Some breaking news for you in our Denver blogs daily post. Traffic in both directions on Interstate 70 has been closed at the Eisenhower Tunnel due a spill of an estimated 1,000 pounds of a liquid blasting agent. Look out below!…
An employee of the Monaco Grocery on East Colfax is dead after being shot last night during an attempted robbery…
Officers with the Denver Police Department found a man dead in a home in the 5100 block of West Gill Place a little before 7 p.m. last night. The man, whose name has not been replaced, was dead from a gunshot wound. Police are not saying where the man was…
Westword is asking readers to help us select a Shmuck of the Year by rolling out a new candidate each week throughout the month of December. The winner — loser — will be announced on January 3. Our first three candidates were Josh McDaniels, Scott McInnis and Osama-hunter Gary Faulkner…
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 pampered beast shown on the TallGrass billboard in the photo above is this season’s proud vision from the Evergreen hair- and skin-care coven endorsed by the cult of Oprah. Perhaps the gift cards advertised by the swanky spa will offer an “Elk Tune-up” to ease the trauma of holiday…
Every morning, I look east to where the oldest house on our historic block once stood — a Victorian bungalow that was delisted as a Denver landmark, then demolished and replaced by a gargantuan single-family home going up right on the edge of the bluff overlooking downtown, blocking many of…
As the medical marijuana-industry settles into respectability, businesses are in need of professional, well-trained staffers — but many business owners are so busy navigating the rapidly changing regulatory landscape that they don’t have time to scout out top-notch workers. That’s where Denver-based CannaStaff, reportedly the first marijuana staffing company, comes…
If Phillip Ray Greaves II was looking for a life of uneventful obscurity, the 47-year-old Pueblo author wouldn’t have self-published The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, which was banned from Amazon amid threats of boycotts of the site and just got him arrested on…
Westword’s annual Strange but True edition will hit newsstands (and this website) on December 30, featuring the weirdest and wackiest Colorado stories from 2010. Remember Jihad Jamie? How about the guy who re-labeled Gatorade bottles with pictures of Tiger Woods? And then there was this guy:…
And here we thought marijuana made its proponents more mellow than our average cranky correspondents. Yesterday morning, shortly after Nick Lucchesi posted his piece on one of the products he’d seen at KushCon II, Prescription Lock, which ends the “need to hide your weed,” Mr. Mezzrow posted this comment: So…
“The Mommies,” Melanie Asmar, December 16, 2010 Brat Pack Instead of complaining about local businesses, why don’t the catty mommies do something about keeping children out of the local restaurants? I can’t tell you how many times I have had a meal ruined because some Highland Mommy brought her spoiled…
No matter what happens, we’ll all stay together,” John Cusack tells his loved ones in 2012, the apocalyptic 2009 movie showing the end the world. It’s dramatic, and so is the trailer for that movie, which advises viewers to “Find out the truth, search 2012.” But if you Google “2012”…
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become…
Tebow! Tebow! Tebow! Now we share three Denver blog posts, one of which has to do with Tim Tebow…
How smart are Denver’s new “smart” meters if they’re so dim you can’t read them at night? We could find out soon enough, if Denver City Council tonight passes the plan to allow all-night parking in parts of downtown — parking that you’ll have to pay for, according to new…
Westword’s annual Strange but True edition will hit news stands on December 30, featuring the weirdest and wackiest Colorado stories from 2010. Remember Jihad Jamie? How about the guy who re-labeled Gatorade bottles with pictures of Tiger Woods? And then there was Spork:…
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…
You could groan at all his time-tested jokes and silly props — the red nose, the garish ties, the tiny kazoo and corny sight gags — and still end up howling with laughter and holding your aching sides. Any way you look at it, Earl Reum, the dynamic Denver educator…
It’s no secret that Denver is far from perfectly homogenous. But just how racially divided is the city? As illustrated by new, interactive, nationwide population maps developed by the New York Times, Denver’s Hispanic and white populations are starkly segregated, with I-25 serving as the proverbial “wrong side of the…
It was a busy weekend for Westword.com. Hope yours was relaxing though. Here is a round-up of our weekend coverage…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through their lawn decorations… By day, the white electrical cords that power the lights of the holiday yard display pictured above look like an alien plant species that has slithered across the yard to strangle Santa Claus and consume a child’s tricycle. Christmas looks…
