The Denver Police Department is searching for an assault suspect with a very worrisome m.o. He allegedly came up behind a woman near the intersection of Florida and Syracuse Wednesday morning and shocked her with a handheld device — a Taser, possibly? A passing motorist scared him away in this…
Last night, the high winds that hit the Fourmile Canyon fire burn area near Boulder didn’t exacerbate the situation as feared. As Boulder County public information officer Mike Banuelos says this morning, “Firefighters held the line.” But will some of them be sent to San Bruno, California, to fight a…
CU’s Peter McGraw, subject of our feature “The Nutty Professor,” has come up with a new general theory of humor — the “Benign Violation Theory” — that scholars say could be a major step forward in the field. Maybe it’s time for McGraw to team up with a group of…
When a national magazine starts its examination of southwestern Colorado “uranium widows” with a glimpse of a woman drilling for ore while clad only in “sandals, denim shorts, and a bra,” I brace myself for the worst — another condescending article about the state’s tragic history on the front lines…
Today, medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry sent a letter to the three best-known gubernatorial candidates — John Hickenlooper, Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo — asking them two weed-related questions: Would they support a law preventing the legislature from using MMJ funds like a piggy bank? And would they back the…
Hey, you three Denver blog posts! Fall in here! Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein links to ex-Denver Poster Marc Spears’s piece suggesting that Carmelo Anthony would like a trade to the Knicks or the Bulls. Chicago offers more upside for him — and for the Nuggets. Colorado Pols touts a new…
Today is the one-year anniversary of our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews — a date marked by William Breathes’s memories of his first twelve months on the job and a new review of Budding Health, locale of our first critique. You can also celebrate by visiting our newly updated…
It’s been exactly one year since we kicked off our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews. Since he’s a sentimental guy (we think it might be the marijuana), William Breathes gave us the following look back at a year in pot reviewing: Believe it or not, Westword staffers aren’t potheads…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review…
When Boulder officials said people allowed back into their homes on the eastern edge of the Fourmile Canyon fire evacuation area should be prepared to leave again if conditions shift weren’t kidding. Residents of several subdivisions, who were granted access to their homes at 10 a.m. today, are already being…
Clear the Bench Colorado’s Matt Arnold — the man behind an effort to vote out three current Supreme Court justices for allegedly unconstitutional rulings — was far less than thrilled by Governor Bill Ritter’s appointment of Monica Marquez to the court. Indeed, he says that if she was on the…
Park Hill residents can replace trees tagged for removal in the East 25th Avenue power-line upgrade project with these approved species… Branchless Oak. The easy-autumn rake-up tree shown above is recommended for planting in parking strips of 36 inches or less. Residents who hate to rake, see below…..
Matt Taibbi is best known as a political writer for Rolling Stone magazine. But he also pens occasional sports pieces for the mag, many of them flat-out hilarious. Who could forget the December 2009 piece in which Taibbi referred to Jay Cutler as a “sniveling NFL superdouche”? Taibbi’s latest sports…
Peter Richards has been attending Boulder County Justice Center press briefings about the Fourmile Canyon fire, and he says members of the public have been asking around 20 percent of the questions at such sessions. So he was bothered by the move of the briefings to the currently closed Boulder…
Jaimes Brown isn’t happy. The Colorado Libertarian candidate for governor wasn’t invited to a Channel 12 gubernatorial debate on September 10. He says he found out about the debate in a Denver Post article after the event had been taped…
At 7:56 a.m., we published an update about the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder in which a public-information officer estimated that 140 structures had burned, with no guess as to how many were homes. But the story’s changing quickly. Spokesperson Lynn Barclay says the number of destroyed structures is now…
Click for update here: The destructive power of the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder was never in doubt — but the catalog of destruction continues to grow. According to Greg Huele, public-information-officer trainee for the Fairmount Fire Protection District, the estimated number of burned structures has risen to 140 –…
“A Wing and a Prayer,” Melanie Asmar, September 2 Heavenly Daze Jeff Puckett is the real deal. He also has a great wife! He makes the goofy Christian community (especially the leadership) look good. They need all the help they can get. Like the bumpersticker reads: “Jesus, save me from…
Momentarily at rest, Kristen Stillman sits with her hands clasped, displaying the tattoos on her forearms: “family” on one, “first” on the other. She keeps her hands clasped as she slowly starts her story, a story of the most dysfunctional family imaginable, a story filled with unspeakable horrors. It starts…
Last fall, as Denver prepared for the 28th annual Great American Beer Festival and its first-ever Denver Beer Fest, the grandfather of the brew-ha-has almost expired at age forty. Larimer Associates, which owned and produced Oktoberfest, announced that the traditional fall festival no longer fit within its business interests. If…
CIUDAD JUÁREZ — Esteban was riding shotgun in his family’s rusted teal minivan when his dad, Lorenzo, suddenly stopped the car. It was odd — a vehicle facing the opposite direction blocked their way on the narrow street. They were just four blocks from home. The then-6-year-old boy with soft…
An international competition to design a special wildlife bridge for West Vail Pass has announced five finalists for the $40,000 grand prize — two teams from New York and one each from Toronto, Philadelphia and Amsterdam. But local bridge builders shouldn’t call foul. Each team is required to have on…
