Last month, Greenway University CEO and founder Gus Escamilla was frustrated. He was ready to build the “premier worldwide medical marijuana training facility,” but he couldn’t find a landlord willing to work with him. But those problems are over. According to Escamilla, Greenway’s finally got a home — and it’s…
Yesterday, page one of your Denver Post featured a story about moon rocks given to Colorado Governor John Vanderhoof — items reportedly worth $5 million on the black market — that appeared to be missing. “Appeared” being the operative word, because it took Channel 7 a grand total of one…
The local FBI branch, not to mention the nickname-bestowing Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, is on a roll lately. First, the feds capture the alleged Super Freak Bandit, Lester Eugene Fowler. And now, Debra Flamio, 54, has been accused of being the Bad Hatter Bandit, who’s suspected of wearing…
When Ken Gorman, Denver’s loudest pot advocate, was shot and killed in February 2007 (a story told in the Westword feature “High Times”), the pool of suspects seemed endless. But one rumor topped all other conjecture. Thomas Lawrence, Gorman’s former business partner, was somehow involved in the murder. But Lawrence…
The Denver Police Department has now identified a suspect in the stabbings of two people prior to an Insane Clown Posse concert last night. He’s Jeremy McKim, age twenty. But that’s not how he’s known on his ICP-loving MySpace page. There, he’s Luitenant Fetus, whose “About Me” blog begins: “ILL…
After not succeeding the first time, Colorado is try-trying again to win Race to the Top. The state submitted its application today for round two of the federal education-reform grant contest, in which it stands to win up to $175 million. Colorado came in fourteenth out of sixteen finalists in…
Three samples from Denver blogs. At Colorado Sports Desk, David Johnson wonders if Broncos coach Josh McDaniels is the most hated man in Denver. The possible answer can be found on a website called FireJoshMcDanielsNow.com. The Clear the Bench Colorado director — read: Matt Arnold — stops by the People’s…
It took quite a while for Aspen authorities to formally accuse actor Charlie Sheen of wrongdoing following his December arrest for allegedly assaulting and threatening wife Brooke Mueller. But if TMZ.com is right, locals managed to make a charge stick. The site is reporting that Sheen will plead guilty to…
At about 1 a.m. this morning, representatives of the Littleton Police Department received multiple reports about gunfire at the Parkland Square apartment complex, near the border between Littleton and Englewood. A thus-far-undetermined number of these shots hit a man inside the apartment, and he later died of his wounds. Littleton…
Westminster Windskipper Real Name: Laurie Brandt Occupation: Renaissance Woman Suburb of Operations: Westminster Hair: Windblown Eyes: Wide Open Suburban superhero skills: Shortly after inadvertently swallowing a small insect while touring Westminster’s Butterfly Pavilion, Laurie Brandt was transformed into Westy Windskipper. She possesses the normal human strength for a woman of…
Not many blog-post comments earn items of their own — but that was the case with a screed on a Bleacher Report piece arguing why fans should root for Tim Tebow over questionable role models like Donte Stallworth, Ben Roethlisberger and Michael Vick. Indeed, NFL Draft Notebook has offered not…
It’s not often that a representative of NORML salutes beer. But that’s precisely what executive director Allen St. Pierre does, sort of, in a piece celebrating Denver’s own Wynkoop Brewery for an ad that makes the watering hole seem like a medical marijuana center via a very green advertisement boasting…
No one was busier this weekend than Aaron Thackeray, who we dispatched to every source of debauchery in town. See photos — from Red Rocks, Rockbar, the Fillmore and Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret — at westword.com/slideshow…
The idea that a White House job offer to Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak — one allegedly designed to convince him not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter — might be an impeachable defense has been popular in Republican circles of late. So it’s no surprise that controversial ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo would pile…
Update, 9:32 a.m.: Denver Police Department spokesman Detective John White declines to identify the stabbing victims in the incident described below, but he says the name of the man arrested in the case may be available as soon as this afternoon. For more information, here’s our original item: Most attempts…
Marijuana advocate Mason Tvert was pleased that a Saturday protest at Town Center of Aurora over the mall’s banning of John Gailey over a “Yes We Cannabis” T-shirt was harassment-free. Jessica Corry, Gailey’s co-counsel, agrees that the mall’s response represented “a step in the right direction.” But she stresses that…
On Friday, SAFER’s Mason Tvert announced that he would lead a march at Town Center of Aurora to protest the treatment of John Gailey a week earlier. Back then, Gailey was cited for trespassing and banned from the mall for a year because he wore a “Yes We Cannabis” T-shirt,…
Last week, we told you about the latest bank robber named by the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force: the Super Freak Bandit, named for his curly wig, not because anyone suspected the late Rick James. Now, the feds think they’ve got their man — which explains why the holiday…
You’ve heard about B-cycle, the city’s ground-breaking bicycle-sharing program, which kicked off on April 22 with 42 rental racks around central Denver. But there’s a lot you probably don’t know about it — at least five things, anyhow…
Baby strollers can be great. They’re great for pushing babies at the park, carrying shopping bags at the mall or filling with tin cans redeemable for five cents each. Know what they’re not great for? Running road races. To the non-stroller-pushing runner, there’s nothing more frustrating than spending the first…
It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-hatted bureaucrat who blusters about keeping his foot on the neck of British…
It has come to our attention that liberal talking head David Sirota has, for some unknown amount of time, been naming various people the Shmuck of the Week. It’s a very childish, reactionary, black-and-white approach to journalism. More importantly, it’s our childish, reactionary, black-and-white approach to journalism. We started busting…
