In 2012, we told you about a court ruling in the case of Leonard Watkins, a convicted child molester and medical marijuana patient who challenged rules against smoking MMJ while on probation. Three years later, a new bill scheduled to be heard by a Colorado House committee tomorrow aims to...
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A short time ago, we told you about a shooting outside a Lowry apartment complex that left two men dead. A shockingly violent act — and hardly the only one that took place in Denver on Sunday. Last night, another shooting took place at a private residence. A man is...
Ahhhhh, this rain. Ordinarily, I would never complain about the rain. I love the staccato on the roof, the velvety moisture in Colorado’s dry air, the rolling complaint of the heavy sky. Even when I was in Ohio, so similar to Colorado this month in spring temperament, I embraced the mud...
Good beer and good marketing have gone hand in hand at Oskar Blues for as long as the brewery has been canning — and one of the key components to that marketing has always been the aluminum vessels themselves. Oskar Blues hands empty cans out by the hundreds at festivals...
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Kalyn Heffernan is a musician (she fronts the band Wheelchair Sports Camp) and a teacher who works with Youth on Record. She's also an avid music fan who regularly attends concerts around Denver. And she has osteogenesis imperfecta; as a result, she's three feet, six inches tall and weighs just...
When the chute opens, all 1,700 pounds of brindle bull burst out. The animal spins, rears and kicks violently, as though his hindquarters are spring-loaded: He can’t dump his passenger fast enough. And within three seconds, the rider is flying to the ground, helmet-clad head hitting hard against the dirt,...
Union StationThe railroads were essential to Denver’s development, and there has been a train station at 17th and Wynkoop since the 1880s. Union Station, in its present form, was built in 1914 by the renowned firm of Gove and Walsh. In the intervening years, time and the decline of passenger rail service led the building to […]
TV shows such as CSI make DNA evidence seem unimpeachable. But factor in human error and the results can land a long distance from justice. Just ask Shawnnon Hale, who's just spent the past two months behind bars on a sex-assault charge of which he's wholly innocent, all due to...
Marijuana is legal for adult use in two states and available to medical patients in almost half the country, and legal sales generated over $2 billion in 2014. But a regulated pot industry could unltimately generate $45 billion annually if marijuana is legalized nationally, according to an industry study published...
#20: Bryan Leister Artist Bryan Leister, a painter who’s graduated to new media and rethinks visual outcomes using code, installation, video-game technology and animation, can’t be pinned down — it’s a new, digital world out there, and Leister wants to be a part of it, by hook or crook. This...
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Alice In Watermeland at Angelo’s Taverna “Everybody that walks in the door is either an old friend or a new one,” says Kyle Nickerson, bar manager at Angelo’s Taverna. His keen sense of hospitality is fitting at this relaxed neighborhood Italian restaurant and bar, where his new cocktail menu treats...
Denver blog posts have an eye for beauty. At our Arts blog, Antonio Valenzuela shows off five great views around Denver, including both city and mountain settings. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein notes that Nuggets fans can't have it both ways, even though wins like last night's victory versus New Orleans could...
Colin Ward seemed to be an endless river of music. Ward wrote, played, recorded and produced more than forty albums between 2008 and 2013, releasing a new piece of work every three or four months through the Bandcamp page he held under the name Alphabets. But in late 2013, it...
I have a confession to make. I am a miniature-golf, um, connoisseur. The lure of the Lilliputian links is strong. Like croquet and badminton, it’s a pursuit that is both genteel and ridiculous. I have played everywhere — atop a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean and up and...
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The Ramos Gin Fizz at Union Lodge No. 1.Vintage cocktails like the Manhattan and Old Fashioned get a lot of attention these days. They allow barroom patrons to enjoy an archetype from the early days of America’s cocktail culture — along with modern adaptations by creative bartenders. But when Union Lodge...
Last December, we reported about the critical injury suffered by Denver Police Officer John Adsmit while working crowd-control duty at an East High School student walkout over events in Ferguson, Missouri. Christopher Booker, the man behind the wheel of the vehicle that struck Adsit, said the accident took place as a...
After consulting for History Colorado on the “Movimiento Chicano” section of its 1968 exhibit, Museo de las Americas director Maruca Salazar started thinking about presenting her own show on the subject of Chicanos. Salazar, who is from Mexico, explains that Chicanos are not Mexican-Americans; rather, they are the descendants of...