Attorney Lauren Davis is still exasperated by a hearing last night in Castle Rock, which is considering a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries that would disenfranchise two businesses that have already been cleared to operate in the town. Davis says her client, Amber Ostrom, who owns a dispensary called Plants…
We’re as sober as especially sober judges here at Westword — yet, for whatever reason, we’re just getting around to posting a joke Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien told about our search for a medical marijuana reviewer back on November 17. At the end of our quest, we wound up…
Afghani, OG Kush, Purple Skunk, White Widow… With so many strains to choose from at local dispensaries, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Thankfully, a variety of medical marijuana contests have popped up around Colorado recently, and they’ve uncovered the best of the best. Check out the…
The Denver housing market has been gradually improving of late. But back east, the situation is considerably different, as Karen McHale has learned over the past year. According to the Washington Post, McHale won a $1.2 million home in Edgewater, Maryland in a January raffle. A week later, she lost…
Last week, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning stirred up a mini-controversy in Dallas when he signed his name on the wall of the visitors locker room at the new and lavish Cowboys Stadium. In response to gripes from the Cowboys’ Bradie James about this supposed act of desecration, Manning…
One reason so many parents skip out on child support after a divorce: Given how overburdened the system is, there’s seldom anyone in authority to make them keep the money train rolling. In an attempt to change that equation, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office just conducted what it’s calling Operation…
Look closely at this photo. Can you recognize the adorable little moppet who joined the Family Ties cast in the series’ waning days in a desperate effort to up the show’s cuteness factor? He’s still in there, but he’s hiding. Because he’s afraid. Yep, Brian Bonsall is all grown up…
With snow expected to continue falling into tomorrow, Denver’s streets are going to be gunky mess for good while to come. Thankfully, Denver Public Works recently rolled out Denversnowplan.com, its fancy new snow-removal website that, while it doesn’t speed up those plows, will make the wait for them slightly less…
Crisanta Duran recently lost one election — a bid for secretary-treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. But she’s got her eye on another office. The 29-year-old currently works there as personal counsel to her father, union boss Ernest Duran Jr., who also lost a bid for…
Our forecast for Colorado online users: continued blogginess. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic waxes rhapsodic about a Ted Haggard profile in the Los Angeles Times featuring the rhetorical question, “”Am I full of the devil?” Resist making a Mike Jones joke! Resist making a Mike Jones joke! As Mile High…
Allen Iverson is expected to suit up tonight as the Philadelphia 76ers, his once and future squad, take on your Denver Nuggets — one of three squads to sign him after he left Philly in 2006. And despite the negativity surrounding Iverson after he did the Brett Favre dance (retiring,…
Since May, an interfaith group has staged a vigil the first Monday of each month at the Aurora Contract Detention Facility, 11901 East 30th Avenue — and they’ll be there again tonight at 6 p.m. Among the many reasons for this ongoing protest, according to Jennifer Piper, interfaith organizing director…
Last week, Pat Dunn, representing a group protesting an anti-Obama billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, complained that Wolf personnel had left vehicles running with their exhaust pipes pointed in their direction, all by asphyxiating them in the process. When asked about these…
I played Trivial Pursuit by myself this weekend. And I won, damn it. But that’s not the point. The point is, I should have been at a Santa pub crawl or an ugly sweater party or a Vinyl dance party or the Don’ts and the Be Carefuls CD release party…
Hard to imagine why most people reacted to CU-Boulder’s dire warnings about Nerf guns with either eye rolls or guffaws. The weapons, which fire spongy ammo designed not to hurt children, are clearly risky — as CU-Boulder police chief Joe E. Roy emphasizes in an op-ed penned for the Colorado…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is upset about the effort by GOP heavyweights to make Scott McInnis the de facto party standard bearer months before the primary — and he says lots of tea party members will express the same sentiment at a December 12 “Defend the Republic Rally” inspired…
Last week, we told you about a photo on the Kansas City Chiefs’ website that showed mascot KC Wolf kicking the Barrel Man. Didn’t seem funny then, and it got a hellvua lot less humorous when news broke that the Barrel Man, also known as Tim McKernan, died Saturday morning…
If ever there was a game that proved Pat Bowlen was right to bid farewell to Mike Shanahan after the end of last season in favor of some new blood, it was yesterday’s Broncos-Chiefs matchup, when Josh McDaniels and company clearly experienced none of the “Oh, shit!” fears felt by…
Worry over the outcome of a mail-in vote on a new contract isn’t the only thing stressing out King Soopers workers this season, as I learned during a shopping trip yesterday. When “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” came streaming over the speakers, our teenage sacker announced, “That’s…
The story of the Cheesecake Lady reads like a home-grown Horatio Alger tale — one featuring considerable amounts of ganja. The Cheesecake Lady, aka Jessica LeRoux, has long been legendary in the local pre-concert tailgating scene for strolling through parking lots with her crazy hat and wavy hair and offering…
John Denver once admitted that “Rocky Mountain High” was written under the influence of LSD and marijuana — and now that his anthem is our state song, the Colorado legislature should write their medical marijuana legislation under the influence of John Denver. But drugs aren’t the reason why Denver is…
Intriguing story in today’s Houston Chronicle about Houston-based energy giant ConocoPhillips. Reporter Brett Clanton notes that the firm is downsizing elsewhere, but it recently filed “a preliminary development plan for its 432-acre site in Louisville, Colo., a small town roughly six miles east of Boulder and 25 miles northwest of…
