A Boulder-based program that brings performances of Shakespeare plays into Colorado schools as part of an anti-bullying program has received a $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest.
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Fireman Capital Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm that owns Longmont's Oskar Blues Brewery, Perrin Brewing in Michigan, Florida's Cigar City and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries in Utah, is changing the name of the holding company that operates these breweries from Oskar Blues Holdings to CANarchy. CANarchy "provides a...
Dozens of readers have weighed in on a recent story, Why It's So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy. David A. posted on Facebook: The pay scale here isn't keeping up with the rising rents. My first apartment 10 years ago cost me $620 for a...
As we previewed in a January post, Greg Heard, a homeless man, has filed a lawsuit against a Denver police officer and the City and County of Denver over a June 2016 arrest during which he was tased in the act of surrendering even though he was unarmed. The complaint, accessible below, bolsters its argument with a video also shared here and references to a Westword post from March in which a police trainer harshly criticized Dulayev's decision to tase first and ask questions later.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission has released its overview of 2016. Marijuana accounts for close to a quarter of federal drug cases, but this overview found that cannabis consumers typically have less serious criminal histories than users of other drugs. Reading through the report, we noted five interesting things: 1. Drug arrests...
Over the years, Colorado colleges in general, and public colleges in particular, have performed weakly in national rankings. Unfortunately, the same scenario has played out in a new study of the best community colleges in the state. Nine Colorado institutions were analyzed among 728 nationwide, with only one school from here landing in the top half of the rankings and the lowest-rated facility finishing only fifteen slots away from dead last. And the latter's location is mighty close to home.
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From massive arts institutions to high-end commercial galleries and DIY spaces, Denver boasts an array of venues to check out first-rate art.
From a hotel in Boise, Dan Whitford, the mastermind behind Australia's electropop outfit Cut Copy, recounts one of the band's earliest experiences in Denver.
In the run-up to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Then, after people had seen it, Okja turned out to be … one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Now that it's...
On Thursday, July 13, cannabis professionals ascended on Denver’s Cultivated Synergy for a quarterly meeting held by the National Cannabis Industry Association. But this wasn't any ordinary meeting; it was a caucus – a cannabis caucus. And the group was rallying to keep fighting for legal marijuana.
When professional endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch rode the 1,200 mile-long Ho Chi Minh Trail that runs through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in 2015, it was the culmination of another long journey: to find the story of her father, and American solider killed in the war.
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At 5:30 p.m. today, July 10, family members of Marvin Booker, who died in Denver's main jail seven years ago this month during an excessive-force incident that led to a $6 million settlement, will take part in a press conference at which they will demand that Denver District Attorney Beth McCann begin a new investigation into the case. They say a Taser used on Booker is missing, and they believe the story behind its disappearance suggests a potentially criminal cover-up.
The secret mandatory ingredient in the first Colroado Grow-Off was Race Fuel OG (also known as Race Fuel), a mix of High Octane OG and Face Off OG, two OG-heavy strains with names that leave little to the imagination.
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Like a good mom, the RiNo Art District is rallying around Ratio Beerworks starting at noon on Mother's Day to help the brewery while it faces what could be a three-week-long closure due to a licensing problem. The nonprofit organization is basically taking over the taproom during that time, buying...
Food fans come from all over Colorado to try the unusual combination of brewery and Nepalese restaurant at Arvada’s venerable Yak & Yeti. “As a result, we get a lot of requests for our beer,” says Jeff Tyler, who took over as head brewer there last summer. So on February...
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Three years ago, Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project dismantled its Cellar Reserve program — one of the first such craft-beer membership programs in Colorado — because of production constraints and other growing pains. The move gave the brewery more freedom, but also alienated a significant number of its original supporters...
The owners of a "luxury smoke lounge" have filed suit against Trinidad officials, claiming the city is courting out-of-state tourists with its burgeoning cannabis industry, yet providing them with no legal way to consume their purchases.
Has flying with marijuana become routine in the U.S.? A new survey from MissTravel.com, which calls itself "the world's first travel dating website," shows that more than half the respondents have taken cannabis with them on a domestic flight. But that number tumbles for people traveling internationally.
Complete ColoradoFor a while, Complete Colorado didn’t seem long for this world. When driving force Todd Shepherd stepped down late last year in favor of a position with the Washington Examiner in the nation’s capital, plenty of fans feared the site would go the way of so many other Internet destinations. But, no: Under Justin Longo, […]