Denver mega-buckser Phil Anschutz has reportedly recouped his entire investment in the late Michael Jackson’s aborted “This Is It” tour (after seeming on the verge of multi-million-dollar losses) thanks to the sale of rehearsal footage that makes up the just-released This Is It film. Now all that’s left is to…
View Larger Map At times, inclement weather cuts down on people murdering each other. But that wasn’t the case early this morning, when police found a man suffering from gunshot wounds that soon killed him behind Sunrise Restaurant, 9115 East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you…
Denver International Airport received complaints from some airlines on Thursday for allegedly not clearing runways of snow quickly enough — but DIA spokesman Chuck Cannon believes the facility well. “Obviously, things slowed down on Wednesday and Thursday,” he concedes, “but they have to when you have blizzard conditions like we…
How convincing a cop was a 24-year-old Colorado Springs man currently being held on felony police-impersonation charges? Well, the vehicle he used was a gray 1995 Cadillac sedan, the sort of car preferred by eighty-year-old retirees or ride-pimpers getting ready for Cinco de Mayo, not the police. Instead of a…
The Broncos are 6-0, while the Baltimore Ravens, who they’ll play on Sunday, are 3-3. No problem, right? But the Ravens can be a terrifying team, and not just on Halloween weekend. Given a couple of breaks here and there, they could be undefeated as well — they were absolutely…
SAFER’s Mason Tvert thinks drug czar Gil Kerlikowske has some splainin’ to do.The Obama administration’s relaxed rules regarding enforcement of laws regarding medical marijuana has led to renewed optimism among weed advocates that across-the-boards legalization might be a more realistic possibility. But shortly thereafter, Office of National Drug Control Policy…
If the I-300 ballot initiative passes in November 3, Denver police officers will be required to immediately impound any and every car they pull over where the person behind the wheel doesn’t have a valid driver’s license in their possession. But while the main target of the proposed law is…
Standing in lines at Division of Motor Vehicles offices is typically like participating in the Bataan Death March — long and agonizing, with no guarantee of survival. But there’s one notable exception to that rule, which my wife discovered yesterday. As a principal of a school that’s been closed for…
News that Denver Water is planning to jack up rates in 2010 by thirteen percent isn’t really news. Last year, the utility stuck the average residential customer with a $20 hike; this year it’s $40. Over the last decade, the amount the typical user in the city pays for this…
Those of us making ends meet on modest salaries are always astonished when we hear about celebrities who earn much, much more but still manage to piss it all away. Case in point: Denver Nuggets legend Dan Issel, who declared bankruptcy in June thanks to debts estimated at $4.5 million…
When we heard recently that Walmart has begun selling coffins online, our first reaction was stupefied disbelief. Really, Walmart? Coffins? Online? Aren’t there some things that just shouldn’t be sold online? Well, of course there are. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t sold online anyway. We put our crack research…
Eyeballs, meet local blogs that’ll treat your pupils properly. The Nugg Doctor’s Nick Sclafani says Melo “revoked Paul Millsap’s player card with a posterizing dunk” in last night’s season-opening win over the Utah Jazz. Get started on that paperwork right away. Alan Gottlieb at Education News Colorado points out that…
UPDATED, October 29, 1:45 p.m.: The participants in this bloody no-love triangle have been named, and we’ve got a photo of the stabber, below the original item: Not all mash-ups work: Even Glee-master Will Schuester couldn’t figure out how to meld “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair…
On October 20, talks between grocery workers and Safeway about a new contract broke down only a few hours after they’d started up again — and later that week, King Soopers employees were given a letter strongly implying that if Safeway staffers struck, they’d be locked out. It’s a scenario…
Again this week, we’ve updated our directory of medical-marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, featuring a new, user-friendlier format. To check it out, click 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…
During an interview for last week’s blog about criticism of the Boulder Police Department’s efforts to squelch a revival of the Boulder Mall Crawl this Halloween, Judd Golden, chapter chair of the Boulder County American Civil Liberties Union, mentioned another event expected to bust out that night: the annual Naked…
In September, Joel Warner wrote a blog entitled “Could Clendenin Case Deal a Blow to Colorado’s Pot Biz?” Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who’s been trying to put the medical-marijuana genie back in the bottle, certainly hopes so. No wonder he’s high on a ruling just handed down by the…
The Balloon Boy story is the gift that keeps on giving thanks to paterfamilias Richard Heene’s proclivity for recording every stupid thing he did — or at least enough of them to keep the tabloid press quivering with censorious excitement for the foreseeable future. The latest exhibit: Nancy Grace getting…
It’ll happen any day now: You’ll come home from work, sink into your couch and flip on your TV, hoping for a Real World-Road Rules marathon or something equally vapid, and there it will be: that damn balloon, flying through the New York or Miami or Las Vegas sky, the…
Early on, Louisville’s Nicole Fox seemed too quirky to have a real shot at taking the America’s Next Top Model cycle thirteen crown. But over the past few weeks, she’s become a force as unstoppable as her flame-colored hair, and her chances of becoming the first major reality-show champ from…
Longtime Denver residents understand that snowstorm coverage on local TV newscasts tends to follow a familiar pattern. First, live shots of assorted correspondents freezing their asses off alongside various roads and occasionally holding up handfuls of snow, as if the stuff falling in the background wasn’t illustration enough. Next, extended…
