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Green Lab Teaches Cops How to Know When a Driver Is Stoned

It’s early evening in a parking lot outside a DoubleTree in northeast Denver. At the north end of the lot is a 1987 Winnebago with seven people inside, gathered around a table covered with cannabis products: a concentrate pen, a dab rig, some bud flower and edibles. Once most of...
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Review: Between Stations, Rule Gallery’s Last Show in RiNo

Among the unpleasant upheavals predicated by Denver’s current boom are the twin problems of soaring rents and the demolition of existing buildings to make room for new ones. Together they’re forcing artists out of their studios and galleries out of their homes. That’s the case with Hinterland, whose location in...
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For Immigrant Kids in Denver, Trump’s Election Is Their 9/11

In basic ways, the three Denver-area schools are different. One is public, one is charter, one is Catholic. But demographically, they have a lot in common. Their students come from exceedingly diverse national, ethnic and religious backgrounds, and their families tend to be on the lower end of the economic...
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Seven Leaf-Peeping Tips for Transplants — Go for the Gold!

The trees are already changing, and this weekend massive swathes of forest in the high country will begin to glow in gorgeous shades of yellow, orange and red. As the weather turns colder, week by week trees in other regions will shed their leaves, until finally the groves of the...
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The 21 Best Events in Denver, February 21-27

Bust out your party pants for Atropia, Westword's annual celebration of art, culture and fashion on Saturday, February 25. This year, we're highlighting major thoroughfares in Denver and the people and art that keep them vibrant. Read on for details, and for more of the best events in Denver. Tuesday,...
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Acero Moves Into Former Crown Social Space

For years, the mansion-turned-restaurant at 1446 South Broadway has been packed with antiques and decorated in a hodgepodge style somewhere between classic and classy, first as the Black Crown and then as the Crown Social. But the Crown Social was evicted in the spring, and with it went all of...
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Beer Calendar: Tappings Galore in Advance of Collaboration Fest

In previous years, the Colorado Brewers Guild had asked the breweries participating in Collaboration Fest to hold off on tapping their beers until after the festival — in order to keep the surprise. But in its fourth iteration, the nonprofit, which represents more than two hundred Colorado craft breweries, decided...
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Why Gangbangers, DA Had No Stomach for a Hasan Jones Child-Abuse Trial

In his wheelchair, Hasan Jones rolled into the courtroom for his sentencing hearing Thursday, August 18, for the death of two-year-old Ny’ari Hines. The hearing at Arapahoe District Court finalized a plea deal that avoided a child abuse trial that neither hardened gangbangers nor hardened prosecutors seemed to have the stomach...
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Review: Matthew Harris Goes for Baroque at Leon

Last call for a smart-looking solo, Baroque Selfies: Matthew Harris, at Leon Gallery. Harris is a Denver sculptor who earned an MFA at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, and is now head of 3D Fine Arts at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. His work combines...
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Ten Ways You Know You Live in a Presidential Swing State

This state's presidential-preference polls are close...too close, no matter who you might be supporting. That's why Donald Trump is returning to Colorado, when at one point the state seemed to belong to Hillary Clinton. But last week, Politico called the race in Colorado a “dead heat,” with the RealClearPolitics average...
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Making Winning Wine at Kingman Estates Winery

The cheery husband-and-wife team that runs Kingman Estates Winery can't stop smiling; after all, they just won two gold metals during the third annual Governor's Cup Colorado Wine Competition in July. To add to the glory, their 2013 cabernet sauvignon was also chosen as one of the twelve wines to grace...