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Keeping Colfax weird: Ten spots that give Denver's main street its culture and character

With the closure of Smiley's Laundromat and last month's bust and subsequent shuttering of Kitty's East, Colfax Avenue lost a little of its glittery seediness. Progress is a constant along this main drag, and has been for life of the city -- but still, Colfax isn't known for its betterment projects. ... More >>

Wanted: Jeffco shoplifter specializing in weight-loss pills, Rogaine, condoms

Given the number of serious crimes that are committed in these parts, shoplifters don't typically get a great deal of attention. But a man wanted in Jefferson County is an exception to this rule, thanks to the volume of thefts he's allegedly committed, but also for what he's accused of snatching. T ... More >>

Takai Beard makes schmucky decision to leave her kids in running car -- which was then stolen

Every parent knows it's a pain in the ass to take little kids in and out of the car when popping into a store, especially in cold weather. But know what's an even bigger pain in the ass? Having your idling ride stolen with your kids inside, because you were too lazy to schlep them with you. Which i ... More >>

The Rainbow Music Hall first opened 34 years ago this week with shows from Jerry Jeff Walker

If you were living in Denver thirty-four years ago this week, the Rainbow Music Hall would've been the talk of the town. After a grand opening gala featuring Jerry Jeff Walker, who performed three sets on two back-to-back nights at the venue, suddenly, the humble movie theater multiplex at the corne ... More >>

Twenty scariest mug shots of 2012

Each year, as we pull together roundups of the year's most memorable mug shots, we're startled anew by some of the photos -- those in which the subjects are so intense, pissed off or something that the images are burned into our brains. Below, see the twenty from 2012 that affected us that way, and ... More >>

Make Music Denver clangs through downtown

Tourists who hit downtown yesterday will leave the Mile High City with a slightly exaggerated impression of the role music plays in the workaday lives of Denverites. During the first-ever Make Music Denver -- an all-day, outdoor showcase of local music that builds on a global movement to celebrate m ... More >>

Photos: Ten weird Denver-area places -- an alternative tour

The TBEX North America conference, billed as the world's largest travel blogger convention, kicks off today at Keystone Resort, and VISIT DENVER's Rich Grant has a big role in showing off the area. But which local landmarks would he prefer the writers skip? We asked, and he (unwisely?) made a sugges ... More >>

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin honors the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum

Walgreens claims another Denver landmark: Gym built by Elvis for DPD to be torn down

Update 3/30/12: Photo of Nading-Presley Memorial Gym plaque added. Jonny Barber is troubled. Last week, the former Velvet Elvis, the Mile High City's expert Elvis channeler and resident Elvistorian received news that the building that used to house the Nading-Presley Memorial Gym, which The King ... More >>

Twenty most memorable mug shots of February 2012

This month's mug shot roundup features arrestees at the center of an uncommonly wide range of offenses -- from an alleged cell phone thief/reseller to Jeremiah Barnum (pictured), a convicted hate criminal shot to death by police. See the entire collection below, and be sure to click on the links be ... More >>

Jeremiah Barnum, convicted hate criminal, dead in officer-involved Walgreens shooting

Yesterday, a member of the Englewood Police Department shot and killed a man outside a Walgreens store. And the dead man was notorious long before he breathed his last. Jeremiah Barnum was at the center of what former Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher once described as "Denver's most famous hate-c ... More >>

Medical marijuana and pharmacists: A prescription for confusion?

​What should pharmacists do about medical marijuana? Because it's a criminalized substance under federal law, pharmacists, like other health-care workers, aren't supposed to have anything to do with it. On the other hand, pharmacists want to meet the needs of their patients, many of whom have ... More >>

How Walmart makes money off of high schools

Oxycontin thief wanted: Do you recognize man who robbed a Colorado Springs Walgreens?

Big pics below.​Yes, Oxycontin is expensive, and getting a prescription for it isn't easy -- but that doesn't mean it's okay to tell a pharmacist you've got a weapon and swipe as much of it as possible. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, a thief recently did just that. Look b ... More >>

No more need to hide your weed: Prescription Lock keeps medical pot locked

Lock up your weed​Among the dozens of booths at Kush Con II over the weekend at the Colorado Convention Center, it was easy to spot the common items -- glass pieces, 420 T-shirts and the like -- but new ways to make money off the burgeoning marijuana industry here have cropped up, too. Like " ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispesnary review: Kushism is a low point in the Highlands

​Maybe it was the Barney-purple paint, or possibly the security guard dozing off on the front porch. But something about the vibe of Kushism Highlands told me to just drive past it and find another dispensary to visit. I think it's time I start listening to those small voices in my head.

Jersey Shore: Five reasons why Pauly D is the best cast member to hit Denver tonight

​Guido and guidettes, have you heard the news? Pauly D, the super-creepin', GTL-in' cast member from the cultural phenomenon Jersey Shore will be beatin' up the beat tonight at Beta. Personally, we haven't been this excited about anything since Walgreens offered two-for-one spray tan in a can. ... More >>

Six-year-old kid crashes mom Maria Ponce-Ramirez's car: No dessert for you!

A Flickr photoIt's not as easy as it looks, little man.​Late last month, we told you about heroic Dillon Earl, a Fruita eight-year old, who saved his grandmother's life by taking the wheel of her car on the highway when she had a seizure. Apparently, Dillon's age was crucial, because a thus-f ... More >>

Medical marijuana bill threatens "Mom and Pop" dispensaries, says advocate Matt Brown

Matt Brown thinks the new medical marijuana bill has improved -- but it still has a ways to go.​When medical marijuana advocate Matt Brown spoke to Westword yesterday about Representative Tom Massey's new bill to regulate the industry, he hadn't seen the final document -- just a draft from lat ... More >>

Does Miss Rodeo Colorado 2010 want to save animals? Or eat them?

Kasie Pigg, Miss Rodeo Colorado 2010​ If you can't make it to the National Western Stock Show to see Miss Rodeo Colorado Kasie Pigg -- either the way cartoonist Kenny Be imagined her, or the way she appears on her website and her Facebook page -- you can read all about her via her Twitter feed ... More >>

The ten worst stocking stuffers of all time

​Stockings can be a favorite part of the Christmas experience, mostly because of the surprise factor: While kids often write Christmas lists that rank items by price, catalog page and level of absolute need, they don't often bother listing stuff that is stocking-appropriate. So tearing through ... More >>

The Skylark doubles your pleasure with twenty beers

Stomp Them Grapes moving north

​Stomp Them Grapes, central Denver's only brew-at-home beer-and- wine store, is moving this week from 2563 15th Street to 4731 Lipan Street, near I-70. But the added driving distance will pay off in added inventory. "We've outgrown the space. We're going from a miserable 860 square feet to 4, ... More >>

En garde!: Teen uses sword in Oxycontin heist attempt

A Flickr photo Armed robbers are almost invariably armed with the same thing: a gun. Bo-ring! But nineteen-year-old Dylan Lee Suomi reportedly took a different tack Tuesday night when he decided to boost some Oxycontin from a Glendale Walgreens, using a samurai sword. Can't say this switcheroo was ... More >>

Candy Girls: Bologna Bubble Gum

Liz KellermeyerThis hardly needs a review, does it?

Murder by Death at the Bluebird

Murder by Death, the Builders and the Butchers, Fake Problems February 14, 2009 Bluebird Theater Better than:Eating cheap chocolates from Walgreens 'cause your significant other forgot about Valentine's Day. The Murder by Death show at the Bluebird brought all the jaded and lonely hearts together ... More >>

You, too, can be a disability parking enforcer

A recent alert from the Denver Disability Parking Enforcement Program announces that the city is recruiting citizens interested in ticketing those able-bodied but ass-lazy drivers who park in handicapped zones. Yes, you heard right. Denver uses volunteers to try to keep those parki ... More >>

Candy Girls: Nestle Chunky Bar

While scouring the candy aisle at Walgreen's earlier this week, I happened upon a mysterious box filled with giant candy bars that looked like they were left over from the Reagan administration. The packaging had a decidedly retro '80s feel, and since the box was sitting all alone on the very top ... More >>

Thirteen Denver locales that are probably haunted -- or at least should be

Let it rain

The DNC goodie bag: How good is it?

The DNC goodie bag: How good is it?

Candy Girls: Limited Edition Wild Cherry M&M's

Behold, the Herpes Happy Hour, Denver's Best Source of Really Awkward Small Talk

Candy Girls: Strawberry Milkshake Whoppers

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 4/10/2008

Apple Manhattan Martini

Vita

Off Limits

Sour grapes

Serves Them Right

Women's tennis is the latest from the new Pi dynasty.

No, Thanks!

Outsiders swoop in and threaten area landmarks -- as usual.

Drunk of the Week

Irish Hound

Best Stop Before Girls' -- or Ghouls' -- Night Out

Studio Lites

Best Homegrown Cold Remedy to Go National

Cold Snap
Oriental Herb Company

Best Downtown Store

Walgreens

Best 24-hour service

Walgreen's 24-hour pharmacy

Jawbreaker

Live 4/30/96
(Blackball Records)

Savage Love

I Drink, Therefore I Am

An incomplete history of local barchitecture, undertaken in two sober afternoons.

Coming to Take You Away

Hurtful Feelings

A blind man is accused of groping a salesclerk.