You’ve stopped by just in time to find a new “Mile Highs and Lows” review: The Wildflower Seed checks into Boulder Kind Care, whose owner is also a cancer patient. On top of that, we’ve updated Westword’s dispensary directory, which offers the latest details about medical marijuana businesses throughout the…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
If Aurora’s bikini-clad barista coffee shop is a huge success, expect to see a lot more skin and the spread of lewdly themed food outlets… Food-service sexploitation is not just for young women. People of all ages in both genders can share in the scantily clad job boom, as you…
Cows are generally thought to be relatively docile creatures: lumbering, slow moving grass munchers that aren’t terribly difficult to round up. But not a heifer in Evans, which, during almost 24 hours on the loose, repeatedly evaded capture. And it wasn’t subdued until after a four-hour pursuit involving cops, veterinarians…
These days, people involved in the medical marijuana community are understandably paranoid about interacting with the press — and especially TV reporters — thanks to the story of Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz, who was arrested following a Drug Enforcement Administration raid on his home grow after showing it off in…
During the wee hours of March 6, a man was attacked in downtown Boulder by an unknown assailant, and viciously so: The victim suffered broken bones in his face and a brain hemorrhage that could have proven fatal if he hadn’t been found so quickly. As for the suspect, he’s…
“I’m a true crime author and historian,” Hustler magazine contributor Fred Rosen writes on his website. “I’ve found that most murders are a dime a dozen; the really good ones are rare. And the ones that say something about us as a society are even rarer.” As it turns out,…
Unfortunately, sex charges against men working in religious settings aren’t exactly unknown. However, Daniel Brock, principal at Silver State Christian School, was recently acquitted by a Jefferson County jury of improperly touching one student and attempting to do the same to another. Would the verdict have been different if jurors…
On Tuesday, Trevor Douglas, 25, argued that he should be acquitted of a marijuana-possession charge because he’s a member of Hawaii’s THC Ministry, and he views the herb as a holy sacrament. Unfortunately for him, the judge in the case didn’t buy his argument, surmising that Douglas was espousing philosophical…
If you’ve ever thought about running the 192 stairs at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — or you’ve simply stared in disbelief at the fitness nuts who do — then you may have heard of Red Rocks Fitness, a workout club founded by former BMX star Joe Hendricks. But that’s about to…
Karen needed a medical marijuana card. She’d smoked enough pot in her fifty years to know that it subdued her recurring headaches, her nausea, the pain that lingered from the knee surgery she’d had a few years earlier. With all the medical marijuana dispensaries proliferating around Denver, it just made…
CannaMed owner David Mazin came up with the idea of having his medical marijuana evaluation clinics sell patients to dispensaries and pot growers a year ago. Since then, he claims, several other outfits have adopted the same process. To find out which ones, Westword called many of the local medical…
“Flight Change,” Alan Prendergast, March 4 Pardon Our Dust Within the next twenty years, 2.3 million more people are moving to Colorado. Of those 2.3 million, only 67,000 will be living in Denver, according to Colorado’s own demographic analysis. DIA is the natural hub for transit development in the Colorado…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Sometimes, stories intersect. Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. Testimony in the case has ended, and the jury is currently deliberating. But earlier this week, a witness mentioned the subject of a previous Westword…
Marcus Bebb-Jones is a successful professional poker playing in the United Kingdom, having won the 2007 Grosvenor Grand Prix, among other big money competitions. But he’s got more to worry about beyond whether or not he should draw to an inside straight. He’s right now facing a forced return to…
Read some Denver blogs, why don’t you? Mike at Mile High Hockey is in rare form commenting about the Avs agonizing collapse against Vancouver last night. “Why are they playing this way in big games?” he asks. “It’s like my right hand on a Saturday night: It beats the fuck…
We can’t talk about the Coreys in plural anymore: While Corey Feldman is still walking among us, ’80s heartthrob Corey Haim has died at age 38; initial autopsy reports are inconclusive. Haim’s Colorado connection? Fast Getaway, his1991 flick, was shot here and in Utah. The movie may have gone straight…
As the Darrent Williams murder trial was winding down, another proceeding about an event with tragic consequences — the trial of Earl Ryan, who allegedly shot and killed a two-year-old boy, Noah Crookham, in 2008 — was getting underway. But while members of the Williams jury are considering the fate…
At 11:30 a.m. today, a meeting was scheduled to address a series of robberies that have struck the Auraria campus in recent days: A student was reportedly attacked in a parking lot on March 5, while two students were stabbed in a dorm and a woman was punched in a…
One of the longest running battles in the alternative journalism field involves two San Francisco publications, the Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly, a part of the Village Voice Media chain, and a sister paper of Westword. Back in May 2008, as sketched out in the Editor & Publisher piece…
The logo for The Auto Ranch, seen in the photograph above, includes the distinctive design of a hand holding a marionette’s control bar. This used car dealer has directly lifted the imagery from the famous cover design of Mario Puzo’s internationally acclaimed novel, The Godfather. Setting aside the legal issues…
