Golden Grillzilla Real Name: Michael C. Bestor Occupation: City Manager Suburb of Operations: Golden, Colorado and sometimes Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria Hair: Extensive Eyes: Telescopic vision Known superhero skills: Golden Grillzilla can endow himself with Class 100 coordination, enabling him direct responsibility for all of the facilities, services and the overall…
Update, 9:47 a.m.: The Denvergov.org website is back up. Learn more about recent cyber-attacks on it in the item below, originally published at 9:21 a.m. Someone with impressive tech skills appears to have a grudge against the City of Denver. The official website, Denvergov.org, has been hacked twice in less…
When last we heard from John Mark Karr, the loonbag who managed to convince CU professor Michael Tracy that he’d killed JonBenét Ramsey, he had reportedly undergone a sex change and was now known as Alexis Valoran Reich. This prospect has spawned a Facebook group with the catchy name “STOP!!!…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force has outdone itself this time. The office known for its clever names for at-large bank robbers has previously given us such memorable monikers as the H1N1 Bandit, the Tom Thumb Bandit, the Band-Aid Bandit and the recently charged Portfolio Bandit. But these handles…
A ten-lawyer panel oiled the big guns Monday for its coming fight against sweeping marijuana legislation set to be signed by Governor Bill Ritter, urging an overflow crowd of medical pot entrepreneurs to remain vigilant as the state mounts an overhaul of the industry. Calling HB 1284 and SB 109…
Colorado’s new medical marijuana regulations ushered in by House Bill 1284 mean lots of changes for a lot of pot businesses, not the least of which is the part of the law that prohibits all on-site marijuana consumption. That means Ganja Gourmet and all other marijuana restaurants and coffee shops…
On May 17, 2009, Westword launched Mile High Murder, a blog category tracking homicide in the seven county Denver/Boulder area. We thought the tragedies during year one had ended at ninety, with the death of elderly Charlene Ciacio, allegedly at the hands of her son, Michael Ciacio. But one more…
As any viewer of MSNBC’s Lockup knows, prison is about punishment, plain and simple, not rehabilitation or even “correction.” But does that mean it has to be dehumanizing, too? Put aside the sadistic guards and power-mad wardens of pulp fiction who enjoy making their charges grovel; the reality of a…
Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton spent much of last week dishing about wannabe veep Sarah Palin, who was said to be planning a Norton endorsement during her Magness Arena appearance in Denver on Saturday. Problem is, the Republican assembly was taking place earlier that day — and…
Update, 1:58 p.m.: We’ve now received a statement from Joyce Foster and interviewed Kathleen Chippi, who was identified as the senator on KHOW — and since our 12:05 p.m. update, Chippi has tracked down figures to back up her assertions about missing children. Find the new material below the original…
The blogs of Denver are cranking once again. Here’s three items fresh off the assembly line. In a Mile High Report fan post, tunesmith asks what it’ll take for the Broncos to win another Super Bowl — and he’s not concerned about the quarterback position. “We’re set here,” he argues…
In December, we told you about the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling against the Curious Theatre, which had argued that extending the state’s smoking ban to the stage improperly infringed on creative expression. Curious appealed that ruling — but today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the argument. That’s fine…
Aurora City Councilman Bob Broom’s comments about that city’s efforts to ban medical marijuana dispensaries are sure to be a subject of conversation during a free MMJ panel discussion at the Loews Denver Hotel, 4150 East Mississippi. After all, a whopping ten MMJ lawyers will be in attendance, including big…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decorations… Figure 64. Fort Logan: An eagle-eyed watch over a tiny gravestone dedicated to those who gave. At Fort Logan National Cemetery, veterans, Boy Scouts, Auxillary wives and Senator Michael Bennet will observe this weekend’s Memorial Day ceremony with an hour’s worth of…
Contrary to popular belief, Westword is a newspaper, not a dispensary or a marijuana grow — and anyone who’s looked in our shared refrigerator will tell you there are almost never any edibles around here. Yet the organizers of the annual Caregivers’ Cup chose to give Westword editor Patricia Calhoun…
Almost immediately after the passage of HB 1284, a bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, and SB 109, intended to clarify the relationship between doctors and MMJ patients, attorneys like Jessica Corry made it known that lawsuits would challenge numerous provisions, including language allowing communities to ban dispensaries. That’s…
We unleashed photog Aaron Thackeray on the city this weekend, and he came back with hundreds of photos from Friday’s 3OH!3/Cobra Starship concert, an after-party at Suite 200, the Cuervo Games on Saturday and the Caregivers Cub on Sunday. See the photos at westword.com/slideshow…
Final episodes of beloved series are criticism magnets — and last night’s Lost closer, in which the castaways, all of them dead, happily gathered in a church in order to “move on” together, was no exception. Was the resolution a brave and sincere declaration of faith all too rare on…
In an April post announcing his intention to challenge Colorado Attorney General John Suthers at the polls this November, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett focused on issues like watching out for consumers, championing the environment and crafting a workable medical marijuana policy. But he’s not shying away from hitting Suthers…
The confirmation of twelve-year-old Greeley resident Kayleah Wilson’s death transformed a Facebook page focusing on her safe return from a beacon of hope to a loving memorial. And that’s remained the case despite the unsettling news that Robert Laurencio Montoya, eighteen, has been arrested and charged with sex abuse, for…
As if B-cycle, Denver’s new bike-sharing program — the largest of its kind in the country — wasn’t cool enough… Now, when you rent your bike and help save the planet at the B-cycle station at the corner of 25th and Lawrence streets, you can get your art on, too…
It’s Adorable Animal Friday! (See previous installments here: baby giraffe is born; baby monkey is effing cute; naked mole rats are effing hideous.) Today, we bring you Cranbeary, an eight-year-old polar bear who has returned to the Denver Zoo looking for love of the Marvin Gaye variety. Read on for…
