As crimes go, the one of which former CU student Abby Toll has been accused is hardly run of the mill. The Bouder Daily Camera describes it like so: “Toll is accused of binding her boyfriend’s 2-year-old shiba inu, Rex, in hair bands and packing tape and sticking him upside-down…
Well, at least the cartoon’s creators should be the award winners. Instead, Pat Bowlen (Broncos owner), Walter Isenberg (hotel mogul) and Curtis Fentress (DIA architect) will all be inducted into the Visit Denver Tourism Hall of Fame for their support and dedication to making big bucks off of tourists. In…
Last month, we chatted with Personhood USA spokesman Keith Mason, who was excited that his organization had collected enough signatures to put an initiative establishing person status from the beginning of a human being’s biological development before Colorado voters in November. Granted, a similar measure was trounced back in 2008…
Word that at least three entities planned objections to the bankruptcy proposal for Affiliated Media, holding company for MediaNews Group, added some suspense to today’s hearing about the matter before a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. In the end, though, Judge Kevin J. Carey saw no reason to put the…
Whereas the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute find lots to hate in Representative Tom Massey’s medical marijuana bill, which makes its Capitol debut today, Matt Brown, head of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations, is much less negative. Not that he sees the legislation as ideal. “Thankfully, it’s not done…
Today, House Bill 1284, Representative Tom Massey’s long-awaited measure intended to regulate the medical marijuana industry in Colorado, will finally get its closeup at the Capitol. And the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute are ready to weigh in with their objections. CTI is urging supporters to attend a rally…
Yesterday, the Aurora Police Department responded to the Descano Plaza Apartments at 11102 East 16th Avenue There, they found the manager of the complex, who was suffering from multiple stab wounds that ended her life a short time later. Thus far, the APD isn’t identifying the woman, but it has…
Last July, when news broke about the arrest of University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson — principally for secretly videotaping boys in his bathroom — a former Fulkerson student turned blogger who calls himself the Whup-Ass Master ripped the so-called “rug-wearing kiddie porn aficionado” a new one on…
It’s taking a little while for Mayor John Hickenlooper to get his gubernatorial ambitions online: As of Monday, the campaign still didn’t have a Facebook page, and its website, www.hickenlooperforcolorado.com is only a placeholder with a donation button. Those things are all coming soon, says new campaign spokesman George Merritt…
“Creative Class,” Patricia Calhoun, February 18 MasterMinds of the Universe Thank you, Westword, for all you do for the arts — and especially the MasterMind program. Reading Calhoun’s “Creative Class” and the stories on the 2010 winners, and then meeting some of them at Artopia two days later, was really…
Before the late-night jokes about the baggage system, before the opening-day snowstorm and the seven-hour breakdown of the train system on Black Sunday, and long before the 9/11 attacks changed the way people fly, Denver International Airport was already full of surprises — not all of them pleasant. Curt Fentress…
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…
Westword has obtained the latest copy of House Bill1284 — the much anticipated medical marijuana measure shaped by Representative Tom Massey, among others. Some highlights: Under the document’s provisions, the state would have licensing authority over “the size, dimensions, and acceptable colors for a medical marijuana center sign;” authorizes counties…
Last August, we told you about Griffin Scott, a Louisiana reporter who was fired for a Facebook posting in which he mentioned that he was the only person under forty at his station who knew anything about the Enola Gay — the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on…
Try a sample from our tidbit platter of Denver blogs. Bronco Talk’s Mr. East explains the so-called “tenders” placed on a passel of Broncos stars. At this point, Brandon Marshall can be had for a first-round draft pick, while Elvis Dumervil would require a first and a third — which…
Earlier this week, Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers founder Robert Chase led a protest against the Denver City Council after fewer than half of medical marijuana businesses approved to collect sales taxes applied for official dispensary licenses by March 1. Chase lobbied for the recall of all council members,…
Denver International Airport celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this past weekend by erecting a scale model of a Boeing 787 wing and (according to this tut-tutting 9News story) handing out $9,000 worth of cupcakes. Sweet! If our friends in broadcasting can get that exercised over a few thousand just desserts, think…
Denver lost Hysteria — its women-friendly, sex-positive, non-toxic-educating, GLBT-welcoming sex-toy shop in February. But a new store with the same philosophy, albeit from Minnesota, plans to open soon, just in time to fill that void. The Smitten Kitten pioneered the idea of brightly-lit, women-friendly sex shops seven years ago, says…
The artworks pictured above, are displayed on the side walls of similarly colored brick buildings on opposites sides of town. They are as good an example as any to show the similarities and differences between East and West Denver. Observers can clearly see that Denverites, regardless of the location of…
DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg has been out and about the last couple of weeks at schools engaging with students. But his appearances aren’t part of any new or unusual public relations campaign, says DPS spokeswoman Kristy Armstrong. “There just happened to be things going on that he wanted to attend,”…
In mid-February, Boulder’s Seth Brigham was arrested at a Boulder City Council meeting after trying to speak wearing only his boxers — a protest of a proposed public-nudity ordinance intended to cover up events such as the Naked Pumpkin Run and the Naked Bike Ride. Shortly thereafter, public opinion swung…
Yesterday, we previewed a Boulder City Council meeting at which new medical marijuana regulations would be presented for the first time. According to Boulder mayor Susan Osborne, “there were a lot of good points made” on both sides of the issue. And she was particularly impressed by the idea of…
