For the past three years, the CU Boulder campus has been closed to visitors on April 20 in an attempt to snuff out the 4/20 bash that annually transformed the school into what NORML executive director Alan St. Pierre once referred to as "an orgasm of cannabis consumption." For this...
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Update: Last week, we told you about the officer-involved shooting of a man who'd allegedly robbed a Fast-N-Friendly outlet in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Aurora Police Department has identified the person killed as 39-year-old Kavonda Earl Payton -- and there's a very large difference between his...
Last month, our Music blog told you about the arrest of Puddle of Mudd lead singer Wes Scantlin for trespassing at Denver International Airport — by riding the oversize luggage racks there. In recent days, Scantlin was supposed to appear in local court on that incident and a previous one in...
This week's cover story, “The Long Way Home,” examines the unusual, long-running fallout from a fatal hit-and-run on the streets of Aurora. The 1991 incident took the life of one sixteen-year-old, Danny Goetsch, and sent another, Dietrick Mitchell, to the state prison system – where he remains 24 years later,...
While many consider the Cannabis Cup to be more of a shit show than an award show at this point, I still look forward to the judge's annual selections for the top strains in Colorado and seek them out afterward to try for myself. Sure, some people say the awards...
A stop at Williams & Graham for a cocktail on Friday night yielded the expected result: a creative, tasty and unique mixed drink from expert bartenders. But what wasn't quite so expected was the pork schnitzel on the food menu -- a dish that doesn't show up with much frequency...
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In 1980, fresh filmmaker Charlie Ahearn was approached by graffiti artist Fred Braithwaite to see if he wanted to make a movie about the hip-hop scene in New York City through the music, dance and art that was erupting from every corner of the metropolis. Ahearn jumped at the chance...
Slovenian industrial band Laibach return to the Gothic Theatre this Saturday, May 23rd for its first show in Denver in over a decade. The group, comprising cultural provocateur and multi-media artists will share the bill with Ministry. Whereas the latter came up in a relatively free cultural climate in Denver and Chicago,...
This year’s Denver Music Summit — the third iteration of the gathering — will be about more than just good music. There will be live performances by local and national artists, yes, but there will also be networking, panels about industry trends and brand enhancement, a presentation by Martin Atkins...
Now that development of the historic Stapleton Airport control tower is about to take off — come spring 2016, it will hold the city’s second Punch Bowl Social — only a few iconic buildings in this city still sit empty. In RiNo, once-decrepit warehouses are being turned around daily. An...
Update below: Did Colorado Springs landlord John Lorenz text a photo of pointed gun to a man living at his place -- and then use the weapon to kill him later in the day? That's among the assertions in a police report naming Lorenz, who's currently in custody on suspicion...
An unexpected result of Colorado's legalization of limited marijuana sales for recreational purposes has been a rise in the number of academic studies about whether the change has been good or bad for the state. A few months ago, a paper released by the Brookings Institution found that the rollout...
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RetroActive Pirate: Contemporary Art 3655 Navajo Street The idea for Denver's Spark Gallery actually came about in Boulder in the 1970s. At the time, exhibition space for emerging artists was scarce, so a group of University of Colorado undergrads, graduate students, instructors and professors got together with the purpose of...
In 2009 and 2010, Yuzo Nieto of Pink Hawks and Adam Gildar put together a festival of a different stripe: The concept was that Denver bands covered songs by their own favorite Denver bands. The result was an eclectic and affectionate affair featuring obscure and more well-known artists. The covers...
Fremont Correctional Facility inmate and die-hard Dallas Cowboy fan Terry Hendrix is currently serving three different sentences ranging from five to 24 years -- meaning he has a lot of time to stew over Dallas's recent playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers. In fact, Hendrix was so upset about...
For the second year in a row, Colorado lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at reducing the number of construction-defects lawsuits — and hopefully increasing the number of condos built in the metro area. Senate Bill 177 would push homeowners and builders toward arbitration rather than litigation when homeowners' units...
Frasca Food and Wine launched its Instituto Per il Vino series this month. The four-part, interactive classes take an in-depth look at different wine regions around the globe, with curated flights that showcase each region. This week you can take the New World Pinot Noir class, which will take place...
Back in October, former Denver resident Barbara Bowman told her story of alleged rape by entertainer Bill Cosby. Since then, a many other accusers have surfaced, bringing accusations that had seemingly faded away back to the public's attention -- and subsequent Cosby gaffes, like a Twitter invitation to "Meme me"...
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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...
The opening of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market is my favorite herald of spring—even on years when it falls on a wet, icy day. This Saturday, however, was bright and cool, slowly warming hour by hour. And hour by hour the crowd, sparse at first, swelled. For a few weeks,...
After a long winter’s wait, it’s finally warm enough to put on the roof! The adhesives used to hold down the EPDM roofing require a period of 48 hours above 50 degrees, and we’re getting there, slowly. Of course, the winter was tough on the exposed plywood, and due to...
Dakota Coburn’s quiet intensity expands into full-on enthusiasm as he reminisces about vacations in Mexico and his initial forays into that country’s cuisine when he was eight — from his first taste of real mole to tacos al pastor straight off the spit of a Puerto Vallarta street vendor to...