As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword is offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes on…
Colorado State University System officials voted unanimously Wednesday to rescind the school’s hotly contested campus gun ban in response to a court ruling last month that wiped out a similar prohibition at CU-Boulder. The CSU ban, which was passed earlier this year, came under fire from pro-gun groups including the…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Before Cinco de Mayo was a weekend party, Colorado residents celebrated their Southwestern heritage through yard art. The five popular pieces pictured above were usually purchased as a set at local garden stores and placed in the yard in two groupings. The…
“I can’t even begin to tell you how weird it is to be shopping for sperm,” says Leah, who blogs under the moniker Single Infertile Female. “It’s not one of those things you ever think you’ll be doing — judging men online by their various attributes to decide if you…
As we reported yesterday afternoon, HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill, was passed by the Senate on its second reading — and at least at this writing, it appears to be on the fast track to passage and a trip to Governor Bill Ritter’s desk. As for the bill…
Amid the uproar stirred by the new Arizona immigration law — travel bans by Denver Public Schools and the City of Boulder, plus student walkouts and weekend rallies — US Immigration Customs and Enforcement, known as ICE, continues to be on the lookout for people in the country illegally. Late…
Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a campaign-finance complaint against ClearTheBenchColorado.org, whose founder, Matt Arnold, wants to throw the bums off the Colorado Supreme Court. The gripe? Clear the Bench is registered with the Secretary of State’s office as an issues committee, which can accept unlimited contributions. But CEW director Luis…
For the most part, the marijuana movement has long been seen as a predominantly male group — but that’s about to change. Just in time for Mothers Day, a variety of local pot activists (most of them female) are launching the Women’s Marijuana Movement with the belief that the fairer…
“Bad News Bill,” Melanie Asmar, April 29 Ex Marks the Spot So Bill Sullivan is a jerk and chicks are easy to dupe. Boring. C. Sean McManus Denver Let’s see, a guy shows up for a first date wearing an ankle monitor and explains it’s because of his embezzlement conviction…
Just like people, government agencies have different takes on Facebook and Twitter. Some jumped on early; others still haven’t quite figured out social media; and a few just can’t — or won’t — be bothered with this newfangled stuff. Denver wants to get all of its agencies on the same…
Fact or Science Fiction? Paolo Bacigalupi is the latest in a distinguished line of award-winning fantasy, horror and science-fiction authors with special ties to Colorado. The state has long been a hotbed for talented writers and rabid fans of the genres; maybe it has something to do with all those…
Paolo Bacigalupi is staring at his lunch. Tortilla chips, salsa, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — thrown together in the kitchen of his home on a mesa outside of Paonia, and pretty boring by anybody’s culinary standards. But Bacigalupi, a novelist with a nearly unpronounceable name (BAH-cha-ga-loo-py) and a…
With Governor Jan Brewer’s April 25 signature affixed to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona is poised to direct all law enforcement agencies to adopt Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policy of rounding up and incarcerating Mexicans and then shipping them back across the border if they lack proper documentation of their status in…
Village Voice Media is underwriting the cost of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona’s forthcoming litigation against Senate Bill 1070, as well as two other immigration lawsuits. Senate Bill 1070 mandates that a police officer who has “reasonable suspicion” that someone is a Mexican must detain that person. The…
Is HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill, on the cusp of passage? Could be. The state senate passed the bill on its second reading this afternoon, pushing it one crucial step closer to becoming law. As Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation’s Matt Brown concedes, the measure could still be…
In 2008, we told you about the best DIA conspiracy video ever — a loopy, logic-challenged compendium of strained theories debunked in Jared Jacang Maher’s feature “DIA Conspiracies Take Off.” Despite its many inaccuracies, however, the Zahra Malik-Chris Cheong opus continues to make the rounds — and now it’s been…
Protests against Arizona’s controversial immigration bill have been escalating in Colorado. A student walkout last Friday. A series of rallies over the weekend, with more events likely to be announced soon. And now, in the wake of Denver Public Schools’ ban of work-related travel to Arizona, the City of Boulder…
The Colorado branch of the American Federation of Teachers today endorsed Senator Michael Johnston’s controversial teacher tenure bill (learn more about it by clicking here), which heads to the House Education Committee at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow after getting the green light from the Senate last week. Many teachers, as well…
Bloggin’, Denver style. Here are three examples. In a fan post on Mile High Report, calvinandhobbes, prompted by the Broncos’ acquisition of former Gator Tim Tebow, presents his third tutorial on the University of Florida’s offensive system, this time focusing on the running game. (For parts one and two, click…
For the last few weeks I’ve been curious as to how The Daily Show would use the three-plus hours of footage they got with me last month. I was paraded around the Westword office in a gas mask bong, got to burn a bowl in the conference room, took over…
Okay, maybe PeopleOfWalmart.com, which collects frequently unflattering photos of Walmart shoppers, can seem a little elitist at times. But the site’s redeemed by the fact that it’s pretty damn funny — and as a bonus, it allows visitors to search by state, so they can see what their friends and…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… This is the kind of mural that melds the pride of Mexico and America and makes every day the fifth of May. Surprisingly, Cinco de Mayo is not an obligatory federal holiday down in Mexico. The springtime celebration that we have come…
