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 look at what goes…
Medical marijuana is a smokin’-hot topic in Boulder these days, what with the city council this week implementing assorted restrictions on dispensaries — and almost (but not quite) legitimizing any and all weed sellers, whether they’re supplying licensed patients or not. Shortly thereafter, councilman Macon Cowles spoke to the Boulder…
The tiara-topped, oversized red guitar sitting on the new Westwood welcome sign seems to have magically appeared out of nowhere last weekend, but it has actually been over ten years in the making. The newly landscaped corner lot where Morrison Road meets South Sheridan Blvd. was originally part and parcel…
A short time ago, Tom Tancredo was at Denver International Airport. “I’m going to Houston,” he said. “I have a speech I’m making to the Texas Coalition for Immigration Reform, or something like that.” But Tancredo took a few minutes to make it clear that he does indeed plan to…
United pilot Erwin Washington, a former Air Force Academy basketball standout who currently makes his home in Lakewood, has been busted in London for allegedly flying drunk. Don’t know if the crew member who turned him in did so because he wouldn’t pass the bottle. Whatever the case, Washington’s clearly…
The barrage of apparently contradictory surveys continues. Just last week, we told you about American Psychological Association survey that showed Denverites are more stressed than Americans nationwide. Now comes a roundup from the Gallup Organization’s Well-Being Index declaring Colorado to be the fourth happiest state, in a tie with Minnesota…
For a while last night during “A Night in Old Union Station,” a swanky fundraising shindig that took over Denver’s central depot, the grand old railroad station resembled what it must have been like during its heyday 80 years ago. Roughly 850 people packed the station’s elaborately decorated great hall…
Louisville’s Nicole Fox has been getting strong and stronger as cycle thirteen of America’s Next Top Model has marched on — so much so that last night’s episode strained to create suspense about whether she’d reach the finals. Was there ever any doubt? Hell, no. Still, the producers tried to…
Yesterday, we told you about a tweet sent out by Shmuck of the Week emeritus Senator Dave Schultheis, in which he essentially compared President Barack Obama to a 9/11 hijacker: @Sen_Schultheis: Don’t for a second think Obama wants what is best for U.S. He is flying the US Plane right…
That e-mail blast attorney David Lane mentioned around this time yesterday came through at 12:51 a.m. today. In it, Lane confirms that Richard Heene and his wife Mayumi will enter guilty pleas tomorrow morning regarding the runaway-balloon hoax involving their young son, Falcon. Mayumi will cop to False Reporting to…
What happens when the state decides to hold a last-minute meeting on a controversial topic like medical marijuana, then tries to hold it via a conference call using technology that apparently no one knows how to work? Comic genius. The November 3 teleconference’s official transcript reveals the chaos and confusion…
Twenty years after the Performance Series debuted at the old Stapleton International Airport, entertaining harried holiday travelers as they flew to and fro, the program has been grounded. That means that for the first time in two decades, no carolers will greet you at check-in; no mimes will mimic your…
This week’s Westword cover story is a cartoon by Kenny Be celebrating 25 years of the Independence Institute. See the cartoon on the Latest Word blog…
Developer Erik Osborn and his wife, real-estate broker Angela Osborn, wowed investors a few years back with their vision of converting roughly six acres of parking lots flanking downtown’s financial district into a vertical neighborhood of luxury condos and upscale retail shops. But it wasn’t long before their arrangements with…
Where did all of Erik Osborn’s money go? Documents filed in connection with more than $1.2 million in judgments against him suggest that a good portion of it went for improvements on the multimillion-dollar mansion that the Osborns bought at 7 Polo Club Lane in Denver’s exclusive Polo Club. Angela,…
“Denver’s Top Ten Dives,” Drew Bixby, November 5 Dive, He Said Thank you for not outing Denver’s real dive bars and instead listing the already hipster-infested pseudo-dives that such people are comfortable in. Drew Bixby’s compilation will surely increase the crowds of self-conscious, PBR-swilling look-alikes in girl pants, assuring that…
Kim Cordova and Cindy Lucero, the president-elect and secretary-treasurer-elect of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, stood in front of the union’s empty headquarters in Wheat Ridge this afternoon and, with an audience of a reporter and a single news camera, called the current president a thief. “The…
Celebrate Denver Arts Week by giving in to the printed word tonight, when author and journalist Arial Sabar speaks and signs his National Book Award-winner, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, 350 South Dahlia Street…
As noted in Westword’s summer-long “Urbavore’s Dilemma” series, Denver’s in the midst of an urban-gardening renaissance, with city dwellers tending chickens and turning their yards into Green Acres. While the growing season might be over, the seeds for future urban farming are already being sewn. Case in point: Will Allen,…
Editor’s note: This year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, November 12-22, features more than 200 films. To help navigate this cinematic abundance of riches, we asked fest artistic director Brit Withey to highlight some worthy selections off the beaten screening-room path. Look for Brit’s Picks each weekday through the extravaganza’s close…
Back in 2002 a Westword cover portrayed the ever-irascible Douglas Bruce as a pit bull. The story was about his long-running battle with Denver officials over dilapidated properties, but the image is still apt. Throughout his dueling with tax-and-spenders over the TABOR Amendment, his short but stormy career as a…
This weekend, INK, a movie shot locally for $250,000 and self-distributed by Double Edge Films, was uploaded to various torrent servers such as the Pirate Bay. In just a few days, the movie has been downloaded nearly half a million times. By Hollywood’s calculations, this is a massive loss of…
