A while back, we shared twenty tweets from Colorado HS Confess that were guaranteed to freak out parents. But frankly, the ones we found on ColoradoSexConfess make the earlier batch seem mild by comparison. These tales, which also purport to come from teens, overflow with graphic sexual content described from…
Everything seemed to point to a Broncos loss against Kansas City last night, including a road game on a cold night and a desperate opponent fueled by an embarrassing loss (to the Raiders!) and the illness of a team leader (Eric Berry may have cancer). Yet Denver still emerged with…
A terrible tragedy took place on the cusp of Thanksgiving weekend: Taressa Carruba, a 31-year-old single mother of seven, died in a car crash. Now, her family is dealing with the loss while trying to find a way to care for her kids — and the community is responding. Photos,…
This January 15, 1896 story, “Joy for the Topers” (old-timer slang for drunks), mentions cannabis in passing, but the majority of the piece is on the wonders and joys of eating peyote and mescaline — notable, mostly, because it was written some seventy years before Hunter S. Thompson and his…
Denver Blogs are in a food coma, but they’re starting to wake up. Here are our ten best geek events, ten best comedy events and ten best movie events for the upcoming month. Westword’s Backbeat writers pick five great shows to see this weekend instead of shopping. And the Cafe…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And that means that people will be heading downtown to look at all the lights; the city will switch on the annual extravaganza at 6 p.m. today, and it will continue downtown through the new year — and at the Denver City…
From its rolling prairies to its purple mountains majesty, Colorado is full of natural beauty. But this state is also home to many manmade marvels, too, including the some of the country’s best craft beer and numerous inventions. Here are our ten favorites… See also: Denver Showed It Had the…
On Wednesday, December 3, after five days and 170 miles, the fifteenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run will end with a ceremony on the steps of the State Capitol, where descendants of Arapaho and Cheyenne tribe members killed at Sand Creek will join with more tribal representatives, historians, politicians…
This week’s Westword cover story, “The Snitch Who Stole Christmas,” examines the aftermath of a 2013 police investigation that led to the arrests of forty people in Trinidad for allegedly selling heroin, meth, and other drugs to two undercover informants. The cases were so riddled with legal and procedural problems…
Denver International Airport is suffering through one of its busiest weeks of the year as Thanksgiving travelers jam the ticket and security lines, baggage claims and cab stands, and the restaurants and souvenir shops. And while their suitcases may be full of warm sweaters, early holiday presents and leftover pie,…
For being so out in the open, the dispensary is really quite hidden on a small retail stretch of Pearl Street at East Alameda Avenue, anchored by a convenience store across the street that doubles as the cash-only dispensary’s ATM. I’ve probably driven past it 1,000 times in the last…
“Family Secrets,” Patricia Calhoun, November 20 Sermon on the Mount I read your article on the Sand Creek Massacre. It is a subject that I first heard about in elementary school in Aurora in 1968. It is a black story in the development of Colorado and a shameful event that…
Dear Stoner: I have a question about medical marijuana, in terms of what the best strains are for seizures. I was diagnosed with cancer a long time ago — brain cancer, in particular — and they gave me anywhere from a week to a few months to live, but here…
For years, financial hassles have forced a multimillion-dollar industry to rely almost entirely on cash and to keep any bank accounts under hush-hush names because fed-fearing financial institutions are wary of doing business with state-legal pot shops. But dispensaries in Colorado are finally seeing a ray of hope, now that…
On Saturday, November 29, members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes will gather in southeast Colorado to mark the 150th anniversary of that dark day in 1864 when 150 tribal members — most of them elderly men, women and children — were killed by volunteer soldiers led by Colonel John…
For two nights now, demonstrators have gathered in Denver to protest the decision of a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in connection with the death of Michael Brown. Last night’s gathering was much bigger than Monday’s, and four of the protesters were arrested…
Denver blog posts are ready for a Thanksgiving holiday. Our Backbeat crew lists five great shows you absolutely shouldn’t take your family to tonight. Steamboat, Crested Butte, Monarch, Snowmass, Telluride all open for Thanksgiving. We profiled all of Colorado’s ski resorts in the Edge, our insider’s guide. And the Cafe…
For a second night, Denver marchers took to the streets as part of a nationwide action in response to the decision of a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Several hundred people — a much…
At the Thanksgiving table, you can count on passing around dish after dish of food, filling and refilling cups with various types of booze, and getting stuck in endless awkward conversations. Here are eight of the most common things you’ll hear from family members tomorrow. See also: The Five Weirdest…
Two nonprofits that serve the underserved, Denver Rescue Mission and DenverWorks, will be working side by side for the next year, observing each other’s programs in order to determine whether to partner further in the future. That observation will be made easier by the fact that DenverWorks will be moving…
Denver-based Zen Magnets, founded in 2009 by University of Colorado grad Shihan Qu, has been waging an unusual battle against the federal government — and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, in particular — over the past two years. The subject of our October 9, 2014, cover story, “Magnetic Attraction,” by…
UPDATE: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Trinidad police, alleging that two detectives fabricated and misrepresented evidence in the 40-person drug sting carried out in 2013. The organization brought the suit on behalf of two former suspects, probation officer Danika Gonzales and school employee Felicia Valdez,…
