Over the two years that George Gray has been a detective with the graffiti unit of the Denver Police Department, one crew of graffiti vandals has been the particular focus of his efforts. “We’ve been looking at TKO hard,” says Gray. In the graffiti world, where respect is determined as…
How did anti-graffiti detectives finally pop KOZE, leader of one of Denver’s most notorious graffiti crews? By getting one of his associates to flip on him in court. But the three mural-like graffiti “pieces” that prompted a jury to convict 27-year-old Timothy Barajas of seven misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief…
Geez, it was like Bravehart at 15th and Larimer on Halloween night — but with pillows. More random scenes like this and soon everyone’s going to start packing feather-filled heat just to go clubbing. Tell mom I’m going to a sleepover at the Denver County Jail, okay?…
If the I-300 ballot initiative passes in November 3, Denver police officers will be required to immediately impound any and every car they pull over where the person behind the wheel doesn’t have a valid driver’s license in their possession. But while the main target of the proposed law is…
The real terrors we should fear this Halloween aren’t werewolves, ghosts or zombies, Dan Hayes insists, but people operating cars without driver’s licenses. “It’s a complete public menace,” he proclaims. Hayes, a property manager who lives in unincorporated Jefferson County, has bone-chilling tales of unlicensed drivers causing fatal accidents and…
I was walking past the Denver Art Museum yesterday and almost couldn’t believe my eyes. After seven months of confusing tourists and getting ripped apart by hippie art thieves, the gargantuan construction scaffolding at the entrance to the (once-leaky) Frederic C. Hamilton Building was being removed by crews. Just as…
Even as more and more cities are paying hundreds-of-thousands (or, as in the case of Denver, millions) for professionally designed and constructed outdoor skateboard facilities, many skaters still maintain that the most fun spots to ride are the ones that you and your friends build yourselves. But DIY ain’t for…
Okay, now that the kid-in-a-runaway-balloon-saga has ended safely with six-year-old Falcon Heene discovered hiding in the garage’s attic, I can finally say out loud what every male who came of age in the 80s was thinking while viewing the fantasical footage of the silver, billowing aircraft shooting through the sky…
Just the other day, I was driving back from Boulder when my daughter made what must have been her thousandth remark about the little lone gravesite on the side of U.S. 36 at the Highway 287 off-ramp. If there’s one thing the average commuter knows Broomfield for, it’s that odd…
I got into a conversation at a party this weekend about which neighborhood business district in Denver might emerge as the next cool place. Or, as real estate agents like to say, an “up-and-coming location.” People who self-identify as urbanites spend a lot of time talking about this sort of…
For three months, Dexter was considered guilty of being a pit bull. Like hundred of dogs every year, Dexter had been seized on suspicion of being a pit bull by Denver Animal Care & Control officers, then impounded at the Denver animal shelter — where three “Pit Bull Evaluation Team”…
When I was a kid the most awesome place in the mall was the magic/novelty shop. In addition to the rubber poop and hypnosis books, there was always some quirky middle-aged guy behind the counter demonstrating magic tricks to a crowd of boys age seven to thirteen. Well, like everything…
If you’ve lived in Denver for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard any one of many strange rumors about Denver International Airport: connections to the New World Order and the Freemasons, murals that depict horrific future events in 2012, an underground military base, spirits disturbed from an ancient indian…
As part of the feature story on the effectiveness of the Denver’s twenty-year-old law outlawing pit bull breeds, Westword posted a photo blog of dogs impounded in a section of the municipal animal shelter known as Pit Bull Row. Now, photographs have surfaced apparently showing some of the estimated 3,487…
Glenn Spagnuolo and Mark Cohen — they’re baaaaaack. Yes, the two local lefties behind Re-create 68 — whose Weather Underground rhetoric and overblown protest predictions before the Democratic National Convention allowed the Denver Police Department to work itself into an orgy of security spending — have re-emerged with something called…
After watching the above video of a yesterday’s “aerobics flash mob” on the 16th Street Mall, I think it’s fair to declare the “flash mob” concept officially dead. And thank God. The spectacle of seemingly-spontaneous, absurdist street theater popularized by left-wing “prank-tavists” and urban, drama club hipsters began to lose…
It’s true. Just watch the video. Apparently desperate to find a new coach (despite having just enjoyed his team’s first victory since 2007), Detroit Lions owner Adolf Hitler recently flew to Denver to court former-Denver Broncos head Mike Shanahan. OMG, Hitler, you so cray-zee!…
Like many stories about dog attacks, the recent description of an aggressive “fight dog” that bit a woman on the thigh and elbow in a Superior parking lot prompted many online comments at Denverpost.com. “Anyone who owns a mutt from one of these killer breeds should be REQUIRED to have…
Matthew James adopted Major, an American Pit Bull Terrier, from a Los Angeles shelter in 2006. When he moved to Denver later that year, he knew very little about the city’s pit bull ban. “I wasn’t sure how strict it was,” he says. “Then I got here and learned they…
Kevin O’Connell was away on business when he got a call from a Denver animal-control officer: His dog, a Presa Canario, had mauled a Chihuahua. O’Connell, a civil engineer who lives in Thornton, had left his two dogs with a friend who lives in Denver; he gave the officer his…
It’s all green all the time out at 8500 Pena Boulevard according to the PR chatter from officials at Denver International Airport. A video on the airport’s website titled “DIA is Green” touts environmentally friendly efforts such as a solar power program, an ongoing wind energy study and an “underground…
Local “Beauty Guru” hairstylist Ty Tomlinson was able to post bond last week after being arrested on several charges in connection with the alleged assault of his former girlfriend while she was employed at his popular Denver salon, Blanc. Court records show the bond amount includes a $75,000 bond for…
