The Five Points neighborhood has always been fertile ground for growing art, music and literature. Five Points beets pay tribute to that legacy by honoring “beet generation” authors Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac…..
Bodies with and without paint were on display at the two-night Big Bang Dance Massive event over the weekend, and photog Aaron Thackeray captured the action. And his shots are hardly the only fresh images on display. Eyeball Dr. Dog at the Boulder Theater, the White Trash Derby Bash and…
Update: Why did James Mejia, who finished third in the initial round of voting for Denver mayor, choose to reject conventional wisdom and endorse frontrunner Chris Romer over second-place finisher Michael Hancock? Mejia spokesman Berrick Abramson says the decision had a lot to do complimentary ideas and Romer’s willingness to…
Joel Warner’s interview with Alex Landau, who received a $795,000 settlement for a police beating reassured one reader who’s watched similar incidents with dismay over the years. Here’s his post…
On Friday, anti-police-violence protesters rallied to demand justice for Marvin Booker, who died in Denver County Jail last July — and they won’t have to wait much longer to learn if justice will be done. At 10 a.m. this morning, Denver Manager of Safety Charley Garcia will announce his decision,…
Erie’s Brady Kane, who died in a skydiving accident Saturday, loved leaping into the unknown. His Facebook photo, seen here, shows him ready to take the plunge, and he listed his favorite activity as skydiving with his girlfriend, Melissa Yager. He also recorded a video last year of a pal…
Update: HB 1261, a bill to set THC driving standards, was put on hold by the Senate judiciary committee last month — and committee chairwoman Senate Morgan Carroll says Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes’s blood test was a factor in the decision. Now, though, the bill’s again moving toward…
Last year, we noted that Boulder had been named the happiest place in the United States by the Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index. And yesterday, CBS Sunday Morning shared its piece on the subject — one that juxtaposes bliss in Boulder with the aspects that caused Huntington, West Virginia to finish…
In cash-strapped times, governments have to think creatively — and it was the budget crunch that led to the idea of merging the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs with the Division of Theatres and Arenas, itself a subset of the Department of General Services. That marriage becomes official tomorrow, with…
We’ve all seen those molded green plastic soldiers; they’re a staple of every kid’s childhood and, thanks to the Toy Story series, heroes of the big screen. But we’ve never seen plastic soldiers like this — begging for money, assaulting women, placing a rifle under their chin. It’s the arresting…
Travis Forbes, a self-described suspect in the April 1 disappearance of Kenia Monge, nineteen, has been arrested — but not for a crime related to Monge. Instead, he was busted in Austin, Texas, for car theft. According to the Wheat Ridge Police Department, the car Forbes was driving had been…
What does a gay man look like? Or a whistleblower? Or a woman who, were she to return to her home country, would be targeted for female genital mutilation? Those are the questions raised by “social visibility,” a criterion adopted by the Virginia-based Board of Immigration Appeals that some lawyers,…
There’s nothing quite like the transition from doing hard time to looking for a job in hard times. Every year, Colorado’s prison system sends about 10,000 felons back to society — and roughly two-thirds of them end up back in prison within three years. In most cases, their return is…
Just for you: three Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols: Jon Caldara (via Ann Coulter) tweets that if Americans can deal with a shot of Hillary Clinton’s ankles, they can handle Osama bin Laden’s death photo. WhoSaidYouSaid: Rollie Heath, aspiring taxman. Purple Row’ on Rockies fans (big) expectations…
It’s been more than a month since nineteen-year-old Kenia Monge vanished after a night of partying at a Denver nightclub, and new information has been scarce. But loved ones behind the Help Us Find Kenia Facebook page haven’t given up hope — including her mom, Maria Lee, who just shared…
Election days usually take some patience. Voters have to find their polling stations, ask the boss for an hour off, stand in line and argue with the elderly volunteers who can’t find their name or address on the voting rolls. Bad weather makes things even more difficult, as does car…
The October arrest of then-eighteen-year-old Joshua Wittig in a fatal accident that killed John Page Hines, 33, was accompanied by allegations that Wittig was high on marijuana that he may have obtained by improperly claiming to be a licensed medical marijuana patient. But evidence that convicted Wittig of vehicular homicide…
Don’t let this weekend’s Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day party schedule keep you from digging in your garden. Summer weather blazes into town today and the heat is on — especially for urban gardeners who plant electric-red Ruby Hill Habaneros from the Denver Neighborhood Seed Co……
Against the backdrop of Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal’s conclusion that Officer Eric Sellers should have been fired, not suspended, for brutalizing volunteer firefighter Jared Lunn comes the latest protest against “police terror.” According to an item on West Denver Copwatch featuring the graphic seen here, the march, scheduled to get…
Editor’s note: Medical marijuana critic William Breathes just returned from a honeymoon in Jamaica. Read his first two trip diary entries here and here, and check out part three below. My vacation was relaxing — aside from getting constantly hassled to buy herb and my run-in with a Customs drug…
Our post yesterday about Kyle Orton, and questions about whether the Broncos don’t simply trade him and anoint Tim Tebow as starting quarterback, prompted some readers to speak up in KO’s defense. Here’s a prime-time example…
The firing of two Denver cops over the Michael DeHerrera beatin
