This week's feature delves into a subject doctors don't like to talk about much — their mistakes. It focuses on the case of Ruth Farfan, a 68-year-old patient who died in 2012, shortly after what was supposed to be "routine" surgery at Denver's St. Anthony Central. Farfan's family has reached...
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Earlier this week, we argued that Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson had won the Miss America pageant by the way she lost it — by delivering a monologue about nursing (she's a registered nurse) rather than offering a typically cliched routine during the talent portion of the competition, and by saying...
In December 2013, we told you about the arrest of Traci Cunningham on charges that she murdered her adoptive mother, Penelope Cunningham, and left her body in a remote part of Eagle County. Traci Cunningham has now been found guilty of the crime. But it wasn't a smooth road to a...
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...
We recently noted that the Washington Post listed an astonishing sixteen Colorado counties among America's 100 best for climate and scenery. The state made an equally impressive showing in Livability's Top 100 Best Places to Live ranking, predated to 2016. The bad news: No Colorado cities made the second half of...
From the beginning, the idea behind the Mayday Experiment was to try to change the conversation from being about “whether or not climate change exists” to “how can we be more sustainable regardless”? Because whether you believe in climate change or are among the very few who still deny its...
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Earlier this year, we told you about the death of James Damon and arrest of Georgie Hand after the couple took a pair of hostages — a deputy and a Colorado Parks and Wildlife official. Now, the Moffat County District Attorney has reportedly deemed Damon's killing justified — and new information offers more insight...
Fate is a funny thing. And in this case, fate it has determined that two companies, both called Fate Brewing, would end up in court. Just days after Arizona's Fate Brewing opened a second major brewpub in the Phoenix area, Boulder's own Fate Brewing has filed suit against the company...
The Office of the Independent Monitor has released its 2015 semi-annual report, and it contains plenty of good news — or at least better news — for the Denver Police Department. In the document, on view below, Independent Monitor Nicholas Mitchell praises the DPD for changing its policy toward shooting...
How do you feel about the 16th Street Mall? That's been a big topic of discussion over the past two weeks. The day I posted this piece about ten reasons to love the mall, But even before that dismaying beating outside the Rock Bottom Brewery — and the even more...
Anyone can make a zombie movie. All you need is some buddies, a camera and a few gallons of fake blood. An idea or two helps, and a little talent can go a long way, but plenty of these low-to-no-budget backyard zombie epics get made without either. Sometimes — very...
Over the next three weeks, the Flobots will visit fifteen towns across Colorado, playing everything from a fundraiser to a street party, hosting workshops at museums and having a powwow and song-sharing session with the Ute tribe. The tour is the first run of a pilot program from state agencies...
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Can there be a third act? That’s the question for the homegrown U Baron Group, which has mounted a string of restaurants in the former Lowenstein Theater complex since taking over a space there in 2012. The first run was Udi’s Pizza Cafe, which offered a combination of pizzas and...
This is a week for beginnings and endings: The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers will host a panel on how to write and publish a book, while BMoCA's Biennial-affiliated Line Break poetry series will say so long after seven poetic weeks. And in between, author Paul Levitt will talk about his...
Hot fat drips from succulent, slow-roasting pork on a vertical spit, pork that has been marinated, loved and teased into a deep, Heart of Darkness-level frenzy of flavor. The gentleman tending to this meat is clad in a grease-patina’d apron, shorts, flip-flops and a beater T-shirt that reads “Born Lucky.”...
Can a pastor also be a schmuck? He can if he's Walt Roberson. The senior pastor for Vinelife Church in Longmont, Roberson is one of four officials or elders at the house of worship to be sentenced for failure to report pervy sex allegations involving a church employee. The guilty...
It's not personal. It's just business. Last week's post about Danny Ledonne, the former Adams State University film instructor who was abruptly banned from the Alamosa campus with little explanation shortly after he launched a website critical of the school's administration and pay policies, has generated some interesting e-mails and...
Crown Manhattan at the Crown Social If you were going to make a cocktail using only spirits made in Colorado, what would you make? A vodka and soda might be easy, but what about a more complex cocktail such as, say, a Manhattan? Well, that’s a question that bartender Chelsea...
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A Place to Bury Strangers has been long solidified as one of the pioneering bands of the shoegaze genre — a style of music that now pervades subgenres as diverse as indie pop and black metal. Born out of New York City and evolving into a complex and layered sound...
In June 2014, we told you about the arrest of Christopher Waide in the disappearance of Pueblo's Lea Chali Porter, nineteen. Waide was busted on suspicion of sexual assault and murder even though Porter's body hadn't been recovered at the time of our post. More than a year later, Porter's...
Late last month, our Melanie Asmar reported that the parents behind a recall effort aimed at three controversial Jefferson County school board members — Ken Witt, John Newkirk and Julie Williams — had turned in well over double the number of signatures required for the matter to reach the November ballot...
Three buses will arrive just after 6:30 p.m. tonight, as they do every evening, at Lawrence Street and Park Avenue in Denver. They’re the types of coaches that one would take on a city tour or a long-distance trip, with fold-down TV screens and luggage racks above rows of bucket-seat...