Add December 12 to your calendars as National Ding-a-Ling Day. It's a day to get weird, cut loose and act a fool. The holiday might be on Saturday, but let's celebrate it all weekend by sipping good beer, doing art for peace and laughing about drugs. Check out the Westword...
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Where's the line between high class and low-end? Denver is more socially and regionally stratified than ever, but most of us end up mingling in with and among each other like enriched flour cereal squares in a bowl of Chex Mix. On the high end you have a place like...
Back in August, we noted that many supporters of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential candidacy wished that he would become more progressive when it comes to marijuana policies. At last night's Democratic hopefuls debate in Las Vegas, they got their wish. When asked if he would vote to legalize recreational...
The former Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant was declared cleaned up — or as close as it was going to get — ten years ago this week, more than fifty years after the facility sixteen miles upwind of Denver started producing plutonium triggers for hydrogen bombs. In 2017, 5,000 acres of...
Weird week for Colorado's storied Breckenridge Brewery, which announced an impressive new beer series, oh, and the fact that Anheuser-Busch is buying the entire brewery, all within a few days of each other. If that purchase means you're not doing to drink Breck's beers, then you can skip ahead. If...
They were some of the hottest tickets in town. But for medical reasons, the Dalai Lama will not be coming to Boulder for a series of scheduled programs on October 20 and October 21, or attending any of his planned events in the United States next month. Today the Tibetan Association...
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These days, the Confederate flag doesn't have a lot of defenders. Yet Manitou Springs activist Patricia Cameron has been arrested for burning one — and the circumstances of the bust have resulted in national headlines. Turns out Cameron was cited late at night about three weeks after the well-publicized torching...
In January 2014, the gothic-Americana band Murder by Death played the reputedly haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, but singer-guitarist Adam Turla didn’t have any paranormal experiences. So when the quintet returned for three shows in early January 2015 — just before its seventh album, Big Dark Love, was released...
The state’s medical marijuana program started a new era last month, after the Colorado Medical Board unanimously approved a set of recommendation guidelines for medical marijuana physicians – and those guidelines took effect immediately. Although the final draft of the policy, written by the Medical Board’s Medical Marijuana Workgroup and...
This past year has seen an upsurge in the fight against sexism in the music industry, with several high-profile stories gaining national attention. In a Pitchfork piece early in the year, journalist Jessica Hopper asked, “Why are misogynist lyrics still entertainment in 2015?” Then, in August, Hopper used Twitter to...
The rumor going around was that Autechre would play in total darkness. This proved to be mostly true as the room and stage lights went down at the beginning of the band's roughly hour-long set with only the running lights on the stairs, the bright green exit signs on either...
There's plenty of optimism that recreational marijuana sales will be legalized in more states. Not long ago, 24/7 Wall Street offered a list of eleven states that could jump on the legalization bandwagon next: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. But progress...
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Since March, we've been reporting about concerns over the use of pesticides on marijuana. Now, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has taken up the cause. In an executive order included in an industry-wide bulletin distributed by the Marijuana Enforcement Division, Hickenlooper directs "state agencies to address threats to public safety posed...
Colorado Springs' Dana Ott is a retired attorney and sometime professional poker player who earned well over $300,000 at a single tournament a couple of years back. Right now, however, he's fighting for his life after being shot by authorities, who were called after he was seen carrying a rifle...
Over the years, Westword has featured plenty of stories about crimes solved by DNA found in unlikely places. Take the cigarette butt that led to the killer of Kurt Levias at the Bluebird Theater. But never before have we encountered a shittier DNA case than the one involving Rodney Hendrix, who was...
We recently shared video showing the jailhouse death of Michael Lee Marshall. The homeless man, who suffered from symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia, choked on his own vomit after being restrained by Denver deputies in a November 2015 incident the city coroner's office has labeled a homicide. It's a shocking...
When I started looking for obscure historical monuments, sites and artifacts across Colorado —rather than the celebrated, well-known tourist attractions around the state — I thought I'd find maybe ten worth sharing. Now my list is up to 200 and counting, as I keep finding odd, fascinating pieces of our...
It's getting more and more difficult for Colorado beer lovers to wrap their arms — and their taste buds — around the depth and breadth of our brewery scene. With more than 300 breweries, all of them pumping out dozens of brews over the course of a year, it would...
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Early on October 14, Jesse Wright posted the following comment on his Facebook page: "Almost home to the 303 cant wait to be bacc in Denver been gone too long." Barely 24 hours later, Wright was presumably less happy to be in Colorado. That's because he was in custody of...
The federally funded Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area is nothing if not predictable. The organization has spent recent years on a jihad against marijuana, regularly rolling out reports suggesting that legalization is rapidly destroying the fabric of society in Colorado by way of statistics that critics have long...
For its fall offerings, the Arvada Center is hosting three shows connected not by style or theme, but in how the works included in each were made. The subjects of the three shows — unified under the banner of FIRED — are iron, ceramics and glass, with the iron having...
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has made a point recently of checking in on kombucha producers to make sure they're keeping their brews to less than .5 percent alcohol by volume, the legal limit above which beverages are subject to the bureau's regulations. At alcohol levels that...