CannaMed owner David Mazin came up with the idea of having his medical marijuana evaluation clinics sell patients to dispensaries and pot growers a year ago. Since then, he claims, several other outfits have adopted the same process. To find out which ones, Westword called many of the local medical…
“Flight Change,” Alan Prendergast, March 4 Pardon Our Dust Within the next twenty years, 2.3 million more people are moving to Colorado. Of those 2.3 million, only 67,000 will be living in Denver, according to Colorado’s own demographic analysis. DIA is the natural hub for transit development in the Colorado…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Sometimes, stories intersect. Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. Testimony in the case has ended, and the jury is currently deliberating. But earlier this week, a witness mentioned the subject of a previous Westword…
Marcus Bebb-Jones is a successful professional poker playing in the United Kingdom, having won the 2007 Grosvenor Grand Prix, among other big money competitions. But he’s got more to worry about beyond whether or not he should draw to an inside straight. He’s right now facing a forced return to…
Read some Denver blogs, why don’t you? Mike at Mile High Hockey is in rare form commenting about the Avs agonizing collapse against Vancouver last night. “Why are they playing this way in big games?” he asks. “It’s like my right hand on a Saturday night: It beats the fuck…
We can’t talk about the Coreys in plural anymore: While Corey Feldman is still walking among us, ’80s heartthrob Corey Haim has died at age 38; initial autopsy reports are inconclusive. Haim’s Colorado connection? Fast Getaway, his1991 flick, was shot here and in Utah. The movie may have gone straight…
As the Darrent Williams murder trial was winding down, another proceeding about an event with tragic consequences — the trial of Earl Ryan, who allegedly shot and killed a two-year-old boy, Noah Crookham, in 2008 — was getting underway. But while members of the Williams jury are considering the fate…
At 11:30 a.m. today, a meeting was scheduled to address a series of robberies that have struck the Auraria campus in recent days: A student was reportedly attacked in a parking lot on March 5, while two students were stabbed in a dorm and a woman was punched in a…
One of the longest running battles in the alternative journalism field involves two San Francisco publications, the Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly, a part of the Village Voice Media chain, and a sister paper of Westword. Back in May 2008, as sketched out in the Editor & Publisher piece…
The logo for The Auto Ranch, seen in the photograph above, includes the distinctive design of a hand holding a marionette’s control bar. This used car dealer has directly lifted the imagery from the famous cover design of Mario Puzo’s internationally acclaimed novel, The Godfather. Setting aside the legal issues…
Keeping track of all the individuals and organizations duking it out on the front lines of the state’s medical-marijuana debate is trickier than picking through the med strains at your corner dispensary. To help weed through the chaos, we’ve created this guide to the state’s top marijuana power players, complete…
Pat Bowlen opened up his wallet in recent days, signing three strong defensive linemen: Jarvis Green (formerly with — surprise! — New England), Jamal Williams (an ex-Charger) and Justin Bannan (a Baltimore Raven). And while these players are closer to the end of their career than the beginning, all of…
In yesterday’s blog about Governor Bill Ritter’s displeasure at Amazon over the company’s decision to sever relationships with its Colorado associates over a new tax measure, we noted that Amazon hadn’t responded to requests for comment. Several hours after the piece’s publication, Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako belatedly reached out –…
Monday, we updated you on the story of Spork, a ten-year dachshund that received a vicious-dog citation after biting a veterinary technician — an injury that may have involved Spork eating the woman’s lips according to a Lafayette City Councilman. Attorneys from the Animal Law Center, representing Spork’s owners, Tim…
Yesterday, we shared the story of Trevor Douglas, 25, who had decided to defend himself against a marijuana-possession charge by citing his membership in the THC Ministry, which sees ganja as a religious sacrament. Nice try, but it didn’t fly. Clear Creek County Rachel J. Olguin-Fresquez ruled against Douglas in…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Since its first issue, slapped together in a prison cell two decades ago, Prison Legal News has run hundreds of articles on abuse and corruption in local jails and state and federal prisons, shining a light where few of the ladies and gents of the mainstream press care (or dare)…
The North Metro Task Force has been busy with marijuana busts in Adams County of late. There were two significant arrests in Broomfield during late February, with suspects in both cases claiming the weed was being grown for medical purposes. And the same assertion was made following two more marijuana-related…
Back in February, Local TV LLC, the company that owns Channel 31 and The Deuce, announced that controversial general manager Dennis Leonard would be moving on — voluntarily, everyone swore, although neither Leonard nor Local TV exec Pam Taylor returned numerous requests for comment. (Taylor wasn’t available to chat this…
What a perfect day to read some blogs about Denver. Blackshirt4Broncos, writing at Mile High Report, shares a News Tribune column by Dave Boling, who suggests that Brandon Marshall is “troubled” and “not worth the gamble.” Or, presumably, the number six pick in the draft. Colorado Pols sings a verse…
Nuggets fans may not have loved everything Allen Iverson brought to the team — but it’s still hard to watch his slow-motion disintegration from afar without feeling melancholy about a player who defied expectations by being a perfect gentleman during his stay in Denver. Iverson had already taken a leave…
