The deadline has passed for medical marijuana dispensaries to apply for their official licenses in Denver — and only 235 out of more than 500 did so. Update, 3:22 p.m.: The Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers has released a statement about the protest demanding the recall of city council…
Last week, we told you about a scheduled March 4 funeral for Internet Explorer 6, which reportedly died as “a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.” Turns out the level of hatred for IE6 exceeded the expectations of folks at Aten Design Group, who…
A Channel 9 report from Deer Creek Middle School about the first day of classes since a shooting last week injured two students is brief and uninformative — and I couldn’t be more relieved. As I pointed out in a blog about how close to home the Deer Creek assaults…
Timothy McVeigh, he was put to death back in 2001 for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, isn’t often used by convicts wanting to get out of trouble. But it happened today at the U.S. Supreme Court, where attorneys for imprisoned former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling suggested that their…
Denver blogs about Denver stuff. Mile High Report’s John Bena links to Bill Williamson’s discussion of the Brandon Marshall trade market. Williamson sees seven teams as potentially in the sweepstakes, including the Redkins. BM and Mike Shanahan: together again? Colorado Pols shares a Bob Moore piece revealing that the Northern…
On Friday, Dr. James Dobson delivered his final broadcast for Focus on the Family. But Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger waited until today to comment to the public at large about Dobson’s long-in-the-works departure from the Colorado Springs-based organization he founded. “We considered it family time,” Schneeberger says from the National…
Last December, CU banned Nerf guns for use in the game Humans Vs. Zombies, allegedly because campus cops might mistake the plastic contraptions for real weapons. Cue snickering. But this ruling hasn’t stopped CU sophomore Scott Serafin and his fellow Humans Vs. Zombies aficionados. Today marks the beginning of a…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 52a. Washington/Virginia Vale: Space alien seeks camouflage amongst the yard art. UFO enthusiast Jeff Peckman need look no further than the photograph above for validation in placing his Extraterrestial Affairs Commission initiative on the August 2010 Denver ballot. The feeling of…
Another busy weekend in Denver, especially for men with unruly facial hair. They gathered at Vine Street Pub for the Denver Chop Month Competition. Photographer Aaron Thackeray was there. Elsewhere, Cobraconda played a burrito place, while Sun Red, Old Radio, Paean and Night of Joy hit the Meadowlark. Happy Monday…
On Friday, we shared a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noting customer surveys implying that Denver’s Frontier Airlines could be renamed New Air — one of the lamest monikers in the history of lame monikers. Turns out that’s not the case: Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuk says the New Air…
Late last week, PepsiCo announced that it was dropping its Gatorade endorsement deal with Tiger Woods, whose apology for nailing pretty much every trollop he laid eyes on didn’t immediately heal his besmirched public image. If only the powers at Pepsi had accepted a proposal from Longmont artist Jason Kay,…
Last week, we told you about Nuggets Twitter fan J.R. Smith, who challenged L.A. Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant via a cocky tweet — “Dont get me wrong kobe is great but not when he play me” — before telling the media to keep its collective nose off his page. Turns…
Somebody’s got a bad case of the Mondays. Denver’s KUSA, better known as 9News, regularly lauds itself as Colorado’s news leader, and if ratings are the only inspiration for broadcast puffery, then sure, we’ll have to give it to them. But a news item posted at 9News.com last week, complete…
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…
Some say the dreadful economy is to blame for the upswing in Colorado bank robberies — but the Safe Streets Task Force, which is charged with tracking down the crooks, doesn’t think it’s so simple. Atop the list of possible factors a task force spokesman shared with Westword reporter Joel…
As noted here a few weeks ago, Colorado’s U.S. Senate race is shaping up to be an epic mudwallow, with GOP hopeful Jane Norton painting incumbent Michael Bennet as the spend-crazy flunky of a soft-on-terror President and the Democrats firing back with videos that present Norton as a loony teabagger…
“An Uphill Battle,” an April 2007 Westword feature article written by Adam Cayton-Holland, told an unusual story of friendship between Steve Powers and best pal Lance Hering. When Hering, a U.S. Marine, decided to fake his own disappearance in Eldorado Canyon rather than return to Camp Pendleton, Powers volunteered to…
The photo above will make many Denverites gasp. After all, the likeness of Russell Scott, who spent decades on local TV as Blinky the Clown, is so uncannily accurate that it looks as if the Blinkster ran into a blade-wielding executioner with absolutely no sense of humor. But no: It’s…
Lafayette councilman Kerry Bensman is frustrated by the publicity his town has received in relation to the story of Spork, a ten-year-old dachshund who received a vicious-dog citation after he bit a veterinary technician last August. He believes most media outlets have been underplaying the seriousness of the injuries sustained…
Our last Denver blogs roundup of the week. But Monday’s not that far away. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk notes that the Bears’ loss of a coin flip to the Jaguars gives the Broncos the eleventh pick in the NFL draft — which will save $1.5 million-$2 million in guaranteed…
Why drugs? Because they caused this guy to shimmy out his bedroom window and hit a cop with his car when police showed up at his door. They inspired this crazy bitch to deprive hospital patients of vital medicine and infect those same patients with Hep C. And, perhaps worst…
When web surfers visit the Rocky Mountain News website, the first line they see at the top of the screen reads, “Denver newspaper, with the latest Colorado news, sports, weather and entertainment.” Not quite. The site is frozen at February 27, 2009, the day its last edition was published –…
