Earlier this week we told you about the Hummer driver who, in a fit of road rage, was believed by state-patrol troopers to have caused a multi-vehicle accident that left a motorcyclist in critical condition. Because he was driving a Hummer, and because I’m a predictable knee-jerk liberal with a…
Denver-area authorities have made yet another holy-shit-that’s-a-lot-of-weed bust on an sophisticated grow operation, no doubt worrying local stoners that they’re approaching their Entourage moment. Don’t worry, guys! That’s what Mexico’s for! The most recent bust happened in the Pike National Forest, where the West Metro Task Force was tipped off…
Baseball season is long and dense, epically so, the Infinite Jest of sporting seasons. So you can’t be blamed for jumping in and out, especially in a place where there is so much else to do, and especially when your team plays like Edward Norton in Primal Fear. But if…
Get used to the words flashing on your TV screen and bouncing from your radio speakers: “Pay as you go.” And we’re not talking cell phones or Craigslist escorts (they do that, don’t they?) President Obama’s proposed “pay-as-you-go” plan — wherein every expenditure (except for lots of them) must be…
OK, so CNN.com’s Freshman Year — the internet reality show starring Colorado Congressman Jared Polis — isn’t likely an accurate representation of how Polis spends his time. And he does allegedly visit an Aurora detention center in the most recent episode (although we don’t see it, and I’m convinced he…
The number of Colorado companies executing large numbers of jobs at once is falling, the Denver Business Journal reports this morning, a sign that slightly less sucky times may lie ahead: (T)he number of Colorado workers let go in June’s mass layoffs declined by more than half, to 832 in…
The ambulance-chasing is in fifth gear in the aftermath of Hep Breakout Heard Round the World. Personal-injury lawyer Frank “Strong Arm” Azar, who’s been on the case since the beginning, has hit the airwaves with quite possibly the scariest ad since Terry Tate Office Linebacker. The video of the commercial…
Only in the Bizarro World of Fox News would Michael Karolchyk — the tax-dodging misogynist behind the Anti-Gym — qualify as a reliable expert on anything, let alone the president’s pick for a new surgeon general. But the cable-news channel went ahead and invited him anyway, so he could do…
Careful observation and critical analysis reveals all you need to know about the latest trends in camping …..
See more photos at westword.com/sldeshow. Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Ogden Theatre Better Than: Chaperoning an unchaperoned prom. Not that different, but definitely better. It’s not often someone asks you, during the first song of a headliner’s set, “Who is this?” It’s even less often that when you answer with the…
InDenver Times’ Hunter Ashley has become the first quasi-media-type to address the non-existing rumors that dog-whacking former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, now an officially free man, could get a look from the Broncos this off-season: Maybe because the media on the outside is still scratching their heads over the Jay…
Mayor John Hickenlooper may be starring in his own documentary series, but if this morning’s Denver Post is any indication, he’s soon going to be starring in his own political thriller, in which he somehow tries to trim $120 million from the city’s budget without decimating services, putting more people…
With news that the mothership is landing in the local-sports market , and with sports-blog coalitions like SBNation and Bleacher Report continuing to expand, there are lots of questions about what the future of sports journalism will look like. Inside the Rockies wants to be part of the answer. The…
The highlight of the Mile High Music Fest — at least for the guy who was stuck in the media tent uploading photos and reviews — had to be the moment when photographer Brian Landis Folkins returned to the tent armed with photos from the early-Sunday performance of honeyhoney, the…
It took me a bit, but I finally was able to sift through the hundreds of photos our photogs took over the weekend and cull out some of the best. So on the slideshow page, you’ll now find slideshows of full of concert photos for Day One and Day Two…
A Denver cop is accused of pulling his gun in an effort to speed up his drive-through order at an Aurora McDonald’s in May, the Post is reporting. From their story: A Denver police officer faces felony menacing and weapons charges based on an allegation that he pointed a pistol…
Broncos wide receiver/resident diva Brandon Marshall has vowed to show up for training camp — not because he’s a loyal teammate, but because he’s “not gonna let them take more money.” And a little luck — or perhaps a little help from a friendly judge or scheduler — could keep…
After 12-plus hours of testimony, the state health board on Monday rejected a key restriction on medical marijuana dispensaries — a rule that would have limited them to five patients each. You have to imagine this was the most attention ever heaped on the health board, which played host to…
In perhaps the least surprising news since the cancellation of Frank TV, Colorado State Patrol troopers are looking for the driver of an Hummer H2 who, in a fit of road rage, may have intentionally caused a wreck that left a motorcycle rider seriously injured. The incident happened Sunday afternoon…
Woody Paige took time from his television foibles to chime in with a pretty decent column on Sunday, about the very fine life of former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan. Shanahan — who talked with Paige at the celebrity golf tourney in Lake Tahoe — has apparently been busy marrying off…
View Larger Map (Trouble viewing this map? Click “View Larger Map”) Perhaps they were trying to pin it on Ani DiFranco? The Denver Police is investigating a kidnapping/murder at 3602 North Leyden, which they’ve connected to a body dumped in Commerce City — where the police were busy enough this…
For us, and for thousands who joined us, the weekend was dominated by the Mile High Music Fest — two days of sun-drenched music, booze, vibing and dancing, of friendships struck with both the music and fellow fan, of shit-kicking drummers and dreamy frontmen and women. Experience it all on…
