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Cannabis-Beer Kickstarter Fails, But Brewing Project Moves Forward

If publicity was money, the owners of Dad & Dude's Breweria in Aurora would be millionaires: the brewery has been the recipient of intense national media coverage since it received federal approval in September to make a beer infused with cannabidiol, an extract of hemp. Publications and web sites from...
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Emmett Reistroffer Talks About I-300 and Where Social Use Is Going

Emmett Reistroffer was one of the authors of Initiative 300 and worked on the campaign to get the social-use ordinance passed last November. Now the event planner serves on the city's social consumption advisory committee. We sat down with Reistroffer to chat about social use, the first committee meeting, and what he thinks about how the process is going.
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Cayce Goldberg

#40: Cayce Goldberg A digital painter and Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design graduate, Cayce Goldberg switched gears to transform an old building owned by his family into Helikon, a RiNo district gallery/artist community. Now a gallerist and the heart and soul of Helikon (its name was inspired by...
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Marijuana vs. Hemp: What’s the Difference?

Marijuana may be the main attraction for many in the cannabis world, but Colorado also leads the way in hemp cultivation. In fact, as of this week, there are approximately 400 active industrial hemp businesses registered with the state's Department of Agriculture. Still, misconceptions around the differences (or lack thereof) between...
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Bonnie Ferrill Roman

#49: Bonnie Ferrill Roman Colorado papermaker and mixed-media sculptor Bonnie Ferrill Roman creates airy, medium-melding installations that connect the dots from the realm of well-crafted fiber art to the frontier of art about ideas and personal issues. A longtime educator dedicated to sharing techniques and foundational know-how with young art...
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The Ten Best Film Events in Denver in December (Non-Holiday)

Every December brings two types of cinematic adventures: a deluge of holiday-themed films (find them all on our holiday film list) and a flood of films with “award season buzz” that the studios save for the end of the year so that they’re fresher in the minds of voters for...
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Denver Emphasizes Collaboration at Second Marijuana Management Symposium

Denver has learned a lot about implementing marijuana policy — and officials from around the world have been flocking here to study this city's secrets. The Mile High City hosted its second annual Marijuana Management Symposium on Thursday, October 27, welcoming policy makers, police personnel and reps from cannabis companies from...
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Sarah Fukami

#52: Sarah Fukami Colorado born and bred, printmaker and current RedLine resident Sarah Fukami creates work that's deeply rooted in her Japanese family’s internment during WWII and issues around her cultural heritage. Fukami layers her mixed-media historical references on Plexiglas panels, relating stories of figures both notable and anonymous, bringing...
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Why Colorado Tokers Love Chernobyl

Bestowing the right name on a strain has become more important than ever. Although not quite as pun-filled as the craft-beer or food-truck industries, the commercial marijuana business has so many colorful varieties that a boring moniker really stands out among the Alaskan Thunderfucks and Cantaloupe Kushes of the world...
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Beer Calendar: Khores Ballroom, More Collaborations and a Goodbye to Colfax

The craft-beer industry has begun feeling the effects of a long-awaited competitive shakeout — layoffs, mergers, declining numbers — but the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which represents the nation's small and independent craft breweries, was still able to report mildly encouraging numbers for 2016. Also encouraging: the events in our beer calendar.
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Trump’s Choice for Interior: What Will It Mean for Colorado?

For a guy who’s vowed not to load his administration with the usual corporate lobbyists and Washington insiders, Trump has stacked his transition team with energy moguls, climate deniers, anti-EPA crusaders, and other highly vested interests. His short list of Interior nominees reportedly includes such wild cards as Sarah Palin and multimillionaire Forrest Lucas, founder of Lucas Oil Products. Whoever gets the job, it’s likely that his appointee will be ideologically inclined to the drill-baby-drill mantra.
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Root for Housemade Amaro From Elliot Strathmann at Spuntino

Elliot Strathmann, co-owner of Spuntino, at 2639 West 32nd Avenue, has been rooting around the woods of Colorado looking for specific ingredients, with the help of professional forager Graham Steinruck, founder of Hunt & Gather, a company that provides foraged mushrooms and other produce to Denver restaurants. Strathmann has been stocking...