Denver City Councilman Rick Garcia may be the elected official behind a moratorium being considered at city council tonight that would halt multi-unit development in northwest Denver. But are the real folks calling the shots the neighborhood activists Garcia represents? After all, the moratorium isn’t what one would consider subtle…
Word that the University of Colorado at Boulder is thinking about banning student parking on campus wasn’t entirely news to Kurt Matthews, manager of parking services for the City of Boulder. He says conversations between CU and city officials about related topics are ongoing. But that doesn’t mean a plan…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers wants to put the medical-marijuana genie back in the bottle — so it’s hardly surprising that he’s not thrilled by the Obama administration’s efforts to put enforcement of rules pertaining to dispensaries in the hands of states. Shortly after the new guidelines were released, Suthers…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 38. Platt Park. Passersby can talk to the trees It is an amazing coincidence that this lumbering display sits in the neighborhood named for the Denver pioneer who’s fortune was felled by logs. Vermont-educated James H. Platt served in the Civil…
This weekend, there was metal thrashing and apple bobbing at the Denver Creative Co-Op; Bombay chugging at DU; and a grand opening at Casselman’s. You can see photos of all of them at westword.com/slideshow. And if you’re more of the strongly worded type, jump to the Backbeat blog for dispatches…
The fame and fortune about which Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene was apparently dreaming looks to have flown away. But while Larimer County officials took a couple of days before voicing their doubts about the veracity of the airborne-Falcon account, Patti Dennis, news director at Channel 9, the first media…
View Larger Map On Friday evening, shots rang out at 1150 N. Syracuse Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). When Denver Police arrived, they discovered a dead man with multiple gunshot wounds. It won’t surprise you to…
This past August, Nebraska resident Robert Reams and his family took a vacation in Denver, staying at the Tech Center Marriott. Little did they know that as they went about their activities, including changing clothes and bedding down for the evening, they were in full view of a camera installed…
Attorney David Lane tends to take cases that have Big Picture, constitutional issues at stake: His clients in recent years have included Carol Kreck, who was arrested for protesting a John McCain campaign appearance, student journalist David McSwane, whose position was threatened after authorizing the famed f-Bush editorial, and, of…
Another indication that Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene wanted to make the most of the media attention he got in the wake of the desperate search for his not-quite-airborne son Falcon: Over the course of the past few days, his hair seems to have gotten a trendy makeover. Throughout an…
The latest developments in the Balloon Boy case — i.e., Larimer County authorities declaring the whole thing to have been a hoax — seem to have frayed the nerves of the Heene family’s Fort Collins neighbors. Clips like this one from Friday, in which a woman defends the clan (“This…
Here at Westword, we have a deep appreciation for history, culture and, frankly, weaponry. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science knows this, which is why, a couple of weeks ago, institution spokeswoman Heather Hope dropped off a working scale model of a trebuchet for us to play with –…
Even as more and more cities are paying hundreds-of-thousands (or, as in the case of Denver, millions) for professionally designed and constructed outdoor skateboard facilities, many skaters still maintain that the most fun spots to ride are the ones that you and your friends build yourselves. But DIY ain’t for…
View Larger Map Earlier this week, a Boulder County resident was hiking near the 200 block of Sandy Drive, a Sugarloaf Mountain area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), when he came upon what the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office described…
“I’m just a budget cut,” says Steve “Mudflap” McGrew, co-star of KYGO’s perennially popular morning show. “We just won the CMA station-of-the-year award, and the station’s been doing okay as far as listeners are concerned. But things have been rough in radio lately. I guess it’s finally getting to everybody.”…
Today, October 16, is National Feral Cat Day. This is not really a day of celebration; it’s more of a day of scolding and sobering statistics, since the growing phenomenon of feral cats has a lot to do with the human capacity to abandon domesticated animals. Thirty thousand cats are…
The last of the week’s local-blog wrangling. Happy Friday, all. Senator Mark Udall on HuffPo Denver: “The time has come to end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.'” If a Senate candidate (Ryan Frazier) announces he’s now a House candidate and there’s no one there to witness it, does it make any…
Mike May, minority leader of the Colorado House, is coming to the end of what he calls “my eighth and final year down there” — but he’s not going quietly. Yesterday, he introduced the 7th District electorate to Ryan Frazier, who dropped his U.S. Senate campaign in order to run…
It wasn’t long after Balloon Boy’s balloon fell gently and empty to the ground that I sent out the above Tweet. Of course, in hindsight, those odds were way too high. And now we’re all left to figure out how to fill up another balloon, attach Balloon Boy’s dad by…
Rolls Royce sightings are extremely scarce in Denver. After the first glimpse, the eye scans the immediate surroundings for tycoons, starlets and/or a gloved butler prepping his chamois for a loving buff. Seeing an unattended Rolls is even more rare. And, when that Silver Shadow sits before an open garage…
At first, the three-bedroom ranch Mike and his family discovered while house-hunting in Thornton this summer seemed like the perfect spot. The price was right on the 2,200 square foot home, and it was situated in a nice neighborhood. After they put down an offer, the family nearly backed out…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett says he’s “committed to having the most progressive approach to medical marijuana of any DA’s office in the state.” And yesterday, he took another step toward establishing that reputation by dismissing charges against Nederland’s Sherri Versfelt, who was scheduled to go to trial next week…
