Boss-rating website eBossWatch has published its list of the worst 100 bosses in America for 2010, and guess who made the cut at number 54? That’s right, our old pal Myrl Serra, the Mountain Slope 7th District Attorney who made touching his penis a mandatory part of office life…
We’re renaming this feature The Daily Tebow. And Stuff. Mile High Report urges you to vote Tim Tebow for GMC Never Say Never Moment of the Week. Tim Tebow does not understand the word “never.”…
The Denver Police Department is releasing a series of action-filled videos demonstrating the work of a police officer. The first one came out today and features a foot chase after a would-be bank robber near Curtis Park. It’s got it all: voiceover, dramatic orchestration, slo-mo and, of course, a perp…
An atheist will give the invocation at Grand Junction City Council’s first meeting of 2011. It will be the crowning achievement of a two-and-a-half-year effort by the Western Colorado Atheists & Freethinkers to get their voice heard at City Hall. And it will be the first atheist invocation in Colorado,…
Before the Independence Bowl last week in Shreveport, the Air Force falcon was released for a bit of pre-game wing stretching. But the mascot had bigger things than a stadium circuit in mind — namely, a tour of downtown, where he was found hours later thanks to a tracking device…
The backstory of Christmastime in a consumer culture always plays out in the alleys of Denver. This is where yesterday’s must-haves are temporarily tethered to trash bins in an effort to make room for a glut of new holiday gifts. The kiddie clunker pictured above waits to make its final…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar clearly wanted to make a splash when he unveiled his new “wild lands” policy last week–two days before Christmas (slow news week), at a press conference outside the REI flagship store, just a few steps from his old Denver office when he was a…
In September, Colorado’s health department rejected the use of medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, a common affliction for veterans. But that doesn’t mean the military and MMJ have been divorced once and for all. Cannabis Science, a Colorado Springs marijuana pharmaceutical company, has formed a military advisory board…
Colorado State Senator Suzanne Williams was driving her Honda CR-V near the Texas panhandle town of Channing on Sunday night when she swerved into oncoming traffic and collided head on with a GMC Yukon. Thirty-year-old Brianna Michelle Gomez, who was seven months pregnant and a passenger in the Yukon, died…
There’s currently one known wolverine in the state of Colorado, but there soon could be a lot more. Eighteen months ago, one of the giant weasels wandered into our state, where wolverines have long been absent. He was implanted with a tracking device and given a name: M56 (awww…). Today,…
Have a question about how medical marijuana works — or doesn’t work — in Colorado? Post it on the Latest Word, and you’re certain to hear from plenty of people — some official experts, like pot reviewer William Breathes, others unofficial. And where there’s smoke, there’s ire, as evidenced by…
Carmelo Anthony has been absent from the team since last week, when his 38-year-old sister died of a “pre-existing condition.” Yesterday, the family held a funeral service outside Baltimore, where Anthony was raised. Michelle Anthony was twelve years older than Carmelo. She is survived by four children and three other…
2010 was a weird year, with nothing weirder than the race for governor, which saw the leading Republican nominee go down in a plagiarism scandal while his opponent became a joke and a former Republican made an amazing run as a third-party candidate. Perhaps the best way to examine the…
At the end of every year, Westword honors this town’s worst of the worst — the characters whose misdeeds make our ears bleed and our eyes water — by inducting them into our Hall of Shame. Here are the 2010 inductees. Brandon Smith Remember all the hype about the iPad,…
“O Scum All Ye Faithful,” Josiah Hesse, December 23 Scum Disagree Scum of the Earth has become punk in name only, although the smell might deceive you, depending on where you stand; it could be a lot more “scummy.” I am a Christian, although I rarely refer to myself as…
If you haven’t seen the footage from earlier this month when Brandon Lloyd took a few extra steps out of bounds after a catch and sent a Cardinals cheerleader scrambling, stop reading immediately and click through to the image below. It’s great — one of those rare unscripted, uncontrolled NFL…
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 –…
Tim Tebow will be making an appearance in one of these three Denver blog posts. We just can’t quit you, Timmy. Lobbyist Ron Smith hid raw chicken in his ex-wife’s air ducts, Face the State reports…
Last week Westword published “Apocalypse No,” an Off Limits piece on the 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a documentary recently released by PeaceJam founders Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle. In addition to the story, Westword presented the documentary in its entirety at westword.com/2012truemayanprophecy, viewable if one makes a $1.99 donation…
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is offering $1,000 for information leading to the citation or arrest of a bighorn sheep poacher in Poudre Canyon. The department is not releasing any specifics about the sheep-slaying, but they will say it happened before Thanksgiving somewhere in the Canyon west of Fort Collins…
The photograph above features a decorative dead end in the Reunion subdivision of Commerce City. The center of the picture looks out into the future of planned suburban expansion. Until then, the nearly identical homes face off in a duel of nearly identical holiday decorations. Below, Santa Homer goes head…
A little after 8 p.m. last night, Jason Ross of St. Louis drove his roughly 35 ton semi truck onto I-70 in eastern Colorado heading in the wrong direction. He may have been drunk and he definitely didn’t have his headlights on. Near the exit for Cedar Point, Colorado, he…
