Denver blog posts walk the walk and talk the talk. At our Cafe Society blog, Mark Antonation highlights five walk-up windows to hoof it to when you’re hungry in Denver. Coyote Gulch shares the weekly climate, water and drought assessment of the upper Colorado River basin. At Mile High Mamas,…
Like a lot of newcomers, Jason Hicks was a bit flummoxed by his first visit to the Shadow Tree apartments last year. The complex, just a short stroll off East Colfax in Aurora, is home to a growing number of refugee families, relocated from places like Nepal and Burma and…
Against the backdrop of a Colorado health department official formally recommending that almost all marijuana edibles be banned, the Children’s Hospital of Colorado staged a weed-related Twitter chat this morning, with one of its focuses being how to talk pot with children under the age of ten. Among the pieces…
The story of Trucker the pit bull would be weird under any circumstances. After all, he disappeared in Arkansas in June only to turn up almost four months later in Central City, Colorado. But the tale becomes that much stranger given the circumstances of his rescue: A Good Samaritan bought…
The trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes has already been postponed twice — and now, Holmes’s defense team is hoping to convince the judge in the case to push it back a third time. The reason, according to a document filed yesterday and on view below, is the…
Think Boulder’s the ultimate destination for liberals in America? Livability.com disagrees. Yes, Boulder made the site’s list of ten best cities for liberals, but several places finished ahead of it. Do you agree with the picks? Find out by counting down the photo-illustrated top ten, featuring excerpts from Livability text…
Plenty of Colorado sports fans know ESPN’s Skip Bayless as an idiot if only for his advocacy of Tim Tebow as an NFL quarterback even when he wasn’t guiding the Broncos to still-inexplicable victories. But Bayless took his usual meatheadedness to heretofore unforeseen levels when he recently suggested during an…
The latest entry in our marijuana edibles video series arrives at a propitious moment: This week, a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment official formally recommended that almost all such products be banned. Among the arguments against a change of this magnitude is the demand described by Incredibles owner…
Our coverage of Frontier Airlines’ response to its planes having been used by a woman subsequently diagnosed with Ebola continues to spur sharp commentary. Here’s a post by a reader who feels the media and the government are frightening the public with stories about Ebola and terrorism in a very…
Denver blog posts understand that sometimes you have to suffer to like stylish. At our Show and Tell blog, Mauricio Rocha introduces you to two of the most stylish members of the undead at this year’s Zombie Crawl. A Denver Egotist statement: “Seinfeld Can Take the Piss All He Likes…
This summer, we brought you the saga of Colorado’s state fish, the greenback cutthroat trout. Biologists worked to bring back the species, which was once thought extinct, only to discover they’d saved the wrong fish. But the biologists didn’t give up and efforts are now underway to grow the state’s…
Following Keith Rohracker’s conviction for neglecting his elderly mother on an epic scale, a judge told him he would receive one year less than the maximum sentence — but only because his mom didn’t die. It was touch-and-go for a while. When Rohracker was finally taken to medical professionals to…
On Sunday, the Broncos’ Peyton Manning set the all-time NFL record for most touchdown passes in a career — news so big that even TV stations like KOMO in Seattle, whose Seahawks clobbered the Broncos in the Super Bowl earlier this year, had to cover it. Problem is, KOMO swapped…
Last year, we reported about the tragic murder of Reysean Abram, a thirteen-year-old who was reportedly shotgunned to death while riding a bike. Now, two men — Lonnie White, who was seventeen at the time of the killing but was tried as an adult, and Marquise Lewis, now 21 –…
As you know, we at Westword have long held to that Colorado is the best state in the country — and we’re pretty sure the folks at AWSMColorado.com feel the same way. Chris Harrison and the staff at Video Blend have launched 100 Reasons Colorado is Awesome, a project to…
“We want the general public to be able to tell a marijuana cookie from a Chips Ahoy cookie just by looking at it.” That’s the intent behind the edible work group currently hashing out recommendations for future edible packaging. And one recommendation submitted yesterday would solve that problem by eliminating…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the murder in Indiana of recent Aurora resident Afrikka Hardy and the investigation that led to the discovery of six additional bodies; see our previous coverage below. Now, the suspect in the case has been identified as Darren Vann, 43, a convicted sex offender…
During the upcoming midterm elections, Hispanic voters are likely to be key in many races across the country — but could they slow the move toward broader marijuana legalization? That possibility is among the takeaways from a Pew Research Center study looking at Latino voting trends. PRC found that Hispanics…
We’ve been critical of the NFL’s policy for fining players like the Broncos’ Terrance “Pot Roast” Knighton for use of the N-word during games, and plenty of our readers agreed. Here’s a particularly sharp take. See also: Terrance “Pot Roast” Knighton Fined $11K for Racial Slur During Broncos-Jets Game…
UPDATE: The ban may not have happened, but as of February 2015, Colorado has new restrictions governing the sale of edible pot. William Breathes explains what the new edibles rules mean for you. At this hour, a rule-making meeting is underway in regard to implementing a law that requires marijuana…
Denver blog posts have the music in them. Our Backbeat blog counts down the its choices for the ten best concerts of the summer. Big Media’s Jason Salzman calls out Cory Gardner for falsely claiming he never voted in favor of a government shutdown…. while Colorado Peak Politics accuses progressives…
Nineteen-year-old Jaime Leon Rivas, whose immigration case we wrote about this past spring, is back in the custody of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His crime? Going to visit his older brother at the GEO detention facility in Aurora, which houses undocumented immigrants detained by ICE. Although Leon Rivas was…
