Police have arrested two teenagers suspected of a string of burglaries in Park Hill. Nineteen-year-old Zakee Toliver and his unnamed, seventeen-year-old buddy are being held for investigation of burglary. The pair allegedly broke into more than a dozen homes in the neighborhood, going in through open or unlocked doors and…
Chris Bartkowicz, the medical marijuana grower busted by the Drug Enforcement Administration in February after an on-camera interview with 9News, is hoping that a gaffe by the Associated Press isn’t a foretelling of the future…
Yesterday’s announcement from the Denver Police Department was short and very sweet to anyone who’s been following the fallout from the DPD’s handling of the Michael DeHerrera case: “Denver Police to Re-Open Investigation.”…
When the old Colorado judicial center at Broadway and 14th was imploded last Sunday, it left a cloud of dust in the air — and a lingering question from those who remembered that the building’s massive mural by Angelo di Benedetto could not be saved because it was created on…
Dr. Ned Calonge, who’s spent the past eight years serving as Colorado’s chief medical officer, will be leaving at the end of 2010 to take the top post at the Colorado Trust, a health foundation. During his tenure, Calonge has tackled health calamities as varied as anthrax scares, water-contamination crises…
Just in case you thought we were the only blog on the Internet, here are three more posts from today worth your attention: The Mile High Report wraps up this week’s Broncos preseason media coverage, as well as other stores from around the NFL. Noticeably missing is any story on…
The first segment of a massive reconstruction project along the South Broadway Corridor was officially completed today, a four-block stretch from Arizona to Iowa avenues. Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, city council president Chris Nevitt and Denver Department of Public Works manager Bill Vidal were there, as was Westword photographer Johnny…
Denver kids returned to school today. To celebrate, we scoured YouTube for the five best “first day of school” videos. After watching more than a dozen, we came to a stunning conclusion: Teenagers are offensive. It was hard to find a single video without a curse word, offensive taunt or…
As we reported last week (via DenverRadio.net), Mile High Sports radio will be airing Colorado Avalance and Denver Nugget radio broadcasts on AM 950 this season. The game broadcasts will take priority over the station’s regular Cruisin’ Oldies format, likely confusing a handful, if not dozens, of people who listen…
The Wildflower Seed felt like a kid in a candy store when she stopped by Sweetleaf Compassion Center, our latest review of dispensaries. And our online dispensary directory can lead you to the sweets you’ve been craving. Click here to access our newly updated medical-marijuana directory…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our current dispensary list here, and keep reading for…
Students returning to East High School today can look forward to a lesson in community involvement over the next two years, courtesy of Denver’s parks department. By the end of September, the city plans to demolish the former Safeway/Church in the City building — on land connected to East High’s…
Correction: Representative Tom Massey, R – Poncha Springs, was responsible for the “genie in a bottle” quote originally referenced in this blog post — and now deleted. Our apologies. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers was recognized by his peers yesterday for his enforcement of drug laws across the state. Yes,…
Inspired by our own “Top 3 reasons why your bartender hates you” and “8 Reasons why your drug dealer hates you” from our sister paper, LA Weekly, we here at Mile Highs and Lows decided to throw together the entirely Top 5 Reasons Why Your Budtender Hates You…
Now that Dan Maes has rejected Tom Tancredo’s final offer that they both withdraw and let the Republican Party pick a new gubernatorial candidate, the race is really on — and Tancredo has confirmed that he may be looking for a new running mate. The most intriguing name to surface?…
The Denver Police Department has made LoDo safe from the Let Out crowds, as Alan Prendergast’s cover story this week details. The big question now: Who’ll keep the Let Out crowds safe from the Denver police?…
Peter Yesawich, one of the country’s top travel experts, stopped off in Denver yesterday long enough to offer a six-month forecast to a gathering of Visit Denver members. The bad news? Only 35 percent of the people recently polled on “dream destinations” — places in the United States they’ve never…
Denver was the first to fall. Then Chicago. And this December, Kailua, Hawaii, will become the third city to be taken over by communists bent on world domination. That’s when B-cycle — the bike-sharing program that Colorado goober-natorial candidate Dan Maes believes is a front for an unconstitutional effort to…
“Dining Alone,” Laura Shunk, August 12 Whine and Dine I wasn’t sure if I was reading a restaurant review about Rodney’s or was a fly on the wall to Laura Shunk’s pity party about “poor me and my divorced friend.” As a Denver native who has grown up with Rodney’s, the…
The photograph offers a moment frozen in time: Four teenage girls playing dress-up, looking impatiently into the camera. An image nobody would have thought twice about if it hadn’t turned out to be one of the last moments of innocence, before terrible things happened. The photo is hidden away somewhere…
It’s been 48 days since I first wrote about sending in my application to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for my Medical Marijuana Registry card — and still no sign of my new red card. The fact that they haven’t even cashed my check yet leads me…
Mary Pishney, the first-grade teacher whose arguably accurate negative performance evaluation was the subject of a recent Westword feature, will not return to the classroom when school starts again tomorrow. Pishney hasn’t been back to Bromwell Elementary School in Cherry Creek since stress-related health issues caused her to take a…
