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New Jersey State Senator Talks Up Pot Legalization After Colorado Visit

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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Cinemax’s Crime Drama Quarry Mines Familiar Territory With Rare Feeling

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...
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Denver NORML-Backed Social-Pot-Use Measure Doesn’t Make Ballot

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...
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The Church and Psychedelic Furs on Their Appeal Beyond Nostalgia

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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Up-and-Comer Maren Morris Ditches the Country Playbook

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,...
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Warren Haynes Can’t Get Enough of Red Rocks

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...
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Ivory Circle Is on the Cusp of a New EP — and Stealing Your Heart

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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Best Detroit-Style Pizza

Blue Pan PizzaDetroit has seen its share of troubles lately, but here’s a bit of good news for the Motor City: It spawned one kick-ass style of pie. And here’s even better news: You don’t have to hop on a plane to get it. At Blue Pan Pizza, Detroit transplant Jeff Smokevitch geeks out over details like […]
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Denver’s Eleven Most Dangerous Intersections

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...
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Langhorne Slim Strengthens His Spirit Through Sobriety

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...
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Wye Oak on the Benefits of Radical Vulnerability

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...
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The Life and Death of Phil Anschutz’s Examiner.com

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...
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CO Springs Mayor Predicts Illegal Pot Grow Day of Reckoning, 100s of Busts

"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...
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Tickets Now on Sale for First Colorado Anime Film Festival

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...