Guerilla Garden artist goes ape when Gangland tags his art

The first sign that something was funny? People kept coming up to Jolt — real name Jeremy Silas Ulibarri — at First Friday, telling the urban artist that they’d seen his work on the History Channel earlier that evening, that his Guerilla Garden logo, a stylized graffiti gorilla, had been…

A former gangbanger says he was “naive” to trust Gangland

More than anything, I’m mad at myself,” admits Francisco Gallardo, program director of Denver’s Gang Rescue and Support Project, one of the key players in the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver and a willing participant in “Mile High Killers” — until he actually saw that episode of Gangland. “Nothing but…

Medical marijuana talk is smoking hot

“What is the ‘medical’ in medical marijuana?” asks MyColfax.org. “There’s been a lot of talk about dispensaries and medical marijuana as of late. And because there are very strong feelings on all sides of this issue, not all of the information has been accurate or helpful.” And a lot of…

John Hickenlooper rides into the Pinon Canyon controversy

So many St. Patrick’s Day parades, so little time. Gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, decked out in a shamrock-green blazer, had to zoom from Denver’s shamrock celebration to the Pueblo Democratic Party’s St. Patrick Day’s fundraiser. And there, he weighed in on one of Scott McInnis’s pet projects: the proposed expansion…

Rocky Flats judgment appealed while plaintiffs wait… and wait

Plutonium lasts forever, and so do legal cases involving Rocky Flats. Yesterday, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges Stephen Anderson, Jerome Holmes and Michael Murphy heard arguments in the appeal of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant class-action lawsuit — filed by neighbors of the facility back in 1990,…

Rocky Flats plutonium a hot topic at State Capitol

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it — and maybe inhale it, too. Before he became a state representative, rancher Wes McKinley was the foreman of the Rocky Flats grand jury, empaneled in 1989 to consider allegations of environmental crimes at the former nuclear weapons plant. So…

Denver International Airport: Bastard or brainchild?

The Visit Denver Hall of Fame dinner on March 4 served up a few ironic moments alongside the beef entree. There was John Hickenlooper, praising inductee Pat Bowlen — when the start of Hickenlooper’s political career has been tagged to his campaign against selling the naming rights of the new…

Tiger Woods, saved by Chipotle?

“Is Tiger out of the Woods?” asks the headline of the March 5 Entertainment Weekly story (which is only in print, not on-line) that deals with whether the adulterous athlete’s public apology will help repair his image. Among those interviewed is CNBC sports/business reporter Darren Rovell, who offers this: “The…

Trail Dust building about to bite the dust

It was the Casa Bonita of bad steakhouses, a place where they’d cut off your tie if you dared to wear one into the place, and cut off your arteries with fatty meat and butter-laden spuds. It was the Trail Dust Steak House, and Denver was once lucky enough to…

Pot protesters pick the wrong target, Denver officials say

I was on the phone with a city official late Monday, and could hear the protest outside City Hall, organized by Robert Chase, founder of the Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers, who’s asking for a recall of the Denver City Council members who voted for the ordinance regulating medical…

Flour power: Want to save on sales tax? Buy a Kit Kat

Keep chomping on your candy bar! Although several Colorado sales tax exemptions have been removed effective today, including “nonessential items related to sales of food and beverages” (i.e., to-go containers), materials used in direct mail advertising and standardized computer software, candy and soft drinks — and fans of these unhealthy…

Medical marijuana dispensaries have two days to become legal

Medical marijuana dispensaries face a looming deadline in Denver. On Monday, March 1, any dispensary that hasn’t applied for a medical marijuana dispensary license must “cease operations,” according to an announcement sent by the city yesterday. Cease operations, or what? The release doesn’t say, but it does reveal that by…