No doubt the parents of CU students who live on campus will be alarmed when they hear about the arrest early this morning of a man being investigated for kidnapping, sexual assault and other crimes. But CU-Boulder Police public information officer Molly Bosley wants to head off as much panic…
Perhaps there was some confusion on the part of Nicholas Lorenzo, 25. After all, he worked behind a meat counter at a Louisville Safeway — so he might have thought beating his own meat was part of the job. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, Lorenzo was arrested on January…
Our compendium of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary critiques just welcomed a new member to the family: William Breathes’s review of The Greenest Green. Check it out — and then turn your eyes to Westword’s dispensary directory, which has been newly updated for your pleasure and convenience. Learn more by…
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…
President Barack Obama’s visit to Denver today is prompting more spectacles than just a medical marijuana protest featuring Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, which is scheduled to be underway at this writing. For instance, there’s also “Rally ‘Round Romanoff!,” which criticizes the prez for raising money on behalf of Senator Michael…
Did you know that the outdoors is a lot farther away than it used to be fifty years ago, and that the distance can be measured in chubby children? There is so much to learn in Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien’s Colorado Outdoor Kids Report. Learn more below!…
Denver’s first roller derby bout of the season went down on February 6 at the Fillmore Auditorium — site of today’s speech by President Barack Obama. It was a sold-out intra-league face-off between two of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ home teams, the Sugar Kill Gang and the Dooms Daisies. The…
Lately, local DEA agents have been getting their hands on significant amounts of weed, whether it’s testing samples taken from inspections of marijuana-analysis labs or hundreds of live plants seized from a Highlands Ranch grow house last Friday, as well as from similar raids over the past month. So what…
Representative Jared Polis knows a little something about reality TV, having co-starred in the cable series Freshman Year — a gig we wrote about last March in a blog headlined “The Real World of Jared Polis, Courtesy of CNN.” Little did we know that Polis would wind up on the…
Today, President Barack Obama is coming to Denver to raise funds for Senator Michael Bennet — a display of favoritism in the primary that frustrates longtime Obama fan Polly Baca. But his appearance is welcomed by Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente and other medical marijuana advocates, who’ve been looking for a…
Yesterday, AllAccess.com broke the news that NRC Broadcasting had sold its two Denver FMs, KJAC/102.3 and KCUV/105.5, to Moreland Properties — owned by none other than automobile pitcher Dealin’ Doug Moreland — for $5 million. Expect them to sound different soon, and to feature a lot of car ads. Reached…
Looks like Longmont’s Jason Kay will get a chance to suffer for his art. Last month, Kay came up with the idea of relabeling Gatorade bottles with photos of golfer Tiger Woods and his wife alongside the word “Unfaithful” and then placing them on grocery store shelves — a stunt…
On Tuesday, we told you about the murder of Nathan Bozonier, 16, who was hit by a vehicle and then beaten by an unknown number of suspects. The latest developments: Part of the bumper from the vehicle that struck Bozonier fell off at the crime scene — and this chunk…
Friday, February 6, was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for future FasTracks rail lines. That means…
Tryouts for the Denver Roller Dolls aren’t scheduled to start until 7 p.m., but when I get there at 6:10, the dirt parking lot of the Wagon Wheel Skate Center in Brighton is already filling up. From the outside, the facility looks like any other big white barn on this…
“You’re in Bad Hands,” Alan Prendergast, February 11 Health-Care Hell Insurance companies that practice this type of disgusting behavior against people should be driven out of business. The CEO should be sitting in a jail somewhere for a very long time. Sooner or later these companies will act against the…
Yesterday, we told you about a $4.1 million settlement paid by the Eighth Judicial District of Larimer County to Timothy Masters, who spent nearly a decade in jail on a murder beef before being freed based on DNA evidence in 2008. That’s a lot of folding green for a county…
What is it with bizarre flight disruptions lately? First there was the man who commandeered a bathroom and insisted on shaving topless — followed by the drunken guy who tried to disembark from a plane in midair. And now, the latest installment in Denver’s uproarious passengers saga: North Carolina’s Alan…
Earlier this month, the Boulder City Council considered an ordinance that would have criminalized the displaying of nipples — at least those belonging to a woman — by way of trying to undermine events such as the Naked Pumpkin Run and Naked Bike Ride. In the end, the council kept…
Three, count ’em, three blogs about Denver, assembled just for you. At Mile High Report, T.J. Johnson writes: “We can be sure of a few things.First, Al Davis eats children on Halloween. Second, Kyle Orton is coming back for another year (at least) as the QB for the Broncos.” Let…
Want to see some of the bone-breaking roller derby action described in this week’s feature, “Denver’s Roller Derby Rivalry Could Start The Sport Rolling Across The Country”? Today’s your lucky day. (Thanks be to YouTube. Amen.) The above clip shows of one of the more controversial moments of the past…
Yesterday, the Justice Department formally accused Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz of “possession with intent to manufacture, distribute or dispense 224 marijuana plants” — greenery the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered in his house thanks to a story on 9News, as DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin acknowledged in a Westword interview. Since…
