention to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state, which approved a separate measure, has already started to wane. But this morning, National Public Radio gave a countrywide platform to a topic we’ve been addressing for years — the difficulty of doing…
Is Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers the most hated player in the NFL, or just the most hated among Broncos fans? Hard to say — but there’s no denying the incredible number of memes ridiculing him. In advance of Sunday’s rematch between the Chargers and the Broncos, we’ve collected our twenty…
This week, Mitchell Kusick, a student at Grand Junction’s Colorado Mesa University, was busted for allegedly threatening to kill President Barack Obama and trick or treaters. And now, an unnamed high school student in Junction has been cuffed for threats of his own involving rape (or, according to him, “grape”),…
We came. We saw. We tweeted. Last night, Westword hosted the third annual Denver Web Awards, our celebration of Denver’s greatest digital minds. In September, we put out a call for you, dear readers, to nominate your favorite online projects, and a team at Westword spent more than a month…
Update: Yesterday, Boulder ACLU head Judd Golden praised Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett for directing his office to drop prosecutions of pot cases that will become legal once Amendment 64 is signed into law; see our original post below. He also expressed mystification over why Garnett’s counterpart in Denver, Mitch…
If there is a hell, its soundtrack would undoubtedly include hours of recordings from a busy corporate guitar store. On a Saturday, the places are awash with a horrid mix of out-of-tune “Smoke on the Water”/”Stairway to Heaven”/Metallica medleys — someone thumping with no rhythm on a cranked-up bass and…
There was a lot of talk this election season about access to voting — which is one reason Karen Suhaka, who runs a Denver-based online research company, decided to collect voter-driven data on the performance of polling sites across the country. Her website, MyFairElection.com, cataloged reviews from coast to coast,…
Denver blog posts believe in you. Mile High Report’s Kaptain Kirk notes that Peyton Manning leads Tom Brady, Arian Foster, Adrian Peterson, Aaron Rodgers and, well, everyone else in early Pro Bowl voting. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel provides the details about the next Union Station tour, slated for Saturday. Plants…
