No need to check your calendar: There really was a concert at Red Rocks this weekend — one of many notable events covered by Westword’s intrepid journalists and photographers for our slide-show page plus Backbeat Online, Show and Tell and Cafe Society blogs. Page down to check out samples featuring…
Occupy Denver was among groups in 27 cities to rally in support of Occupy Oakland, which experienced a recent round of 300 arrests. About 125 protesters gathered for an impromptu march that shut down large sections of traffic near Broadway and Colfax between 7:30 and 10 p.m. and attracted the…
The Dougherty gang just can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. The trio of siblings, including sis Lee Grace, whose skintastic bikini photos became an Internet sensation, allegedly engaged in a cross-country crime spree that ended after a car-flipping chase in Southern Colorado last August. Now it’s Dylan Dougherty’s…
Most local news outlets aren’t using the name of the sixteen-year-old Utah student who met with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis a month before being arrested, along with eighteen-year-old Dallin Morgan, in an alleged plot to blow up their high school. But Utah media is identifying him as Joshua Hoggan, whose…
The general idea behind Sean’s 1000 Watt hash bags is nothing new. There’s at least a half-dozen companies making similar icewater extraction bags and filter products right now. But for the Denver-based company, the all-mesh design is a major improvement over its first-generation bags…
Denvver blog posts are all that’s good and just and true about America. Mile High Report’s Colby thinks John Elway’s reluctance to name Tim Tebow the regular season starting QB makes sense — and voters in a fan poll (narrowly) agree. DenverInfill’s Ryan Dravitz offers us an update on the…
Update: The Denver Police Department has released a booking photo of Taylor Jo Mathis, the 21-year-old who’s accused of having been behind the wheel during an ugly hit-and-run. The crash, which seriously injured two people, was caught on surveillance video on view below. See a larger version of Mathis’s mug…
It probably shouldn’t have been a surprise that Doug Lamborn, Republican congressman from Colorado Springs, decided to boycott President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Lamborn, after all, is the same guy who referred to Obama’s economic and debt-reduction policies as a “tar baby” in July. (Oops, guess,…
Update: Yesterday, the Justice Department’s request for a preliminary injunction against abortion protester Kenneth Scott, federally charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, aka the FACE Act, was rejected. Scott’s legal team considers the ruling a major victory that’s potentially precedent-setting, while the spokesperson for Planned…
It’s a tense time for Colorado’s medical marijuana industry in the wake of U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s seizure letters to 23 dispensaries near schools. But tonight offers an opportunity for many of the industry’s biggest players to blow off steam at the Ganja Gala, a ritzy fundraiser for the Medical…
Most of the attention for Wednesday’s fourteen arrests in a Colfax prostitution sweep has focused on Darren Garcia, who presents herself as a woman and is HIV-positive. Garcia’s eight previous busts include two for the crime of prostitution with the knowledge of AIDS, and she was convicted of a felony…
Our coverage of Jenna Breen’s tragic death, allegedly caused by a crash with a multiple DUI offender, has generated plenty of heartfelt commentary. Here’s the view of a reader who would like to see tougher penalties for drunk-driving recidivists…
Five years ago, teachers at the Emily Griffith Technical College Language Learning Center, which offers free English classes to refugees, recognized a problem: Even when refugees landed jobs, they had trouble holding onto them. “We noticed that they were lacking in American workplace skills,” says dean of instruction Slavica Park…
“My options are narrowing,” says Charles Farrar, phoning from the Sterling Correctional Facility. And so they are. Farrar has just learned that his handwritten appeal of his 145-year sentence for child sexual abuse — a series of crimes that his accuser now insists never happened — has been rejected by…
Update:This morning, the Aurora Police Department is revealing that William Moore, thirty, has been arrested in connection with the January 18 homicide of Ebon Kelly, 29. The charges for which Moore is being held and investigated include second-degree murder and possession of a weapon by a previous offender…
For the fifth month in a row, thousands of patients have dropped off the Colorado medical marijuana registry. From October to November 2011, the registry lost more than 8,000 patients, according to statistics released yesterday by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…
Update: A just-released indictment related to Operation Sweet Leaf, in which 25 metro-area marijuana grows were raided, names 22-year-old Jordan Buehrer as the alleged ringleader of the scheme — although Buehrer’s LinkedIn profile suggests another name. The bare-bones page lists him as the owner of “jordans enterprises.”…
U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s seizure letters to 23 dispensaries near schools sent shock waves through the local medical marijuana community, since most if not all of the centers were legal under Colorado law. Afterward, criticism of Representative Jared Polis, a longtime MMJ supporter, mounted, with one scene participant telling Westword,…
Although they snagged their renovated, turn-of-the-century storefront on Larimer Street during the Great Dispensary Rush of 2009 at close to the last minute, the owners of Botanico Care say that over the past two years, they’ve grown to love the RiNO arts district. And the neighborhood is full of patients…
In the war of words over the plan to round up thousands of wild horses on federal lands, it’s the images that speak loudest. Even as the Bureau of Land Management argues that the thinning of herds is for their own good, critics of the program keep coming up with…
Neighbors around Highland Square will finally be able to see images of the proposed structures that are making them so mad. Today, RedPeak Properties released renderings for a pair of five-story apartment buildings it hopes to build in the area just north of 32nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard. A rendering…
Denver blog posts shouldn’t leave a rash. Roundball Mining Company’s Kalen issues lotsa high marks to Nuggets after crushing Sacramento, but Danilo Gallinari leads the pack. At Education News Colorado, Jared Polis lauds School Choice Week. Plants & Animals Denver’s Kayla K touts a list of food that’s cheap, healthy…
