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A handful of breweries? CNN's beer-city list misses the mark on Denver

If you like beer and have an Internet connection, you've probably seen CNN's list of the 8 Best Beer Towns in the USA that went up Monday. While the list was better than most recent beer-city lists produced by national magazines and websites, it certainly had its share of problems. But for my purpo ... More >>

Colorado Plus opens Monday with 56 local beers on tap -- and a brewery next month

The Colorado Plus Brew Pub (originally known as Colorado Liquid Art Works) will open on Monday, May 13, at 6995 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, with 56 Colorado craft beers on tap. Located in the former Valente's Italian Restaurant, which closed in 2008 after 44 years, Colorado Plus will also in ... More >>

The ten best comedy events in May

Now that we've finally eked our way into the warmer weeks of spring (fingers crossed), it's time to get off the couch and head out into the fresh air to get to May's ten best comedy events. We've got albums being recorded, albums being released, two Latino-themed shows, nerd heroes Aziz Ansari and C ... More >>

Men in Burka defies convention with purpose and promise

Ask a Stoner: Can I grow pot at my rented condo?

See also: Pot critic William Breathes answers your cannabis queries in a special 4/20 edition

Marijuana intern wanted, apply within

We have so much marijuana at Westword, we don't know what to do with it. Marijuana news, that is. We're looking to bring on our second-ever pot-specific intern. You don't need to be a medical marijuana cardholder or anything like that, but some working knowledge of cannabis and the cannabis indus ... More >>

Marijuana clubs: Mayor's call for a ban blatantly unconstitutional, advocate says

This week, Mayor Michael Hancock appeared before a Denver City Council subcommittee to talk marijuana. And during his time in the spotlight (see a video of his chat below), he made it clear that if he had his way, pot would be tightly regulated and clubs for those who want to consume it would be ban ... More >>

Photos: Top celebrity weddings in Colorado -- and how many couples are still together

Sometimes it seems like marriages involving stars last about as long as the average fruit fly. But we've got what looks like a way to help pairings of the famous beat the odds: They should get married in Colorado. Our evidence? HistoryOrb.com lists nine celebrity weddings to have taken place in Col ... More >>

Jeff Crank, talk-show host: Seeing gays kissing on CNN is disgusting

Denver blogs want what's best for you. Big Media's Jason Salzman on KVOR host and ex-GOP candidate Jeff Crank getting grossed out by gay New Year's Eve kisses on CNN. Free Range Longmont's Michael Bellmont gives the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission an F on health...and listening. Squa ... More >>

Reader: Pot club a publicity stunt? How about Westword's pot critic?

You could hardly turn on television New Year's Day without seeing another report on Club 64, the state's first legal pot-smoking club -- as touted by attorney Rob Corry. "Freedom was in the house last night," Corry told CNN, sounding about as hip as a rapping grandmother, according to William Breath ... More >>

Rob Corry touts state's first "pot club" on CNN, but is it all a publicity stunt? (VIDEO)

Marijuana attorney Rob Corry made the TV rounds yesterday, appearing twice on CNN in stories about the opening of Club 64, which he dubbed the state's first legal pot smoking club. Corry was on the Situation Room and also featured in the CNN Newsroom talking about his club, which isn't really a cl ... More >>

Falcon "Balloon Boy" Heene and his brothers are flying high in a heavy-metal band

See also: Richard Heene, Balloon Boy's dad, invents crazy stuff, makes crazier infomercials

The Candy Sushi Kid is growing up, and so is Sushimee Candy

Seven-year-old Miles Louison was browsing through a cookbook when he saw something that caught his eye: sushi made out of candy. Five years later, he's the owner of Sushimee Candy, and is known as the Candy Sushi Kid. Business is going swimmingly. See also: - Lyla Padden has a successful cupcake ... More >>

Colorado Dems celebrate Obama victory Gangnam style at downtown watch party

It was after 10 p.m. that a woman wearing a blue dress and a donkey mask came up to us and put her snout, through which her eyes were visible, up against our face -- so we were peering at each other through a tunnel of plastic hot with her breath. "Our ovaries are safe for four more fuckin' years!" ... More >>

Is worshipping chickens a Mexican thing?

At the DNC, both John Hickenlooper and the aspens were blooming

Marijuana: Amendment 64 rep sees new TV ad as positive alternative to negative campaigning

If you're watching the Democratic National Convention on either MSNBC or CNN, there's a good chance you'll catch of glimpse of Richard Nixon. Why? He's featured in a new ad for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act -- and like the campaign's first commercial, released in May, it take ... More >>

Marijuana: Amendment 64 rep sees new TV ad as positive alternative to negative campaigning

If you're watching the Democratic National Convention on either MSNBC or CNN, there's a good chance you'll catch of glimpse of Richard Nixon. Why? He's featured in a new ad for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act -- and like the campaign's first commercial, released in May, it take ... More >>

Reader: Sikh temple shooting would have gotten more coverage if victims had been white

In an item yesterday, we argued that the mass shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple had received less coverage than the Aurora theater shooting. The response to this point of view fell shy of total acceptance, but numerous readers agreed, and voiced theories about why. Here's one especially detailed a ... More >>

Aurora theater shooting: Carol Chambers, James Holmes and the death penalty

At his next court appearance, on Monday, suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is expected to be formally charged by a prosecution team fronted by 18th Judicial District DA Carol Chambers. Our Alan Prendergast is an expert on Chambers thanks to feature articles such as "The Punisher," so it' ... More >>

Gary Johnson, Libertarian presidential hopeful, on pot, pride and Jon Stewart

Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, who is now running for president as a Libertarian, stopped in Denver yesterday for Pridefest. He took a break from schmoozing with potential voters to chat with Westword about his campaign, the Libertarian Party, marijuana, gay marriage and his ongoing bat ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: The Silver Lizard in Denver

Originally in Five Points on Welton Street, the Silver Lizard preemptively moved to its current location last January because of its proximity to a school. Though the move undid all the staff's work on Welton, it seems to have worked out for the best, and the shop is making itself at home in a new l ... More >>

Top ten recent politicians to excuse stupid comments with "I misspoke"

Earlier, we reported about Representative Mike Coffman's excuse for a comment he made suggesting that Barack Obama may not have been born in the U.S.: "I misspoke." By making this claim, Coffman is in good company: It's become a favorite of politicians who say something dumb or inaccurate but want t ... More >>

Photos: Madalyn Starkey not big Obama fan, but their pic makes her celeb anyhow

Our collection of photos from Barack Obama's visit to The Sink in Boulder included an absolutely hilarious shot of CU student Madalyn Starkey mugging alongside the Prez -- one so funny that she soon became a major media darling, Internet sensation and memes subject; see examples below. But that does ... More >>

Photos: Oregon man follows Denver woman's lead, strips naked in airport

In the news business, three similar incidents are considered a trend -- and if that's true, stripping at airports is on the cusp of becoming a thing. Mere days after a woman took off her clothes at Denver International Airport, a man in Oregon has done the same. But while the woman still hasn't bee ... More >>

Sacha Heppell: Q&A with the man who tried out to be a Broncos cheerleader

In the two months that 21-year-old Sacha Heppell has taken hip-hop lessons with a private dance instructor, dude has developed some serious moves. So he decided to put them to good use: Yesterday, he got footloose at tryouts for the Denver Broncos cheerleading squad. And while he expected his day to ... More >>

Reader: Sign spinners are pawns in the gold-accumulation conspiracy

William Breathes's South by Southwest (mis)adventures

A few months back, we here at Mile Highs and Lows begged and pleaded for you to help convince the folks at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas to let us talk about marijuana journalism at what is arguably the most important media conference in America. Thanks to you, we go ... More >>

Backbeat and Radiohead make it on CNN -- for all the wrong reasons

Some things, guys, are just too good to be true. Backbeat discovered the perfect example of this fact this morning when, while watching TV, we saw the blog on CNN and wondered what the hell was going on. The story behind that story involves Radiohead, a bakery, the major media outlet, the Internet a ... More >>

Welcome Sensi Skywalker, Westword's first medical marijuana intern

​After a tireless search and dozens of entries, we here at Mile Highs and Lows have finally found the one lucky local college student who will be cleaning bongs helping out around the office as Westword's first medical marijuana intern. Allow us to introduce you to Sensi Skywalker.

13-year-old killer of parents Charles & Marilyn Long played in sandpit shortly before attack

Big pic below.​In August, prosecutors and defense attorneys crafted a deal to sentence the thirteen-year-old Burlington boy who killed parents Charles and Marilyn Long and wounded two siblings as a juvenile. Why? Questions were answered yesterday at a hearing finalizing the pact, at which the ... More >>

Medical marijuana reviewer job celebrates its second anniversary at Westword

​In the fall of 2009, local officials looked around and suddenly discovered that the medical marijuana business was booming in Denver. In fact, it might have been the city's only growth industry at the time. The national media discovered the story, too -- and when Westword advertised for a med ... More >>

Didn't catch the Tea Party Debate? Here it is, in 75 seconds of mind-numbing glory

Uh, no apologies.​Monday night, the eight Republican Presidential candidates threw down on the CNN-hosted Tea Party Express debate, and one thing was clear: The country is poor, the current approach to healthcare isn't working and Rick Perry is disliked. By everyone else in his party. But we w ... More >>

Michael Brown, ex-FEMA director, thinks feds dealt with Hurricane Irene better than media

Michael Brown & pal.​As the man in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the 2005 period when Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, Michael Brown knows a thing or two about hurricanes, and the media's coverage of them. So what kind of grades does the current KOA talk-show h ... More >>

Slug from Atmosphere on the fictionalization of his lyrics and unwinding with some online chess

​Sean Daley helped launch an empire when he co-founded Rhymesayers Entertainment, home to P.O.S., Brother Ali and, of course, his outfit, Atmosphere.The rapper otherwise known as Slug is an unstoppable force with endless vision and nonstop determination, which has helped make Rhymesayers one o ... More >>

Air traffic controller at Denver Center removed from job for failing alcohol test (VIDEO)

Video below.​Booze and the airline industry aren't good mixers. But that apparently didn't stop an air traffic controller at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center in Longmont, aka the Denver Center, from going to work with alcohol in his system -- putting him in the same club with two Co ... More >>

Medical marijuana critic William Breathes fires up for Rupert Murdoch's The Daily (VIDEO)

Video below.​Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes has gotten blurry-face time on loads of media outlets, from CNN to The Daily Show. But the latest profile can be found in an unusual place: The Daily, an iPad-specific venture launched by Fox-y titan Rupert Murdoch. In the video, ... More >>

The underage sex trafficking panic was fueled by anything but science

​Where are the hundreds of thousands of teen prostitutes some advocates say are engaged in underage sex trafficking? Village Voice Media spent the past two months collecting arrest data for underage prostitution in 37 of America's largest cities. Reporters found the average number of arrests o ... More >>

La Toya says Michael Jackson was murdered: Top five other music myths and conspiracies

​In an interview with CNN yesterday, La Toya Jackson stated rather bluntly that she believed her brother was murdered. "I would never, ever think differently," she said. "Michael told me that they were going to murder him." It's not that outrageous of a claim, but it's also one of those things ... More >>

Charles & Marilyn Long murders: Delay in deciding if 12-year-old son to be tried as adult

Big pic below.​Update: The twelve-year-old son of Burlington's Charles and Marilyn Long already faces murder counts and assault beefs in relation to his parents' deaths and wounds inflicted on two younger siblings. But there's still be no decision about whether he will become one of the younge ... More >>

High Times Cannabis Cup report: Pot critic William Breathes catches the buzz (PHOTOS)

Big pics below. See more photos.​Colorado cannabis is better than anything Amsterdam's got, and the medicine here is on par with, if not better than, what is coming out of California. While we already knew that here in Colorado, it was still cool to hear those words come out of High Times edi ... More >>

Shane Dronett: the late Denver Bronco is the subject of a Sanjay Gupta CNN report

​The topic of concussions and NFL football players continues to make news, even in the off-season, as CNN tells the heartbreaking story today of former lineman Shane Dronett, who killed himself in 2009, three years after retiring. Dronett was drafted in the second round by the Denver Broncos ... More >>

Super Bowling for Dollars

The great American game is another chance to foist false research on a gullible media

Wall of Shame

CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled

12-year-old accused of killing parents Charles & Marilyn Long in the 1st degree, faces 9 counts

Big pics below.​Update: We still don't know the specifics about what happened in the murders of Charles and Marilyn Long, and the severe wounding of two of their children, allegedly by their twelve-year-old son -- nor do we know whether he'll be accused as an adult. But with the release of cha ... More >>

Aaron Carter and Charlie Sheen, is Twitter a celebrity death machine?

Dead, you say?​As a social phenomenon, probably the most interesting thing about celebrity death hoaxes is that they are a social phenomenon at all. There's no point to them. They're not particularly funny (aside from the resulting lulz if the celebrity in question gets all offended about it), ... More >>

Let's welcome Disqus, our new commenting overlords

​Yes, as you may have noticed, we have a new commenting platform here on Westword.com. Disqus is the application we've installed across all four of our blogs. Here's a handy rundown of what to expect next time your want to leave a comment.

Medical marijuana: Guide to mold, mildew and mites will help you discover what's in your ganja

A moldy bud.​While all dispensaries and caregivers should be keeping an eye out for mold, mildew and pests on their cannabis, the sad truth is that there is dirty medicine out there no matter if it's coming from a huge warehouse or a tiny basement grow. In September, KindReviews tipped us off ... More >>

Wild horse battle over Ken Salazar's disputed roundup plan comes to Boulder tonight

Flickr​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's plan to reduce wild horse herds on public lands and relocate thousands of mustangs to preserves back East has triggered protests of roundups across the West -- over everything from the costs involved to the brutal conditions of the government "gat ... More >>

Wolf Blitzer gets his Dougie on at the Soul Train Awards with the help of Doug E. Fresh

​Wolf Blitzer, the white-haired politico from CNN, can usually be found musing on the hysteria of world politics. Last night, however, he stole the show at the Soul Train Music Awards by hitting his illest and meanest "Dougie," the dance craze sweeping the nation -- and, it appears, the Situat ... More >>