The search for Kitchi the otter, who escaped from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on March 25, has taken on a life of its own, with the Colorado Springs facility offering daily updates about the missing furball. But Kitchi’s days on the loose could soon be coming to an end. Fresh tracks…
As we noted yesterday, a jet-scrambling mid-air panic that ended at Denver International Airport happened as the result of an ill-considered joke by Qatar diplomat Mohammed Al-Madadi about lighting his shoes on fire. Considerably funnier is the string of updates on the case posted by Colorado Springs-based Fox News contributor…
Tomorrow, Democratic assemblies will be held in 21 counties, including many of the state’s largest — Denver, Jefferson, Boulder, Arapahoe, Douglas — to choose delegates in advance of primaries this August. These gatherings will be a big test for Senator Michael Bennet, who was bested by rival Andrew Romanoff in…
House Bill 1284, the legislation designed to regulate the medical marijuana industry, originally featured language allowing municipalities to ban dispensaries — a prohibition MMJ advocates see as unconstitutional. Perhaps that’s why the provision was removed from the bill late last month. But Tim Wise, owner of Wise Buys Antiques in…
Today’s lesson, students, is a reminder that things you see in movies may not be quite as amusing if you try to reenact them in real life. Take the Taser scene from The Hangover, on view above. Hilarious! Rob Riggle has never been more funnier (or funny at all, frankly)…
Update, 4:32 p.m.: Just notified by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that Merle Allison, who’s believed to be the Limping Latex Bandit, has been captured. Look below the original item to get all the details. As the number of Denver area robberies continue to capture the imagination of TV news…
You won’t likely won’t find any derby brats named Risky Bitchness, and their on-track uniforms include tights that cover up their bruised knees. But judging from the photos on the Seattle Derby Brats website, junior roller derby girls are nothing to mess with. And now Denver is getting a junior…
April’s here, which mean the snow is melting, the grass is growing — and the dreaded city street sweepers are back trolling the streets, leaving in their wake a trail of yellow parking tickets on the windshields of all those cars that weren’t moved out of the way when they…
The blogs of Denver, readable whenever. Mile High Report links to what may be the most elaborate where’s-Brandon-Marshall-going blog to date, in which Ted Bartlett uses algebra to conclude that BM deserves a contract worth $54.6 million over six years. We’ll have to take your word for it. Colorado Pols…
Our collection of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews is growing again. Today, check out William Breathes’s critique of Lotus Medical, an operation that has almost everything a MMJ aficionado could want (aside from convenient parking). But it’s hardly the only game in town. Learn more by perusing Westword’s dispensary…
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 will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
The Denver Sheriff Department is inviting city employees and select guests (who can pass a criminal background check) to Downtown’s new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility for a one-night-only slumber party… Check-In: Division Chiefs Elias Diggins and Marie Kielar, along with Deputy Sheriff Susan Berig (above, far right), will greet City…
The latest legal chapter in the up-and-down life of Brian Bonsall, former child star and Family Ties cast member, has been closed. As the Boulder Daily Camera reports, Bonsall pleaded guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault. In exchange, he’s been sentenced to forty hours of community service, five days…
Colorado’s been on a roll lately when it comes to reality show contestants. Fort Collins’ Haeley Vaughn and Denver’s Lily Scott made strong showings on American Idol. And Louisville’s Nicole Fox actually won cycle thirteen of America’s Next Top Model; read our Q&A with Fox by clicking here. For a…
Yesterday, we told you about Nederland’s passage of a marijuana decriminalization initiative — making it the third city in Colorado (after Denver and Breckenridge) to take this step. The effort was grassroots by every meaning of the term. Although leading marijuana advocate Mason Tvert celebrated Nederland’s actions in the blog…
Last week, Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett confirmed that he was considering a run for Colorado Attorney General against controversial incumbent John Suthers — but first, he wanted to test the water. Apparently, the water’s fine, because Garnett’s jumped in to the race. “It’s going to be a lot of…
Senator Chris Romer is the sponsor of Senate Bill 109, a measure that aims to clarify the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. It was approved by the Senate in February. Last week, however, Romer admitted to being unhappy that a requirement calling for MMJ patients 21 and under…
We’ve told you about Kenyon Martin’s anger over an April Fools’ Day prank at his expense: J.R. Smith’s driver, Laquan Johnson, filled K-Mart’s Range Rover with buttered popcorn, prompting a wig-out by Kenyon and an “LMAO” tweet from Smith. It’s one thing to read about Martin’s rant about the incident,…
Still no resolution in the case of ex-ICE agent Cory Voorhis, who’s fighting to get his old job back years after being sacked for passing information from a restricted database to gubernatorial candidate Bob Beaprez. But an interesting bit of news has surfaced regarding Stephanie Villafuerte, who withdrew her nomination…
How the hell did Colorado become the go-to state for bizarre terrorism-related incidents or scares? First, there was Najibbullah Zazi, who allegedly tried to make lethal weapons from ingredients at a local beauty supply store. Next came Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, aka Jihad Jamie, a Leadville mom accused of being a jihadi…
The “Bed & Breakfast” sleepover being hosted Saturday night by the Denver Sheriff’s Department at the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility —that’s the jail at Denver’s new Justice Center Complex — will be very realistic. “We truly want to give them the experience,” says the department’s Melissa Ortega. And that means…
It’s Tuesday night, and Lonnie Allen is sweating. The unshaven, young-looking thirty-something is bopping from table to table around Leela European Cafe, downtown Denver’s bohemian-bar-meets-coffee-shop. Accordingly, there are equal measures of Pabst and java seeping into the two dozen or so patrons crowded together toward the back of the steamy…
