Accused murderer Scott Kimball, who’s expected to plead guilty to two counts of second-degree murder at a proceeding tomorrow, plays a significant role in “Strip Search,” a 2006 Luke Turf article about Jennifer Marcum, a former Shotgun Willie’s employee then missing for more than three years. She’d landed at his…
Move over swine flu, the latest epidemic to hit Denver is an outbreak of ghosts. Granted, most are made of rags, have tissue for brains and dangle from the low-hanging branches of maple trees, but the photo above proves that more mischievous spirits do exist. Yes, ghosts must be real,…
You’re the Philadelphia Phillies — the defending World Series champs, and winner of three consecutive National League East crowns. You’ve got a lineup filled with stars like Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Cliff Lee. The entire sporting press, and much of the public, expects you to roll over the Rockies in…
Last week, as part of our search for a marijuana-dispensary critic, we asked applicants to write in and tell us what marijuana means to them. Beginning today, we’ll publish some of our favorites, including this one from applicant “Valmont Green.”…
Speaking from Loveland Ski Area, the first in the state to open for the 2009-2010 season, Jennifer Rudolph is enthusiasm made flesh, which makes perfect sense given that she’s the communication director for Colorado Ski Country USA, whose mission is to urge anyone and everyone to head for the hills…
See photos of the opening at westword.com/slideshow. Loveland Ski Area wins this year’s race to become the first to open in Colorado. But given how early the starting bell rang — Loveland hasn’t gotten started so soon in forty years — should zealots leave their top-shelf equipment at home and…
One of the most unlikely debates to arise following the Broncos win over the Dallas Cowboys this past Sunday involved the hugs between baller Brandon Marshall and coach Josh McDaniels — the first immediately after Marshall’s astonishing touchdown catch, the second in a post-game press conference. On their Mile High…
Last night, city councils at localities throughout the state, including Longmont, Lafayette, Louisville and Thornton, discussed the issue of medical-marijuana dispensaries at city council meetings. In Durango, for instance, officials approved preliminary tweaks in regulations, setting hours of operation and forbidding such businesses to locate in residential neighborhoods. Against this…
On Monday, we told ou about ESPN columnist Rick Reilly’s April promise to “tongue-bathe the Capitol dome if the Rockies make the playoffs” — and his subsequent vow to make good on this lost bet. He proved as good as his (second) word yesterday, gamely lapping the golden cap in…
Glenn Spagnuolo and Mark Cohen — they’re baaaaaack. Yes, the two local lefties behind Re-create 68 — whose Weather Underground rhetoric and overblown protest predictions before the Democratic National Convention allowed the Denver Police Department to work itself into an orgy of security spending — have re-emerged with something called…
Talk-show blather king Rush Limbaugh didn’t exactly make a splash as a Monday Night Football commentator (except with people who think Donovan McNabb gets overpraised because he’s African-American). But he could get another shot at the NFL soon — as the owner of the St. Louis Rams. And depending upon…
While crowing earlier today about an Institute exposé focusing on uncompleted conflict-of-interest forms that embarrassed the Bill Ritter administration, the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara scoffed at the notion that Colorado Ethics Watch might take action against the Democratic governor’s office. “They file complaints on any Republican at any time,” he…
This week, we asked actual twits why we should follow them. And among the many, many amusing responses we got, the tweet by Lauren Cook (@laurencook) took the prize for its timely nods to two great figures in western history. Find out what she tweeted to sell us, as well…
Westword.com is looking for mountain-addicted wordsmiths to help us tell the stories of Colorado’s outdoor-sports scene. If you spend your weekends dodging lift lines, count Sniagrab as a national holiday, and — here’s the kicker — can write as well as you board or bike, we want to hear from…
Our daily slog through local blogs. From Mile High Report: If you had Week 5 in the “Which Week Will the Broncos Be On the Cover of Sports Illustrated” pool, congratulations. You win! Just in case you weren’t already convinced that charter schools can be disasters, Colorado Independent checks in…
There’s a mechanism in every journalist that’s triggered whenever a list mentions the city where he or she lives. We’re powerless to resist writing about it — and the urge is particularly strong when the results are complimentary, as in the case of The Daily Beast’s roster of America’s smartest…
Golden moments in the lives of Denver Nuggets basketball players…..
There was a lot of blab a few years back about the Colorado Rockies looking to sign Christian ballplayers. And while that may not thrill assorted atheists, pagans and druids, not to mention Pedro Cerrano, the voodoo-doll worshipping character played by Dennis Haysbert in Major League, it’s been good news…
I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting — the insidious, technologically inevitable, highly adolescent,…
Late Thursday afternoon, the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank, published an article revealing that only one of Governor Bill Ritter’s cabinet members had filed a conflict-of-interest report despite an executive order requiring that everyone do so — a Todd Shepherd-penned piece that led directly to Ritter issuing a new…
Recognizing the 8 Signs of Terrorism, a new video released yesterday by the Center for Empowered Living & Learning (CELL) in conjunction with the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference is an eight-minute plunge (well, six-and-a-half, with about ninety seconds’ worth of credits) into a world where average-looking white…
Marine Lance Hering so didn’t want to return to duty back in 2006 that he and a friend, Steve Powers, cooked up an elaborate story about his disappearance after injury in a Eldorado Canyon climbing accident. The tale and its aftermath (including his arrest in Washington state several months later),…
