Mason Tvert, the main man behind SAFER, lives to promote the theory that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol — and if he can hype his book Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? at the same time, that’s even better. These goals come together in…
Lucky Scott McInnis: Instead of spotlighting McInnis’s plagiarism problems, the latest USA Today focuses its attention on Colorado’s senate hopefuls. Although the Michael Bennet-Andrew Romanoff race earns some virtual ink, the focus is on Ken Buck’s transition from electoral also-ran to front-runner, with the liberty movement given much of the…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… The junk mail just keeps on coming, even though Denverites no longer have time to read the circulated solicitations of credit card companies, food delivery services and real estate agent/politicians. Instead of emptying the contents of a mailbox into a…
Scott McInnis’s alleged plagiarism related to his “Musings on Water,” a series of articles for which the Hasan Family Foundation paid him $300,000 he’s now pledged to refund, has turned onetime political friends into reluctant enemies. Take Senate assistant minority leader Greg Brophy, who encourages McInnis and/or Dan Maes to…
They were hot. They were sexy. And they were dead — or at least they looked that way at Fallen Owl Tattoo’s 2nd Annual Zombie Social at Bender’s Tavern on Saturday night. Westword photog Eric Gruneisen captures the gory action in an images featured on our always eye-catching Westword slideshow…
Members of the Hasan family, the wealthy backers of Colorado GOP causes, whose award of a $300,000 fellowship to Scott McInnis erupted last week in a plagiarism scandal, are also the largest single donors to three tax-cutting initiatives on the November ballot. The measures — Amendments 60 and 61 and…
The February arrest of Seth Brigham, who stripped to his boxers at a Boulder city council meeting in reference to a possible nudity ban, has led to proposed rules of decorum that prohibit disrobing and more. To Judd Golden of Boulder’s ACLU branch, the prospective regs represent an “unnecessary overreaction…
On Friday, we told you about Ty Gregorak, the first-ever Shmuck of the Week designate to ever be de-Shmuckified — thanks to charges against the former CU Buff involving the theft and return of a strip-club bouncer’s gun being dropped by the Boulder District Attorney’s Office. According to David Beller,…
Although the idea of a Carmelo Anthony sign-and-trade to the L.A. Lakers has been floated in recent days, the likeliest departure scenario continues to revolve around a Melo-Amare Stoudemire-Chris Paul team-up for the New York Knicks in 2011. But could that situation be circumvented by luring Chris Paul to Denver…
Update below: What started out as a friendly barbecue erupted in chaos and confusion yesterday. The Denver Police Department says it responded to reports of shots fired to find a dead man, and a second man (reportedly ID’d by family as Daniel Alderte) holding a gun he didn’t drop until…
O. M. F. G.! Us Weekly, the best magazine ever and the reason it takes us twenty extra minutes at the grocery store checkout counter because we’re engrossed in reading “Stars! They’re just like us!,” has all the dirt on Melo and Lala’s wedding last weekend. Including this tidbit: Guests…
For the younger set, film-watching isn’t the social event it once was. Nowadays, cinema appreciation is usually enjoyed at home with a Netflix disc in the DVD player or Hulu.com on the computer. After all, what self-respecting hipster wants to be caught dead in an IMAX theater sporting goofy 3-D…
A few months back, Joel Warner reported on the shutdown of Denver’s compost collection pilot program due to the budget crunch, followed by its resurrection as a fee-based program. How’s that working out? Like the compost process itself, slooowly…
Back in May, we named former CU Buff and assistant UNLV football coach Ty Gregorak a Shmuck of the Week for allegedly breaking Strip Club Rule No. 1: “Never, under any circumstances, break into the car of the club’s bouncer, steal his wallet and handgun from the car, and then…
Boulder city council meetings can be lively affairs — but council members George Karakehian and Lisa Morzel don’t want the civic party to go out of bounds. This week, they introduced “Draft Rules of Decorum” intended to outlaw behavioral extremes, including… nudity and mask-wearing?…
One plus one plus one posts from Denver blogs. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco checks in with a Jacksonville blogger who spreads Tim Tebow love but still wants the Jags to beat the Broncos in week one. Turncoat! Would Andrew Romanoff have voted against the financial reform package? The Colorado Independent’s…
When Senator Chris Romer first proposed a medical marijuana regulation bill, he said legislation might close half the state’s dispensaries, and Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente thinks 40 percent of MMJ businesses may falter in the wake of HB 1284’s signing. MMJ Menu’s Ryan Bregenzer believes it. He’s gotten to the…
Earlier today, we told you about a release from the Hasan Family Foundation, which paid Scott McInnis $300,000 for “Musings on Water,” a series of articles that included direct lifts from Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs’s work. The Foundation demanded a refund — and a release from the McInnis camp…
Carmelo Anthony and Lala Vazquez may have sold their exclusive wedding broadcast rights to cable channel VH1, but that doesn’t mean you will have to wait until the reality show airs in September to see photographs of awful bridesmaids’ dresses and drunk-celebrity reception bloopers. A rigorous study of the guest…
Update below: This morning, the Hasan Family Foundation, the organization that paid Scott McInnis $300,000 for his “Musings on Water” — the ones that included sections directly lifted from Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs’s work — formally asked for a refund. The organization, whose local face was Ali Hasan, a…
Earlier this week, the city council in Broomfield, where a moratorium on medical marijuana businesses is about to expire, voted a ban forward by a 5-4 margin. If it passes on a second reading, July 27, it becomes law. Why not put such a measure on the November ballot? Broomfield…
Update below: The headline “Josh Green Thinks Scott McInnis is Sleazy, Should Quit” may come as a shock to locals. After all, that’s the name of a McInnis spokesman. Have his own people turned against him? Not quite. The author is a different Josh Green — a writer for The…
