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Joshua Witt’s Self-Stabbing, Neo-Nazis and Risks of Social Media

As demonstrated by a racially charged protest gone fatally wrong in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month, white supremacists have no shame. But if they did, they'd probably be humiliated by even the slightest association with Colorado's own Joshua Witt, who claimed to have been stabbed because of his resemblance to a neo-Nazi, only to later admit that the wound was self-inflicted.
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How Mike McCarron Got Meth-Possession Charge for Having a Gram of Pot

Mike McCarron is facing a methamphetamine charge even though he's never knowingly possessed or used the substance. Prosecutors in El Paso County are pressing the accusation because they say a small amount of marijuana found in his truck tested positive for meth, even though a follicle analysis shows no trace of it in his system.
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The Westword Watch List: Where and What to Eat Right Now

We've got a brand new plantain-heavy menu on the Watch List this week, plus a whole selection of new items from established eateries. There's the return of brunch to one RiNo restaurant, a Japanese lunch special at another. And sandwiches on fresh-baked bread are worth a lunchtime stop at two...
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Free for All: The Five Best Free Events in Denver This Week

Monday has arrived yet again, but rather than submitting to workaday doldrums, we humbly suggest reading up on all the diversions awaiting you this week. While a day job may claim your time and attention from morning to afternoon, we hope your evenings are as free as the following five events. With outdoor screenings of goofy '80s cinema classics, record swaps, comedy and Lucha Libre wrestling, Denver has enough free entertainment in store this week that you may even forget you have to work again tomorrow.
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100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Rodney Wood

As a recognizable face of the new, arts-rich Trinidad, Colorado, Rodney Wood serves as the grand poobah of what could be the southern Colorado town’s most distinguishing features: The annual ArtoCade art-car festival, and as of 2017, its year-round companion, the Bizarre Car Garage, a permanent museum where ArtoCade vehicles winter over.
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What Denver Renters Love and Hate Most About Living in the Mile High City

The new Denver Renter Confidence Survey from ApartmentList.com reveals that most local renters give the Mile High City excellent marks, placing it among the most highly rated large cities in the country. But there are warning signs in the findings, including great discontent with high rent costs and other daily expenses, as discussed in our recent post "Why It's So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy."
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For Building Warriors, Culture Is Key to Mental Health of First Responders

A 2015 survey found that 86 percent of emergency medical services personnel reported critical stress; a job that entails frequent exposure to others’ once-in-a-lifetime tragedies takes a toll. But now programs like Building Warriors are teaching that culture is key to the mental health of these first responders.
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Beer Calendar: Festivus, Star Wars Beers and a Gingerbread Invitational

Fireman Capital Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm that owns Longmont's Oskar Blues Brewery, Perrin Brewing in Michigan, Florida's Cigar City and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries in Utah, is changing the name of the holding company that operates these breweries from Oskar Blues Holdings to CANarchy. CANarchy "provides a...
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The Ten Most Iconic Bars in Colorado (Outside Metro Denver)

A moose head on the wall, a creek out back, a biker out front: Colorado bars aren't all about craft beer and mixology. Metro Denver boasts thousands of watering holes, but sometimes you thirst for a downhome saloon where getting there is half the fun...and the rest is all setting, history and, yes, alcohol. Here are Colorado's ten most iconic bars.
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William Anderson’s Jail Death Leads to ICE/Denver Sheriff Pissing Match

The July 10 death of William Anderson, a forty-year-old inmate at Denver's main jail, has led to a war of words between the Denver Sheriff Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Anderson died during a fight with fellow detainee Ricardo Lopez-Vera, nineteen. But while the Denver District Attorney's Office declined to charge Lopez-Vera in the incident, his undocumented status led to detention by ICE, which claims the DSD released him without properly informing the federal agency even though there was an immigration hold on him.
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Social Pot Consumption Advocates May Sue City of Denver

The drafters of Denver's social cannabis consumption initiative have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with the city's finalized rules and distance requirements for businesses applying to open a consumption area. Now they're taking it a step further, threatening to sue the City of Denver if less restrictive rules aren't put...
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Your House May Actually Be Worth Less Than It Cost 15 Years Ago

Thanks to Denver's red-hot housing market, Mile High City home values are currently higher than they were at their pre-recession peak, although perhaps not by as much as some frustrated home buyers might have expected. But while Colorado as a whole has experienced a similar boom, there are plenty of places in the state where homes are worth considerably less than they were a decade and a half ago.