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Strange Brewing takes action against homebrew shop that threatened lawsuit

After a long dispute with a similarly-named homebrew store in Massachusetts, Denver's Strange Brewing Company has gone on the offensive, asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the store's right to the name "Strange Brew." Strange said in a motion filed with the agency that it was tak ... More >>

Ska Brewing's next two seasonal canned stouts will focus on mint, orange blossom honey

Some people are going to hate Ska Brewing's Vernal Minthe Stout, a new canned beer made with spearmint, peppermint, vanilla beans and coco nibs. And some people are going to absolutely love the minty brew, the third in Ska's series of seasonal canned stouts, which will hit liquor-store shelves this ... More >>

Grand Lux Cafe closing tomorrow in Park Meadows

Going, going, almost gone. Tomorrow Grand Lux Cafe will join the ranks of eateries that have closed in Park Meadows. Five years ago, not long after the giant restaurant opened, then-critic Jason Sheehan had what might have been the worst shrimp scampi ever...and he didn't find much there that was ... More >>

The ten best concerts this weekend: Dec. 14-16

It feels like we say this every week, and we probably do, but we're continually astounded by how good we have it here music wise. If you haven't noticed, this time of year, the number of touring acts decreases dramatically, generally in line with the music industry itself, which pretty much slows to ... More >>

Viking Chris Kluwe tackles discrimination in major-league sports

Marijuana: John Suthers hits Silver Lizard dispensary with 59-count indictment

The office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has just announced a 59-count indictment against The Silver Lizard, a Denver medical marijuana dispensary reviewed in March by our MMJ critic, William Breathes. Among the claims: The center was selling marijuana for non-medical purposes to thirte ... More >>

Defense of Marriage Act ruling shows courts rejecting marriage inequality, activist says

Yesterday, the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a key provision in the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, shorthanded as DOMA. And while the ruling doesn't directly impact Colorado, where a fight over a civil unions bill killed not once but twice was the story of the just-completed legi ... More >>

Marijuana: Industrial hemp study bill approved, but hurdles remain

With the passing of HB 1099 yesterday, which creates a soil remediation study using hemp as the filtering agent, Colorado could be the first state in the nation to grow industrial hemp since the late 1930s. But passing the bill was just the first obstacle. Actually implementing the plan might be mo ... More >>

The Gaylord proposal in Aurora has unanswered questions, say Denver businessmen

The Clyfford Still Museum's Inaugural Exhibition tells the artist's story

Cookie Monsta on dubsteps move into the mainstream, crappy equipment and, uh, cookies

C is for cookie and cookie is for me. Don't get it twisted: Cookie Monsta (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Subliminal, Dodger, and Thorazine) is not some hairy, blue Sesame Street character that raids your cupboards in search of chocolate chips. He is 22-year-old British DJ, Tony Cook, and ... More >>

Clutch gets a beer named after it courtesy of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins

Clutch could use a cold one.​Colorado brewers love their music, whether they are talking about it, naming beers after it or rocking it in the brewhouse at volumes loud enough to malt barley on its own. Boulder Beer recently worked with String Cheese Incident keyboardist and song writer Kyle Ho ... More >>

The Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on Ahnold and disturbing ventriloquist dummies

​There's nothing like found footage to showcase a wide cross-section of humanity's most maladapted, inept and bizarre, and as far as that goes, nothing beats the original. Since 1991, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting old VHS tapes, and in 2004, they started editing down the we ... More >>

Harley Lappin: Private prison industry woos another top public official

​There are two revolving doors in every prison system. One is for the inmates, many of whom fail on parole and keep coming back. The other is reserved for top administrators who, even amid scandal, move easily from high-powered positions of public trust to high-paid jobs in the private prison ... More >>

Denver the guilty dog giving Denver the city a bad name? (VIDEO)

Video below.​Search for recent funny Denver videos on YouTube right now and you'll be taken directly to the tail -- tale, that is -- of Denver the dog, who doesn't exactly look innocent when he's asked if he got into the cat treats. Turns out Denver is actually from Maryland -- so is this a ca ... More >>

Colorado's No. 1 in fraud complaints: Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins & CO Springs in top 15

​Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network report for 2010, Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs all ranked among t ... More >>

Smartest states? Colorado's number three! But you knew that already...

​Yes, it's the latest meaningless survey that still somehow makes us feel good about ourselves. The Kauffman Foundation has declared Colorado to be America's third smartest state, behind only Massachusetts and Maryland -- both of which are kinda stuck up, frankly. Look below for the Colorado s ... More >>

Canada bans "Money for Nothing," but still missed a few offensive songs

​Yesterday the Canadian equivalent of the FCC decided to ban the Dire Straits' song, "Money for Nothing" from the radio because of the use of a certain slur. Fair enough, but it seems like they might be a little late to the party, as we're pretty certain Mark Knopfler and Sting could really ca ... More >>

Boston Fish Shack docks in the former Gelman's space

Lori Midson ​A month after closing Gelman's at 2911 West 38th Avenue, owner Michelle Gelman just reopened the space as Boston Fish Shack, a New England-inspired grubbery that's doling out classic seafood shack plates like fish and chips, cioppino, Maryland crab cakes, lobster rolls and New En ... More >>

Top Chef D.C., round five: Kenny curries favor in Elimination Challenge

Kenny Gilbert's curried eggplant.​Last night, Kenny Gilbert finally won the big one -- the Elimination Challenge -- and the look of relief on his face was palpable. He's been an obvious contender from the beginning on this season of Top Chef, but various glitches kept him from what he obviousl ... More >>

The guys who called Coloradans' d*cks small: Shmucks of the Week

"I'm small, but I'm powerful."​So ...I love city and state rankings. I even wrote a whole ode to them once. I'm fully aware that they're complete bullshit, just bait for us desperate blogger-types to suck down and spit out in the form of free publicity for whichever company pulled the alleged ... More >>

The Rackhouse Pub is set to open next week

​The Rackhouse Pub is slated to open next week with a slightly pared-down beer menu, but a seriously cool look. Located inside the former Heavenly Daze Brewery, at 200 South Kalamath Street, the Rackhouse will feature twenty tap handles (mostly Colorado microbrews), rather than the fifty that ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: The women's first round went well -- but what happened to Tennessee?

Legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt. Although most fans who fill out brackets during NCAA basketball tournament season only focus on the men's teams, the contest through the Archdiocese of Denver that my daughter Lora and I have participated in during recent years gives the women equal billing. T ... More >>

Sharles Johnson is a hero to his children -- and the arch-enemy of Jefferson County.

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