Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony took his two-year-old son, Kiyan, to get up-close-and-personal with some wild beasts at the Denver Zoo last month, prompting his fiance, former MTV VJ La La Vasquez, to wonder if Melo was having a Michael-Jackson-dangling-Blanket-off-the-balcony moment…
It’s an NSFW world out there, and while the City of Mile Highness is no New York or SF when it comes to going shirt- or pantless, things do occasionally get a little saucy around these parts. Here, the most popular NSFW selections from westword.com in 2009…
Attention literary scofflaws, Anne of Green Gables hoarders and people-who-lose-shit-in-the-backseats-of-their cars! The Denver Public Library is out to teach you a lesson in 2010, and the lesson goes a little something like this: Borrowing library books is a privilege, not a right — and if you eff with that privilege,…
Today’s featured Twit is Elisabeth Rappe, a local film blogger who writes for Cinematical. Rappe caught our eye on Twitter (where she can be found as @ElisabethRappe) because she is one of the rare members of that fabled species, the Geek Girl. In other words, she blogs (and tweets) about…
One of the biggest stumbling blocks with the local medical marijuana industry is the lack of quality control. Other than taking a dispensary worker’s word for it, it’s impossible to know just how powerful is that sample of OG Kush is — or, for that matter, if it really is…
A string of lights turns a folded deck umbrella into a festive holiday deck-o-ration…..
It’s the time of the decade when we look back at the events that stood out from the more typical sound and fury of life in general. But a simple list of incidents doesn’t reveal nearly as much about these happenings than do reports from the time when they were…
Interesting tidbit in the Post business section this morning about how local developer David Engleberg has decided to take a break from the real estate business by taking over a Denver cigar shop. But according to Penny Parker, the “former owner of the Capitol Cigar at 919 E. Colfax Ave…
It’s about damn time this year ended. But before it does, we’re taking a look back at your favorite stories of 2009. Here, the ten most popular Westword cover stories of the year…
Most people just go along to get along. But every once in a while a hellacious disagreement — about principle, turf, money, or who cut the cheese — makes for an old-fashioned Western display of rootin’-tootin’ feudin’ and cussedness. The most memorable Colorado showdowns of the past ten years involved…
Meet Guido. He is quite possibly the luckiest dog in all of Adams County — because of all the costly and peculiar gifts people lavish on their pets this time of year, Guido got the best one of all. A pacemaker…
May your days be merry and bright and way less awkward than this…
December is a difficult month for the real estate industry. Sales are way down, and an agent loses the ability to find food at open house events. To assist the saleless, the Food Bank for Destitute Realtors needs the following items…..
We’re still shell-shocked by yesterday’s Broncos game against the Raiders, but not because the Broncos lost. No, we’re dealing with the PTSD from seeing Raiders player Tommy Kelly’s color-coordinated job strap (above). I’m guessing the shock may have had something to do with why the Orange and Blue lost as…
Who knew? Several Colorado universities feature gun-storage lockers for students who want to bare arms but can’t keep their arsenal on their hip or in their dorm room. From today’s Denver Post: On any given day, there may be up to 50 rifles with scopes, shotguns, handguns and long knives…
Christmas came early for fans of local music. On Friday, 93.3’s Hometown for the Holidays took over Andrew’s Pub, with The Heyday, Epilogues and Churchill. On Saturday, 3OH!3, Meese, Photo Atlas and the Pirate Signal filled up the Fillmore. See photos of it all on the slideshow page…
It’s a good time to be a Colorado sports fan, with the Nuggets, Rocks and Avs contending, and the Broncos — at least until yesterday — surprising skeptics. But there have been some low moments for local athletes and teams this decade, not to mention one local scandal that starred…
It’s about damn time this year ended. But before it does, we’re taking a look back at your favorite stories of 2009. Here, the ten most popular Latest Word stories of 2009…
Gawker spotted this amusing nugget in a story in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday: At Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., one writer was even busted stealing his own books. Christopher Ohman, who was a manager at the time, said: “I think he felt somewhat entitled to…
If Colorado dispensaries seem a little empty tomorrow, that’s because anyone who’s anyone in the business will likely be at the University of Denver, where Sensible Colorado, a drug-reform advocacy group, will be holding a stakeholder’s meeting from 1 to 4 p.m. at DU’s Student Forum, 2255 East Evans Avenue,…
Corrections officers aren’t supposed to brutalize the inmates in their custody, but they’re not encouraged to be too fond of them, either. The system frowns on “inappropriate relationships” between staff and prisoners — and such dangerous sexual liaisons tend to lead to explosive scandals, like this one and this one…
We’ve chronicled the story of disgraced One Lincoln Park developer Erik Osborn, who was accused of stealing from partners such as “Dealing Doug” Moreland and talk-show host Tom “Lou from Littleton” Manoogian, in a May feature article and a series of blogs accessible here. The latest development? Osborn has been…
