Happy birthday to Twelve, which brought fine dining to a less-than-fine location at 2233 Larimer Street last fall, but has survived that first tough year. And tonight, chef/owner Jeff Osaka will celebrate his restaurant’s first birthday by gifting diners with a complimentary glass of sparkling wine and an amuse-bouche to…

There’s nothing mellow about medical marijuana in Colorado. In a wacky emergency session yesterday, the Colorado Board of Health tossed out its definition of “caregiver” to comply with a recent Court of Appeals decision, postponing the adoption of any new herbiage verbiage until December 16. In the meantime, Denver City…

It’s been a year since Neighborhood Flix, the ambitious movie theater/café in the Lowenstein project, pulled the plug — but with any luck, the lights will soon be back on at 2510 East Colfax Avenue. That’s because Frank Schultz, who runs Tavern Hospitality Group (owner of the Cowboy Lounge, the…

The state isn’t letting any grass grow under its feet — and may be looking at prohibiting grass growing in your basement. The Colorado Board of Health has scheduled an Emergency Rulemaking Hearing for 10:30 a.m. today, to discuss — and possibly eliminate — its definition of “significant responsibility for…

Marilyn Musgrave’s political career rose from the dead last week, as the former Colorado congresswoman and current director of the Susan B. Anthony List’s Votes Have Consequences project campaigned for the election of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate running for the 23rd Congressional seat left vacant when Republican John…

Hapa Sushi takes public — and pubic — service seriously. Stop by the popular sushi bar at 1117 Pearl Street in Boulder to pick up your free pair of orange underpants — briefs or thongs, featuring the Hapa logo and the words “Run Responsibly” — and you’ll be covered against…

Pam and Ricardo Martinez met on a United Farm Workers picket line in California. Now, almost forty years later, they share a life, a family, a passion for social justice and Padres y Jovenes Unidos, the Denver nonprofit they co-founded in 1991 — as well as another big national honor…

Sheriff’s deputies have run into a roadblock in their push to get an initiative on the Denver ballot: the Denver Elections Division has determined that more than half of the almost 60,000 signatures on initiative petitions were invalid. The deputies need 41,666 valid signatures to put the measure, which would…

It’s the wild, wild West,” proclaims Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown, who’s getting ready to give medical marijuana speculators a good, swift kick with his cowboy boot, to get them to toe whatever line the city decides to draw. Better that, he says, than kick them out of Denver altogether…

Pot Party Tom Tancredo has never inhaled. In fact, he’s never even tried pot. So when he says that marijuana should be legalized, there’s no need to ask what he’s been smoking. Legalizing marijuana might seem an unlikely crusade for the controversial former congressman whose campaign against illegal immigration inspired…