We’re so accustomed to Denver landing on positive lists — just last month, U.S. News & World Report named the Mile High City the best place to live in the country — that when our home registers poorly, it comes across as a shock. That’s certainly the case with the…
Grant Neal was a standout wrestler and football player for Regis Jesuit High School who subsequently accepted an athletic scholarship at Colorado State University-Pueblo with a goal of earning a medical degree. But his dreams were derailed following his indefinite suspension for a sexual encounter with a female athletic trainer…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that it will not file charges in a fatal shooting at the Denver Coliseum earlier this year that killed a member of the Mongols, a prominent motorcycle club, stating that a successful prosecution would be impossible due to a credible claim of self-defense…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has never been a fan of marijuana legalization in the state. The CDPHE has consistently adopted a downbeat philosophy when it comes to the impact of legal pot, with a February 2015 report standing is a perfect example. That document focused on pot-is-awful…
Our item about the postponement of the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, which was set to feature appearances by Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne, proved to be a conversation starter. As we noted, plenty of folks who shared their thoughts on the rally’s Facebook page were upset by the decision…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Teague Bohlen reveals the eight things that make residents of Aurora very, very mad. Colorado Pols lists fundraising winners and losers among candidates in the state. Mile High Report’s Tim Lynch tracks fans’ negative views about the Broncos potentially signing quarterback Brian Hoyer…
Editor’s note: Last week, we reported about the resignation of newly appointed Denver school board member MiDian Holmes after revelations surfaced about a past child-abuse conviction. The following report about a meeting last night to deal with the vacancy was written by former Westword reporter Melanie Asmar and appears courtesy of Chalkbeat…
Matt Batrowny and his brother, Brian, were early supporters of Bernie Sanders. One day last summer, shortly after the senator from Vermont announced that he was running for president, recalls Matt, “We were walking down the street with a couple of buddies, and we had Bernie T-shirts on. A lot…
Search the indispensable Internet Movie Data Base for the word “Colorado” and you’ll get a list of top titles from movies or TV series. Sometimes the connections to Colorado are obvious, as is the case with South Park, which made the cut — but isn’t number one. On other occasions, however,…
There’s plenty of aggression evident on Joshua Owings’s Facebook page. Mixed in with photos of a child who appears to have been at the center of a custody dispute are images like the one above and plenty of in-your-face text, including Owings’s 2014 claim to have graduated from a college…
Most burglaries are committed with a motive of stealing things. But that apparently wasn’t the case when it came to a home in Jefferson County. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the burglars who broke into a residence on the 8700 block of South Jellison Court sometime between April…
At first, the cause of death for Oklahoma’s Joshua Foster and Zach Moore in northern Colorado last year appeared to be a vehicle fire. But further investigation suggested that they’d been murdered, with the fire presumably set to cover up evidence of the crime. And now, months after their passing,…
Our readers had a lot to say about the fatal police shooting of Dion Damon, a bank robbery suspect who wasn’t armed when an officer fired seven shots into his body near the Denver Art Museum earlier this week. The cop maintains that Damon ignored orders to leave his car with…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Art Tavana notes that Guns N’ Roses gave Coachella its most epic rock set ever. According to Colorado Pols, the Trumpmageddon protest fizzled. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Dravitz continues the countdown to the opening of RTD’s A-Line operation…
Last week the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations voted in favor of an amendment to a federal funding bill that would allow Veterans Affairs doctors to discuss and recommend medical marijuana to veterans in states where MMJ is legal. Approved 20-10, the bipartisan Veterans Equal Access Amendment to the 2017…
Although not quite as popular as the 4/20 concerts and rallies this week, a Denver City Council committee could begin this month’s biggest change in Denver’s marijuana industry today when it votes on the city’s long-discussed proposal to set a limit on retail marijuana businesses. The bill’s sponsor, Councilwoman Robin Kniech,…
On the day after Christmas in 2011, as we reported, father-of-five Youn Malual was murdered in an incident that shattered the local Sudanese community. More than four years later, Brandon Jackson — the first of five men thought to have been responsible for the slaying — has been found guilty…
At this writing, we’re ten days away from the April 28 start of the 2016 NFL draft, and the Denver Broncos’ quarterback situation remains unresolved. With Peyton Manning’s retirement and the mutiny of Brock Osweiler, who signed a big-money deal with the Houston Texans, the most senior signal-caller on the…
We recently re-shared a 2013 post highlighting Denver’s five most walkable neighborhoods. Afterward, we checked Walkscore.com, our source for the information, to see if any of the site’s rankings had changed — and they had. In the nearly three years since the original item’s publication, two new neighborhoods entered the…
Put your Gatorade on ice and throw those eyedrops in the trash: 4/20 is almost here. Unfortunately for you chumps with day jobs, the high holiday doesn’t officially start until Wednesday – but you’re also the crowd that actually has money to spend, so there’s plenty of cannabis action to…
A lot of frustration was generated by our post about a bill that would require schools to allow authorized patients access to medical marijuana. One big reason was the story of Addelyn Patrick, a three-year-old with epilepsy. Even though MMJ has proven to be the most effective treatment for her…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Jon Solomon reports that the Monkey Barrel is closing its Platte Street location, but it will open in a new spot this summer — hopefully in a place with room for iconic murals like the ones seen above. Coyote Gulch shares a Kim…
