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May 10 at 3:58 p.m. by Evan SemonLa Alma Lincoln Park (LALP) is not only one of Denver’s oldest residential neighborhoods, with a rare concentration of homes built before 1890, it was also at the heart of Denver’s Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. This area along Lipan,…
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April 3 at 6:48 a.m. by Evan Semon
Opening Day brought crowds back to lower downtown on April 1 — though not quite the crowds of years past, since capacity at Coors Field is now held to 21,000. The four-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers continues with games on Saturday…
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March 16 at 6:22 p.m. by Evan Semon
If you were coming to Denver from Washington, D.C., wouldn't you visit Maria Empanada? That's where Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, stopped off for a small-business roundtable that marked the Biden administration’s…
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March 14 at 3:06 p.m. by Evan Semon
Although the snow was slow to arrive, by the afternoon of March 14, the Front Range was under a blizzard warning imposed by the National Weather Service, with 20 inches (and counting) having already landed at Denver International Airport, where…
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March 10 at 3:50 p.m. by Jacqueline Collins
Cannabis can make you very creative, as evidenced by the murals on dispensaries around Denver. Take a tour with us.
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January 21 at 10:52 a.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
Hours after the inauguration, protesters met at the Colorado State Capitol to share their demand that President Joe Biden release the hundreds of children separated from their families through the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance policy" on…
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January 10 at 8:47 p.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
Several hundred people — and nearly 100 vehicles adorned with signs like "Impeach Traitor Trump" and "Trump Has Blood on His Hands" — gathered at South High School on January 10 to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump and listen to…
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January 6 at 5:36 p.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Colorado Capitol on January 6 for "We Are the Storm," a protest of the electoral college vote certification slated for the same time in Washington, D.C. — before protesters there stormed the U.S.…
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January 5 at 1:30 p.m. by Westword Staff
The world of marijuana was full of uncertainty, growth and fast times last year, and our photographers were there to capture it. Here are our ten favorite Colorado marijuana photos of 2020.
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December 28 at 10:22 a.m. by Evan Semon
This started off like most years in Colorado, with the traditional Stock Show parade and the Martin Luther King Marade; in February came a parade of presidential candidates. Then COVID changed everything, locking down the state even as…
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December 14 at 11:15 a.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
On November 20, as counties across Colorado moved into Level Red, restaurants in those counties were ordered to close their dining rooms. Most complied; the Lyons Den Restaurant and Taphouse did not. On December 7, the Lyons Board of Trustees…
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November 30 at 4:25 p.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
Before the sun came up on November 30, city workers along with Denver Police Department officers started to sweep a giant homeless encampment running alongside the South Platte River in RiNo. A crowd of protesters heckled the officers and helped…
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November 22 at 2:57 p.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
The Denver branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation organized a rally to demand justice for Elijah McClain on November 21 at the Colorado Capitol — where it overlapped with a Stop the Steal demonstration on behalf of President Donald…
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November 19 at 5:14 a.m. by Evan Semon
While Denver continues to grapple with the city's homelessness challenges — efforts that included a sweep in the 600 block of Sherman Street on November 19 — the Department of Housing Stability installed holiday lights at Sonny Lawson Field in…
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November 9 at 9:25 a.m. by Jacqueline Collins
Denver's cannabis scene got a little hotter on Thursday, November 5, when California-based Cookies made its debut on South Broadway's Green Mile. Founded by cannabis breeders Jigga and Berner, whose original cut of Girl Scout Cookies started one of…
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November 7 at 3:04 p.m. by Evan Semon
Denver joined other U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C., as large crowds flooded the streets to celebrate the election of Joe Biden as 46th president of the United States. The celebrants were on…
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November 3 at 12:29 p.m. by Evan Semon
Record numbers of voters are turning out in Colorado today, from the eastern plains to the Front Range, celebrating their country by waving flags and signs, and voting in record numbers.
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October 20 at 6 a.m. by Jacqueline Collins
The Creswell Mansion at 1244 Grant Street was once part of Denver's Millionaire's Row. But over the last decade, it's gone in a different direction, as attorneys and activists used the space to plot out the future of cannabis in Colorado. Today,…
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October 12 at 2:09 p.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
A crowd of friends, family members, neighbors, church peers and safe-street advocates gathered on October 11 to remember Tim Campbell, killed by a driver who ran a red light at the corner of West Colfax and Irving while he was headed to the…
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October 10 at 6:55 p.m. by Michael Emery Hecker
Two protests in Civic Center Park — the Patriot Muster and a BLM/Antifa counter-protest set up as a soup drive —- were both winding down on Saturday, October 10, when a shot rang out and a man went down. He was pronounced dead at Denver Health; the…
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