Ten Types of Uber and Lyft Drivers You Meet in Denver

Whether you’re going to an event downtown and don’t want to mess with parking or you’ve had six IPAs and need to be put to bed, Uber and Lyft are there for you. And in a growing city like Denver that’s full of car-averse millennials, drivers are everywhere. To pay homage…

Why Colorado Tokers Love Jet Fuel

Did you ever eat generic cereal out of a bag instead of the expensive stuff out of a box? They basically taste the same — but still, something’s not right. That’s because our snooty minds are triggering a knee-jerk reaction, making us think that brand names and pretty packaging matter…

Top Six Colorado Universities According to U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is out with its annual rankings of national universities. And while six Colorado colleges made the cut, they didn’t exactly challenge Princeton, Harvard and the University of Chicago (the three highest finishers) for academic supremacy. Of 310 universities analyzed by the publication, Colorado’s top school landed in…

Opponents of Micro-Apartments on Humboldt Street Lose Zoning Appeal

Suite 201 of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building was bursting at the seams Tuesday, October 11, when the Board of Adjustments took up an appeal that argued the zoning department had erred when it permitted micro-apartments and a restaurant in the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. The board…

Boulder Split Over a Proposal to Pair With Palestinian City of Nablus

In the spring of 2014, two Palestinian women from the West Bank landed in Boulder. They’d come for yoga training, though not instruction in sun salutations or Bikram technique. Instead, they were working with Calming Kids Yoga, a local organization recognized by the American Medical Association that uses yoga to…

High Times Launches Cannabis-Themed Apparel Line

High Times magazine launched in the summer of 1974 and has documented the evolution of the marijuana industry though the decades. Now, in partnership with Emerald Brand Solutions, the magazine has created a clothing line to honor the industry and how far it’s come. “The fashion trend in general is about…

Top Seven Colorado Cities for Renters

Our recent post “Renters Grade Denver: What Got an A-? And What Got a D?” revealed Denver-centric results from the United States Renter Confidence Survey, in which the folks at Apartment List quizzed 30,000 renters nationwide. Turns out, though, that Denver wasn’t the only Colorado city to be analyzed. Of…

Ask a Stoner: Why Are Marijuana Buds Called “Flower”?

Dear Stoner: Why do you and all of the media refer to marijuana buds as “flower”? The flowers on the marijuana plant are produced by the male plant. The real magic happens when you successfully eliminate all of the males and their flowers and keep the females from getting pollinated…

The Nine States That Will Vote on Marijuana Measures in November

Nine states have ballot measures regarding marijuana legalization, five of which will consider legalizing recreational marijuana in November. Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada are looking to legalize marijuana and create retail markets and Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota are proposing medical marijuana legislation. 1. Arizona – Recreational In…

After Dumping Trump, Cory Gardner Gets Crushed by HBO’s John Oliver Anyway

In August, as we’ve reported, Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who’d vacillated about whether to formally endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said, “I’m voting Republican up and down the ticket. A Republican president will make a difference, even a Republican president named Donald Trump.” Well, never mind. After the release last…

Goodbye, Columbus: Happy Indigenous People’s Day, Denver

Colorado was the first state to make Columbus Day an official holiday, in 1907. And today, many state offices will be closed to mark what remains a national holiday, after the feds followed Colorado’s lead in 1937. But in Denver, we’ll be marking Indigenous People’s Day. Last week Denver City Council…

Top 20 Paxton Lynch-Sucks Tweets

The headline of our first post about Paxton Lynch, the Broncos’ number one draft pick this past April, reads, “Meet Paxton Lynch: Broncos’ Star QB of the Future or the Next Tim Tebow?” Yesterday, during his first start — a desultory 23-16 home loss to the Atlanta Falcons that wasn’t…