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  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Urban camping: A timeline of how the ban began -- and where it's headed

    Although there have been rumblings about it for months, Denver's proposed urban camping ordinance has only been circulated in draft form for the past few weeks. In this week's feature, "For the homeless, 'urban camping' is no picnic," Jef Otte took a look at its direct implications by spending a nig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Reader: The yuks stopped here, at the Squire

    ​Greg Baumhauer hosted his last open-mic comedy night at the Squire on Tuesday, leaving behind lots of memories -- some good, some bad. First the good, from Veronica: I feel sick that I missed Squire's last comedy night. I feel sick that I wasn't able to see Greg up on that stage one last tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Denver Paid Sick Leave Initiative: City Council majority condemns 300

    Wikimedia Commons​The list of names opposing the Denver Paid Sick Leave Ordinance is growing, and quickly. Yesterday, six members of the thirteen-person City Council added theirs to a list that already includes Mayor Michael Hancock and Governor John Hickenlooper. To cement their opposition to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Michael Hancock saddles up to keep the National Western Stock Show brand in Denver

    Hancock.​A week after his inauguration, Mayor Michael Hancock really takes the reins today. This morning, he'll hold his first Mayor-City Council meeting (five of the reps are complete newbies -- unlike Hancock, who was on council for eight years). That'll be followed by the initial gathering ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    More dispensaries than Starbucks stores in Denver? So what?

    ​Back in the fall of 2009, trying to get a handle on the growing medical marijuana business, Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown visited Los Angeles, where he discovered that there were more dispensaries than Starbucks outlets. In January 2010, the Denver Post reported that there were now mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Katy Perry tried to blow up Troy Tulowitzki's season with her shmucky fireworks

    Tulo's nightmare.​Troy Tulowitzki isn't known for his Aprils. Or rather, he is known for his Aprils. He's known for sucking in them. Over the past few years, the Colorado Rockies' $134 million Gold Glove-winning All-Star shortstop has looked like a Little Leaguer through the first month of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Tonight: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives brakes for the Bagel Deli

    ​"Tonight's the night, as Neil Young would say," quips Joe Kaplan about tonight's episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, in which Guy Fieri, the bleached-out blond whose hair resembles the scrappy, canary-colored bird from Charlie Brown, brakes at the Bagel Deli, the decades-old shrine to Jew ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Medical marijuana: More than 52 grows could still be at risk from city council, attorney says

    ​Yesterday, the Denver City Council attempted to tackle medical marijuana regulations that MMJ attorney Warren Edson initially feared could close 137 of 150 MMJ grows in the city. The current measure, which will be voted upon by council a week from today, is no longer so draconian. But Edson s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Medical marijuana: Jessica Corry on suit that could make Denver liable for MMJ shutdowns

    Jessica Corry.​Following reports about proposals that could close 137 of 150 medical marijuana grows, a compromise measure passed through the Denver City Council special issues committee -- although it's unclear how many operations might be shuttered under the provision. Moreover, attorney Jes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Medical marijuana: City council compromise could still close most grows, attorney says

    ​A medical-marijuana-grows compromise proposal passed through Denver City Council's special issues committee yesterday, with public input on the measure slated for February 14. At this point, however, attorney Warren Edson is uncertain if the tweaked proposal might still doom as many as 90 per ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    The Ratcracker and ten other sad endings to Christmas stories

    ​Everyone knows The Nutcracker, but few people know the story -- and that's for a good reason: It's is so slight, it's almost incoherent. Yeah, there's a pseudo-plot in the first act about a battle with a Rat King or something, but that's all wrapped up by the second act, which is devoted pret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Medical marijuana: Denver City Council slowly moving forward with new regulations

    ​A special-issues committee of the Denver City Council met today and discussed measures that could shut down an untold number of grow operations in the city. The committee met with stakeholders from Denver neighborhood associations and from various members of the medical marijuana community.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Medical marijuana in Denver: Learn all there is to know from... councilwoman Judy Montero?

    Judy Montero.​No denying that medical marijuana regulations remain confusing, especially given that even many communities with established rules are already thinking about changing them. Example: Denver City Council's efforts to establish limits on home MMJ grows. With that in mind, councilwom ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2010

    DIA Dreams: Aviation director Kim Day plans to take DIA where no airport has gone before

    Judy Montero.​No denying that medical marijuana regulations remain confusing, especially given that even many communities with established rules are already thinking about changing them. Example: Denver City Council's efforts to establish limits on home MMJ grows. With that in mind, councilwom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Medical marijuana protest against Denver City Council: "Closing half of the businesses in a particular sector is a sweeping action without any justification," activist says

    Photo by Robert FisherThere are fewer of these displays accessible in Denver today...​The deadline has passed for medical marijuana dispensaries to apply for their official licenses in Denver -- and only 235 out of more than 500 did so. Update, 3:22 p.m.: The Colorado Coalition for Patients a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Wake-Up Call: Los Angeles puts a lid on medical marijuana dispensaries

    ​"We don't want to become another Los Angeles," Denver city councilman Charlie Brown said after touring that city's pot dispensaries, which outnumbered L.A.'s Starbucks outlets, in urging his fellow councilmembers to come up with some regulations for Denver's booming medical marijuana industry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Wake-Up Call: Putting a lid on medical marijuana dispensaries

    ​Despite suggestions that he hold his horses and wait to see what the Colorado Legislature does, Charlie Brown pressed on with his proposal to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of Denver, and that proposal will go to a vote of the full council tonight, after a two-hour public ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: No moratorium on dispensaries in Denver

    ​Think the lines at the airport are long? They're nothing compared to the lines at the Denver Treasurer's office, where would-be dispensary operators are lining up to get their sales-tax licenses before any city ordinance might put limits on dispensaries. But the dispensaries will definitely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Live blog: Safety committee hears Charlie Brown's latest pot proposal

    Charlie Brown's back in the pot spotlight.​Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown is back before council's safety committee this morning, presenting his proposed ordinance to regulate the city's medical marijuana dispensaries. We're live-blogging the hearing. You'll find Brown's proposal at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Top Ten Indie Rock Songs of the Decade

    The chills-inducing men of Midlake​To some, indie rock is an aesthetic, something between Sonic Youth and Pavement that's played by people with in mop-tops and ringer t-shirts with cans of Pabst atop their amplifiers. Others, meanwhile, might define indie rock literally as music recorded and p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Senator Chris Romer at the marijuana fair: F-bombs mixed with kindness

    Senator Chris Romer visited the lion's den on Sunday -- if the lion's den was full of weed advocates, that is.​Senator Chris Romer, who's authored proposed legislation to regulate medical marijuana in Colorado, is a contentious figure in debate about the issue. He believes many younger people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Los Angeles' medical-weed scene: How not to regulate dispensaries

    ​Colorado politicians are delving head first into the state's medical-marijuana conundrum, developing statewide regulation bills and counter bills, not to mention hammering out municipal rules city by city. That's a good thing, since the last thing we want is for any of our communities to turn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Colorado marijuana makes the cover of High Times: Dank goodness!

    Zack Volk shows over his flower, lookin' all glossy.​The Cannabis Therapy Institute's Cannabis Holiday Health Fair, slated for Sunday, December 13, at the Holiday Inn, 4849 Bannock Street, will feature an unlikely autograph session -- one that should guarantee High Times for all. The February ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Senator Chris Romer submits a bill for pot!

    ​State senator Chris Romer could have used some medical marijuana last night, to soothe the headache of dealing with all of yesterday's complaints over his just-released, 63-page bill to regulate the industry. Among its provisions: creating a state licensing authority to handle licenses for bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Tax marks the pot in December tomorrow

    ​On December 1, the City of Denver will start collecting city sales tax from every medical marijuana dispensary in the city. "Tax revenue agents will be meeting with all dispensaries, giving them the information," says Denver City Attorney David Fine. Not that the city has a list of all the ... More >>

  • News

    November 26, 2009

    Colorado politicos have all gone to pot!

    ​On December 1, the City of Denver will start collecting city sales tax from every medical marijuana dispensary in the city. "Tax revenue agents will be meeting with all dispensaries, giving them the information," says Denver City Attorney David Fine. Not that the city has a list of all the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: While three cities put pot on hold, Denver prepares to fire up

    ​Fort Collins, Pueblo and Loveland have joined the ranks of Colorado cities with moratoriums on additional medical marijuana dispensaries -- although their actions yesterday were more limited than the hysterical "emergency" designation on the day's hearings had implied. Fort Collins wound up a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Dr. Reefer takes on Senator Chris Romer

    Dr. Reefer is open for business in Boulder -- but not yet in Denver.​In a blog published yesterday, state senator Chris Romer said this while discussing some of his ideas for regulating the medical-marijuana industry: "The medical-marijuana community isn't the only stakeholder here. Lots of su ... More >>

  • News

    October 29, 2009

    How medical marijuana regulations could turn the wild West into the mild, mild West

    Dr. Reefer is open for business in Boulder -- but not yet in Denver.​In a blog published yesterday, state senator Chris Romer said this while discussing some of his ideas for regulating the medical-marijuana industry: "The medical-marijuana community isn't the only stakeholder here. Lots of su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Can municipalities get away with regulating medical marijuana?

    ​With the Justice Department's announcement last week that it won't be prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states where the practice is legal, the feds loudly and officially passed the buck on the subject. That leaves it up to medical-marijuana states and their municipalities to determine j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: My life has gone to pot

    ​It's been three weeks since we first posted news of our search for a medical-marijuana reviewer. Within five minutes of that posting, we had our first application for this extremely part-time job. Within ten minutes, our first media inquiry. And the applications and media calls keep coming. ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2009

    For two decades, pit bulls have been public enemy #1 in Denver. But maybe it's time for a recount.

    ​It's been three weeks since we first posted news of our search for a medical-marijuana reviewer. Within five minutes of that posting, we had our first application for this extremely part-time job. Within ten minutes, our first media inquiry. And the applications and media calls keep coming. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2009

    Get Yer Peanuts

    ​It's been three weeks since we first posted news of our search for a medical-marijuana reviewer. Within five minutes of that posting, we had our first application for this extremely part-time job. Within ten minutes, our first media inquiry. And the applications and media calls keep coming. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Milking It: Cap'n Crunch's Christmas Crunch

    Christmas Crunch Quaker Oats Rating: Three and a half spoons out of four Cereal description: Corn and oat cereal that delivers a surprise package of shapes. There's the standard Cap'n Crunch serrated yellow bundles, plus green quasi-trees and kinda snowmen, red faux-hats and bogus stars, plus th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    West Wash Park rezoning fight gains steam

    In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residen ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Mytwinnworld.com doubles your purchasing pleasure

    In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residen ... More >>

  • News

    August 21, 2008

    Police and protesters look to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle for guidance

    In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Out of This World!

    In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residen ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    February 21, 2008

    Up and Coming

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

  • Home Entertainment

    January 17, 2008

    Up and Coming

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2007

    As God Is My Witness

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2007

    One More Time for Ruby Hill

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Pole Position

    Ruby Hill-area residents want to protect their views from eleven-story utility poles, but Xcel thinks it has the juice.

  • Home Entertainment

    March 30, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of March 30, 2006

    Ruby Hill-area residents want to protect their views from eleven-story utility poles, but Xcel thinks it has the juice.

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2004

    Aurora Goes Retro

    A new exhibit captures the 1950s lifestyle

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    A new exhibit captures the 1950s lifestyle

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Off Limits

    Age before duty

  • Music

    December 18, 2003

    Mistletunes

    Rounding up holiday discs that offer season's greetings -- and beatings.

  • Film

    November 8, 2001

    The Look of Hate

    Arthur Miller fixes his Focus on prejudice in 1940s Brooklyn.

  • Music

    February 24, 2000

    Sounds Like Fun!

    Happy hour at Charlie Brown's Bar & Grill.

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