Last year, Westword profiled Andrea Merida, a Denver Public Schools board member who caused a stir in 2009 when she had herself secretly sworn in. Last year, a few voters tried to recall her after she wrote a negative op-ed about a senate candidate without revealing that she was working…
Highlands Cork & Coffee in Highlands Square can now serve liquor, in addition to beer and wine. The spot was victorious at a liquor-license hearing last month, says owner Shawn Manzanares, and will begin serving drinks such as martinis, specialty coffee drinks and mojitos in the next month or so…
Are bed bugs a big problem in Denver? Missy Henriksen, spokeswoman for the National Pest Management Association, which is currently hosting its inaugural National Bed Bug Forum in nearby Broomfield, assures us that the decision to host the confab in Colorado had nothing to do with our infestation level. But…
Yesterday, we told you that the bed bug-killahs are in town: An estimated 500 pest management professionals are attending the inaugural National Bed Bug Forum in Broomfield, which runs through tomorrow. The shindig is hosted by the National Pest Management Association, which also recently conducted the nation’s largest bed bug-related…
Right now, more than 500 people are meeting at a hotel in Broomfield to learn about one creepy, crawly, nationwide problem: bed bugs. The National Bed Bug Forum is the first event of its kind in recent memory, says Missy Henriksen, spokewoman for the National Pest Management Association. Why? “Problems…
Colorado is the latest state to join Secure Communities, a federal program that checks fingerprints of people booked into local jails against a national database of illegal immigrants…
Nugget Kenyon Martin’s birthday was surely better than his April Fool’s Day, when teammate J.R. Smith’s driver filled K-Mart’s SUV with buttered popcorn. The power forward’s December 30 birthday appears to have been a happier affair, though it, too, involved some Nuggets hazing: Rookie guard Gary Forbes was elected to…
The East Coast is getting a shit-ton of snow, according to such venerable news sources as the New York Times and my mother, who texted me pictures of human-sized snow piles this morning. But thus far, Denver is bone-dry. It’s a fact that everyone here seems to have noticed –…
Highlands Cork & Coffee could soon have a full bar. The coffee shop-and-wine bar in Highlands Square had a liquor-license hearing last Thursday. Owner Shawn Manzanares says she thinks it went well, though she hasn’t heard yet whether the license was granted. If it is, customers will soon be able…
Every year, Westword publishes a little guide called the “Best Of Denver,” wherein our writers rank the city’s best stuff, including food. Last year, the Highlands Mommies — the formidable northwest Denver parents group profiled in our cover story, “The Mommies” — did their own “Best Of” for the Highlands…
Much fuss has been made about the Highlands Mommies’ relationships to local businesses, as is evident in the comments on our cover story, “The Mommies.” Here’s a juicy one: The Highland Mommies are run by a self-possessed cadre of mean girls who finally have a voice after what surely were…
Reporters take a lot of notes. Like, a lot. Like, I’m writing down what you’re saying right now. And not all of those juicy quotes wind up in the final story. So here, we offer the top five quotes by and about the formidable Highlands Mommies (see iron and rolling…
The Highlands Mommies are not the only game in town. There are several other parents groups in and around Denver, some more formal than others. One of the most organized is the Stapleton Moms, a Yahoo group of 2,421 people started by Amanda Reed, a former Highlands Mommy who moved…
The Highlands Mommies is an exclusive group. In order to be accepted into what some say is northwest Denver’s most powerful organization, you must live within certain boundaries. As described in this week’s cover story, “The Mommies,” the group accepts mommies (and less frequently, daddies) who live west of Interstate…
The Highlands Mommies love northwest Denver. Like, love-love. Like, if the neighborhood were human, they would marry it. Why? As Mommies managing director Elina Martinez tells us in this week’s cover story, “The Mommies,” “I can go to Mass, the panadería, get my hair did and do yoga within like…
What is the Highlands Mommies? Is it a play group? A business group? A political group? Is it, as some have suggested, the mob? This week’s feature, “The Mommies,” answers all those questions. Check it out, and find out who said this quote and why: “So literally, you had like…
Colorado’s Board of Education recently added social studies to its new testing system — a move that may prevent more geography horror stories like professor Aimee Pellet’s. She described a recent map test on which one student labeled the Rocky Mountains “the Alps,” another ID’d Alaska as “Germany” and a…
A month ago, a frustrated mommy wrote a post on the main message board of the Highlands Mommies, an online parents’ group in northwest Denver. The note also landed in hundreds of e-mail inboxes. The subject was “wine jester.” “Anyone know the owners of the Winejester?” the woman asked. “We…
Yesterday, 300 local fifth- and sixth-graders showed up at the Manual High School gym, nominated by their teachers to be part of an event dubbed “Arches of Hope.” After listening to a lineup of speakers, the kids rode home on brand-new Huffy bicycles. In addition, ten high school seniors left…
What does the Denver Zoo have in common with Jerusalem? How about with a thirty-foot tree made entirely of Legos? Or a bridge in Branson, Missouri, a city best described as Las Vegas for Christians? Stumped? We’ll tell you. Bing (if you don’t know what it is, Google it) included…
College kids are too lazy to recycle. That’s the premise behind the recycling jukebox, a project dreamed up by six University of Colorado at Boulder engineering students. Because there isn’t always a recycling bin right around the corner when they finish their ROCKSTAR Energy Drinks — or whatever it is…
Update: The numbers are in! More than 18,700 donors contributed over $8 million to more than 500 nonprofits in 24 hours yesterday during the inaugural Colorado Gives Day. That’s eight times more than organizers expected to raise…
