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…
When the sun rose this morning at 6:58 a.m., it shed its light on one of the weirdest American traditions around: millions of people scrambling for discount deals at big box stores. In Denver, this eerie sight was visible from Target and Best Buy to Bass Pro, Kohl’s and Kmart…
You didn’t really think the Broncos were going to win six games and then lose the next ten did you? You didn’t really think they would suddenly just turn into the team everyone expected them to be and make a mockery of hope? Wait, what? You did? Well, you weren’t…
Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress – Trailer from Havey Productions on Vimeo.As plans move forward to transform Denver Union Station into a modern transit hub, folks want to make sure the old depot’s past doesn’t get left behind. The latest effort is a new documentary called Denver Union Station:…
Don’t even think about getting a marriage license in Denver today. Or having your cat’s balls cut off. Or getting a permit to zone something. (Does that even make sense?) Or paying your late fee at the Denver Public Library for the new Philippa Gregory novel, The White Queen, which…
Gobble, gobble: Our promised Top Ten Turkeys of 2009 is heating up nicely, and will be served up first thing tomorrow (which means there’s still time to make your nominations below). And speaking of turkeys, we’re going to go eat some — so now that we’ve ranted about the likelihood…
Pretty much the only folks not dumbfounded by reports that Dan Hawkins will get a fifth year as CU coach are university accountants. Clearly, this announcement (expected to be made on Thanksgiving, when plenty of people with gorging on their mind are apt to miss it) will have nothing to…
“Pussy Galore,” Alan Prendergast, November 19 Kitty Litter Thank you, Westword, for giving the feral cat problem some light before the general public. People who move out of their homes (mobile, apartments, houses, etc.) and leave their cats, rather than take them with them, sentence their former pets to a…
The demise of the Blue Sky Collective has upset many of its fifty members – mostly independent business owners, artists and musicians – who have until November 30 to find new homes and move all of their wares and belongings out of the building at 9635 West Colfax Avenue in…
The threat of violence has always bubbled just beneath the surface of water issues in Colorado. The state’s hardscrabble founders clashed over it, sparring over which mining claims got access to scarce mountain streams. Later battles moved to the settlements along the Front Range. In 1874, two farming coalitions came…
Two months ago, we posted a notice that we were looking for a medical marijuana critic, to review the dispensaries that were springing up across Colorado. Hundreds of applications, many international media inquiries and probably dozens of new dispensaries later, we’ve chosen our critics. Read their bios below…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Medical marijuana doctor Pay: $300-$400 an hour Qualifications: Professional Wellness Center, dedicated…
As detailed in this week’s cover story, “Pipe Dream,” Fort Collins entrepreneur Aaron Million’s plan to pump massive amounts of water from the Green River in southwestern Wyoming to the thirsty Front Range has garnered opposition from lots of sources. That includes Charlie Love, a colorful geology and anthropology professor…
You just can’t please some people, especially if you happen to be the Secretary of the Interior. Sure, the job has some neat perks–all those trips to national parks and press conferences at glaciers and other cool stuff. But there’s no way to manage what amounts to one-fifth of the…
The Winter in the City program is an effort to warm up to suburban shoppers by showing them how “Denver has seen the light!” The evening begins at Union Station with a visit from “Concealed-Carry Claus.” He will be packing a 500-magnum “candy cane” as a promise of protection to…
As Westword reported yesterday, Matt Sowash, the 34-year-old former head of the Amateur Poker Tour, has been sentenced to five years in prison and five years of probation for bilking investors out of more than $400,000. Sowash and business partner Andrew Hicks (who has yet to face trial) were arrested…
Emerging from the sweet-smelling smoke cloud left by the medical-marijuana explosion is Toke of the Town, a new national blog dedicated to all things weed. The blog is powered by Village Voice Media, Westword’s parent company and the engine behind geek blog Topless Robot and crime blog True Crime Report…
Lockup, MSNBC’s voyeuristic peek at life inside America’s nastiest prisons, launched its new season Saturday (*corrected) night with some cell floodings and tough talk by thick-necked inmates at Colorado’s own Limon Correctional Facility. This season (titled “Extended Stay: Colorado”) will focus on Limon, a simmering high-security hoosegow that houses close…
Move over, Cheech and Chong: The two most important people in Colorado’s marijuana scene are Brian Vicente and Mason Tvert — and they’re out to prove it by passing a statewide initiative in 2012 that will legalize marijuana for all Coloradans over 21. Vicente and Tvert unveiled the plan last…
Although an arrest warrant was issued for disgraced developer Erik Osborn last Thursday, he’s back on the right side of the law…for now. Turns out that Osborn may not have known he had to appear at the pre-trial hearing in Denver District Court on November 19 (it’s tough to keep…
As the newspaper industry continues to struggle, more and more attention is being paid to the paywall strategy being promoted MediaNews Group boss (and Denver Post publisher) Dean Singleton. He plans to start charging readers for lotsa online content at select MediaNews papers in California and Pennsylvania beginning in 2010…
A couple of new photos join our gallery of men and women accused in a series of what the Denver Police Department describes as racially motivated attacks that have taken place in the city in recent months. That’s because two juvenile suspects, Ashley Celestine and Kavean McCloud, are among the…
