Reegan Mair knows how much good has been done by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless’s mobile medical clinic, aka the Stout Street van. She’s a volunteer for Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center, which educates injection drug users to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis-C, and…
What is it about Denver that makes its richest people want to keep their lips zipped? Phil Anschutz, the state’s wealthiest person, refuses to grant interviews despite personally owning newspapers and online info properties, not to mention theaters and sports venues. And Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and…
The fight over medical marijuana in the state legislature is ramping up, with Republicans being perceived as the group most resistant to policies that allow the proliferation of dispensaries across the state. An exception to that rule is the Independence Institute’s Jessica Peck Corry, who looks at marijuana policy from…
The headline in this morning’s Denver Post is unequivocal: “Republic Airways to Move Frontier’s Headquarters Out of Denver.” But Peter Kowalchuk, Frontier’s spokesman, believes the announced resignation of former Frontier CEO Sean Menke, and the relocation of other top-level execs to Republic’s home base, Indianapolis, just over a month after…
The crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde 2.0 was not nearly as long or storied as their namesakes. Last week, we told you about the couple, who were accused of one bank robbery and several other armed robberies in the Greeley area. But they didn’t hang around town, glorying in…
A couple of eons ago, I got my first introduction to hard labor as an ill-paid apprentice on my uncle’s ranch in southern Colorado. I herded and branded cattle, hauled feed, chopped the ice that covered the water tanks and pulled bawling calves out of the mud. It was brutish,…
Wondering how your friends and neighbors spent their evenings last year — the ones who close their blinds, anyway? Turns out many of them were watching a dreary, seemingly endless movie in which Brad Pitt spends a long, long time looking like an ancient, quasi-computerized Billy Barty. As evidence, check…
How will John Hickenlooper be able to serve as mayor of Denver even as he campaigns for governor? In a letter sent to city employees earlier today, Hick doesn’t say — but he does emphasize that it has no intention of bailing on his current gig. The guv race “does…
Reading blogs about Denver is good — and good for you. Kyle at Broncos Talk shares news of the Broncos landing two players on the first-team All-Pro list: Ryan Clady and Elvis Dumervil. The team also put dozens on the staying-home-in-January list. From Colin at South Stands Denver: The Nuggets…
The crowd at the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally wasn’t enormous, but it was noisy and enthusiastic — with a faint smoky smell. Page through below to see shots by Joe Tone of just-announced gubernatorial candidate Miguel Lopez, pro-marijuana attorney Rob Corry and plenty of other folks who don’t want…
Today, even as a medical marijuana rally is taking place across the street from the state capitol, peruse our latest dispensary review — the Wildflower Seed’s take on GreenBelly Co-op. And there’s more where that came from, courtesy of Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. Check it out by clicking here…
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…
Thieves tend to swipe items that are easy to fence, like TVs and other electronic gadgets. So does that mean there’s suddenly a market for giant bronze crosses? Doubt it — and that’s what has the Lakewood Police Department worried. On Tuesday, some enterprising masochist slipped into chapel at the…
If it happens in Colorado, it came from California. First it was the medical marijuana dispensary, and now it is the adoptable chihuahua dispensary… Keep reading about adoptable chihuahua dispensaries below!…
An early strategy being used to undermine John Hickenlooper in his run for the governorship is actually an old favorite — portraying him as too liberal. That’s the theme of the video above, put together by WhoSaidYouSaid.com, a humor-oriented political website overseen by Republican stalwarts Kelly Maher and Mary Smith,…
With medical marijuana taking the state by storm, it was inevitable that Christianity would be added to the mix. That time will apparently come later today: At a state capitol rally, Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry church in Boulder is expected to make news by bestowing a pot-themed…
Yesterday, we pointed out that the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally, slated to begin at 11:30 a.m. this morning across the street from the west steps of the capitol, would feature a special blessing by Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry. But that’s hardly the only noteworthy event on…
Early Wednesday, a man was found dead at the Cottonwood Trail Apartments, near the intersection of East Virginia and South Hampden in Aurora. At this writing, the Aurora Police Department hasn’t issued a release on the incident, but APD spokesman Lt. Sam McGhee provides details. “At about 7:30 a.m. yesterday…
Sorry, Denver glitz junkies: Your dreams of a high-profile celebrity wedding packed with luminaries from the worlds of sports and entertainment will not come to pass — at least not as they apply to Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony and his longtime paramour, former MTV hostess and reality show maven La…
Last March, we lauded 33 Minutes to 3-4 Right, an unusually ambitious half-hour long Channel 7 documentary about the December 2008 crash of Continental Flight 1404, and the thirty-minutes-plus it took for the first ambulance to arrive on the scene. Turns out we weren’t the only ones impressed. The program…
Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations is the local advocacy organization that seems most willing to compromise with officials and legislators about weed rules in these parts; not that the group’s frontman, Matt Brown, actually praised Denver City Council’s recently approved plan at the same time high profile attorney Rob Corry…
View Larger MapThe two young men slain in a double homicide during the early hours of January 11 have been identified by the Denver Coroner’s Office. They are Lonell Franklin, 21, and DeShon Lee, 19; Lee was still alive when he was transported to Denver Health from the 3300 block…
