Late last month, we shared allegations against a Denver police officer caught on video punching a suspect six times in the face and tripping a pregnant woman. In addition, officers were accused of deleting the video, which was later said to have been recovered from a cloud-based storage system. After…
When CNN put together its list of the ten most popular apres ski hotels in America, we weren’t surprised that Colorado landed five on the roster — more than any other state. But we were definitely caught off-guard by which places took the top slots. Count down the winners below,…
Is Denver really Menver — a place where there are loads of single men from which women can choose? DatingAdvice.com weighs in on the question amid its list of the fifteen top cities for single women. Where does Denver wind up? And which cities are deemed better? Count down the…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about a double shooting at Westminster’s England Park that left one man dead and another seriously wounded; see our previous coverage below. We noted that a juvenile had been taken into custody, and he’s now being identified as Israel Maestas, a sixteen-year-old known…
Editor’s note: William Breathes’s medical marijuana dispensary review, normally published at this time, needs a little more time to cure. In its stead, we bring you an update about a town going to extremes to prevent a cannabis store from opening nearby. Earlier this week, we noted that Granby’s Board…
Our recent post about rallies by Denver fast-food workers calling for a $15 per-hour wage spurred both support and opposition to this demand. Here’s a post by someone who thinks the economics simply don’t work. See also: Photos: Denver Fast-Food Workers Demand $15 Per Hour Wages, Union Rights…
Denver blog posts love greenery of all sorts. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the view of a reader who feels that while New Mexico may have invented green chile, Denver perfected it. Denver Frank recommends holiday beard decor. Roundball Mining Company’s Charlie Yao gives mostly fine grades…
In October, Judge Carlos Amour, who’s overseeing the Aurora theater shooting case, agreed to push back the start of jury selection to January 20, 2015 — the fifth postponement overall. But he refused to move the time for opening statements beyond its previous early June schedule. That didn’t stop Holmes’s…
Yesterday, we shared speculation about a possible Rocky Mountain News reboot by gazillionaire Phil Anschutz, with speculation suggesting that an online prototype was a ploy in negotiations to purchase the Denver Post, which has been up for sale since September. After our post went live, we were contacted by a…
Recent stories about the tight rental market have inspired hundreds of comments at Westword.com. The good news is that if you look hard enough, $1,000 a month can still net you a decent place in metro Denver. The bad news: Considering that the per capita income in Denver is about…
Back in March, a Gallup survey said Colorado was no longer America’s least obese state. Since, then, however, the state must have gone on a diet. A new report from United Health Foundation puts Colorado back at number one in the least-obese rankings. The state does very well in other…
A lot of Coloradans think the weather here is the most unpredictable in the country. Not so, counters Nate Silver, the statistician renowned for correctly predicting the 2012 presidential election. At his FiveThirtyEight.com site, Silver (and co-author Reuben Fischer-Baum) set out to determine which American city really has the most…
Dear Stoner: I’m a committed home brewer, and I was wondering how to make pot beer. I was thinking of adding oil to my beer, but I didn’t know if that wouldn’t dissolve in beer. I also thought about putting flower in the beer, like a hop, and boiling it…
“Rock-a-Billy Willie,” Jon Solomon, November 27 Billy Club Thank you for the article on Willie Lewis. I never met him, but he was very well known in Denver rockabilly circles and we shared mutual friends. The man was a purist in the best sense of the word. He collected and…
Hemp clothing/lifestyle-product group Hemp House is throwing the city’s first Nug Hunt — a scavenger hunt planned for mid-January, when the company will give away coupons for 24 penny-priced eighths of herb from Evergreen Apothecary and Colorado Harvest Company. See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Altitude the Dispensary (West)…
A reader comment about what many people see as the rising cost of living in Colorado triggered an explosion of responses, both pro and con. Here’s the take of someone who thinks many non-natives undergo a not-always-pleasant change upon their arrival. See also: Reader: I Can Barely Afford to Live…
Denver blog posts like the Broncos, too. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies wonders if police debates should use Twitter for social networking. At Denver Infill, Ryan Dravitz keeps up with development in the Union Station area with “1601 Wewatta Update #4.” The Redheaded Slut: “That’s funny, I…
The participants in school walkouts over the no-indictment decisions by grand juries in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths are getting younger. Yesterday, they included students from GALS Denver, which offers classes for grades six through nine. Westword art director Jay Vollmar caught up to the group at Civic…
The train whistle cuts through the roar of the interstate, and the smell of the nearby Purina dog food plant lingers in the air. On this cold morning, Shirley Valentine shoves her walker across her garage floor, loses her balance and then catches herself on the back of her Chevrolet…
Yesterday, the Denver Business Journal reported that gazillionaire Phil Anschutz, whose properties include the Colorado Springs Gazette, was “exploring the possibility of reviving the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver daily newspaper that shut down in 2009 after nearly 150 years of publication.” But while a teaser for a new Rocky…
Update below: Some deaths are so brutal, so shocking to the public conscience, that they seem to cry out for retribution. That seemed to be the case in the fatal trauma suffered by thirteen-month-old Brookelynn Palmer, whose head injuries were so severe that prosecutors maintained she must have been swung…
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a report penned by three emergency room physicians at the University of Colorado hospital in Aurora about the health-related fallout from marijuana legalization in the state. And while there are some positives to be found in the material, most of the…
