Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport’s doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still doesn’t exist except in the minds of DIA…
The Denver Roller Dolls — the fourth-best roller derby league in the country, according to the Derby News Network — have one of the best deals in derby. They’ve partnered with promoter AEG Live and Denver sports heavyweight Kroenke Sports Entertainment. Plus, they’ll skate in a revamped 6,500-seat mini-stadium: the…
Since the release of Denver’s top-fifty-most-wanted-criminals list, we’ve kept you up to date with those who’ve been arrested: Freddie Ray Lazzo and three others on Monday; Jharel Bobby Jones and another duo on Wednesday; and Samuel Crespin yesterday. Today, four more: No. 16, David Bowman, No. 32, Sabrina Mitchell, No…
Isela Reyes-Talamantes, 25, wasn’t accused of personally killing her two-year-old son, Elijah, in 2008. But she’s earned two decades in stir anyhow because, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office, she “rode around running errands for hours with her boyfriend as her 2-year-old son was dying a slow, painful death…
This is the day that was in Denver bloggery. At Mile High Report, guest blogger GreatGuessKowski notes that Kyle Orton is still the Broncos starter despite the arrival of pretty-boy Brady Quinn. The conclusion: “All you who are flush and feverish about Brady Quinn… go take a cold shower, and…
On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over ballot-petition rules filed by attorney David Lane on behalf of advocates as varied as the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara and SAFER’s Mason Tvert. It’s possible the group of plaintiffs could grow even more ideologically diverse. Gualberto Garcia Jones, director of Personhood…
Yesterday, we published an extended interview with DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin, a lightning rod for controversy about medical marijuana. Predictably, some of his assertions about the DEA’s actions troubled Jessica Corry, an attorney and medical marijuana advocate. But along with her criticisms, Corry, the wife of fellow attorney/advocate Rob…
I always liked Georgetown. Pretty campus, cool uniforms, lots of history — what else do you need to know about a team to deem it Elite Eight-bound? But then the tournament started, and Georgetown decided to wet itself against a team that, eighteen hours later, I can’t even remember their…
“You think my support of the Health Care Reform Bill will jeopardize my re-election? Well, just what do you know about anything? I can tell you this, what you don’t know, Mr. Sirota, could fill a book. Make that two books, a blog and a three-hour daily radio show.”…
Mighty few semi-obscure musicians earn a full-scale obituary on National Public Radio — but that’s what happened yesterday in the case of Alex Chilton, who died at age 59. Chilton had one major chart hit — “The Letter,” released in 1967 when he was a member of the Box Tops…
Yesterday, we told you about Boulder’s Catharine Pierce, 52, whose decision to garden topless in her front yard, which is located near a pre-K through 12th grade school, stirred complaints and police calls even though her actions are legal under current town rules. The latest? The Boulder Daily Camera reports…
Last week, we told you about a vicious attack in Boulder. The beating was delivered by a man described as being a man of Hispanic or Pacific Island descent with dark red curly hair, a chunky build, a pot belly and “no neck.” Eric Anthony Bustillos, come on down. Bustillos,…
Conner Cordova’s fifteen minutes have begun. The Dakota Ridge High School student launched a YouTube campaign to convince UFC ring girl and smokin’ hot piece of feminine pulchritude Arianny Celeste to join him as his date at DR’s spring dance — and damn it if his persistence and beyond-his-years understanding…
The booming medical marijuana industry in Colorado has made a noise loud enough to be heard in the newsroom of the Wall Street Journal, which looks at the business of pot in this square state on page one today. “In Mile High City, Weed Sparks Up a Counterculture Clash” focuses…
This week’s feature, “Battlefield Suburbia,” explores the bizarre and tumultuous battles of metro Denver residents, like those who live at Cherry Creek Farm against their homeowner’s associations and the companies that manage them. There are also scraps going on at Highline Meadows — or as residents call it, “Highline Ghettos.”…
This past weekend, the Denver Police Department released a roster of its fifty most wanted criminals — and since then, it’s been steadily rounding up the targeted scofflaws. A quartet of the accused were hauled in almost immediately, led by Freddie Ray Lazzo, No. 33. And yesterday, we heard about…
Update, 2:10 p.m.: Westword just spoke to Andrea Merida. To read what she had to say, click on “More” and scroll to the bottom. Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida has been raking muck with regard to the school district’s plan to “turn around” failing Lake Middle School ever…
Like sand through the hourglass, so go the blogs of Denver. In a fan post on Mile High Report, BroncoTiLLIDie sticks it to the mainstream media for faulting pretty much every off-the-field move the Broncos have made since Josh McDaniels became coach. Venting always helps. Spring training game 18 already?…
To put it mildly, the jury is still out on whether new Broncos quarterback Brady Quinn is going to be a savior or a bust. But there’s no debate about whether Quinn’s a luscious chunk of man candy. The verdict on that’s been in for a while now. Fortunately, Quinn…
A new “Mile Highs and Lows” review has just been published: In it, William Breathes checks out Pride in Medicine, finding the joint’s products to be worth the coughing fits they cause. In addition, we’ve updated Westword’s dispensary directory, which delivers the latest about medical marijuana businesses throughout the area…
This dispensary has closed. 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…
Last week, a motion for a protective order was filed on behalf of the City and County of Denver, Denver cop Shawn Miller and two other “unknown Denver Police Department officers.” The issue? Attorney David Lane, who represents Jason Anthony Graber in a case against the named parties, wants Miller…
