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Medical Pot in Schools Bill: Epileptic Child Can Now Use Valium but Not MMJ

For years now, as we've reported, families with sick children have been moving to Colorado for medical marijuana access — especially those whose kids suffer from assorted seizure-related disorders that have responded favorably to MMJ, which is typically administered via pills, liquid or patch. However, such kids face an obstacle when...
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Robert Dear Ruled Incompetent, Thinks FBI Left Feathers at His House

Fourth Judicial District Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez has found that Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear is incompetent to stand trial for a clinic attack that killed three people and injured twelve others in November 2015. Instead, he'll be interred at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo for reasons that are...
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Infinite Harvest Grows Food for the Future of Earth…and Beyond

Infinite Harvest has great food, no atmosphere. That's because Tommy Romano, the aerospace engineer who launched the Lakewood complex, isn’t in the business just to provide high-end restaurants with superior microgreens: He believes Infinite Harvest is a gateway to the food of our future — especially if that future carries us far from Earth.
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The Mayday Experiment: The Internet and Information Overload

Nothing has ever persuaded me more that our dialogue is broken than the current political quagmire. When I began the Mayday Experiment, one of my goals was to try to change the conversation and have in-person dialogues about sustainability, as opposed to arguing about the existence of climate change —...
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Rosane O’Conor’s Microbiological Habitat Lands at DIA

You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery outposts around town. Rosane Volchan O’Conor grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied music...
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Best Improvised Theater Space

The CatamountsThe Boulder-based Catamounts is one of the wittiest companies around, so when the Dairy Arts Center became unavailable due to construction, they improvised as only the Catamounts can. For A Public Reading, they took over a large room at Madelife — a Boulder store and gallery intended as a launching pad for artists and entrepreneurs […]
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Best Toxin-Free Beauty Store

AilleaThe new wave of beauty products is toxin-free, and former beauty-industry exec Kathryn Murray of the beauty boutique Aillea rode it right to 14th and Larimer in 2015, bringing a curated selection of all-natural, chemical-free cosmetics, cleansers, fragrances and creams that smell just as nice — if not nicer — than the old-fashioned, non-natural kind. […]
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Boulder Man Killed by Cops After Firing Gun Into Boulder Creek

As we've reported, the number of officer-involved shootings in the metro area has been on the rise, particularly in Aurora, where three OIS incidents have taken place in May. Even so, it came as a shock to Boulder residents when such a shooting took place in that idyllic community, too...
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The Outfit Takes the Long Road to New LP

At a time when all things indie rock have been relegated to the dustbin of pop culture, Denver band the Outfit still stands out. The group’s soon-to-be-released self-titled album is representative of its current creative ambitions. The Outfit is the first twelve-inch vinyl record that the band has released; it...
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Best New Womenswear Boutique

Ily and IleyIly and Iley opened in April 2015 in lower Highland, raising the bar for boutique shopping in Denver. Co-owners and stylists Ilyse Mark and Bailey Lemak began their business after running into each other in Miami and New York; luckily for us, they decided to settle in Denver. In addition to two floors full of […]
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Beer Calendar: Stouts, Stout Month and New England-Style IPAs

Two local breweries had big years in 2016 and are hoping for even more in 2017. Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project "saw the culmination" of its $3 million customized brewery — one that includes a coolship; a new hard-piped, stainless-steel fermentation cellar; twice as many wooden foeders; and new packaging...
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Fewer Teens Are Stoned Than You Think, According to New CO Survey

Over the years, anti-marijuana groups have argued that greater legal access to cannabis inevitably leads to increased teen pot use. Last year, for example, Project SAM, an organization co-founded by former Representative Patrick Kennedy and launched in Denver, claimed that national figures from the Department of Health and Human Services showed...
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Great Divide Changes Denver Pale Ale To Fit a Growing City

Denver has grown a lot in the twenty years since Great Divide Brewing began making a pale ale named for the city, and next month the beer will change with the times as well. Great Divide, which first brewed Denver Pale Ale in 1996, has completely revamped the recipe, updating...
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Blake Lively and The Shallows Are Well Worth the Dive

According to IMDb, Jaume Collet-Serra’s over-before-you-know-it The Shallows runs for one hour and 27 minutes — a number that produces a reaction something like when an NBA roster lists a short-looking player at five-foot-nine and you marvel, Really? Nate Robinson is that tall? The shark thriller has only three or...