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Rocky Flats Should Ban Burns Forever, New Petition Says

More than sixty years ago, when the federal government decided to build a nuclear weapons plant, it picked an eleven-acre spot on the Front Range northwest of Denver, a landscape studded with farms and ranches — and just sixteen miles upwind of a major city. When it opened in 1952,...
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Marijuana a Factor in 12.2 Percent of DUI Citations, State Patrol Says

Has marijuana legalization made our roads more dangerous? At least one report maintains that Colorado's pot laws haven't led to more highway fatalities. But the Colorado State Patrol remains concerned based on statistics showing that 12.2 percent of all DUI citations issued last year involved cannabis -- although weed was...
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Review: Ain’t Misbehavin’ Hits All the Right Notes

Talk about a reefer of five feet long Not too fat and not too strong You get high, but not for long If you’re a viper. Or — as sung by Leonard E. Barrett, on a luxuriously long exhale in Ain’t Misbehavin’ — a vipah. This number, performed with languid,...
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Why Profs Think Colorado Should Pay Nebraska, Oklahoma for Pot Problems

In December, as we've reported, Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court over the state's marijuana laws. Among the claims: Colorado's marijuana experiment undermines pot bans in neighboring states, "draining their treasuries and placing stress on their criminal justice system." Colorado's attorney general has...
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Pizza or Manaeesh? The Best of Both Worlds at Amira Grill

The sign above the door at the Amira Bakery has been recently updated to read Amira Grill — the old sign was a simple vinyl banner, but the new one looks much more permanent — but the breads are still the main attraction at this Lebanese joint.  Manaeesh (often spelled...
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Chicano Brings the Brown Power Movement Back at Museo de las Americas

Challenged to create an art show to enhance History Colorado's companion exhibit to 1968, El Movimiento — a straightforward visual history of the local Chicano rights movement that flourished in the barrio areas of Denver decades ago — Maruca Salazar of the Museo de las Americas came up with a street-smart answer...
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First Look: The Multisensory World of Helicopter Copter

Helicopter Copter is not a band, really. And though a group of musicians came together to create textured pieces of sound, they don't necessarily consider the finished work songs. And though there are six recorded sonic expressions in this first body of work entitled Whisper Down The Lane, the pieces...
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Dusten Fischer, Expectant Father, Stabbed Nine Times in Lodo

Dusten Fischer and his beloved, Ashleigh, are expecting the birth of their first child together — a boy they've already named Brantley — on February 19. But less than a week away from that date, Fischer is in critical condition at Denver Health after being stabbed nine times during an...
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A Gay Couple Accuses the Denver Housing Authority of Persecution

Around midnight, there was a pounding at the door of the brick two-story rental house near City Park where Todd and Stan Lobato-Wright lived with their nine-year-old adopted son. It was the Denver police. They’d come to arrest the two men. Their alleged crime? Not drugs or robbery or murder...