If you were wondering why immigration reform has been so difficult to achieve, the response to a recent story on CBS4 should quell your questions. The story, about a snafu that resulted in 524 non-citizens, "including some illegal immigrants," receiving improperly marked drivers licenses has resulted in an explosion of...
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Frasca Food and Wine launched its Instituto Per il Vino series this month. The four-part, interactive classes take an in-depth look at different wine regions around the globe, with curated flights that showcase each region. This week you can take the New World Pinot Noir class, which will take place...
After a long winter’s wait, it’s finally warm enough to put on the roof! The adhesives used to hold down the EPDM roofing require a period of 48 hours above 50 degrees, and we’re getting there, slowly. Of course, the winter was tough on the exposed plywood, and due to...
The opening of the Boulder County Farmers’ Market is my favorite herald of spring—even on years when it falls on a wet, icy day. This Saturday, however, was bright and cool, slowly warming hour by hour. And hour by hour the crowd, sparse at first, swelled. For a few weeks,...
Dakota Coburn’s quiet intensity expands into full-on enthusiasm as he reminisces about vacations in Mexico and his initial forays into that country’s cuisine when he was eight — from his first taste of real mole to tacos al pastor straight off the spit of a Puerto Vallarta street vendor to...
Accidents happen in school science labs -- but they hardly ever result in criminal accusations. Daniel Powell is an exception to this rule. He's been charged with multiple assault beefs for a methanol explosion that injured four students, including one who spent weeks in the hospital for burns that initially...
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Today, a funeral will be held for Jennifer Lobato, a 38-year-old mother of seven who died in Jefferson County jail. She needn't have. In a highly unusual admission, Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader is now publicly admitting that had she received timely medical care for what attorney David Lane, who is...
This week's Westword cover story, "The Snitch Who Stole Christmas," examines the aftermath of a 2013 police investigation that led to the arrests of forty people in Trinidad for allegedly selling heroin, meth, and other drugs to two undercover informants. The cases were so riddled with legal and procedural problems...
Even fans of Fifty Shades of Grey admit the book is a literary atrocity. Novelist E.L. James's erotic reveries read like the rantings of a drunk yokel — less "His firm hands cupped my breasts" and more "Holy crap! He's touching my boobs!" The story is simple: Twenty-one-year-old virgin Anastasia...
Director Travis La and the crew behind the latest 303 Boards skateboard team video, Landrace, liked the sound of 12/13/14 for a premiere date. While we're counting, this marks the thirteenth team video from the little Colfax shop that could (tagline: "Holding down the Colorado skate scene since 1997") and...
Local pickle purveyors Tyler DuBois and Justin Park of The Real Dill have been partnering with Colorado breweries for a while now, at food-and-beer pairing events and with one of their jarred offerings, Titan Dills, which incorporated Titan IPA brewing ingredients and techniques used by Great Divide into the pickle-making process...
Jordan Wieleba runs a monthly standup-and-burlesque showcase, designs many of Denver comedy’s most eye-catching posters, and illustrates books and advocates for LGBTQ causes in between her own stage-crushing sets. While Wieleba has been performing standup since 2006, her life and career really took shape after 2011, when the Denver native...
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Marijuana turns you into a killer and therefore is known as the “killer” drug. That’s the takeaway from the following article describing a November 28, 1938 Women’s Club meeting in Steamboat specifically on the use and abuse of drugs. The club apparently was clueless about cannabis and invited a local...
#26: Bobby LeFebre In Denver, our poets are activists, bound to speaking truths, uplifting communities and, along the way, putting this town on the cultural map. Bobby LeFebre — a well-decorated performance poet with SlamNuba, actor, TEDx speaker, social worker and founder of Denver’s Latino spoken-word organization Cafe Cultura —...
Colorado is already under fire from Nebraska and Oklahoma, whose attorneys general have sued this state in federal court over our marijuana laws; Kansas is thinking about joining the suit. But in Wyoming, where state officials say that plenty of Colorado pot winds up, Governor Matt Mead insists he doesn't...
Denver artist and maker Matt Scobey is one of those people who quietly do what they do and don't make a big deal out of it. He's also a community-builder who likes to share ideas and take on projects that morph and change without finite boundaries. When Scobey isn't at...
Kelly Leid does not favor snap-button shirts, Wranglers and Tony Lamas. He’s more of a polo-shirt-and-khakis guy. The headgear on display in his office includes hard hats but no cowboy hats, ten-gallon or otherwise. Yet Leid, a Colorado native, has a soft spot for the state’s Western heritage, and he’s...
Shortly after we published a breakdown of two lawsuits filed by Washington, D.C.-based Safe Streets Alliance against Colorado's marijuana laws, the Marijuana Policy Project announced a call for a nationwide boycott against Holiday Inns. The reason: One of the SSA suits was filed by the owners of a Holiday Inn...
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You can't say the local theater scene isn't diverse: This week's premieres include one of the world's happiest musicals, the adventures of a toxic family reunion and a historical drama with a Colorado theme. Keep reading for details. See also: Edge Theater, The Motherfucker with the Hat...
Television shows like CSI have given us, the channel-surfing American public, an almost mystical faith in the crime-solving abilities of DNA. We expect the presence of foreign DNA in the victim's bite wound to nail the perp, and the absence of any traces of the stuff to help absolve the...
Before today, ten-year-old Aiden had never written a song, but he did have plenty of experience writing. For some time now, he’s been working on a rewrite of the original Star Wars trilogy and a manuscript for a movie based on the Warcraft video-game series, so the crossover into music...
Last year, we told you about Georgia's James Lee Pierce, a convicted child molester who allegedly spent months grooming an underage teen for sex before he could round up the money for a trip to Colorado in order to get his swerve on, only to discover that the object of his...