Emily Griffith would give this project an incomplete. The legendary educator founded the Opportunity School in Denver a century ago, opening a ground-breaking program that was geared to giving an education to anyone in the city — no matter where they were from, no matter what their background. The free…
We come to praise Frontier Airlines, not to bury it — and that’s a change over the past year or so. Last May, for instance, we posted about the airlines with the least and most consumer complaints according to the Air Travel Consumer Report, a document published semi-annually by the…
On an unseasonably warm winter afternoon, Tom Rutter sits on the patio at Bogey’s on the Park, the clubhouse restaurant at Denver’s City Park Golf Course. The regulars are out on the yellowed fairways or tipping back beers inside, but Rutter is elbow-deep in maps, notes, planning documents and iced…
What goes up, must come down. But must it stay down? Frequent fliers who use the C Concourse have been wondering if one pair of escalators leading from the trains to the concourse would ever be up and running again; crews have been working on them since last fall, ripping…
There are only seven marijuana dispensaries in Aspen. But they are presumably as busy as liquor stores in the community — and sometimes more so. According to newly released City of Aspen statistics, alcohol sales exceeded marijuana sales in the community in 2015. But during two months of the year…
The words “car-free living” in green letters figure prominently on a brochure advertising a micro-apartment complex planned for the Five Points neighborhood. Under Denver’s current zoning code, the developer may not need to provide parking for any of the complex’s 56 units. So will the parking-hungry area just have to…
The high rent prices in Denver have led to a rental development boom. According to a new study by Rent Cafe, the largest rental projects in metro Denver in 2015 added a staggering 3,300 new units of inventory. Indeed, the top property on the following list is responsible for 390 units…
This week’s cover story, “Idea Man,” deals with University of Colorado Denver undergrad Caleb Carr’s quest to help other student inventors control the rights to scientific discoveries and other intellectual property they may develop while still in school. Carr believes that university policies that assign most (and sometimes all) of…
Marijuana legalization has been in full motion for a while now, and dispensaries are finally starting to gather and comprehend retail data like other big-money industries. Cannabis industry data collection firm BDS Analytics recently released its first study on Colorado and Washington marijuana dispensaries, surveying the purchase rates of marijuana…
The Federal Highway Administration’s national bridge inventory data is out for 2015, and the news isn’t good for Colorado — and neither has it improved much since 2014, when we last updated you on the looming infrastructure crisis in Denver. According to stats shared by the American Road & Transportation…
Love and real estate don’t necessarily go together. But when they do, what are the best places in America to find them? According to a new study by Realtor.com, the following cities — including Denver. The top ten made the grade based on several factors, including 20-50 percent more single-owned…
At first the problem seemed like a mechanical issue. A piece of machinery failed to operate properly. A rescue mission had to be aborted. Someone died. Caleb Carr was there when it happened, a wide-eyed, fifteen-year-old member of the Explorers, a volunteer group in Oregon that assisted the Multnomah County…
Earlier this month, we told you about the latest acquisition by Nuggets and Avalanche owner Stan Kroenke — the W.T. Waggoner Estate Ranch in Texas. The largest ranch within one fence in the country, the Waggonner measures at 800 square miles — a size that, as we noted, is larger…
In the days after your Denver Broncos won Super Bowl 50, the Sports Authority Sports Castle, at 10th and Broadway, was absolutely mobbed with fans being keepsakes and collectibles. We know — because the Sports Castle is across the street from Westword’s offices. But just over a week later comes…
After leading the Denver Broncos to victory in Super Bowl 50, Peyton Manning should have been able to rest on his laurels in advance of a retirement announcement that would bring to an end one of the greatest careers in NFL history. Instead, a scandal over a 1996 incident with…
Facebook has been shutting down the pages of marijuana businesses around the country recently, and Colorado’s cannabis outfits are no exception. Earlier this month High Times reported that three of New Jersey’s five state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries found their Facebook pages deleted, and the shutdowns quickly spread to other legal marijuana states,…
Sometimes it seems that fares at Denver International Airport will climb as high as the planes that regularly depart from the facility. But now is not one of those times. New figures from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department) reveals the best average fares at…
Tonight, the Emily Griffith Foundation will host what it’s calling the Party of the Century in honor of legendary educator Emily Griffith, who founded Denver’s Opportunity School in 1916. That school is still going strong, offering an array of high-school and continuing-education courses that dwarf the three classes Griffith offered…
Rich Wyatt’s reversal of fortune has taken place in slow motion. Five years ago, he was a reality TV star thanks to American Guns, a popular Discovery Channel program that showcased him, his telegenic family and his business, Gunsmoke Guns in Wheat Ridge. But American Guns was canceled in December 2012,…
Want to make some extra cash and get better cell service? Maybe one of your favorite cell providers can install a tower in your back yard — just what the Kirk of Bonnie Brae church, at 1201 South Steele Street, is considering, much to the dismay of many Cory-Merrill neighborhood residents. Marti…
Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and lots of other stuff, clearly has a thing for ranches. Until recently, he reportedly owned eleven of them in Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and British Columbia. Now, make it a dozen — and number twelve is a whopper. The W.T. Waggoner…
The only remaining plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a high-rise development across the street from Sloan’s Lake have withdrawn from the case — a move that a frustrated neighborhood group claims is the result of “improper influence” on the part of the developer, which allegedly offered to buy the plaintiffs’…
