In response to the befuddling recall of nine million vehicles by motor behemoth Toyota — don’t worry, it’s just brake failure, or is it the floor mats? — Lakewood’s Ryan Scharrel is punching the gas on a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer whose brand was built on reliability. According…
The latest addition to our roster of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — William Breathes’s critique of Delta 9 Alternative Medicine (formerly Delta 9 Caretakers). And if his take makes you hungry for more information, sample Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. Your fine dining experience begins by clicking here…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
In early January, right after Douglass Singleton was shot and killed, the Denver Police Department characterized the slaying as a medical marijuana transaction gone awry — leading to speculation that the weed element was being trumped up for demonization purposes without adequate proof. The Denver District Attorney’s Office hasn’t played…
To sell their anti-abortion pro-(one)-choice message, Focus on the Family will have to follow one of these three successful Super Bowl commercial formulas… See two more options below!…
For much of the past year, contract negotiations at Colorado King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons stores have dragged on amid an atmosphere riper than an unrefrigerated meat section. But at last, a peaceful solution seems near. Last week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 and Albertsons reached an…
Around this time last week, we were ranting about the moronic decision by NBA coaches not to name the Nuggets’ Chauncey Billups to the All-Star team. Fortunately, that wrong has been righted. Billups was added to the unit by commissioner David Stern as a replacement for the injured Chris Paul…
Yesterday, we offered a sneak preview of a medical marijuana ballot initiative assembled by the advocacy group Sensible Colorado. That amendment will be formally made public by Sensible Colorado executive director Brian Vicente during an 11 a.m. press event on the west steps of the Capitol. But even as Vicente…
Activists rightly tout the ability of the disabled to do just about anything. But don’t expect them to use Steven Clark as a poster boy. Clark, 33, who uses a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy, has been hit with several charges related to sexual abuse on a child — the…
Englewood’s own DISH Network has launched a passionate, if long-shot, effort to stop the blockbuster merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. This morning, in letters addressed to U.S. reps Rick Boucher and Cliff Stearns, as well as to senators Herb Kohl and Orrin Hatch, DISH executive vice president and general…
Tuesday’s episode of American Idol spotlighted Denver, giving the rest of the country an opportunity to check out Haeley Vaughn, Colorado’s great Idol hope, not to mention Ty Hemmerling, the shapely contestant known as Bikini Boy. But last night’s compendium of the audition rounds featured some additional Denver moments –…
Justin Carter sits in a shabby South Broadway bar, drinking a Budweiser. He knows he’s got to be careful with the booze; not too long ago, he was in jail for drunk driving. Still, he’s not too worried about it tonight. Soon he’ll start his night shift as the bar’s…
It’s easy to get into trouble on Facebook: Post a picture of yourself with a margarita in one hand and a beer in the other, and you might lose that promotion; change your status from “in a relationship” to “it’s complicated,” and you might lose that significant other; friend your…
“Get on Board,” Colin Bane, January 28 CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD Awesome! Colin Bane’s article reminded me of the surf-culture articles I read in the popular publications out here. Mandy Meng San Diego, California I wanted to share my positive comments on the Never Summer snowboards article. It really grabbed…
What are you going to do, shoot me?” It was around ten o’clock at night when Edward Lynch heard the strange shouting. He went to the utility room at the back of his house to investigate and saw a man standing in his neighbor’s yard, yelling into the night. Much…
One Colorado, a new statewide gay-rights organization that’s actually an umbrella for a trio of organizations including an advocacy group, a non-profit education group and a political action committee, is attempting to use 53 questions, in the form of a survey, to answer one: What is it like to be…
Thomas Bader, a Colorado Springs pharmacist, was found guilty today of 31 counts related to importing and distributing anabolic steroids and Chinese human growth hormones. Twenty-three of those counts were for distributing the juice to minors. Bader told physicians his illegal drugs were not subject to FDA approval due to…
State Senator Chris Romer (D-Buzz Kill Central) and Representative Tom Massey (R-Hiding in the Capitol Somewhere) teamed up today to introduce the latest attempt to reign in Colorado’s medical marijuana industry, a bill the lawmakers say would protect patients’ access to marijuana while forcing providers to be licensed by the…
On January 13, Colorado Ethics Watch, which recently shared its list of the top five ethics scandals of 2009, made a bid to kick off its 2010 roster. The organization filed a complaint against Representative Steve King to determine if money he got from the state to cover travel expenses…
“Iraq veteran Nic Gray talks to Westword about the night he can’t remember.”This week’s cover story relates the tale of how Nic Gray, an Iraq war veteran, got caught up in the criminal justice system and eventually landed in an innovative new program called the El Paso County veterans treatment…
In recent days, we’ve reported about a Focus on the Family ad starring Tim Tebow and his mom that’s set to air during the Super Bowl, noting the controversy over its presumed anti-abortion message and FOTF spokesman Gary Schneeberger’s assertion that the commercial isn’t anti-anything. But whereas CBS gave its…
Behold: three blogs written about Denver stuff today. T.J. Johnson at Mile High Report crunches the numbers pertaining to Tony Scheffler, Brandon Marshall and Elvis Dumervil — all players the Broncos might lose this off-season. His conclusion? “Letting go of Scheffler is bearable. Letting go of Marshall is not preferable…
