Over the past two years, Denver has had a close encounter with Massachusetts-based US OpenAir, which wanted to charge a ridiculous amount of easy money to build a grandstand and show movies in two of the city’s biggest parks. But what they got was a mad, mad, mad, mad world…
Your Friday bonus: three Denver blog posts. Denver Stiffs’ fan poster Yugoboy thinks J.R. Smith should be given the chance to start for Chauncey Billups for just one game. Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard cites a study showing Arizona losing revenue aplenty due to its immigration law. Denver PR Blog wishes…
With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado’s governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we’re offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Danny Lopez. Danny Lopez hopes that not having an official…
Scott McInnis still doesn’t quite get how he went from a governor’s office shoo-in to a political pariah. He’s back in the spotlight, engaging in an act of premature rehabilitation in the Denver Post, vowing to clear the air over this silly plagiarism scandal that derailed his campaign — and…
Artists in Denver are a dime a dozen, but art collectors are worth their weight in gold. The University Hills home pictured above proves how an art collector can turn an ordinary ranch-style house into an inside-out art gallery. The partially exposed banner featuring an image created by artist Rene…
If you were there last night, thank you for coming to the first-ever Westword Web Awards party at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street. The room swelled (see full slideshow from the Web Awards) to about 400 bloggers, photographers, shameless self-promoters and artists, who tweeted about the thing all night. As promised,…
Last month, Araphaoe County Sheriff’s Office reps discovered a storage unit full of presumably stolen items that may have been traded for meth; Ali Samei was busted on drug-related charges. The weird collection ranges from a slot machine to family photos that may show victims. See the ACSO release and…
We love when a strong take pops up on an older post. That’s precisely what happened recently, when a reader weighed in on a 2008 item about a surprising link between smoking bans and drunk-driving fatalities — and took dead aim at Boulder…
In our preview of this weekend’s Caregivers’ Cup medical marijuana contest, we noted that glass-master Wes Richards is creating a traveling trophy for the Cup — a five-foot-tall, Colorado-themed bong. This tribute to Rocky Mountain highs isn’t done yet, but Cup organizer Tim Tipton has provided us with some amazing…
Good news, Broncos fans: SB Nation editor Andrew Sharp advises bettors to put their money on the Broncos versus San Diego on Monday. But part of his rationale won’t thrill Tim Tebow lovers, even if he does take a well-aimed shot at Chargers quarterback and well-known dick Philip Rivers…
As we noted on Monday, the bust of three men trying to burglarize a Colorado Springs dispensary was an example of clever police work — but the excuse used by arrestee Ramone Hollins was even more inventive. Hollins — a Fort Carson soldier, as were his alleged accomplices — claimed…
Dear Arizona, How are things? We haven’t talked much lately, what with all of the craziness you guys got into with the feds. But I wanted to congratulate you on (barely) passing your MMJ laws!…
On Sunday, the Denver Post published “Notice to Readers About Denver Post Copyright Protections” — although readers weren’t really the target audience. The piece is actually a bellicose warning to content thieves who reproduce Post stories or photos without permission. So… what prompted the Post to rattle this saber? Are…
Animal activist Walter Bond is a man so devoted to his cause that he wears a giant “VEGAN” tattoo on his neck. So it’s no surprise he showed zero remorse when officially pleading guilty to arson related to a fire at Glendale’s Sheepskin Factory in April — a crime for…
Colorado’s medical marijuana population continues to swell. According to the state health department, 113,000 people are now on the medical marijuana registry, meaning the total MMJ population here may soon surpass the population of Thornton, the state’s sixth largest city…
The $1 million-plus allegedly swiped from clients by Michael Mendenhall can’t compare to the $71 million allegedly stolen by Ponzi schemer Sean Mueller. But Mueller pleaded guilty to ripping off the likes of John Elway, while Mendenhall is accused of stealing from elderly people of much more modest means…
Drummer Crawford Philleo is the Foursquare mayor of the bathroom at Gabor’s on Thirteenth Avenue because he was mad that another user, Colfax J, took over the mayorship of Gabor’s itself. Funny. But not as funny as some of the other places with Foursquare mayors…
Three Denver blog posts on the march… Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco predicts an air war between Kyle Orton and Philip Rivers during Monday’s Broncos-Chargers game. And I predict that Rivers will act like a dick. What did Secretary of Education Arne Duncan say to knock the socks off Ben DeGrow…
This dispensary has closed. It’s my favorite strip of pavement in this town, but I don’t make it to East Colfax nearly enough. It’s always so amazingly weird there. Where else can you get offered everything from street tacos, hookers and crack at a food truck (true story) to coffee…
Five years into Mayor Hickenlooper’s ten-year plan to end homelessness, the Road Home program has been honored for its success by the El Pomar Foundation. Hick’s a penny-pinching genius and found that by doing something rather than nothing, he could reduce Denver’s annual cost per homeless person from $40,000 to…
You might have heard rumblings of the invite-only quasi-private Web Awards party we’re having tonight at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, to celebrate the best of the local web in Denver. But do you think we’d forget about you, faithful news-readers of Latest Word? Of course not. Find out how you…
With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado’s governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we’re offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Michael Hancock. “It’s not about control,” says Michael Hancock. “It’s…
