Not very many people can lay claim to having attended the very first Great American Beer Festival in 1982. After all, there were only 800 people there, drinking a measly 47 different beers. Charlie Papazian is one of them, of course. The founder of the festival, he was also the...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
I'm not proud of it, but I have to admit: I've never wished more professional ill on a football player than I do on Brock Osweiler. Although Osweiler was erratic during his fill-in stints under center in Denver last year, the supposed heir apparent as Broncos quarterback did well enough to...
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Josh Viola — the award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto and founder of Hex Publishers — will roll out his latest science fiction anthology, Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, at a launch party and book signing at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 10, at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, 1628 16th...
Over 2,000 bicyclists will arrive in Leadville on Saturday, August 13, to race in one of the most grueling yet beautiful mountain bike races in the world, the Leadville Trail 100 MTB. Thirteen of the riders, including Tour de France veteran Ted King and former Olympic cyclist and Coloradan Timmy...
No 63: How the West Was Won, or Biscuits and Gravy at Dozens Restaurant Before delving into this delectable dish, it should first be noted that the Dozens Restaurant in Aurora is not exactly the same as the other Dozens downtown. In fact, it's been its own entity for 22...
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,...
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...
A lawsuit over the arrest of a town leader has dredged up a history of law enforcement issues in Log Lane Village, which has had difficulty hiring and retaining qualified officers.
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Editor's note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we're taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Today, we examine Amendment 69 by way of an interview with a spokesman for the campaign. Tomorrow, we'll feature a Q&A with a...
The village of Takayama sits in the heart of the Japanese Alps, a six-hour train journey from Tokyo. It was settled centuries before Christ, and it has long been known for its carpentry; many of Japan’s most famous temples are believed to have been built by craftsmen from Takayama. Today...
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...
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...
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...
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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He co-founded one of the first dispensaries in Denver and, earlier this month, he sold it to Willie Nelson for his Willie's Reserve operation. Now Kayvan Khalatbari, who was featured in our January 2, 2014, roundup of leading ganjapreneurs, is looking ahead to other ways he can contribute to Denver's...
“Death takes a holiday” is one of those wise, cynical, darkly funny old-European concepts that should yield rich fictional results, both comic and philosophical. The idea, which got its start in a 1924 play by Italian Alberto Casella, is that Death decides to take a break from collecting souls to...
Every time I buy a tube of toothpaste, I fail. Part of my intention with the Mayday Experiment is to change everything, and that includes what I buy, and what I put down the drain. The drain issue is partially functional: Since I opted for only a greywater tank in...
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...