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It was a busy weekend for Westword.com. Hope yours was relaxing though. Here is a round-up of our weekend coverage…

Among the dozens of booths at Kush Con II over the weekend at the Colorado Convention Center, it was easy to spot the common items — glass pieces, 420 T-shirts and the like — but new ways to make money off the burgeoning marijuana industry here have cropped up, too…

MapQuest, the AOL-owned online mapping service with strong Denver ties, has unveiled a new site that’s supposed to encourage users to contribute data and correct errors in its maps — a kind of cartographic Wikipedia, or what MQ is calling a “neighborhood watch” concept. It’s a great idea — if…

The uproar over the forthcoming billion-dollar makeover at Denver International Airport, including a new hotel and train station, has focused largely on the price tag and the potential hike in air fares that the ambitious expansion might trigger. But the operator of one of the oldest concessions at DIA says…

Yesterday, 300 local fifth- and sixth-graders showed up at the Manual High School gym, nominated by their teachers to be part of an event dubbed “Arches of Hope.” After listening to a lineup of speakers, the kids rode home on brand-new Huffy bicycles. In addition, ten high school seniors left…

Update: Moments ago, Kevin Flynn, public information manager for RTD, shared his thoughts about the debate over where a Gold Line commuter rail station in Adams County should be located — on the east side of Federal Boulevard, where it was previously set, or on the west side, near a…

Last month, the Sleeper house — the Colorado mountain home made famous by Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper — sold at auction for the bargain basement price of $1.53 million. And it could well be on the market again soon, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, a website that places the Sleeper house…

Now that Denver Broncos management has given Josh McDaniels the heave-ho, the orange hordes are laying odds on the chances of the team’s most celebrated quarterback returning to the team as head coach. John Elway, back with the team? It’s a tempting prospect. But first you’ll have to pry him…

Clumsy, caffeine-crazed travelers who love carry-on luggage, rejoice. A Denver psychiatric nurse named Karen Porte has solved all of your problems. Porte is the inventor of the tugo, “a cup holder that keeps your drink suspended between the upright handles of your rolling bag,” according to the tugo website. So…

Denver, it’s time for your extreme urban makeover, courtesy of the city’s dean of development, Ken Schroeppel. Schroeppel has long been chronicling Denver’s shifting downtown on his website and blog DenverInfill.com, and now he’s gone one step further with the launch DenverUrbanism.com — an exploration of local city-building in general…

The UFO Watchtower in Hooper (part of Westword’s weird and wonderful Summer Guide from 2009) is many things: fascinating and disappointing, endearing and strange. There isn’t much there — just a metal platform, a giftshop and the crazy garden that Kirk Johnson talks about in his New York Times article…

Phil Anschutz, labeled “one of the most secretive moguls in America” by Forbes, nevertheless was the focus of a major profile in the business magazine recently — even if the author never got to interview Anschutz himself…

From the Kenny Be vault. Originally published on November 18, 2004. The U.S. Department of Energy’s refusal to provide funds for a Cold War museum at Rocky Flats is a true blessing. What is needed at the site is a tourist-friendly attraction that is completely funded by corporate dollars…..

Yesterday, the Sleeper house — the Colorado mountain home made famous by Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper — sold at auction for $1.53 million — less than half of the $3.43 million Michael Dunahay paid for it four years ago. But if it hasn’t held its value, it remains an…

For months commentators have been engaged in a coded whisper campaign about Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen’s health and diminished role in the organization. As the 2-6 team staggers into a bye week amid raging concerns about its leadership, talk about Bowlen’s admitted “short-term memory loss problems” and low profile…

Executives have had to do a lot of crappy jobs on the CBS reality series Undercover Boss. But on last night’s episode, Frontier Airlines CEO Bryan Bedford may have set a new standard — by risking a literal shit shower while off-loading what an employee refers to as a “lotta…

Congratulations, CU professor Richard Wobbekind. You’re president-elect of the National Association for Business Economics, whose annual meeting wraps up at Denver’s Grand Hyatt Hotel today — so you get to tell America that the ballyhooed economic recovery ain’t happening anytime soon. Look below for a synopsis of NABE’s mostly grim…

Lindsay Lohan blamed at least one positive alcohol reading on glitch in an ankle device tracked by Littleton’s Alcohol Monitoring Systems — something that turned out not to be true. But another Colorado monitoring firm, BI Incorporated, admits to a recent problem earlier this week with a system keeping tabs…

A Frontier Airlines statement about Southwest’s bid to acquire AirTran didn’t include any reference to Denver. But Daniel Shurz, Frontier’s vice president of strategy and planning, stresses that the Mile High City’s very much in the forefront of the carrier’s plans. “Denver is 76, 77 percent of the Frontier network…

It is probably safe to say the jobs that were lost during America’s Great Recession will never come back, each a casualty of an unsustainable economic system. All new jobs will be created as society transforms into a sustainable future. Attend the October 2, 2010, Inaugural Denver Chicken Coop Tour…

I contacted Frontier spokeswoman Lindsey Purves at 6:17 a.m. yesterday for a comment about Southwest Airlines’ acquisition of AirTran and what it might mean for what’s still portrayed as Denver’s hometown airline. But the statement Purves came up with nearly nine hours later doesn’t even mention Denver…

The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working to upgrade the quality and quantity of the sometimes sketchy vendors and carts on the 16th Street Mall, but its flashiest new pick-up to date just packed up and left. The NewsCube, which opened at the end of August to glowing praise from…