Update incorporated into original text and on view below: Kaylana Fief’s Facebook page is filled with photos highlighting two passions: her adorable daughter and cute critters of the sort she studies as an animal behavior student. But the way she allegedly combined the two has gotten Fief in trouble with…
“Magnetic Attraction,” Melanie Asmar, October 9 Stick Together I am all about safety for children, but I also believe that people push it too far. There is a reason it says “Keep out of reach of children.” This applies to medications (which they aren’t getting rid of if a child…
Dear Stoner: Is it legal to sell my old bong on Craigslist?Broke Glass Dear Broke: This was a head-scratcher. Though we figured the answer was yes, considering you can buy things like used underwear on Craigslist, we weren’t sure if there were laws that prohibit selling a used cannabis pipe,…
In August, recreational cannabis sales outpaced medical sales in Colorado for the second month in a row, with rec topping medical by about $730,000 en route to total sales of $32,999,068. All told, the state saw more than $65 million in pot sold in August. That beat the old record…
Our post offering ten theories on why Front Range drivers are terrible triggered a huge response from commenters. Some felt local drivers were better, or at least no worse, than those in many other metro areas around the country, while others added to the criticism of locals behind the wheel…
Denver blog posts love to linger. At our Cafe Society blog, Gretchen Kurtz picks her five favorite bakery-cafes for customers who love to sit for hours. Denver Stiffs’ Dontae Delgado thinks the Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried is a star in the making. Coyote Gulch highlights a Mountain Town News piece about…
The best intentions went very awry at the triangular slice of land between Broadway, Park Avenue West and Lawrence Street. The city transformed the space into what was supposed to be an urban oasis and officially named it Edward J. “Eddie” Maestas Park in November 2006, in honor of the…
Five years ago today, we have a pretty good idea where you were — watching TV coverage of a balloon floating over a wide swath of Colorado, supposedly with a young Fort Collins boy named Falcon Heene inside. As we soon learned, Falcon, promptly dubbed “Balloon Boy,” wasn’t inside what…
Update: Prosecutors in the James Holmes case say it’s “unprecedented,” “insulting” and “unnecessary” for the judge to tell victims of the Aurora theater shooting to control their emotions while testifying at the trial of James Holmes, the accused gunman. Holmes’s defense attorneys filed a motion last week asking Judge Carlos…
Randy Ankeney was once a rising star in the Colorado Republican party, only to become a pariah after being found guilty of numerous sex crimes. However, he now has the opportunity to impact the state in a completely different way. A complaint he brought about alleged prisoner-release violations by the…
Update below: Doubtless there were many reasons behind a federal jury’s decision on Tuesday to stick it to the City of Denver over the 2010 death of Marvin Booker in the downtown jail, handing out a staggering $4.65 million in punitive and compensatory damages to the victim’s family. The video…
Denver is known in some quarters as “Menver,” owing to the supposedly inflated number of single men here compared to women. The stats don’t really back that up — but numbers from the Pew Research Center offer a new twist. As part of a study dubbed “Mapping the Marriage Market…
Did Lakeside police officers who tased an alleged Walmart shoplifter said to be around sixty years of age go too far? That’s a question raised by a video of the incident that circulated on social media before finding its way into mainstream media coverage. Continue to see that video and…
Update: Denver police are still looking for a suspect who critically injured a man in a shooting near 14th and Krameria early yesterday morning; see our previous coverage below. But even without an arrest, the case has already generated a strange twist. The incident was witnessed, in a manner of…
Sweet Mary Jane Cooks Up Cannabis Success in Denver from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. For the second of Westword’s video series about pot edibles in Colorado (following our profile of Dixie Elixirs), our team sat down with Karin Lazarus, owner of the award-winning Sweet Mary Jane Bakery — and…
Attorneys for Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have asked the judge in the case to instruct victims that if they become too emotional, they won’t be allowed to testify. This approach incensed many of our readers, including this one. See also: James Holmes’s Attorneys: Victims Should Be Told to Control…
Denver blog posts like to try new things — but there is a limit…. At our Cafe Society blog, Jenn Wohletz lists five recent food developments that probably won’t work, including the Jack and Coke pie and the Undead Hasselhoff burger. Colorado Pols doubts Cory Gardner could really be leading…
This week’s cover story, “Magnetic Attraction,” tells the tale of Zen Magnets, a Denver company founded in 2009 by University of Colorado grad Shihan Qu. The company sells — you guessed it — magnets. But these aren’t just any magnets. They’re tiny, high-powered spherical magnets that can be used to…
Aurora’s new recreational pot shops weren’t the only venues to land rec licenses between September 1 and October 1 this year. Licenses for recreational stores were granted in five brand-new municipalities — and there was a lot more happening on the state’s licensing list. Keep reading to find out what:…
As you can see in this Facebook photo, shot during the Offspring’s set at Fiddler’s Green in August, Ray J. Roberts had a rock-and-roll heart. Those he left behind are celebrating this quality in their remembrances of Roberts, who died on Sunday in a scooter crash initially thought to have…
Attorney David Lane has long been among the most prominent opponents of capital punishment in Colorado. You’ll recall that he represented Edward Montour, who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole earlier this year after questions about the death that led to his initial imprisonment prompted prosecutors to…
A City-Data.com thread kicks off with this simple question: “Why are Front Range drivers so terrible?” And while some of the many folks who responded disagree with this theory, suggesting that drivers in these parts aren’t really any worse than those in any burgeoning metropolitan area, most float theories as…
