If you’re a reporter who thinks covering Charlie Sheen’s court appearance in Aspen on January 20 will be like winning the lottery, you’re right. It’ll be exactly like winning the lottery. The Aspen Police Department has determined that the members of the media allowed in the sixty-person capacity courtroom during…
Why not warm up for the weekend by reading some Denver blogs? The Broncos will play their first-ever regular season game outside America on October 31, facing off against the San Francisco 49ers at Wembley Stadium in London. As Colin at South Stands Denver points out, they definitely won’t lose…
“Shmuck” is too kind a term for the type of bogus charity collectors who tend to crop up after disasters of the size and scope of the one currently rolling out in grisly slow motion across Haiti, a country that was hardly in the best shape even before an earthquake…
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This week, Senator Chris Romer confirmed that he’s ditched most of the elements in his long-in-the-works medical marijuana proposal in favor of a streamlined bill focusing on establishing what he calls “a meaningful doctor-patient relationship.” Meanwhile, Representative Tom Massey, a Republican from Poncha Springs, plans to introduce a measure modeled…
Carrie Paykoc was among a group of nine University of Colorado Denver students to fly out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at around noon on January 12. A little over four hours later, an earthquake struck the area, devastating the nation and placing extraordinary demands on a health system that Paykoc says…
Reegan Mair knows how much good has been done by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless’s mobile medical clinic, aka the Stout Street van. She’s a volunteer for Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center, which educates injection drug users to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis-C, and…
What is it about Denver that makes its richest people want to keep their lips zipped? Phil Anschutz, the state’s wealthiest person, refuses to grant interviews despite personally owning newspapers and online info properties, not to mention theaters and sports venues. And Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and…
The fight over medical marijuana in the state legislature is ramping up, with Republicans being perceived as the group most resistant to policies that allow the proliferation of dispensaries across the state. An exception to that rule is the Independence Institute’s Jessica Peck Corry, who looks at marijuana policy from…
The headline in this morning’s Denver Post is unequivocal: “Republic Airways to Move Frontier’s Headquarters Out of Denver.” But Peter Kowalchuk, Frontier’s spokesman, believes the announced resignation of former Frontier CEO Sean Menke, and the relocation of other top-level execs to Republic’s home base, Indianapolis, just over a month after…
The crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde 2.0 was not nearly as long or storied as their namesakes. Last week, we told you about the couple, who were accused of one bank robbery and several other armed robberies in the Greeley area. But they didn’t hang around town, glorying in…
A couple of eons ago, I got my first introduction to hard labor as an ill-paid apprentice on my uncle’s ranch in southern Colorado. I herded and branded cattle, hauled feed, chopped the ice that covered the water tanks and pulled bawling calves out of the mud. It was brutish,…
Wondering how your friends and neighbors spent their evenings last year — the ones who close their blinds, anyway? Turns out many of them were watching a dreary, seemingly endless movie in which Brad Pitt spends a long, long time looking like an ancient, quasi-computerized Billy Barty. As evidence, check…
How will John Hickenlooper be able to serve as mayor of Denver even as he campaigns for governor? In a letter sent to city employees earlier today, Hick doesn’t say — but he does emphasize that it has no intention of bailing on his current gig. The guv race “does…
Reading blogs about Denver is good — and good for you. Kyle at Broncos Talk shares news of the Broncos landing two players on the first-team All-Pro list: Ryan Clady and Elvis Dumervil. The team also put dozens on the staying-home-in-January list. From Colin at South Stands Denver: The Nuggets…
The crowd at the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally wasn’t enormous, but it was noisy and enthusiastic — with a faint smoky smell. Page through below to see shots by Joe Tone of just-announced gubernatorial candidate Miguel Lopez, pro-marijuana attorney Rob Corry and plenty of other folks who don’t want…
Today, even as a medical marijuana rally is taking place across the street from the state capitol, peruse our latest dispensary review — the Wildflower Seed’s take on GreenBelly Co-op. And there’s more where that came from, courtesy of Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. Check it out by clicking here…
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…
Thieves tend to swipe items that are easy to fence, like TVs and other electronic gadgets. So does that mean there’s suddenly a market for giant bronze crosses? Doubt it — and that’s what has the Lakewood Police Department worried. On Tuesday, some enterprising masochist slipped into chapel at the…
If it happens in Colorado, it came from California. First it was the medical marijuana dispensary, and now it is the adoptable chihuahua dispensary… Keep reading about adoptable chihuahua dispensaries below!…
An early strategy being used to undermine John Hickenlooper in his run for the governorship is actually an old favorite — portraying him as too liberal. That’s the theme of the video above, put together by WhoSaidYouSaid.com, a humor-oriented political website overseen by Republican stalwarts Kelly Maher and Mary Smith,…
With medical marijuana taking the state by storm, it was inevitable that Christianity would be added to the mix. That time will apparently come later today: At a state capitol rally, Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry church in Boulder is expected to make news by bestowing a pot-themed…
