The effort to put a medical marijuana dispensary ban on the El Paso County ballot was successful — and MMJ advocate Brian Cook has readied a TV campaign to fight it. But earlier this week, a coalition of lawyers that includes Jessica Corry took a different tack, filing a lawsuit…
In recent days, temperatures have been rising over “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals,” a multi-panel work by California’s Enrique Chagoya that’s been on display at the Loveland Museum/Gallery — or at least it was until yesterday, when a Montana woman ID’d as Kathleen Folden, 56, reportedly attacked it with a…
It didn’t take long for the media spotlight to go to Ralphie’s head. Barely a month after she was included in the Associated Press’s list of the twelve coolest mascots across the country, the University of Colorado’s live buffalo was involved in an ugly paparazzi incident. Last Saturday, as Fox…
“Black Out,” Alan Prendergast, September 30 The Coal, Hard Facts Thanks for Alan Prendergast’s insightful look at how Lamar’s power company is rushing forward back into the past. Yes, green energy has its costs — but it’s a price we must pay if we are going to be realistic about…
Lately I’ve been spending a good chunk of my minimal free time working with Jared Jacang Maher, a former Westword writer now at Face The State and John Dicker, founder of the Geeks Who Drink quiz night empire, to launch the Denver Diatribe, a weekly half-hour podcast on culture, politics…
There Aaron Klug was, minding his own business at a Dungeons & Dragons event Tuesday, when the pesky cops showed up. Did he slay them with his Flaming Battle Axe or bludgeon them with his skull-topped Staff of Power? Did he pelt them to death with polyhedral dice? No, he…
Late last month, Dog the Bounty Hunter supported Tom Tancredo at a Grizzly Rose fundraiser — a kinder, gentler reason for a visit to our fair state than the one at the heart of tonight’s season premiere of his long-running A&E reality series. On that trip, he was on the…
“Who would you rather have protecting you? The man who unleashed a serial killer on Colorado, or Stan Garnett — the man who put the killer away?” That tag line from a new attack ad in the Colorado Attorney General’s race puts aside any doubt that we’re entering the campaign’s…
In August, after Lakewood’s James Chavez was arrested for leaving a loaded gun in his kindergartner’s backpack, a police spokesman called the situation a “tragedy waiting to happen.” He’d probably describe the situation in the western Colorado community of Dinosaur in much the same way — except that something tragic…
Contained herein: Three Denver blog posts. Mile High Report fan poster super7 links to a detailed breakdown of NFL offensive lines in which the Broncos finish 31st out of 32 teams, ahead of only Detroit. So that’s why they can’t run! Big Media’s Jason Salzman puts the Post on “The…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is focusing on busting criminal aliens — like the 78 people recently rounded up statewide. And there’s more where they came from. ICE has just released statistics for fiscal 2010, which ended September 30. The arrestee total for the Denver area of responsibility, which includes…
Thanks to recording programs like GarageBand and social-music sites such as MySpace, Twitter and Last.fm, it’s never been easier for wannabe superstars to record and distribute music. But how to find rock and roll’s future among all this discordant noise? As described in this week’s feature, “Wired for Sound,” a…
They may be the raggedy-pant-tramp of the dog world, but even an American Bulldog has too much dignity to tolerate being called “Dorkus.” While it may sound cute while playing fetch, the name starts to sound like Bulldog bullying when used with the everyday commands of “Sit, Dorkus!” and “Drop…
Gary Faulkner may not have been able to lay his hands on Osama bin Laden — a quizzical quest that led to an interview on CBS and an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman — but he’s apparently capable of doing some damage. He was arrested yesterday on…
The Church’s Park fire near Fraser has gone from 30 percent contained yesterday to 40 percent today, and the acreage remains at 530. But that doesn’t mean it’s on the cusp of a conclusion. Indeed, snuffing out every hot spot has been deemed more dangerous for firefighters than simply waiting…
Five recent high-profile suicides of gay teens have pushed this issue into the press mere weeks after Focus on the Family derided school anti-bullying programs promoting the so-called gay agenda. But Hope Wisneski, deputy executive director of the Colorado’s GLBT Community Center, would rather attack the problem than pick a…
Amid all the speculation about a Carmelo Anthony trade to places like New Jersey, New Orleans or Chicago — the sort of deal that might also send Nuggets other than Chris “Birdman” Andersen packing, too — most Nugs fans have contended that keeping Anthony here represents the best-case scenario. But…
Yesterday, we shared photos from the Women’s Marijuana Movement event in support of California’s Proposition 19, which would legalize cannabis for adult use in that state. Today, we offer more shots courtesy of Eva Enns, who organized the Denver get-together, as well as similar assemblies in more than twenty locations…
The Colorado Springs Police Department has confirmed that Rene Ogden and twins Olivia and Chase died in their home on Monday — but not much else. Husband Tommy Ogden is reportedly cooperating with police, but nothing has been ruled out — neither an intruder homicide nor murder-suicide. Meanwhile, one source…
As recounted in the April story “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Tell,” Alan Sudduth has spent more than half his 31 years behind bars for the 1995 killing of Denver cab driver Finley Bradshaw Myers, even though somebody else — a friend of Sudduth’s named Nicholas Reed — has repeatedly confessed…
Jorge Moromisato is running for Colorado Senate as an independent, and whatever you think of his policies, criticism that his platform is short on specifics is not an accusation that will stick. The Denver Plan details Moromisato’s ideas on how to end unemployment and fix the myriad problems facing the…
Earlier today, we previewed a noon assembly in which members of the Women’s Marijuana Movement supported Proposition 19, a California measure that would legalize cannabis for adult use in the state. The event was one of more than twenty taking placing across the country today. Look below to see photos…
