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The Ten Most Instagrammed Restaurants in Denver

If you're a Denver food fan and budding amateur photographer (or someone who just can't put down the smart phone, even while enjoying dinner), you've probably snapped a few shots and shared them on Instagram -- because all of your online friends certainly want to see every meal you've eaten...
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Gallery Sketches: Four Shows for First Friday in December

Plenty of Denver galleries will kick off December with shows of small and affordable art for the holidays. But there's much more to see this First Friday, and it's a good night to venture from the downtown area, where the Parade of Lights will create gridlock and parking nightmares, and...
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Review: The Post Brewing Company Is a Rare Bird

I'm not the cursing type, but when the hostess at The Post Brewing Company told us it would be 45 minutes before two seats opened up, even at one of the four long community counters, a bleep-worthy word raced through...
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Video: Inside the Pot Edibles Kitchen of Sweet Mary Jane Bakery

Sweet Mary Jane Cooks Up Cannabis Success in Denver from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. For the second of Westword's video series about pot edibles in Colorado (following our profile of Dixie Elixirs), our team sat down with Karin Lazarus, owner of the award-winning Sweet Mary Jane Bakery -- and...
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Stout Street Social Opens Today With Eclectic Menu for Downtown Crowd

Ambitious downtown eatery Stout Street Social opened today, with an intentionally eclectic menu for an area that's thick with businesspeople, tourists, conventioneers and theater-goers but isn't necessarily known as a destination dining zone (unless you think Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. is a great destination). Concept Restaurants, which operates a handful...
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Denver Arts: Ten People to Watch in 2015

As an arts journalist in the town I call home, I hear a lot from local artists — some of them sharing their thoughts through their art, some of them on social media, some at events around town. And my questions in the ongoing 100 Colorado Creatives blog series always...
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Mellow Mushroom Throws Prices Back to 1974 on Way Back Wednesday

Mellow Mushroom says it was "born out of the free-wheelin' hippie culture of the 1970s" -- 1974, to be exact. Today the restaurant chain is celebrating its fortieth birthday, and in true hippie form the restaurants are sharing the love and giving gifts to their guest. As a result, on...
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Queer Cheer

Kate Bornstein is a lot of things: activist, artist, writer, actor, playwright and gender theorist. But she’s also human, and tonight’s screening of Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant Danger gets that point across. Not so much a documentary as a contemporary day-in-the-life tale with biographical elements woven throughout,...
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The Eight 2014 Inductees Into Colorado’s Hall of Shame

Every year, we bring you the best examples of the worst behavior we can find from the past 365 days of news stories in Colorado. And from a shady sheriff to a cancer faker to the people who cursed us with exorcist politician Gordon Klingenschmitt, there was, as always, plenty...