Today, there’s a dwindling number of journalists (or at least journalists getting paid for practicing their profession). But there are still plenty of journalism prizes — although none quite like the one to be awarded to Westword at Sunday’s Caregivers’ Cup: a “press vape” award for the best medical marijuana…
One of the most persistent rumors in cycling involves seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs — the kind he didn’t use to get his Colorado girlfriend pregnant despite his previous case of testicular cancer. Now, the charge has some new pedal power thanks to…
Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation imploded at a critical stage for HB 1284, a bill to regulate the MMJ industry, and SB 109, which sought to clarify the relationship between doctors and patients. Nonetheless, both bills passed — and now, CMMR executive director Matt Brown tries to make sense of…
Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action are not one and the same. The former is a 501(c)(3) founded in 1977 by the Reverend James Dobson to promote family values from a Christian perspective. The latter is a 501(c)(4) created in 2004 to serve as…
Brandon Marshall has been part of the Dolphins organization for such a brief period of time that his photo on the team’s website appears to be his official 2009 Broncos pic with a Miami uniform Photoshopped onto his torso. Look below to compare and contrast. But he’s already set at…
Last month, hope was already hard to come by in the search for Kayleah Wilson, a Greeley twelve-year old who’d vanished on March 28 after heading to a birthday party — but amid a wide-ranging search, members of the Prayers for Kayleah Wilson’s Safe Return Facebook group tried to keep…
Almost everyone likes a dirty joke. But as Reyna Von Vett points out, “Sober dirty jokes aren’t as funny as drunken dirty jokes.” And that’s why Von Vett, who runs the BurlyCute burlesque troupe, made sure the opening-night crowd at her show at Crossroads Theatre, 2590 Washington Street, was able…
“Gulf Wars,” Alan Prendergast, May 13 Slick Behavior I am surprised that you did not mention Ken Salazar’s history regarding toxic spills. Remember the Summitville gold mine and the toxic flow that killed everything downstream for miles? When Salazar was head of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, he reduced…
When Ken Gorman heard the intruders burst through the front door, he sprang from his room and ran through the hallway toward the sounds of shuffling feet. He’d been robbed dozens of times before, always around the harvest, but that night he was equipped to fight back. Just a few…
When I first met him, in 2006, the man they called Governor Pothead was wearing Vans skate shoes, jeans and a white T-shirt with a large marijuana leaf at its center – not exactly governor material. He strolled into the Village Inn at Alameda and Wadsworth with a nonchalant confidence…
While Colorado doesn’t boast that many animation studios, those we have are known to pack quite a punch. Take Mighty Fudge Studios, a Boulder operation that for the past eleven years, has been churning out Saturday morning-style cartoons with an adult twist by way of its spots for Clear Channel…
Last night, the school board for the cash-strapped Douglas County School District approved a plan that will charge kids for riding the school bus. The price is fifty cents each way, to take effect at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year — and while the fees are unusual at…
Amid the white-hot debates raging over Arizona’s new immigration law, it’s harder than ever to separate the spluttering from the substance when it comes to immigration policy. Especially if you’re trying to make sense of the über-patriotic sentiments found online at Wehirealiens.com. A project of the Federal Immigration Reform and…
Westminster police are still looking for Eddie Archer, 22, who yesterday was involved in an incident that may or may not have been a kidnapping — but most definitely wasn’t an advertisement for a happy relationship. As proof, check out an extended 911 recording featuring a woman who said Archer…
We’ve been fishing for blogs about Denver. Here are the catches of the day. In a Mile High Report fan post, isaiahkyler surveys readers about whether Tim Tebow deserves an NFL nickname yet. At this writing, most people think it’s too soon — but others suggest alternatives to The Mile…
Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has spent five years arguing that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol — and even critics would have to agree that his creativity in promoting this idea is off the charts. A boycott of Starbucks because of the store’s…
AM 760 host David Sirota may seem like a mild-mannered fellow, but he’s actually pretty damned combative — verbally, anyhow. Last year, he and KOA conservative Mike Rosen staged a radio smackdown in relation to President Barack Obama’s first hundred days in office — a session a bloodied Rosen doesn’t…
Ken Gorman, the emphatic pot crusader featured in this week’s cover story, “High Times,” had a talent for attracting trouble. In fact, those who knew him said it was among his favorite things — behind pot, of course. Trouble can be lethal: Gorman was murdered in February 2007, and three…
Yesterday, we told you about bickering between Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton over Sarah Palin’s Denver appearance on Saturday. Buck said it would be rude of Palin to endorse Norton, which the grapevine says she plans to do, the same day as the Republican state assembly, which…
Two alleged associates of Willie Clark, who’s currently serving a life sentence plus 1,152 years for murdering Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams in 2007, admitted in court yesterday that they were in contempt when they refused to testify at Clark’s trial earlier this year. Kataina “Markie” Jackson-Keeling, 21, and Mario Anderson,…
Had the truck in the photograph above not been in motion, I would have asked the driver about the Star of David and the squirrel. These are not the kind of window stickers that a person carefully places onto their car if they don’t want to explain them. So I…
As the immigration issue continues to heat up, Tom Tancredo is finding himself in one controversy after another. Remember his call for civics literacy tests? Former House majority leader Dick Armey’s claim that he is bad for the Tea Party movement? His suggestion that Barack Obama be sent back to…
