In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, our Cafe Society crew presents the restaurant roll call for April, which features a lot more openings (and re-openings) that closings, temporary or otherwise. Mile High Report’s sadaraine offers a no-bull review of the Broncos’ 2016 draft. The Colorado Independent’s Marianne…
A team led by University of Colorado Denver professor Jordan Hill has launched North/East Denver Change, a website dedicated to nonpartisan information about developments and the neighborhoods being affected. The site was assembled in a space on the Auraria campus, where Hill works with a mix of master’s students and undergrads…
Rigs 4 Us, the smoke shop ot 5912 East Colfax Avenue that hosted the Colorado Cup on 4/20, re-opened its doors last Wednesday, one week after it was raided by the Denver Police Department and closed by the fire department in the middle of the event. According to owner Anna…
A couple of weeks back, we reported about Sports Authority’s plan to close three Colorado stores, including the iconic Sports Castle at 1000 Broadway, as the company teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Said teetering is now over. Today, under the heading “A Message From Our CEO About Our Restructuring,”…
Ever drive by a major Denver remodeling project and wonder what’s going on — and how much is being spent? Now there’s a way to find out. BuildZoom.com has created a Denver-centric map that aims to track every single remodeling project in the Mile High — or at least ones big…
In October 1999, Climber Alex Lowe and Aspen-based photographer David Bridges disappeared after an avalanche struck the peak they were scaling in Nepal. Two years later, Lowe’s widow, Jenni, married Conrad Anker, who had been on the expedition with Lowe and Bridges and narrowly escaped death himself — and under her…
In an interview with 9News, he said death was an appropriate punishment.
There was a lot of interest in our post about the rescheduling of the Denver 4/20 Rally, featuring Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne. The event was originally scheduled to take place on April 16, but its plug was pulled at the last minute because of a snowstorm that is said…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation remembers Winston Hill, a former lineman with the New York Jets who went on to run Winston Hill’s Ribs & Stuff, which will remain open despite his death. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin writes: “The GOP Needs to Win…
As a society, we like to think we’ve come a long way in the treatment of serious and chronic mental disorders over the last couple of decades. But much of the social stigma associated with being labeled as “mentally ill” remains, and advocates who want patients to have a stronger…
The Schmuck of the Week board members continue to raise the bar on schmuckiness. Rather than selecting nominees whose behavior mirrors dumbassery of the sort we’ve seen many times before, we’re constantly on the lookout for those who get schmucky in new, fresh ways. A prime example: Richard Ponds, who’s…
America is a nation built by immigrants, and its cities are supposed to be melting pots where people of different backgrounds, ethnicities and races interact and learn from one another. The reality, however, is that cities are oftentimes divided by race and ethnicity. And when it comes to racial segregation, Denver…
Law-enforcement agencies in a lot of communities produce most-wanted lists. But Fort Collins has taken things a step further. Community reps have created a Fort Collins Police: Most Wanted Facebook page on which it features suspects on posters of the sort we associate with the Old West, but created with new…
The Denver Post has announced a new buyout offer intended to shrink the staff by 26 employees. If this reduction is realized, the Post’s newsroom will have lost more than a third of its workers in around a year. As we reported in June 2015, there were approximately 165 newsroom members…
How much was Timothy Gomez’s life worth? According to a jury, Charlie Brammeier valued it at $20 — the amount of a drug transaction prosecutors say led to Gomez being beaten to death by a Mag-Lite flashlight. But the cost to Brammeier will turn out to be infinitely higher than that. According…
Earlier this month, we posted about the ten most walkable Denver neighborhoods according to Walkscore.com. Now we’re going from micro to macro by looking at cities across the entire state — many of which aren’t very walkable at all. Below, see the ten Colorado cities with the site’s lowest walking…
Yesterday, in a post about a Peyton Manning tribute video, I wrote that it was “highly unlikely” that the Broncos would choose a quarterback with their first pick in last night’s NFL Draft since “all the marquee names should be gone by then.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Paxton…
Although it seems like every dispensary in Denver sits on South Broadway, off I-70 or in another slightly rugged area, shops in some of the wealthier neighborhoods actually sell weed, too. Yes, even yuppies need their pot — and believe it or not, the Prius-driving mom of two can re-up…
We recently wrote about a crackdown against illegal marijuana grows in Pueblo, known as one of Colorado’s most pot-friendly cities. Since mid-March, Pueblo law enforcers say they’ve seized 4,600 plants and arrested 22 people, many of them from out of state. Included in that number is Warren Radosti, seen above,…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Brad Weismann spotlights the ten best things about Elitch’s, old and new. Denver Egotist: “Berkeley Supply Is Expanding to Colfax.” The Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins: “Sure, the ‘Police Force’ in Green Mountain Falls Resigned. So What?”…
Tim Gianulis has been inviting kids with special needs into his art classes since he started teaching 25 years ago at Godsman Elementary School in Denver, bringing students from the special-education classroom across the hall into his own room to give their teacher a planning break. Over the years, as…
As we’ve noted, the annual NFL Draft gets underway tonight — and even though your Denver Broncos are highly unlikely to choose a quarterback with their first pick (all the marquee names should be gone by then), their signal-caller situation is dire. The only QBs currently on the squad are…
