Wheat Ridge

Reader: Gunsmoke Guns isn't automatically guilty just because the I.R.S. staged a raid

Our latest update about Gunsmoke Guns, the Wheat Ridge business at the center of the just-canceled reality TV series American Guns, featured a search warrant affidavit suggesting tax rip-offs going back years. But the evidence presented in the document against the Wyatt family -- Rich, Renee, Kurt a ... More >>

American Guns' Gunsmoke Guns: Did Wyatt family rip off the I.R.S. for years?

Update: We've been following a series of surprising incidents involving Gunsmoke Guns, a Wheat Ridge store that served as the setting of American Guns, a reality TV series that was recently canceled by the Discovery Channel; see our previous coverage below. First, there was a robbery. Then, there w ... More >>

"Mustang" isn't the only controversial public art in Colorado

See also: After five years, it might be time for "Mustang" to mosey on

Reader: Occupy Denver is only human

Good Times' new breakfast burritos -- lean and green

Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard, a homegrown chain, is heating up this green chile season by rolling out a roster of chile-injected menu items: a green chile burger, a green chile chicken sandwich, green chile sliders and breakfast burritos, all smothered with New Mexico Hatch green chiles. The ... More >>

Chipotle celebrates National Farmers' Market Week with giveaway

National Farmers' Market Week runs through August 11, and Chipotle Mexican Grill, Denver's homegrown success story, is showing its support of local produce by giving the first 250 people to arrive at select farmers' markets a $10 token that can be used at any vendor. The burrito chain will also be g ... More >>

Eva Longoria and Obama campaign team up to promote women's issues in Colorado

The Obama campaign is hoping to make news in Colorado for something other than today's presidential visit to the Waldo Canyon fire zone in the Springs. The fight for swing state votes will hit Wheat Ridge Sunday, when Obama staffers will join former Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria for the lau ... More >>

Wylie Newton charged with stealing antique gun from museum, trying to sell it on TV

Thieves dispensing with stolen goods typically do so quietly, outside the public eye. But if Wheat Ridge Police are right, Wylie Newton is a different breed. Newton is accused of stealing an antique pistol from a New Mexico museum, then trying to sell it on a reality TV show.

Ten Colorado companies strut their stuff at the Consumer Electronics Show

otterbox.com​ The Consumer Electronics Show, that yearly technology bacchanal, kicks off today in Las Vegas. It's an orgy of smartphones, tablets, Justin Bieber and ... gospel singers belting out tweets? You better believe it. A host of Colorado companies are there, showing and telling and (ho ... More >>

"Saul Gud" streets artists: How police tracked them with Facebook

"I was able to view an album titled 'Homies' by 'Ray Jin' on Facebook." That was some of the excellent police work done by the Wheat Ridge Police Department while investigating Corey and Jesse Knapper, the subjects of this week's Westword cover story, "Buzz Kill." The twins and art-school students g ... More >>

I-70 & Wadsworth mystery crash culprit: Organic soil from EDS Waste Solutions

Update below: One minute, drivers were zipping along I-70 near Wadsworth with no problem. The next, they were sliding as if an ice storm had just struck. Now, however, Wheat Ridge Police think they know who was responsible for the mysterious substance that slickened the highway early yesterday morni ... More >>

Nude artwork & piece misidentified as vagina removed, then returned to Wheat Ridge display

Big pics below.​It's been a whirlwind June for Kittredge artist Michael McGrath. Three small pieces, including two featuring nudity and a third that was mistaken for a vagina, were removed from a display at the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center. But yesterday, they were back -- following a letter ... More >>

Spring cleaning unearths clown painting, other scary garage secrets: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Wheat Ridge cleaning clown.​ Nothing says springtime in Denver like a clown painting leaning against the front wheel of a car parked before an open garage door on a driveway teeming with junk. The clown painting practically promises that the open garage is the portal to a secret kingdom of jun ... More >>

Funeral Party

JV Bandit makes another bid for varsity status -- by allegedly robbing another Wheat Ridge bank

The JV Bandit.​Last month, we noted that the JV Bandit would make the varsity soon, given the rate at which he was allegedly knocking over banks. And the suspect, named by the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, which has bestowed monikers on the likes of the Formerly Known as the Perennia ... More >>

The Butcher’s Daughter

Denver Blogs: Broncos to spend Halloween in London -- which hopefully won't be terrifying

A Flickr photoWhen at Wembley, don't start playing by English football rules, guys. This ain't soccer!​Why not warm up for the weekend by reading some Denver blogs? The Broncos will play their first-ever regular season game outside America on October 31, facing off against the San Francisco 4 ... More >>

"Zero pro-Wolf people" at latest anti-Obama billboard picket session, says protest leader

A sign of the times?​Update, 4:01 p.m.: Pat Dunn just called with information about a court hearing earlier today involving an altercation at an earlier protest. Look below for more information. On Friday, we told you about a call for a counter-protest against the group picketing Wolf Interst ... More >>

Makeout Point's new video looks like it's going to be positively funtastic

​Makeout Point, a newer outfit that formed this past spring, recently finished filming its first video for a song called "Falling In." We just got a peek at some stills from the shoot and the video looks like it's going to be positively funtastic on the homemade goodness tip, with the band rocking ... More >>

Is this anti-Obama billboard racist? You be the judge

Obama meets Sambo? Click the photo to enlarge the image.​So... whaddya think? Is this billboard, on display outside Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, a bold (and legitimate) statement of displeasure with the Obama administration that has the guts to link the s ... More >>

Ganjapreneurs are cashing in on Colorado's booming medical pot business

Wheel Fun

Put your scavenger skills to the test on the Urban Assault Ride.

At least three metro-area Chrysler dealerships to close according to bankruptcy filing

In a bankruptcy filing today, Chrysler reveals that it plans to close 789 of its 3,200 dealerships in the United States -- and a source with access to the documents finds at least three in the immediate Denver metro area on the list. They are: • Burt Dodge Chrysler Jeep, 9900 Twenty Mile Road, ... More >>

Amici's has moved to Wheat Ridge

http://fanellisamicis.com/Fanellis_Amicis.php After years of serving up old-fashioned, red-sauce Italian at 53rd and Sheridan, Amici's has made the leap into the 21st century with a new spot at 4330 Wadsworth Boulevard in Wheat Ridge. This address once belonged to Gemini Restaurant, but it's barely ... More >>

Medical marijuana has become a growth industry in Colorado

From the week of January 22

In the neighborhood: The Fainting Goat

  The space at 846 Broadway has long been the go-to bar for all our needs around the office.  It's been the Parlour, the Minturn Saloon and Moon Time in the years that I've been here --everything from a kinda weird, quasi-classy bolt-hole with a serious kitchen to a mountain transplant w ... More >>

WaterCourse makes a splash at the Aveda Academy

The Fainting Goat Stands Tall

Applejack Wine Joins the Modern Era

Best of Westword Winners: 1989

Denver, Meet Smashburger

Denver, Meet Smashburger

Rocky columnist Bill Johnson's Error Jackpot

Ask Anything

Head Tripped

A funny thing happend on the way to the hallucination machine.

Happy Hooker

A young pro bowler finds hope to spare.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Private Wildlife Sanctuary

Karin Heine property , Wheat Ridge

Getting Racked

A local magazine says the city's news-box rules kick publications where it hurts.

Skin Deep

Inside the Rocky Mountain Heritage Fest, Colorado's first neo-Nazi music festival.

Consumed

This Sucks!

Used and Abused

What's it like to work at the state's largest detox? These counselors were scared straight.

Letters

The Horse at Poo Corner

A group of Wheat Ridge neighbors turn up their noses at a malodorous mare.

The Blacktop Jungle

Are the series of superhighways inching their way around Denver a "beltway"--or a noose?

Aiming at the Stars

Two Wheat Ridge women try to plug into the miracle of TV fame.

LETTERS

NO DOG HAS HIS DAY

"SUE THE CREEP" IN THE DOG-POISONING CASE? IN COLORADO, YOU'RE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW