Like most military veterans, Wayne Littrell is accustomed to the foot-dragging, the red tape, the hurry-up-and-wait mentality involved in dealing with the government. He's aware of the news reports concerning the scandalous delays and neglect that thousands of vets have endured when seeking medical care and other benefits from the...
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Last year, we posted about Patricia Lucero, who was bloodied by Denver cops in a case for which the Office of the Independent Monitor recommended discipline. However, the Manager of Safety's Office disagreed, and the officers involved weren't punished for excessive force. Instead, one was reprimanded for her use of nunchakus without...
These are not the best of times for the criminal justice system in Trinidad. The city and two of its police detectives are being sued by the ACLU of Colorado, which claims the detectives fabricated and misrepresented evidence in a 2013 drug investigation that led to the arrests of forty...
Last month, we told you about the death of Rachel Neiman, a Regis University student who was killed after being struck by a suspected street racer. Now, two men, William Chicano and David Felan, have been formally charged in the case -- and Felan, whose Facebook page is filled with...
When Billy Idol started changing costumes on stage at the Paramount Theatre last night before (what else?) "Flesh For Fantasy," it seemed at first like some post-middle-age bravado. But when he when he eventually took off his shirt entirely, because he’s goddamned Billy Idol, there wasn't the usual gut you'd...
Benediction Denver Center Theatre Company A world premiere, a tribute and a deeply affecting evening of theater: This is the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of Benediction, Eric Schmiedl's dramatization of Kent Haruf's novel of the same name. A much-loved and lauded Colorado author, Haruf saw two of his earlier...
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Dear Mexican: I have a hard time believing that the immigrants we see at Home Depot are the best Mexico has to offer. Why can't we entice more of the cream of the crop of Mexicans to come up north? (Mexico has the richest man in the world, so someone...
Buddies Wellness is one of those dispensaries that you've probably missed unless you’ve driven past it or heard about it from friends. I know I did, even though it's been around for five years according to the budtender there. The shop is hidden away in an industrial center a few...
The City of Denver is imposingnew restrictions for concerts at Red Rocks this year, and some members of the the electronic music community argue that those limits (which include decibel ceilings throughout performances) unfairly affect EDM. A petition called Respect The Rocks has racked up almost 14,500 signatures in support...
We celebrated dozens of schmucks in 2014 -- but who were your favorite Schmucks of the Week this past year? We've collected the top five below, featuring original photos, videos, text and more. Count them down below. See also: Andres Sanchez-Luevano After Allegedly Killing GF's Kitten: "That's What You Get,...
Macon Terry is sitting on the rooftop patio of Weathervane Cafe, drinking carrot juice. He’s talking about the thing he’s spent most of his life doing, which is playing music. The longtime Paper Bird bassist has been a fixture on the Denver scene for years, also logging time with Gregory...
By now, the power and influence of Reddit, which refers to itself as the "front page of the Internet," is known to just about everyone. Except, apparently, former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner. He made his most candid comments to date about the botched investigation into the 1996 murder of Boulder's...
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Renegade Brewing isn't yet cooking malt and hops at its huge new production and packaging facility on First Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, but it has opened the building for public tours — along with pints. Tours will be offered from 4 to 7 p.m. on Fridays and 1 to...
When it comes to music, Land Lines' Martina Grbac has wanted something bigger for as long as she can remember. When she was in the fifth grade, her elementary school set out dozens of instruments in the auditorium to help students decide which ones they might want to play. Grbac...
You would think that Nebraska and Oklahoma might have bigger things to worry about than acting like narcs regarding their more enlightened neighbor. You would think that, but you'd be wrong. For months Nebraska cops have been pulling over cars coming out of Colorado, on the offchance they might contain...
If a child is left home alone, even for a short time, terrible things can happen. That's among the tragic takeaways from a fire that claimed the life of three-year old Lileigh Kellenaers -- and while her mom, Kristen Braig, and Braig's boyfriend, Dustin Blanchard, are suspected of child abuse...
From the recent proliferation of wood ovens turning out pitch-perfect renditions of the street pizzas of Naples, Italy, to odd interlopers from Wisconsin, Georgia and Washington, Colorado's pizza options have exploded in recent years. Purists and transplants may still wave off Denver as a second-rate pizza town, but there's no...
The trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is scheduled to begin with opening statements on Monday, April 27, in Arapahoe County District Court. It’s been more than two and a half years since Holmes is alleged to have opened fire at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora...
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Smart and self-assured, with jet-black hair and the faintest of goatees, Shihan Qu is the reigning king of magnet balls. His ascension to the throne wasn't so much the result of hard-won battles against other magnet magnates as it was the outcome of a process of elimination. While other companies...
There are few hard-and-fast rules in screenwriting, but here's one I think we can agree on: Something's gone wrong if your crowd-pleasing family drama asks audiences to hope a child's father proves to be a crackhead. That's one baffling turn in Mike Binder's Black or White, a movie about race...
The connection between a great teacher and students who want to learn can be a beautiful thing -- and a tragic one when the connection between them is unexpectedly shattered. That's what happened with the accidental death of 28-year-old Mitch Hanson, a teacher at Smoky Hills High School, from what...
Yesterday, in the wake of the $6 million settlement over Marvin Booker's Denver jail death, we shared fifteen other law-enforcement brutality cases as detailed in the Booker family lawsuit -- and noted that there were a lot more beyond them. As proof, here's part two: eighteen more excessive-force cases in...