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The Seven Hats

Scientific American
Self-released

Marijuana: High Times will likely sue if treat-pot-mags-like-porn provision goes forward

Last week, in a post about some of the more unusual aspects of the main bill to regulate Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of cannabis, we highlighted a passage that would require marijuana magazines to be kept behind the counter of general re ... More >>

Japanther's Ian Vanek on the DIY scene, 'zines and the authenticity of handmade objects

Japanther (due tomorrow night at Glob) was started by a pair of art school students who wanted a way to create art beyond the confines of a specific medium or traditional methods. The resulting New York duo has been just as involved in the art world and performance art as it has been in writing raw ... More >>

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast talks Steve Martin and alien abductions tonight

The New Yorker might be just as well known for its cartoons as it is for its 10,000-word stories, and one of its illustrators, Roz Chast, who's been cartooning for the magazine since 1978, will speak tonight at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, with a book signing to follow. Aside from dra ... More >>

Reader: Only magazine that doesn't feature pics of hot, barely dressed girls is the New Yorker

The debate over the scrapped Hot Ass contest and fake-orgasm competitions at HempCon 2011, an alleged medical marijuana event, continues to broil even though the bash itself is over. Here's a post taking on the question of centerfolds in pot-oriented publications.

True Colors

Ninja Tune outs alleged leaking journalist

In the music industry, leaks seem as inevitable as they are unavoidable these days. Leaks have often forced labels to rush the release of their records months before intended. Such was the case recently with Ninja Tune, the London-based electronic imprint founded by Coldcut and DJ Matt Black, who is ... More >>

Denver Magazine's Michael Ledwitz denies stiffing advertisers, staffers after pub closed

Michael Ledwitz.​After last week's item about Denver Magazine shutting down, with its key assets purchased by rival 5280, the comments section exploded, with numerous posters accusing Michael Ledwitz, the defunct mag's CEO, publisher and editor, of ripping off advertisers. It's a charge that o ... More >>

Reader: Denver Magazine announced new sales manager hire days before selling assets to 5280

​Journalists love when blog comments include new info about the story, as was the case with a post about 5280 purchasing Denver Magazine's assets. Turns out that Denver mag issued a press release announcing the departure of its longtime sales manager shortly before pulling the plug. Connection ... More >>

The Source of All Things: Boulder-based author Tracy Ross on her harrowing journey from sexual abuse victim to survivor

​In 2009, Tracy Ross, Senior Editor for Backpacker Magazine, won a National Magazine Award for her December 2007 essay The Source of All Things, a story quite unlike any of the tales of outdoor adventure she'd previously written about. The essay centered on a hike she took as an adult with her ... More >>

Zines and Beans

Making the Zine

With The FILTH and the FURY!! game you can pretend to be a music journalist

​Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked a surge in music 'zine p ... More >>

Palisade's Wine Country Inn gets props from Wine Enthusiast magazine

​Italy, Spain, Portugal and ... Colorado? So says Wine Enthusiast magazine, which recently named the Wine Country Inn in Palisade one of seven favorite vineyards where you can also get some R&R, or, in its words, "sleep with the grapes." Here's what the mag had to say:

Free Energy

Saturday, June 26, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Porn magazine and ecstasy go together -- and lead to Justin Feinberg's arrest

What an appealing hiding place.​The publishers of Penthouse pride themselves on bringing ecstasy to their readers. But usually not the powdered kind. Justin Feinberg, 23, had other ideas. He tried to ship eight packets of ecstasy out of state in the pages of a Penthouse -- a brilliant scheme ... More >>

Medical marijuana returned by sheriff's office a year after seizure: See the photos

Photo by Timothy Tipton, courtesy of Cannabis Health News Journal (click to enlarge)​Yesterday, reporter Joel Warner told you about Araphaoe County's decision to return two pounds of marijuana from Colin Olmstead more than a year after it was seized. The ganja was being driven to a dispensary ... More >>

Cannabis Health News Magazine by patients for patients

The cover of Cannabis Health News Magazine's issue number one.​Yesterday, we told you about several folks featured in a Colorado-centric issue of High Times, who'll be autographing copies of the mag at the Cannabis Therapy Institute's Cannabis Holiday Health Fair, slated for Sunday, December 1 ... More >>

After 68 years in the food porn business, Gourmet magazine is dumped from the menu

​Damn. Gourmet magazine, the Condé Nast publication that's been pimping food porn for nearly seventy years, is done. The somber news, which was delivered in a memo from Condé CEO Chuck Townsend, didn't come as much of a shock to industry insiders, many of whom have predicted the magazine's d ... More >>

While India.Arie rocked the Mile High Music Fest, her brother nearly rocked the big house

ManeLine, UmConcious make URB's Next 1000 list

URB Magazine has covered the hip-hop and electronic music scene for close to twenty years. Each year they've devote an issue to the next 100 artists they believe are going to blow up in the coming year, aptly named URB's Next 100. But in 2007, they switched the game up and launched URB's Next 1000 a ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain at an altweekly?

At a recent appearance in California, Anthony Bourdain revealed that the first article he ever wrote was supposed to appear in an alternative paper, the New York Press. According to the Santa Barbara Independent story: After finishing the op ed that would later inspire Kitchen Confidential, Bourdai ... More >>

The Empress rules!

Super Star Asian may rate as the Best Dim Sum in Denver, but according to Chinese Restaurant News magazine, the Empress Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant -- a more upscale, white-tablecloth joint located nearby at 2825 West Alameda Avenue -- ranks as the sixth-best Chinese restaurant in America, far ahead ... More >>

Green Thumbs Up

Catch Jamaica Kincaid at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Denver Post Distributes Parade Magazine Article Presenting Benazir Bhutto as Still Alive

Baby Bargains Dishes Dirt

Alan and Denise Fields are on a mission to warn new parents about the baby/industrial complex.

Airing Mile High on Denver Sports Radio

The Rocky-Go-Round

2005 MasterMind Awards

Best Bookstore for Readers Who Have Time (and Life) on Their Hands

Denver Book Fair

Best Copy Shop

Power Imaging, Inc.

Best Events Bulletin Board

Alley parking lot behind Sancho's Broken Arrow and Kitty's East

Best Anarchist Bookstore

Breakdown Book Collective and Community Space

Best Appearance by Colorado Newlyweds in a National Magazine

Gary Magness/Sarah Siegel
In Style Weddings

Best Appearance by Colorado in a National Magazine

Seven Lakes Lodge
Sports Illustrated

Best Comeback

Mountain Gazette

Best Metal Zine

Throat Culture Magazine
www.throatculture.net

The Prize Patrol Returns

Westword winners

Best New Non-Fiction Book

Powder Burn
Daniel Glick

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad.

Off Limits

Dead air

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally.

It's Black and It's Proud

In the Black isn't seeing red anymore.

Best performance by a Coloradan in a national magazine

Jessica Biel

Best place to take an afternoon nap and feel smart

Main library, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Pen

Prison censors' motto: What you don't know can't hurt us.

ONE'S COMPANY

BILL GATES--NOT THAT BILL GATES--HELPS HIMSELF TO SOME QUALITY TIME. READ ALL ABOUT IT.

OFF LIMITS

MOUTHING OFF