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Photos: Thief takes selfie on stolen iPad — or did he?

The Loveland Police Department is on the lookout for a man suspected of stealing an iPad and then taking a selfie that wound up on the iCloud account of the business from which it was snapped. Seems like an open-and-shut case? Well, it's only been a few weeks since what...
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Photos: Inside CannaSearch, Colorado’s first-ever pot-industry job fair

People from around the country took part in CannaSearch, Colorado's first cannabis job fair, at which twelve marijuana-based companies set up tables offering job opportunities. O.Pen Vape presented the event, and it was open for anyone ages 21 and older. Jobs included photojournalism, marketing, sales, tour guides, bud tenders and...
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Marijuana Enforcement Division finalizes recreational pot and MMJ rules

On January 10, while much of the state's cannabis community was focused on the launch of recreational sales, permanent rules for the recreational and medical marijuana industries were being quietly approved and put into effect by Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division. Most were unchanged from previous drafts, but cannabis concentrates for...
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Share the Wealth

Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was teaching him to play the five-string banjo. Curious about the songs on the recordings and how...
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Share the Wealth

Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was teaching him to play the five-string banjo. Curious about the songs on the recordings and how...
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The new Muppets movie peaks on the Silliness Scale

If you count forward from Jim Henson’s mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations. That endurance isn’t...
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Fashion Feast

After viewing this year's punk-infused Met Gala celebration, makeup artist and fashion-show producer Katelyn Simkins found herself inspired. Fashion Feast is the result of the artist's creative insights: a night of runway walks, live performances and fundraising for Colorado's hungry. Local clothing and accessories by Rachel Marie Hurst, 50 Dresses...
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No charges against Boulder County deputy in apparent suicide by cop

In the last few months, we've reported about two incidents that fall under the heading of "suicide by cop," including a shooting involving a despondent CSU student and a Denver face-off during which the gunman reportedly said, "If they don't fucking shoot me, I'll stab them in the goddamn eyeball."...
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Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Ivar Zeile

#74: Ivar Zeile Ivar Zeile collects artists with a keen eye for talent and trends as director of RiNo's Plus Gallery, but he also makes some free-swinging hunches as he tries to get a sense for what's next in the contemporary art scene. In recent years, Zeile's search for the...
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Pigging out at La Torteria

In A Federal Case, I'll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard -- south to north -- within Denver city limits. I'll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I'll report from every vinyl booth, walk-up window and bar stool where food is served. Here's the...
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The ten best concerts in Denver this weekend

It's a good weekend for live music in Denver. Let's start at the end, with Paul Simon's Graceland collaborator Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Boulder Theater. The day before that, pop clinician Dr. Dog stops by on the same night as the collaboration between knotty rappers Madlib and Freddie Gibbs. There...
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Fourteen reasons to shop at the Boulder Farmers’ Market

I have a lot of high-minded reasons for doing almost all my summer shopping at the Boulder Farmers' Market. I worry about climate change, soil erosion, bee die-off, genetically modified foods and the flood of pesticides contaminating soil, sea, air and our bodies. I know small farmers must be supported...
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Lord Huron at Ogden Theatre, with Superhumanoids, 2/21/14

LORD HURON at OGDEN THEATRE | 2/21/14 When the members of Lord Huron took the stage, they looked snappy, as though each member had actually taken the time to look like he was in a band but without hitting us over the head with a visual representation. The band's music,...