The Broomfield Council of the Arts and Humanities series Ones and Zeros features film and animation made with new technologies — like this Saturday’s showcase for machinima, the use of video games to make movies. As a bonus, the event, taking place 5 p.m.-9 p.m. at 5019 West 120th Avenue…
The prosecution of Molly and Alex Midyette by the Boulder District Attorney’s Office led to convictions for both regarding the 2006 death of their twelve-week-old son Jason. But now Molly is appealing her sixteen-year prison sentence, arguing Alex and his powerful family sabotaged her defense in order to help him…
Paul Curry recently lost his job at MillerCoors in Golden for testing positive for pot — even though he’s a registered medical marijuana patient. Now, having retained big-shot pot attorney Rob Corry, Curry is fighting that decision in a move that could set state precedent over whether or not a…
In 2009, the Denver Police’s High Activity Location Observation, (aka HALO) video-surveillance program, put in place for the Democratic National Convention, was re-configured to give the force 24/7 video feeds of high-crime areas around the city. The Big Brother-like operation drew criticism from police watchdogs, but the cameras were soon…
“The Nutty Professor” subject Peter McGraw’s provocative Benign Violation Theory (BVT), which seeks to explain all of comedy, has been generating a lot of attention (including a story in Wired). But the award for the most unusual and creative response goes to the Gallery Underground art space in Fort Collins,…
Last Saturday, a DIA cab porter told me that as of 11:30 p.m., the airport was essentially out of cabs and that me and my family would have to consider other options, such as renting a car or spending the night in the concourse. But according to DIA Media Relations…
For the past two years, the History Colorado Center has been going up at 12th Avenue and Broadway, but the public hasn’t been allowed to see inside the state’s new history museum — until now. Tomorrow from 2 to 6:30 pm, the Urban Land Institute Colorado, a land-use research and…
A March report from See Change Strategy LLC pegged the national medical marijuana market at $1.7 billion, with the market doubling in five years. Impressive, sure, but according to InvestorPlace.com, a prominent financial site, it’s a relative drop in the bucket compared to the $10 billion to $100 billion market…
It was 11:30 p.m. on Saturday night as my family lugged our suitcases to Denver International Airport’s taxi stand for a ride home after a week-long trip. While we’d always parked at DIA in the past, we’d decided to skip the hassle and take local cabs, the topic of my…
Patients who’ve tried to charge their medical marijuana purchases to American Express recently made an unpleasant discovery: As of April 30, American Express started denying all such transactions. “American Express has made a decision not to allow card acceptance for medical marijuana,” says company spokesperson Diana Postemsky. “It’s our policy…
The fight over how many taxicabs to allow in Denver, detailed in the November feature “Mean Streets,” took a strange turn in March. After rejecting taxi drivers’ application to start Mile High Cab because he said the market was saturated, PUC Judge Paul Gomez green-lit 300 other new Denver cabs,…
As detailed in last week’s feature on Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal, Denver is in the midst of a police-misconduct story that won’t go away. Now, as part of its “Race to Justice” police brutality awareness campaign, the ACLU tracked down all city payouts for police-related lawsuits and complaints between 2002…
In a striking example of medical marijuana’s growing legitimacy, the Denver-based Namaste Hospice will begin offering free medical marijuana to patients with terminal illnesses. While end-of-life care might not seem like the most cutting-edge of industries, Namaste, which has been providing Denver-area hospice services since 1998, seems to be downright…
While the Fray might have been getting all the attention this weekend because they were the opening act for U2’s “Bono Single-handedly Stops Judgment Day” concert at Invesco Field, another hometown band done good, DeVotchKa, has also been making waves. That’s because DeVotchka frontman Nick Urata was recently featured in…
The national medical marijuana industry will reach $8.9 billion by 2016. “Operators who are now working in this industry are not wrong, they are early,” says Ben Holmes, owner of the Lafayette-based Centennial Seed Company and former Wall Street maven…
The Ladies Fancywork Society, Denver’s ragtag gang of street knitters, has made the big time — as in the Gray Lady. Yesterday, the New York Times published a big story on the trend of yard bombing, a process that the paper said “takes that most matronly craft (knitting) and that…
This week’s cover story, “The Watcher,” details the role Denver’s Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal has played in the ongoing controversy involving city law enforcement and alleged police brutality. It’s a scandal that’s made nationwide news and is shaping the mayoral race. How did the hullabaloo come about? Check out a…
Smart phones can already do all sorts of clever things, like tell you where the nearest medical marijuana center is located. But can they help you tell a sample of Green Crack from G-13 Haze? If Strain Brain makes good on its word, they will soon be able to –…
Have a complaint regarding a member of the Denver Police Department or the Denver Sheriff’s Department? Timing is of the essence: The Office of the Independent Monitor (OIM) encourages you to file any allegation of minor misconduct, such as discourtesy, within sixty days of the incident, and file any more…
Richard Rosenthal is busy, as usual. “It’s been an interesting day,” Denver’s Independent Monitor quips to the TV crew setting up in his office conference room, high up on the twelfth floor of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building. Rosenthal has spent much of the day interviewing potential deputy…
Last week, conservatives cried foul over Michelle Obama inviting the rapper Common to a poetry reading at the White House, since he’d rapped about violence against cops and President George W. Bush. While the reading went off without a hitch, the debate goes on: Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly will…
As described in “Bedtime Story,” Molly Midyette was sentenced to sixteen years for the death of her infant son, Jason, in one of the most sensational Boulder cases in years — something she now says was unfair because her ex-husband Alex Midyette and his powerful family allegedly sabotaged her defense…
