15 Best Marijuana Memes of 2010
Pot humor: a silly contrast to the serious-minded, politicized world of medical marijuana regulation and the campaign to have pot legalized for personal use by 2012 here in Colorado. Since...
View ArticleReader: Pit bull attacks get fifteen to twenty times the coverage as ones by...
A vigorous conversation has taken root on our post about the Denver City Council rejecting a service-dog exemption for pit bulls. One interesting observation has to do with the way pit bul...
View ArticleMarijuana prosecution of Lacy Lee dropped -- because cops didn't have joint...
During a May 1 rally to legalize marijuana, Lacy Lee was arrested for holding a joint -- something attorney Rob Corry considered so absurd, especially given a video of the incident on view...
View ArticleSnowboarding angels replace City Hall Nativity Scene: Kenny Be's Fotochop Friday
The holiday lights of Denver's City and County building will stay on through Big Air, but the statues of the nativity scene will be replaced with edgier characters that appeal to snowboar...
View ArticleMaria Hardman, Muslim drinker, is our Shmuck of the Week
Boulder's Maria Hardman has a problem. The nineteen-year-old University of Colorado student was too pious to remove her headscarf for a booking photo this week when she reported to jail. B...
View ArticleRTD station slated for wetland area?: Inside Adams County-Federal Boulevard...
At a Monday morning meeting, the Adams County board of commissioners is scheduled to determine whether a new RTD Gold Line commuter-rail station originally slated for the east side of Fede...
View ArticleAlicia Martinez autopsy report on the way, DA's office requests "thoughtful"...
Moments ago, Westword received a call from Denver District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough regarding the impending release of an autopsy report about October murder victim Ali...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony trade: Are Nuggets trying to convince Melo and LaLa Vazquez...
OMG! We're late with these Denver blog posts. Thanks for waiting. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein links to an NBA Fanhouse post about Nugs exec Masai Ujiri pitching both Melo and LaLa on ...
View ArticlePerrish Cox, Denver Broncos cornerback, arrested in Lone Tree on sexual...
As if we haven't received enough bad news about the Denver Broncos lately, here's a lousy development of an entirely different (and much more serious) kind: Cornerback Perrish Cox has been...
View ArticleFlash mob, holiday style, at FlatIron Crossing food court -- and nobody got...
Hipsters may think flash mobs are played out -- but to that, we say: "Bah, humbug!" As reported by the Boulder Daily Camera, students from Westminster's Artistic Fusion Dance Academy took o...
View Article7-Eleven stores dueling signs shine spotlight on LoDo Aglow
I spent much of last night careening around LoDo, looking at the 21 decorated windows that are competing in the LoDo Aglow contest -- only some of which were actually aglow. But it was imp...
View ArticleTop 6 mug shots of 2010 accused teachers, caretakers
Today's most memorable mug shots of 2010 feature (following posts on women, tattoos and bad hair) focuses on teachers and caretakers who've been accused of doing some mighty unpleasant thi...
View ArticleBroncos blow like $2 hookers vs. Arizona: Please lose every game the rest of...
On Friday, Joe Williams, Irv Brown and other ESPN 1600 prognosticators picked the Broncos to crush the Cardinals under the theory that the team would be ultra-motivated after Coach Josh Mc...
View ArticleMarijuana RTD ads for KushConII bad messages for kids, drivers, says...
Last month, organizers of KushConII thanked RTD for accepting event-related bus ads. But RTD isn't receiving the same sort of compliments from the Colorado Drug Investigators Association. ...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony trade: If Melo only wants to go to NY Knicks, why wait months...
Carmelo Anthony's comments yesterday following the Nuggets' loss to the Knicks were less vague than usual. It's plainer than ever that he wants to leap from Denver to New York, and he's w...
View ArticleWikileaks: Where are its media friends?
Where are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the firs...
View ArticleReader: Mike Littwin is balanced in his own way, and the Denver Post...
Last week, we wrote about the possibility of Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin being moved to the op-ed pages from his high-profile page-two perch. Our item prompted a comment from a rea...
View ArticleAin't no party like a DJ Dan party and more slideshows from wild Denver...
Service was good and the crowd was hot at Saturday's DJ Dan gig at Beta judging by photos shutterbug Aaron Thackeray brought back. Check out the complete gallery, as well as collections sp...
View ArticleLaLa Vazquez and Twitter: Dolphin sex, butt implants, NBA free agency and new...
LaLa Vazquez appears to be one of the driving forces behind hubby Carmelo Anthony's desire for a trade to the New York Knicks -- one reason why the Nuggets are reportedly lobbying her as w...
View ArticleCastle-building fairies overrun Sloan's Lake: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through their lawn decorations... Fairies, pixies, sprites: Call them what you will. But the stone castle mini-mansion pictured above is proof that ...
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