Back in April, when Broncos receiver Eric Decker and country singer Jessie James announced their engagement, we noted that they’re two of the planet’s most beautiful people. Turns out AthletesWives.com agrees, about James, anyway: She tops the site’s list of the hottest football player wives and girlfriends not just for…
Colorado prisoners complain about all sorts of indignities, from the high price of candy bars to the degrading (now banned) “labia lift” procedure some female inmates were subjected to. But not all the recent squawking about a change in hygiene equipment at the Denver women’s prison is negative, apparently. Some…
Editor’s note: This election cycle, Westword is exploring the public records of television stations for information on how candidates are spending money on ads in Denver. In Denver, the Obama campaign is spending a lot more money on TV ads than is Romney’s. After digging through more public records, it’s…
Jim Griffin, president of the Colorado League of Charter Schools, has been inducted into the Charter Schools Hall of Fame. “Colorado has been on the forefront of our nation’s charter school movement and has provided other states with examples of how strong policies and effective leadership can have a positive…
When the members of local experimental rock band Eldren gathered themselves and their gear together for a June 4 show at Aspen’s Belly Up, they quickly noticed one person was missing: Josh Lee, the group’s violinist, vocalist and electric guitarist. And then they received a call. From inside the Immigration…
Denver blog posts are spending the weekend at the Westword Music Showcase. How about you? Mile High Report’s Topher Doll on D.J. Williams’s failed appeal of his six-game suspension for use of banned substance. Which is the biggest shock since the sun rose this morning. Colorado Pols on the continuing…
Updates below: It’s the end of an era. Today will be the final show for Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman on KHOW after an eight-year run in the three p.m. to six p.m. afternoon drive slot. We reached attorney Caplis as he was walking into a deposition this morning, and…
It takes a village to raise a child, but it only takes one meddling homeowners association to tear that child down. Earlier this month, CBS4 reported that a private HOA within the Stapleton neighborhood had decided to ban a three-year-old girl from drawing with colored chalk on the sidewalks in…
Chants of “Si se puede!” and “Justice!” filled the air yesterday as downtown janitors marched on 16th Street for better conditions and voted to authorize a potential strike. The contract for almost 2,300 Denver janitors will expire at the end of June, and after four weeks of negotiation with contractors…
Unsurprisingly, reporters at Michael Hancock’s press conference this morning were more interested in the news that the mayor fired a close friend and aide, Wayne McDonald, than the stated topic of the event (his plan to solve the city’s structural budget gap). “We had received an accusation which we looked…
Update: We now know the identity of the man found shot to death in a parking lot outside the Abrigo Apartments in Aurora: Ernesto Rodriguez-Rodriguez, age 44. Thus far, though, the Aurora Police Department isn’t releasing much more information about the case — including any possible suspects…
Last November, as the hype engine for the latest Twilight movie was running at full tilt, Emi Coleman got downright vampiric, chomping on the necks of not one but two people at a convenience store. Now she’s been sentenced, and while the law’s bite certainly could have been harder, that…
Yesterday, we featured a video in which Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart refused to say marijuana was less harmful than heroin while under questioning from Representative Jared Polis at a U.S. House subcommittee. The clip, and Leonhart’s bizarre responses, frustrated a number of commentators, including this one…
The scandal at the Air Force Academy that followed in the wake of “The War Within,” then-Westword staffer Julie Jargon’s 2003 feature about female cadets victimized by sexual assault, led to changes at the institution intended to demonstrate that supervisors take the problem seriously. But these alterations haven’t prevented such…
A couple of months ago, we saluted the Fuck Yeah Colorado! site. But there are more specific places within our fair state worth saying “Fuck yeah!” about — like Boulder, which is the love object at the center of the Fuck yeah, Boulder! tumblr. Here are our ten favorite posts…
If you’re going to have a freak-out, you might as well make it an epic freak-out. That’s the apparent philosophy of Justin Jay, who’s accused by Denver Police of going from a bicycle crash to a bare-assed walk-off in record time…
I’ve been shopping at High Level Health for some time now, though not really as a regular place — mostly just to rush in and grab an eighth to grind down into joint food when I was running low. I last visited in the fall of 2011, before the shop…
Throughout nine months navigating the shifting landscape of public perception, Occupy Denver has attracted attention, praise and criticism. And for the past two, occupiers have gathered stories in all three categories, which they will funnel this weekend into a two-hour performance light on props and heavy on perspective. In Stories…
With the fight for Latino votes in the presidential race heating up nationally this week, Colorado GOP leaders recently criticized President Obama in this space for playing politics via his new policy easing back on deporting undocumented youth. Today, local Democrats struck back by criticizing the GOP for criticizing Obama…for…
When it comes to state anti-bullying laws, Colorado’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender kids are among the most protected in the country. But individual school district policies are a different story. A policy scan by LGBT advocacy organization One Colorado found that, more than a year after Governor John Hickenlooper…
Denver blog posts are a bargain at twice the price. Big Media’s Jason Salzman praises KOA for asking Mike Coffman about his birther comments, which the Congressman is working overtime to put behind him. Colorado Peak Politics on a conservative confab that’s coming to Colorado in October. Wonder what they’ll…
Last week, we told you about 2011 documents uncovered by activist Corey Donahue that outlined using the proposed medical marijuana patient registry database to cross-check federal firearm databases. The reason: MMJ patients are not legally allowed to own guns. Now, however, a state official says such a search won’t happen…
