A chain restaurant in a bedroom community is among the unlikelier locations for a fatal shooting. But that’s what happened at the Pizza Ranch outlet in Loveland last night. A man who allegedly grabbed a patron at the restaurant was shot dead by a Loveland police officer. And it all…
The days of federal marijuana arrests are not over in Colorado. Alfonso Rodriguez-Vazquez and Nestor Fabian Sinaloa-Sinaloa, both Mexican nationals, found that out the hard way. They were busted in relation to a big pot grow in Routt National Forest. However, the announcement about the case from the U.S. Attorney’s…
Our post about the latest stabbing near the 16th Street Mall focused on safety concerns in the area. That’s especially true given an incident that preceded the most recent crime: the beating of a couple dining outside a restaurant on the mall, reportedly by a group of teens upset about being…
Denver blog posts note comings and goings. Our Food & Drink crew’s restaurant roll call for August lists eight eateries that gave up the ghost and 21 new arrivals, not counting re-openings. Colorado Peak Politics isn’t exactly leading the campaign on behalf of Jefferson County School Board hopeful Paula Noonan. Denver…
Larry Stevenson certainly had plenty of connections. A former Denver police officer turned high-profile employee for the city’s Excise and License department, Stevenson was a personal friend of Denver mayor Michael Hancock, even serving as best man at his wedding. In addition, he created an anti-crime system known as Transportation on…
Over the years, we’ve written about a number of tragedies that occurred after parents left young children unsupervised in a bathtub. Take the 2011 case of Fort Lupton’s Shannon Johnson, whose one-year-old son drowned while she was playing Cafe World on Facebook. Within months, Johnson was sentenced to ten years behind…
Last week, after we shared our latest “You Know You’re From Denver When” punchlines, we asked readers to share their favorite way of completing that sentence. One person, Matt Morava, went above and beyond the call, submitting an entire top ten list — one that we shared in the days that…
While medical marijuana patients talk up the health benefits of MMJ, anti-pot activists insist that cannabis actually impairs brain function, among other things. For a laundry list of why marijuana is bad for you, see this Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment report from earlier this year. Turns out,…
A recent Comment of the Day post in which a reader argued that too many Coloradans display out-of-state hate revved up even more conversation. Many of the remarks came from people born elsewhere. According to them, an antipathy for folks who don’t have roots in the state is stronger here than…
Denver blog posts investigate the sour as well as the sweet. At our Food & Drink blog, Gretchen Kurtz explores Denver’s love of sour beer with Avery Brewing Company reps. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton shares his picks for the best dunkers in Denver Nuggets history. Colorado Pols gets both medical…
A few months back, we posted about the setting of the September 16 marijuana tax holiday, which some ganjapreneurs see as potentially becoming the second 4/20 of 2015. In the context of that piece, we also provided info about House Bill 15-1367, an effort by the State of Colorado to hang on…
Early this month, we reported about a couple attacked on the 16th Street Mall for complaining about littering, as well as complaints about a fourteen-minute delay in police response to the incident, which is said to have involved somewhere between ten and twenty teens. The couple was badly beaten and…
Last month, we published “How Much You Need to Make to Have an Adequate Standard of Living in Denver.” The post used number complied by the Economic Policy Institute — and there’s a lot more data about Colorado available. EPI’s website includes a tool dubbed the Family Budget Calculator, which “measures the income a…
Another summer weekend, more reports of gun violence. The good news: No one died in two weekend shootings in Denver — at least not yet. One person was critically injured. The bad news: No suspects have been apprehended in either case — and one of the incidents took place very…
PT’s Showclub, at 1601 West Evans Avenue, is a historic venue — the former home of The Family Dog, a rock-and-roll venue that played host to late ’60s-early ’70s legends such as the Doors and the Grateful Dead before being transformed into one of the city’s longest lasting exotic-dancing joints…
We recently posted about a report suggesting that the profusion of marijuana grows in Denver has created a warehouse-space shortage for other types of businesses. Another apparent side effect: rapidly rising rent costs. Readers had a wide variety of opinions about this development, with one of the most memorable suggesting that…
Denver blog posts have long memories. At our Arts blog, Brad Weismann takes you on a virtual tour of ten long-gone Denver landmarks. Denver Egotist screens a snowboard movie shot in Steamboat by Andrew Burns. The Colorado Independent’s Addie Glickstein: “No sparkly smiles for Denver’s anti-fluoride activists.”…
Earlier this month, we told you about a plan to stamp all marijuana edibles with a red stop sign emblazoned with the letters “THC” as a way of warning folks that the product was cannabis-infused. The notion prompted outcries and eye-rolling from many pot consumers and members of the marijuana industry…
Twitter brings people together — and so did a certain bear whose run through Arvada yesterday briefly captivated all of Colorado. By the time the ursine star was captured and taken away, humorous tweets about the situation, and the live coverage of it by multiple Denver TV stations, had been…
Earlier this week, when we shared our latest collection of “You Know You’re From Denver When” punchlines, we asked readers to share their favorite way to complete that sentence. Plenty did so — and we’ll be featuring many of them in a future post. First, though, come the contributions of Matt…
My drive to Westword’s offices each morning takes me past Denver Health Medical Center — and when I saw the emergency room parking lot jammed with police vehicles and ambulances, I knew something substantial had happened. And it has. A police officer was reportedly injured during a traffic stop on…
Phil Garnier was listed at number eighteen on Colorado’s most recent list of its 100 most wanted sex offenders. But he won’t be there for much longer — and the reason’s not a good one. Garnier was arrested in Colorado Springs early on Wednesday, August 26, after a tipster alerted…
