Everybody loves the Apple Store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Even Westword. In 2006, we honored it with one of our annual Best Of awards: The Best Spot to Scope Smart Hotties. In 2009, we wrote about how the Apple Store is the modern-day mall arcade, teeming with “dozens…
The results of a recent statewide poll of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Coloradans by the new gay-rights organization One Colorado are in — and they make for some interesting reading. For example, only 50 percent of LGBT Coloradans are out about their sexuality to extended family members. Here are…
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Leadville may already have earned her own Kenny Be spotlight comic. But until today, she hadn’t been formally charged with wrongdoing in relation to an alleged terrorist plot to slay a Swedish cartoonist. Now, however, Paulin-Ramirez has joined Colleen R. LaRose, known as both “Fatima LaRose” and…
As Craig Ferguson says, it’s a great day for America — and a great day to read some Denver blogs. Inside the Rockies’ Steve Foster tallies up love for the Rockies among experts making preseason picks. For instance, six ESPN prognosticators have them reaching the World Series, and three (including…
Yesterday, ESPN spent much of its NFL Live broadcast touting Herm Edwards’ idea for the San Francisco 49ers to go after both Donovan McNabb, to whom the Eagles (inexplicably) seem ready to say goodbye, and the Broncos’ Brandon Marshall. Former Bronco Mark Schlereth immediately championed the idea, even holding up…
Chess masters are adept at manipulation, which is fine when it involves game pieces. But not when children are the ones being manipulated. Like the ones unlucky enough to have been taught by Robert Snyder, who this week was sentenced in Larimer County Court to at least twelve years in…
#16 of the 22 Major Arcana: Cory Gardner, the Devil…..
Meagan Castle, spokeswoman for Governor Bill Ritter, confirms that her boss has received a threatening letter that’s been turned over to the FBI. But that’s all she’s saying — and FBI spokesman Dave Joly isn’t offering any additional information until an afternoon press conference being piggy-backed on a media gathering…
Don’t know what a guy expected yesterday when he responded to a text message from a woman he’d just met inviting him to come over. Maybe a friendly conversation — or a glass of white wine — or a booty call straight out of a hip-hop video. Instead, what he…
On Wednesday, Erick Schmuckal was taken directly from a court hearing to jail. He’s been ordered to serve 120 days for violating his probation. What did he do to earn this sentence? According to his attorney, Sean McAllister, he acted as a medical marijuana patient and caregiver — which he’s…
This week’s scheduled trial of Carol “Chay” Burdick, who was threatened with eviction over a Peeps-centric Easter display, has been delayed — which didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from grilling Burdick’s lawyer, John Pineau, on the Wednesday episode of The Colbert Report. But the real expert on grilling is Andrew Novick,…
Earlier this week, we told you about Kitchi the otter, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo escapee, who managed to evade recapture even after being trapped in a culvert with a robotic camera vehicle at one end and a safe trap on the other. By now, Kitchi’s been on the lam so long…
The medical marijuana legislation grinding through the Colorado House and Senate continues to fire up debate — note these recent back-and-forths between Senator Chris Romer and MMJ advocate Rob Corry over the issue of licensing requirements for patients age 21 and under. But plenty of other nuts-and-bolts questions remain. Such…
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, which explains why their celebrated show includes lots of local references. So it was only a matter of time before the duo took on the hottest topic around these parts…
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, which explains why their celebrated show includes lots of local references. So it was only a matter of time before the duo took on the hottest topic around these parts…
April Fools Day jokes are a quarter a quadrillion — unless, that is, they go beyond the ordinary and into sheer inspiration. That’s the case with a stunt in Boulder, although city officials don’t necessarily agree. The gist: Person or persons unknown have created a hoax door hanger declaring that…
The Tea Party Express rally staged yesterday at the Capitol was fairly typical of many protests against Barack Obama and anyone who ever said anything positive about him, with one notable exception — a performance by rapper David Saucedo, who goes by the name Politik. Judging by the video seen…
Denver produces many good blogs, and we’re not kidding. A salute to Mile High Report fan blogger jonmark93, for his post about a Brandon Marshall-for-Phillip Rivers trade. He even went to the trouble of dummying up a bogus ESPN report about it. If only he’d double-checked the spelling of Philip’s…
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 Parker Police Department’s announcement that it had arrested Michael R. Frazier, 47, in an Internet sex sting isn’t particularly out of the ordinary — except for the final paragraph. “Attached is a mug shot of Frazier and we ask the media that if you run the story on air…
So… you and your pals are slinging marijuana and cocaine, and you’re scheduled to make an exchange with a buyer. What do you bring with you? The product? Check. A gun? Check. Anything else? Oh yeah: A fourteen-month-old girl. That’s the allegation made against four Colorado Springs men in regard…
#15 of 22 Major Arcana: Diana DeGette, Temperance…..
