On Monday, November 6, Denver City Council voted 9 to 4 to approve $200,000 for an immigrant legal defense fund. It was a $100,000 increase over what Mayor Michael Hancock originally budgeted for the initiative, which he enacted through executive order on August 31 as a supplement to another bill that limits the city’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Inspired by Bernie Sanders, Brandon Rietheimer, who daylights as the manager of a Red Robin restaurant, pushed Denver’s Green-Roof Initiative to a surprising victory.
Twenty-five students from Project VOYCE attended Jay-Z’s concert at the Pespi Center on Sunday night, November 5 – part of the rapper’s 4:44 tour in support of his new album.
Tonight between 7 and 11 p.m., gunshots will ring out in four different neighborhoods around Denver — Westwood, Villa Park, Clayton and Montbello — as part of a Denver Police Department test of their “ShotSpotter” system.
On Tuesday, October 31, we got a tip that local events organizer Party Guru was producing a Zoolander-inspired Halloween party at Nativ Hotel called “Derelicte” that would include a fashion show where contestants would show off outfits inspired by people experiencing homelessness.
Fifty years after the Summer of Love, when underground LSD labs in Denver helped fuel a revolution, psychedelics are making a major comeback through microdosing.
Fifty years after the Summer of Love, it’s still a little-known fact that Denver had been home to two major LSD laboratories. Even though the operations were short-lived, they created significant repercussions — not just legally for their operators, but for the psychedelic movement as a whole.
The numbers of courthouse arrests were far higher than anyone – city officials included – realized: 31 courthouse arrests in Denver between October 2016 and early May 2017.
Denver usually sees the highest demand for shelter space November through April. As we start to experience the first snow storms of the season, Westword checked in with the city to find out what shelter options are available during winter 2017-2018, and how those options may have changed from last season.
Arcade Fire’s latest album may be a heavy-handed exercise in social commentary, but live, the act is pure energy.
When the Boulder Valley Velodrome – a 250 meter outdoor cycling track with steep, banked turns – opened in Erie in 2015, it was the culmination of more than a decade of effort by its joint owners, Doug Emerson and Frank Banta. Now it’s for sale.
Her failure-to-appear means that a warrant has been put out for her, and that Phoenix will face additional charges in Denver if located. We immediately tried to reach her, but found that her personal cell phone number had been disconnected and that her personal Gmail account and Facebook profile had been deleted.
This summer, a production crew from VICE was in the Mile High City filming an episode for their series Weediquette about the relationship between the growth of the cannabis industry and Denver’s affordable housing and homelessness crises.
Colorado’s immigrant rights community has been galvanized by two major developments this week as ICE continues to bear down on undocumented immigrants under the directives of President Trump. Ingrid Encalada Latorre, a well-known sanctuary seeker and immigration activist, decided at the last minute to defy her deportation order; she did…
Blair Stapp got the idea to start Blank House after hosting lots of visitors through Airbnb. Stapp was constantly being asked for suggestions of things to check out, and noticed that a lot of the listings that guests were looking at through websites like Denver.org suggested areas of Denver that Stapp considers blasé or touristy.
This morning I had the hilarious experience of witnessing two California transplants go through an absolute freakout over their first Colorado snowstorm.
Who oversees ethics complaints lodged against the Denver District Attorney? It’s a question that most people didn’t realize was problematic until a Boulder man named Jerry Greene filed a complaint about former DA Mitch Morrissey in fall 2015.
On Wednesday, October 4, Mayor Michael Hancock announced an initiative called Denver Talks, a six-week-long series of events that aims to bring together Denverites for discussions around race and social justice. With a passing reference to the NFL #TakeAKnee movement and President Donald Trump, Hancock said that Denver Talks is…
With or without a legal definition of “sanctuary city,” it’s now clear that the White House, DHS and ICE all believe that Denver fits the bill.
The Larimer Lounge may be one of Denver’s great venues, but when the smoke machines fog the air, it’s impossible to tell.
When Damon Albarn, the creative madman behind the genre-bending collective Gorillaz, emerged onto the Red Rocks stage Tuesday night, my first thought was that he looked like he’d either been plucked from a bus stop on Colfax Avenue or he’d just rolled out of bed.
As the traditionally military-friendly National Football League finds itself in an existential crisis with players and some coaches participating in the #TakeAKnee movement, which was inspired by President Trump’s “son of a bitch” comments last weekend, John Elway decided to offer his two cents on the debate. During a weekly…
