The daughter of Kathleen and Kenny Sanchez may be alive today because Kenny hit her in public when she was three-years-old. This may sound like a strange statement, but the facts of the case, as spelled out in an arrest affidavit on view below, provide a strong argument for it...
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Tickets for the third annual Collaboration Fest — an event that has quickly become one of Colorado's signature beer parties — went on sale yesterday for $50 a pop ($75 for VIP) at collaborationfest.com. Collaboration Fest will take place on March 19, 2016, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High,...
The past is coming full circle. On Sunday, November 29, on day four of the seventeenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run, participants will gather by the grave of Captain Silas Soule at Riverside Cemetery, as they have every year since 1999. Then they’ll run into downtown Denver and along Arapahoe...
The cops arrived at ten in the morning, setting up a perimeter around the two dozen homeless individuals who were camping in the area known as “Resurrection Village,” near the former Big Wonderful site at the intersection of 26th and Arapahoe streets. The officers didn’t come alone. Their arrival was...
Long before they even considered the fun part — making and serving delicious craft beers — most of the breweries that have opened in Colorado over the past five years began with a physical location, their own equipment and some tables and chairs. But that hasn’t always been the case...
Chris Parente, host of Fox31's Everyday and a popular emcee around town, has done some crazy interviews. But It would be hard to beat this one with hot-hot comic Amy Schumer and Bill Hader, stars of the new Trainwreck. Parente asked them to evaluate assorted male members of the Fox31...
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A new cook walks into a Denver kitchen, and the first thing another cook says to him is “Don’t I know you from somewhere?” The two look at one another, trying to figure out the connection before it dawns on them both: elementary school. Although Travis Messervey and William Johnson...
There's no doubt that headbangers enjoyed another banner year in 2015. These last 12 months proved to be a successful for many established, and up-and-coming metal bands from various sub genres. Through it all, we've been keeping track of our favorites and the bands that surprised us the most.This was...
Tommie Phillips has one foot in the past and the other securely in the future. Having lived through the psychedelic sounds of the ’60s, the progressive rock of the ’70s, the revival of both in the ’90s and the death of numerous music formats and their subsequent resurrections, he’s seen...
Colorado is home to some of the most dangerous and notorious people in America owing to the presence of supermax facilities in the state. Among them are "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid and "Underwear Bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Now, these notorious criminals are reportedly being joined by Gary Ridgway, also...
When judges rate beers at competitions like the Great American Beer Festival, they are typically looking for how well a particular brew fits its style definition. Does it taste, smell and feel like it is supposed to? Is it cloudy or clear? Does it have the right color, the right...
Newcomers to the kind of thick-crusted, cheese-smothered pizzas served at the Good Son, the subject of my most recent review, might be tempted to call it deep dish. After all, it’s a heckuva lot deeper than what usually passes for pie in these parts, right? The thing is, what the...
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Larry Stevenson certainly had plenty of connections. A former Denver police officer turned high-profile employee for the city's Excise and License department, Stevenson was a personal friend of Denver mayor Michael Hancock, even serving as best man at his wedding. In addition, he created an anti-crime system known as Transportation on...
Denver blogs make snap judgments. At our Arts blog, Lindsey Bartlett highlights the twenty best instagrammers in Denver. Colorado Peak Politics isn't thrilled by Governor John Hickenlooper's veto of a red-light-camera ban. The Colorado Independent's Tessa Cheek on the possible repercussions for Twin Peaks Charter Academy as a result of...
Here's a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just...
This week's feature delves into a subject doctors don't like to talk about much — their mistakes. It focuses on the case of Ruth Farfan, a 68-year-old patient who died in 2012, shortly after what was supposed to be "routine" surgery at Denver's St. Anthony Central. Farfan's family has reached...
My drive to Westword's offices each morning takes me past Denver Health Medical Center — and when I saw the emergency room parking lot jammed with police vehicles and ambulances, I knew something substantial had happened. And it has. A police officer was reportedly injured during a traffic stop on...
In December 2013, we told you about the arrest of Traci Cunningham on charges that she murdered her adoptive mother, Penelope Cunningham, and left her body in a remote part of Eagle County. Traci Cunningham has now been found guilty of the crime. But it wasn't a smooth road to a...
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Earlier this week, we argued that Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson had won the Miss America pageant by the way she lost it — by delivering a monologue about nursing (she's a registered nurse) rather than offering a typically cliched routine during the talent portion of the competition, and by saying...
Earlier this year, we told you about the death of James Damon and arrest of Georgie Hand after the couple took a pair of hostages — a deputy and a Colorado Parks and Wildlife official. Now, the Moffat County District Attorney has reportedly deemed Damon's killing justified — and new information offers more insight...
The world of craft beer is changing. Over the past twelve months, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. If you follow beer, then you've...
If you've been whining about the rainy weather pattern that's hung around Denver for weeks, you're not alone. But in the mountains, that rain turned to snow — and as a result of a jaw-slackening 84 inches of accumulation since mid-April, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, which officially opened the Colorado...