Melanie Asmar’s feature article about Zen Magnets highlighted the Denver company’s fight against a government ban of its product — powerful BB-sized magnets marketed as adult toys that can create serious injuries or worse if a child swallows them. Readers are split about whether such a prohibition is warranted. Here…
Denver blog posts are all about sharing and caring. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies counts down 27 things Denverites really want out-of-towners to know about the Mile High City. The Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene on faith leaders targeting Denver’s mayor after the Marvin Booker verdict. Denver Urbanism’s…
With all the problems afflicting the NFL right now, one of the least important involves coarse language among players on the field — including the term “nigga,” usually sanitized as the N-word. Yet the league continues to punish players for the word’s use — including, presumably, Terrance “Pot Roast” Knighton,…
Most people don’t associate Deadspin with incisive political coverage, and there’s a reason for that. The enjoyably snarky sports website published a piece accusing Colorado senatorial candidate Cory Gardner of lying about having played high school football, only to have this dubious scoop explode when Gardner was able to prove…
How would you make the most of Denver if you only had 48 hours to spend here? MapQuest has come up with its version of an ideal two-day tour, featuring lots of eating, drinking, sightseeing and more. Check out the site’s picks, featuring photos and MapQuest text — and to…
Update incorporated into original text and on view below: Kaylana Fief’s Facebook page is filled with photos highlighting two passions: her adorable daughter and cute critters of the sort she studies as an animal behavior student. But the way she allegedly combined the two has gotten Fief in trouble with…
Our post offering ten theories on why Front Range drivers are terrible triggered a huge response from commenters. Some felt local drivers were better, or at least no worse, than those in many other metro areas around the country, while others added to the criticism of locals behind the wheel…
Denver blog posts love to linger. At our Cafe Society blog, Gretchen Kurtz picks her five favorite bakery-cafes for customers who love to sit for hours. Denver Stiffs’ Dontae Delgado thinks the Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried is a star in the making. Coyote Gulch highlights a Mountain Town News piece about…
Five years ago today, we have a pretty good idea where you were — watching TV coverage of a balloon floating over a wide swath of Colorado, supposedly with a young Fort Collins boy named Falcon Heene inside. As we soon learned, Falcon, promptly dubbed “Balloon Boy,” wasn’t inside what…
Randy Ankeney was once a rising star in the Colorado Republican party, only to become a pariah after being found guilty of numerous sex crimes. However, he now has the opportunity to impact the state in a completely different way. A complaint he brought about alleged prisoner-release violations by the…
Denver is known in some quarters as “Menver,” owing to the supposedly inflated number of single men here compared to women. The stats don’t really back that up — but numbers from the Pew Research Center offer a new twist. As part of a study dubbed “Mapping the Marriage Market…
Did Lakeside police officers who tased an alleged Walmart shoplifter said to be around sixty years of age go too far? That’s a question raised by a video of the incident that circulated on social media before finding its way into mainstream media coverage. Continue to see that video and…
Update: Denver police are still looking for a suspect who critically injured a man in a shooting near 14th and Krameria early yesterday morning; see our previous coverage below. But even without an arrest, the case has already generated a strange twist. The incident was witnessed, in a manner of…
Sweet Mary Jane Cooks Up Cannabis Success in Denver from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. For the second of Westword’s video series about pot edibles in Colorado (following our profile of Dixie Elixirs), our team sat down with Karin Lazarus, owner of the award-winning Sweet Mary Jane Bakery — and…
Attorneys for Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have asked the judge in the case to instruct victims that if they become too emotional, they won’t be allowed to testify. This approach incensed many of our readers, including this one. See also: James Holmes’s Attorneys: Victims Should Be Told to Control…
Denver blog posts like to try new things — but there is a limit…. At our Cafe Society blog, Jenn Wohletz lists five recent food developments that probably won’t work, including the Jack and Coke pie and the Undead Hasselhoff burger. Colorado Pols doubts Cory Gardner could really be leading…
As you can see in this Facebook photo, shot during the Offspring’s set at Fiddler’s Green in August, Ray J. Roberts had a rock-and-roll heart. Those he left behind are celebrating this quality in their remembrances of Roberts, who died on Sunday in a scooter crash initially thought to have…
Attorney David Lane has long been among the most prominent opponents of capital punishment in Colorado. You’ll recall that he represented Edward Montour, who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole earlier this year after questions about the death that led to his initial imprisonment prompted prosecutors to…
A City-Data.com thread kicks off with this simple question: “Why are Front Range drivers so terrible?” And while some of the many folks who responded disagree with this theory, suggesting that drivers in these parts aren’t really any worse than those in any burgeoning metropolitan area, most float theories as…
Last month, after we shared Denver Police Department concerns about trick-or-treaters possibly receiving pot edibles while trick-or-treating this Halloween, literally hundreds of readers (including these) dismissed such fears as unreasonable and reactionary. But the DPD isn’t backing down. The department has now issued a video in which Urban Dispensary owner…
We always appreciate it when men and women of genius acknowledge our work. So our imagine our delight when we discovered that Miley Cyrus, recently lauded by our own Kiernan Maletsky as pop’s greatest role model, used Instagram to put herself into a vintage Westword cover illustration. See what we…
Comments continue to accumulate on our post highlighting one website’s nine reasons people should move to Denver, with many locals expressing their disinterest in more newcomers relocating here. The opinion leaves this reader puzzled. See also: Photos: Nine Reasons HotPads Says You Should Move to Denver…
