After a four-day trip to Colorado earlier this month that took him through Boulder, Golden, and Denver, New Jersey State Senator Nicholas Scutari, a Democrat from Union, examined the effects of legalizing recreational marijuana. He concluded similar legislation could benefit New Jersey. His trip included visits to dispensaries and meetings...
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Eight minutes into the pilot episode of Cinemax’s new crime show Quarry — an uneven but largely rewarding translation of Max Allan Collins’ crime books into emotionally challenging, character-driven television — Marine Lloyd “Mac” Conway, Jr. (Logan Marshall-Green) returns home a day early from his second tour in Vietnam. By...
Less than a month after the start of 2017, we've already got a candidate for Colorado's race for governor in 2018. Last week, former state senator Mike Johnston, a Democrat, formally launched his campaign, and he's already running hard to succeed John Hickenlooper as the state's chief executive.
A week after fourteen craft breweries split off from the Colorado Brewers Guild, which has represented the interests of state beer makers for two decades, Breckenridge Brewery and its new parent company, Anheuser Busch InBev, have released a statement related to the situation. Several of the breweries that left the...
Editor's note: Two social-cannabis-use measures are currently collecting signatures in an attempt to earn a place on the Denver ballot this November: the Neighborhood Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program and the Denver Responsible Use Initiative, sponsored by Denver NORML. Earlier this week, we published a post headlined Inside the Neighborhood Supported...
This weekend two of the greatest rock bands of the '80s are performing together at Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Typically, bands whose greatest commercial popularity happened more than twenty years ago find themselves playing a nostalgia circuit of state fairs and the like, but the Church and...
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Once upon a time, people who wanted to smoke without annoying anyone would simply head outside. Now, however, large parts of the outdoors in Boulder County may be off-limits to smokers no matter the substance they're consuming, be it tobacco or marijuana. And violations could result in fines as high...
A Mexican eatery called Fritangas La Pili recently took over a bar and nightclub space at 1733 West Mississipi avenue in the Athmar Park neighborhood, offering a few street-food specialties not found in many other Denver restaurants. Pambazos — tortas soaked in guajillo chile sauce — and sopes are a...
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Nicole Gonzales and Michel "Mich" Velazquez met at a concert a couple...
The latest trend in mainstream country music seems to be Gen X cowboy crooners teaming up with the pop-star likes of Demi Lovato, Elle King and Pink for duets that might endear them to younger audiences. These crossover pairings actually sound pretty good, but the dynamic is creepily Richard Gere-ian,...
Having played with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, and Grateful Dead spinoff band the Dead for many years now, guitarist Warren Haynes is like a figure from a jam-band fan’s wet dream. Naturally, the North Carolina native is also a bit of a favorite among Colorado...
Denver natives and indie-alternative darlings Ivory Circle are scheduled to perform at the 2016 Westword Music Showcase on the City Hall Main Stage. They're currently working on a new EP, the third and final in a series that started with the release of Equilateral in 2014. With the second, Isosceles,...
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On numerous occasions over the years, we've posted about the most dangerous intersections in Denver — but typically, our data was compiled from previously published sources. This time around, we reached out to the Denver Police Department and asked Mary Dulacki and her team in the records unit to pull together...
As Langhorne Slim, who performs Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4, at the Bluebird Theater, walks around California's Napa Valley before his set at Bottlerock Festival, he is thinking of a different time in his life. "I used to live out here years ago, a lifetime ago," he says...
The 2016 Underground Music Showcase kicks off tonight, Wednesday, July 27 and runs through four more hectic days at venues on South Broadway. The whole shebang can be a lot to take in, so below our writers weigh in on a few of their top picks of bands worth staking...
While not formally associated with Wham City, the well-known Baltimore art collective, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have long been friends and associates of that crew and the Baltimore music scene generally. Ben O'Brien and Alan Resnick of Wham City made a video for “The Tower,” a track...
As the Colorado Brewers Guild struggles to hold itself together in the wake of the defection of fourteen craft breweries — including the state’s four largest — its membership has elected to change the Guild’s bylaws so that representatives of large breweries will no longer be allowed to hold voting...
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When Examiner.com debuted just over eight years ago, it was ballyhooed as a bold effort to harness the power of citizen journalism with the financial support of the ultimate deep-pocketed investor, Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz. The site's impending death should be much quieter. Michael Roth, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for Anschutz Entertainment...
Every year, millions of beer lovers around the world take to the Internet — on sites like BeerAdvocate and RateBeer — to rate, read up on or learn about the beers they are drinking or want to drink. Earlier this week, RateBeer compiled a state-by-state list of the beer and...
"Colorado Springs Mayor: Day of Reckoning Coming for City's Illegal Marijuana Growers," published by the Colorado Springs Gazette on May 28, represents the coming together of an anti-marijuana newspaper and an anti-marijuana politician — Mayor John Suthers. But that doesn't mean it's empty posturing. While Suthers's assertion that hundreds of illegal...
The Colorado Anime Film Festival, a new collaboration between the Alamo Drafthouse and the Colorado Anime Festival, will run September 9 through September 11 at the Alamo. The first festival of its kind in Colorado will kick off with a to-be-determined big title; ten more films, special guests and a series...