Dear Oakland Raiders, Thank you for giving us a reason to hate you again. Life has been a little boring in Denver without the evil scourge that you bring upon football. For many years now, you have been just a pathetic shell of your former selves. Your players rarely got…
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…
The Highlands Mommies, the northwest Denver neighborhood group profiled by Melanie Asmer in the most recent Westword cover story, have inspired raves and rants, including this one from Gringo Whiteycracker: Isn’t this how the crips and bloods got started ? will we soon see mommies doing drive bys tossing dirty…
Before his first NFL start, in yesterday’s game with the Oakland Raiders, quarterback Tim Tebow tweeted “Psalms 23:4.” The popular passage reads: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they…
Yes, as you may have noticed, we have a new commenting platform here on Westword.com. Disqus is the application we’ve installed across all four of our blogs. Here’s a handy rundown of what to expect next time your want to leave a comment…
Last week, Representative Claire Levy talked about introducing legislation to establish standards for driving under the influence of marijuana. Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers’ Robert Chase, a well-known local marijuana advocate, opposes this notion, and in a letter to Levy and other members of the general assembly, he explains…
The Highlands Mommies is an exclusive group. In order to be accepted into what some say is northwest Denver’s most powerful organization, you must live within certain boundaries. As described in this week’s cover story, “The Mommies,” the group accepts mommies (and less frequently, daddies) who live west of Interstate…
In October, we profiled the Boulder start-up Next Big Sound, which seemed poised to shake the struggling music industry by using social media sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter to discover break-out bands. Now that Billboard has unveiled its new “Social 50” chart powered by Next Big Sound analytics, these…
Look under your tree! It’s three Denver blog posts! Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton thinks the Nuggets should call last night’s loss to the Spurs a win, given that Carmelo Anthony’s game-winning shot was waved off due to a Manu Ginobli flop. Denver Egotist: Sean Leman learned some stuff this year,…
Update: There’s been another arrest in the horrific slaying of Alicia Martinez, whose corpse was dismembered and abused after she was shot to death in October. Francesca Pagliasotti has been charged with helping accused killer Edward Thomas Romero cover up this gruesome crime. Below, find the latest from the Denver…
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…
Talk about a nightmare scenario for the Aurora Police Department. Not only has one of their own, Sergeant Morgan Sellman, been busted for child pornography, but his most recent assignment has been as the DARE program coordinator. Fortunately, Sellman’s DARE duties haven’t included regular visits to the classroom since 2001…
With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado’s governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we’re offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Carol Boigon. “I’m a person who never gives up,” says…
Thousands and thousands of U.S. military personnel are spending the holidays far away from their families, many of them in hostile territory. They are there to serve and protect their homeland, the country where they were born. But one soldier — now a former soldier — will spend the holidays…
Although the illustration above looks a lot like me showing off the big muscle of my cartooning arm, it is actually a detail of my comic contribution to the Harvey Pekar tribute on the Scholars and Rogues website…..
The election may be over, but the political pissing match between Colorado Ethics Watch and Clear the Bench Colorado continues. The latest? An administrative law judge has ruled that CEW must pay CTBC around $13,000 in legal fees related to a complaint determined to have been filed prematurely — even…
Back in October, Amber Taufen wrote about bizarre “Eric Corff… What a DoucheBag” stickers that began showing up in Telluride a year or more ago. Now, thanks to a reader, we’ve got word of another sighting on the West Coast — plus a video from halfway across the continent!…
Thousands of local Broncos fans aren’t alone in hoping that Tim Tebow gets the start in Sunday’s game versus the Oakland Raiders in the Black Hole. A survey of ESPN SportsNation viewers showed that 68 percent of them want Tebow under center from the get-go — a big jump from…
Our post yesterday about KHOW’s Peter Boyles dominating Denver morning radio featured ratings data that told plenty of other interesting stories. Among them: KCFR, the news channel of Colorado Public Radio, kicked the ass of KOA, long the city’s commercial news leader, in most major demographic categories. (See the graphics…
Our Thursday preview of this weekend’s massive KushConII event found spokeswoman Chery Shuman focusing on the gathering’s seriousness. To that end, SAFER’s Mason Tvert is using KushConII as a platform from which to launch his approach to 2012 pot legalization. Look below to get more info on that, as well…
Update: Yesterday, we filled you in about RTD’s decision to build a Gold Line station in Adams County on the originally approved east-side-of-Federal location rather than a west side plot favored by a Louisiana developer. After the publication of that item, we heard from Concerned Citizens for Compatible Development’s Kim…
Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared the top 2010 mug shots of women, arrestees with face-and-neck tattoos and bad hair, plus busted teachers and caretakers, as well as celebrities and notables. But today, we offer the whole lollapalooza — our monster batch of the 120 most memorable mug shots…
