Hype spread throughout the aesthetically attractive city of Boulder after the release of the most recent 2011 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Boulder beat out most other cities across the nation, ranking number five (and number one in 2010) for “overall well-being.” Mirror, mirror, on the wall, is Boulder truly among the…
The Federal Trade Commission released its 2011 list of consumer complaints, and Colorado topped the charts for a second consecutive year, with the most reported per-capita consumer fraud complaints in the nation. Greeley — ranked No. 1 for large U.S. metro areas — joined Colorado Springs, Boulder and Fort Collins…
The 16th Street Mall was temporarily shut down Wednesday, when Occupy Denver staged a march against the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is a conservative nonprofit that favors large corporations, demonstrators said, and its membership includes over 2,000 state legislators. The protest under the banner of “Shut Down the Corporations”…
A few assumptions come to mind when thinking of engineer students: They love to study, hate to party and they speak in words, which to an untrained ear, can sound like gibberish. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with CU engineering student tapped to design the official T-shirts…
In a marathon hearing that stretched from the early afternoon until the late evening, a bill to establish THC driving standards was approved by a Senate committee yesterday in a 4-1 vote. The measure, sponsored by Senator Steve King, right, would set five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood…
It’s National Margarita Day, and although that’s not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:…
The Denver Wheel Club 404 officially opened for business this week, with a theme echoing a distant Denver: In the 1890s, when bicycles outnumbered people, there was actually an upscale club called the Denver Wheel Club…
Geisty’s Dogg House opened the week after the Super Bowl, and it seems to have scored with University of Colorado students…
It’s National Condom Week and Sir Richard’s Condoms, a Boulder company known for its one-for-one condom deal, is celebrating. How? Anytime you tweet or post to Facebook “your love for condoms,” Sir Richard’s will donate a condom to its project in Haiti…
Update: After more than six hours of grueling public testimony and three senators on the verge of tears, a Senate committee approved the Colorado Civil Unions Bill. The measure, a step toward granting same-sex couples parental and property rights similar to those enjoyed by married couples, passed in a 5-2…
Zanitas Mexican is coming soon to Boulder. Maybe. We’ll believe this when we see a Facebook page — at the very least — declaring its future existence. At the moment, the only evidence that Zanitas may one day exist is a multi-colored sign posted to the window of the space…
There’s a lot of buzz about Plus Gallery’s current show, Apocalypse? How! It’s grotesque, it’s freaky, and it draws on the hysteria about the end of the world! Nancy Hightower, whose written narrative ties together the work of the four artists (or the four horsemen) featured in the show, recently…
Mayor Michael Hancock is challenging Denver’s building owners to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent by the year 2020. Yesterday, Hancock and representatives from several local agencies announced “Better Buildings Denver,” a program that aligns with President Barack Obama’s national “Better Buildings Challenge.”…
It seems reasonable to say an unreasonable fellow like Shane Gring, 25, can tackle growing social concerns like substandard housing, environmental degradation and an unskilled workforce — but only if he raises $10,000 by March 7. Gring is co-Founder of team BOULD, Colorado’s only finalist competing for a spot in…
Tuesday night, Boulder City Council reduced fines and approved no jail time for first and second convictions on sixty municipal offenses — an effort to prevent a flood of minor cases (like Occupy Boulder camping tickets) from filling courtrooms. Some aspects of these changes please the ACLU of Boulder. Others…
Is the Western Tiger Salamander about to become Colorado’s official state amphibian? Students across the state drafted a bill (carried by Representative Angela Williams) calling for just that. And if it passes in both houses the way it did the Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources committee yesterday, it could join…
I’m three weeks an intern for Westword, and with each day, I’m made more aware of the strengths (and the pitfalls) of my journalism education at CU-Boulder. Nothing scares me more than joining my older brother in his misery caused by the mania surrounding this economic downturn. “Good luck finding…
Yesterday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call about a missing child: An eight-year-old had been abducted from the Safeway on 560 Castle Pines Parkway. Patrol deputies and detectives promptly retrieved a video of the abduction from a Safeway surveillance camera, and both the victim and the suspect…
There are certain addresses that seem to be black holes, swallowing the life out of every business that moves into them. And 1100 13th Street on The Hill definitely fits the profile. Over the past ten years, it’s held everything from a Dairy Queen, which closed in 2006, to the…
The grassroots group Rags Over the Arkansas River is trying to block Christo’s “Over the River” art project along the Arkansas River. Students from the Environmental Law Clinic at DU’s Sturm College of Law were at the Denver federal courthouse at 9 a.m. today, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau…
A few weeks ago, I stumbled on a commentary about Tim Tebow by ESPN’s Rick Reilly. Now, I don’t care for football, and I don’t care for extreme media hype over an athlete, either. But Reilly’s commentary on Tebow is worth a read, even for you non-sports fans. Afterward, I…
Calling all Denver recyclers: Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver Public Works’ Denver Recycles are asking you to show some Valentine’s Day love and support for a more eco-friendly city. They’ve announced a photo contest with a chance to win tickets to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Michael Flatley’s Lord of…
