George the black rhino, who lived at the Denver Zoo since he was a baby, was euthanized last week. At 28, he was the ninth-oldest zoo rhino in the world. Given that, he suffered from a list of icky ailments, including diverticulitis, continued weight loss and… wait for it… chronic…
There was a time when you could hardly turn on the TV without seeing the footage over and over: terrified teens fleeing the school with hands in the air, running past the bodies of slain classmates; SWAT teams smashing windows; the badly wounded young man who fell out of the…
Denver blog posts are cooler than being cool. Denver Egotist provides the Internet love connection to the Boulder man behind the website What About Me, Demi? Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams: Backers of national roadless rule implore Obama to reject Colorado plan. Free Range Longmont’s Kaye Fissinger advises: Take one…
If you had to compare another Colorado occupation to that of Occupy Denver, Occupy Colorado Springs might provide one of the most stark contrasts. As of early this morning, however, both groups share recent and complete evictions off of city property. Around 1 a.m., the Colorado Springs Police Department removed…
Tim Tebow’s latest miracle versus the Jets inspired Bronco Planet to share a musical nod to No. 15: a version of “I Believe” from The Book of Mormon (by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, locals made good and Broncos fans) in which puppets yelp lines like, “I believe… that reading…
Update: Arrowwood Elementary parent Rachel Drummond had objections to a play scheduled for her daughter’s second-grade class today, due to references to Native Americans as “savages” and a speech that overtly referred to a higher power. However, Douglas County School District public information officer Randy Barber believes it’s important to…
There is no end to the dog puns that can and have been made about Border Collie-mix Shelby’s appointment as the leader of Occupy Denver’s leaderless movement. Westword will be doggone if we haven’t heard the full range of them since we announced her term exactly two weeks ago. But…
Tim Tebow’s latest improbable comeback against the New York Jets, after well over three quarters of ineptitude, prompted us to dub him the best awful quarterback in NFL history. One reader was feeling similarly torn about The Chosen One. But not anymore…
Did you spend your whole weekend cleaning the house? Silly you! Plenty of other Denverites were enjoying the sort of stuff captured by Westword reporters and photogs on our slideshow page and Backbeat Online, Cafe Society and Show and Tell blogs. Check out highlights below pertaining to Sting, skiing, Williams…
Occupy Denver’s sphere of influence (and the bad PR it occasionally invites upon city officials) has traveled well beyond Colorado borders, and its most recent stop earned it a spot in Connecticut. On Thursday, students at Governor John Hickenlooper’s alma mater of Wesleyan University took official offense to the graduate’s…
For the most part, skiing is safe. But sometimes, tragedies can occur even when folks engaging in one of Colorado’s signature pastimes take the recommended precautions. Case in point: The Friday death on Vail Mountain of Dr. Charles Tuft, a 62-year-old who appears to have done everything right but perished…
Back in September, we wondered if Nuggets J.R. Smith, Wilson Chandler and Kenyon Martin might win a championship in China, where they’d opted to play due to NBA labor strife. Given the increasing likelihood of a lost season, this plan looked smart, and it could still be — although Smith’s…
Around the time students were returning to school this year, we shared a collection of bizarre classroom posters from the ’70s — discussion starters that often asked existential questions like, “What can you do when no one seems to care?” Now, as we ready for Thanksgiving break, here’s a sequel,…
Update below: It didn’t take long for the Colorado Springs Police Department to draw a bead on the man captured by security cameras robbing a branch of the Indispensary medical marijuana center. Robert Cody James, nineteen, is currently in custody, due in part to his decision to stick around the…
Love some wake-and-bake continental breakfast with a little marijuana politics on a Saturday morning? You’re in luck. Senator Pat Steadman will be speaking tomorrow at the new offices of the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America (MMAPA) for the nonprofit’s open-house breakfast…
Westword has been present at every Sunday-morning arraignment related to Occupy Denver arrests. It was only this past Sunday, however, that I was forbidden by the court from recording anything while inside. The recent ban on anyone other than lawyers taking notes on the arrests and bond rates marks the…
Local immigration advocates are cautiously optimistic about a pilot project to review open immigration cases in Denver and close those deemed to be of low priority. The program, described in this New York Times story, comes on the heels of a memo from the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Denver blog posts are bite size. Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic on the latest court to rule against Secretary of State Scott Gessler — this time for overreaching on donation disclosure limits for issue committees. 5280’s Geoff Van Dyke offers a Clyfford Still Museum preview. The Grazing Mind’s Jarod Ballentine on…
The first time I had a Mountain Medicine peanut butter cup, it was so freaking delicious and potent that it changed my life for a day. Even though I don’t remember the day because I was so blazed…
Trying to kill someone is no laughing matter, and attempted murder goes way beyond the term “shmuck.” But 22-year-old Emmanuel Theus-Roberts, sentenced today to eighty years in jail for shooting a cab driver, deserves to be called lots of names. In June 2010, Theus-Roberts got a cab and then rode…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally announced felony counts against a trio of Occupy Denver protesters: Corey Donahue, Sean Driggers and Brandon Sexton. What led to these charges? Denver Police statements of probable cause on view below offer the cops’ side of the story…
This year may be the last for the Life Skills Center, a last-chance high school that Westword profiled in 2007. Last night, the Denver Public Schools board voted to shutter the struggling alternative charter school, which had been given a second chance in 2008 after facing the same fate…
