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The Ten Best New Street Murals of Spring — Paint the Town!

Denver street art never sleeps, but it does hibernate during the winter. Now that spring is here, you can see new murals all over town — just in time for the International Art Materials Association convention at the Colorado Convention Center that opens today and runs through April 17. Some...
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What’s Developing in Denver Isn’t Pretty

As I was driving through Jefferson Park yesterday on a short detour to get to the 20th Street Gym downtown, I finally saw the horror with my own eyes. It's one thing to see photographs of it, but to actually witness that kind of destruction is overwhelming. I'm talking about...
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William Matthews: Drawn to Paint

William Matthews, who grew up in San Francisco, didn’t set out to be a Western artist. His first show in Denver, in the then-just-six-year-old Larimer Square, featured pastoral watercolors and poster typography. But in the early ’80s, Matthews was invited to Elko, Nevada, for a cowboy poetry gathering, and it...
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Marijuana Lawsuit Claims Legal Pot Grow Makes Horse Riding Less Pleasant

When we previewed the announcement of new lawsuits targeted Colorado's pot laws (filed by Safe Streets Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based group that misspelled "marijuana" in its press release), we noted that one of the challenges for the plaintiffs would be establishing standing in court — in other words, demonstrating that...
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Bald Tires on Snowy I-70 = $100 Fine Under New Bill

Coloradans know that driving through the mountains on Interstate 70 when it's snowing can be a nightmare, particularly given the volume of traffic coming and going from ski areas and roadside tourist attractions. But are drivers whose tires aren't in great shape making a bad situation worse? That's the theory...
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Controversial Medical Pot Caregivers Bill Passes Senate Committee

The pool of medical marijuana caregivers and patients could get smaller under provisions of a bill that's now been endorsed by a bipartisan Senate committee. SB 15-014, sponsored by Senator Irene Aguilar, a Denver Democrat, swept through the Colorado Senate Health and Human Service Committee by a 5-0 vote Thursday,...
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Beer Calendar: Hops, Key Lime, Brewery Anniversaries and a Call to Arms

Two beer-related Colorado crowdfunding campaigns have recently launched. The first is for Lady Justice Brewing Company, which describes itself as "the world’s first solely women-run, community-focused philanthropic brewery." The three women behind the concept — which would be organized as a low-profit limited liability company — are looking to raise $15,000...
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Review: Wild Tales

There are two kinds of humanist movie. One kind shows human beings struggling against the most unspeakable horrors, sorrows or injustices and still, somehow, emerging with their essential goodness intact. The second, thornier type gives us people doing terrible things to one another — screaming, cheating and generally making life...
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Medical Marijuana Caregivers in the Senate’s Crosshairs

The Colorado Legislature is well into the 2015 session, considering bills that would repeal the ban on large-capacity gun magazines and prohibit powdered alcohol; there are also measures that deal with privacy from drones, college-tuition tax deductions and expanding rail service in southeastern Colorado. But if you’re a medical marijuana...
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Orange Is the New Grey With Humboldt’s Zesty New Cocktail

Orange Is The New Grey at Humboldt While making cocktails at Humboldt in Uptown, bartender Alex Curry reaches into the cooler behind his bar probably a hundred times a night. Humboldt is a high-volume bar, and Curry prides himself on how fast he can make cocktails. In most of those hurried...
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Order Meat-Free Sofritas Today at Chipotle, Get Free Deal Later

The Denver-born Chipotle chain rolled out sofritas at its Colorado stores back in 2013, and the new, meat-free protein was deemed "so freaking delicious that just about everybody will like it" by our Veggie Girl. And today it's more than meat-free: If you order sofritas in any entree at any...