La La Vazquez, Carmelo Anthony’s soon-to-be-wife and sometimes-Colorado resident, wants to sell you the gold Gucci heels off her feet. To end poverty. Vazquez is auctioning off her goods on eBay to benefit Oxfam America, a nonprofit aimed at ending injustice. Among the items up for bid: a pair of…
There’s nothing worse than the phone call a dad or mom gets from school or camp letting them know that their kid has been hurt on a field trip or during an activity. It can turn your stomach to mush and make the hairs on your back stand up straight…
After a recent workshop with the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse Advisory Board, one group of activists has decided to rein in plans for a protest. Although discussion between wild horse advocates and BLM representatives ranged from cordial to markedly tense at that workshop — with a BLM…
Yesterday, we brought you a hilarious press release from the Westboro Baptist Church, Kansas’ most comical hate group, condemning flag day. Because God, evidently, really dislikes flags. Besides the Old Glory, God evidently also hates a variety of random things, like football, pop music, Catholics, communists and Ronnie James Dio…
Denver Health broke ground this week on a four-story building that by late next year will be home to an adolescent psychiatric facility. Although the psych ward’s new digs won’t be a whole lot bigger, Denver Health officials say they will be a lot better. In terms of hard numbers,…
The best of today’s Denver blogs Is Xcel using green sentiment to justify hiking its rates for “dirty” power? Face the State makes the case that the legislature is writing the power utility a “giant blank check.” 5280 congratulates Colorado schools for getting 29 schools on Newsweek’s list of its…
Melissa Van Diest says she never thought twice about joining the South Denver Metro Area Chamber of Commerce. After all, she has run a legitimate family business on West Main Street in Littleton for six months now. And even though that family business happens to involve cultivating and selling marijuana,…
Colorado State University officials and Governor Bill Ritter announced a sweeping plan today to ensure higher education for lower and middle class students threatened with hefty student loans and skyrocketing tuition. The tuition break plan, dubbed “Commitment to Colorado,” promises to cut tuition in half for Colorado residents whose families…
Before James Mejia even announced he was running, “James Mejia for Mayor” was a Facebook page with a thousand fans (and no personal affiliation with Mejia). This morning, Mejia filed his formal candidacy for mayor of Denver, making him the first official candidate in the race, close to a year…
In “Mile Highs and Lows,” we offer a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentists offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. This week, William Breathes reviews The Hemp Center:…
The study of neighbors through their gay lawn decorations … The two female figures pictured in the foreground of the image to the right (click to enlarge) are forever locked with outstretched lips to symbolize a lesbian’s languorous longing for love. We know that these are lesbians because the yard…
For 46 years, the National Center for Atmospheric Research has had a supercomputing center at its Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder. This week, NCAR broke ground on a new facility. The center uses supercomputers — which can process 76 trillion operations per second, says NCAR head of Media Relations David…
Taking a cue from the Rambo fantasies of Gary Brooks Faulkner, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton has revamped her website to suggest she’s ready to bring us the head of Osama bin Laden. And that of Barack Obama. And all those liberal milquetoasts in Washington who’ve sold us down the…
Two months ago, Chuck Crowley stood in front of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education and told its members that something fishy was going on at Bromwell Elementary School. A group of difficult parents was trying to get his daughter’s former first-grade teacher fired, he said, warning the boardmembers…
Chalk up another one on the list of random things the Westboro Baptist Church hates: Flags. In honor of Flag Day, the WBC issued a (probably unintentionally) hilarious press release — which came a day late, because evidently it takes a little while to write a song about how “They’ll…
Care about medical marijuana? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is looking for a few good men and women to serve on the Medical Marijuana Registry Advisory Committee, which will help implement the new medical marijuana regulations required by the laws recently passed by the state legislature. Think…
Colorado’s favorite John Denver-loving libertarian is back in politics, two years after her unsuccessful run for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination left her angry at the process. Christine Smith, a freelance writer who penned A Mountain in the Wind — An Exploration of the Spirituality of John Denver in 2001…
“Teacher’s Fret,” Melanie Asmar, June 10 Making the Grade You know who is almost guaranteed not to be an effective teacher (in the sense of raising test scores and improving student achievement)? A long-term substitute teacher brought in midway through the school year. It’s not the fault of the substitute;…
Politicians and tarot decks are amazingly similar. Both were created for trick-taking games, and both are largely used by the foolhardy to foretell the future. In this week’s Westword, Kenny Be draws tarot cards for Colorado’s politicians. See the full cartoon on the Latest Word blog…
Twelve years ago, Jose Saenz was a Los Angeles Unified School District dropout and run-of-the-mill tagger known on the east side of Los Angeles as Smiley, a nod to the way he flashed his trademark brilliant grin. At age 22, he sidled up to two young east-side men peddling dope…
The best of today’s Denver blogs The Colorado Independent reports on Nestle’s ridiculous plan to drain millions of gallons from the Arkansas river near Buena Vista and drive it 120 miles to Denver. WhoSaidYouSaid says Andrew Romanoff said Michael Bennet won’t say what he stands for. Purple Row’s Jeff Aberle…
There are loads of media honors, but in broadcast journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Awards stand above the rest. That’s why it’s a big deal that KUNC, the northern Colorado public radio station, just nabbed its first national Murrow for “Two Men, Two Women and a Baby,” a very…
