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SIA 2012 top five Items for gear junkies

Not these GPS things again...The SnowSports Industries of America trade show that filled the Colorado Convention Center last week has melted away -- but not before we got the drop on some hot new items that will be on the shelves in your favorite shop this year. Technology has only gotten better, an ... More >>

It's Canned Craft Beer Day! Celebrate with Star Bar or by toasting Ska Brewing

Update: The Cheeky Monk is also celebrating Canned Craft Beer Day at its Colfax and Westminster locations. Try two canned beers from Belgium, Wittekerke and Bavik Pils ($5), along with Maui Coconut Porter, Avery IPA and Ska True Blonde ($4). The canned craft beer revolution began ten years ago in L ... More >>

Top ten Westword marijuana news stories of 2011

​From regulations changing and shops being raided, to pizza delivery guys calling the cops on tokers, it has been an interesting year for medical marijuana in Colorado. Below is our top ten list of Westword's most popular marijuana stories of 2011 as well as links to the original posts.

Colorado beer calendar: Great American Beer Festival edition

Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Well, not when there's this much beer around. Welcome to Great American Beer Festival week in Denver -- which is, for some, the most wonderful time of the year. And the presents have already started arriving. But whether you have tickets to the main ... More >>

Ten ways to be a beer geek this week, even if you don't have GABF tickets

​The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest, most well-known beer festival in the world. But there are only about 55,000 tickets issued for the three-day event, which starts Thursday -- and they sold out in a record seven days this year. Still, sometimes the best parts of the GABF aren't ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Top Shelf Alternatives in Boulder

​Top Shelf Alternatives is a questionable name. The owners likely meant to suggest they carry top-shelf medicine compared to other shops in town, but depending on when you visit, it could mean the complete opposite.

Out-of-state brewers are flooding Colorado with their latest and greatest beers

​While some Colorado brewers have been pulling their beers out of other states recently, breweries from other states continue to try their luck in Colorado, where craft beer seems to flow in the streets like water and in the veins of its residents like blood. Since the beginning of 2011, at l ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Good Chemistry on Colfax (No, really, it's there)

​Four different people have told me that they either circled the block or walked right past Good Chemistry on Colfax numerous times before locating the rather nondescript dispensary. I did both. The pot shop is in a narrow space in an old retail building, a block east of the capitol between Hi ... More >>

March Reefer Madness: Releaf Center holds a Sweet Sixteen of ganja (PHOTOS)

​For the first time in my life, I actually care about filling out a Sweet Sixteen bracket in March -- and it has nothing to do with basketball. Sixteen strains of medical marijuana were chosen for the March Reefer Madness tournament, all from the gardens of the Releaf Center. Much like the NC ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Rocky Mountain High -- Cherry Creek

​Rocky Mountain High fits in well with the expensive clothing boutiques in high-end Cherry Creek North. Not because it's got sky-high herb prices, but because the place literally is an expensive, vintage clothing boutique in exclusive Cherry Creek North.

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Belly up at La Conte's Clone Bar and Dispensary

​If Denver really is the wild west of medical marijuana, then La Conte's Clone Bar and dispensary makes a pretty good town saloon.

Tallgrass Brewing brings its canned beer to Colorado this week

​Just weeks after Maui Brewing began shipping its beer to Colorado, another brewer that packages exclusively in cans will enter the market. But Tallgrass Brewing out of Manhattan, Kansas, doesn't have as far to go. "It's just a little eight-hour drive," says brewery owner Jeff Gill. Tallgrass ... More >>

The Dark Side of the Holidays

​Just weeks after Maui Brewing began shipping its beer to Colorado, another brewer that packages exclusively in cans will enter the market. But Tallgrass Brewing out of Manhattan, Kansas, doesn't have as far to go. "It's just a little eight-hour drive," says brewery owner Jeff Gill. Tallgrass ... More >>

The warm taste of Maui Brewing is on its way to chilly Colorado

​On November 15, a shipment of Maui Brewing Company's canned beers left Hawaii by boat, bound for one of the ports in Southern California -- and eventually for Colorado. It hasn't arrived yet. But it might soon, and when it does, says Dave Watson of the CR Goodman liquor distributorship in C ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Releaf Center revisited

​From the outside, and even once you walk in, not much appears to have changed at The Releaf Center since our Mae Coleman first visited back in September of 2009. The bars on the front windows are gone, but they still have ample floor space, a dance-studio mirrored wall in the entryway and cas ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Winds of change blowing over Stone Mountain Wellness

​Stone Mountain Wellness first caught my eye months ago when they took home prizes for top buds at a Boulder cannabis cup. Since that time, the shop has come under new ownership as a member of the Canna Club dispensaries. Among other things, this means the award-winning chronic Stone Mountain ... More >>

Maui Brewing's CoConut Porter and fifteen other Great American Beer Festival stars

Cigar City's beers were smokin'.​Maui Brewing Company was one of the first breweries I wanted to hit at this year's Great American Beer Festival. The Lahaina-based brewer was named Grand National Champion at the United States Open Beer Championships earlier this year and has been getting natio ... More >>

Great American Beer Festival: 25 things I learned in 2010

​1) No matter how prepared you are for GABF, it is still overwhelming. 2) San Diego County makes more amazing beers than some entire regions of the country. 3) Maui Brewing's CoConut Porter was one of the most heavenly beers I have ever tried. Even better, sources say they'll begin distribut ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Hawaiian Herbal Health offers the islands at a mile high

​In "Mile Highs and Lows," Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer's college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes's review of H ... More >>

Great American Beer Festival: A dozen non-Colorado breweries to try

​Colorado makes some of the best beers in the world, but when the Great American Beer Festival is in town, it's your chance to try something from another state, especially the ones that are talked about by beer aficionados across the country. We're lucky in that some of these breweries - like ... More >>

Marijuana entrepreneur tries to trademark the word "ganja" with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

​On April 1, the U.S. patent office announced a new trademark: "Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana." The category was killed three months later when the Wall Street Journal asked about it, but in the meantime ganjapreneurs nationwide filed some very interes ... More >>

The Beer Buckle company looks to expand by a few notches

Buckle down.​The only thing better than drinking your favorite beer: wearing it. At least that's what the founder of the Beer Buckle is hoping as he searches in Denver and Boulder for a place to open a new store dedicated to branded beer fashion. Jay Kriner founded the Beer Clothing Company i ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: The Giving Tree

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword is offering a no ... More >>

Mile Highs and Lows: Lotus Medical

Agent Orange is one of Lotus's secret weapons.​​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help ... More >>

Mile Highs and Lows: Boulder Kind Care

​ As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offerin ... More >>

PETA is hunting down the country's sexiest vegetarian

Vote for me, Marie!​If you're one of those people who doesn't poison your body with pork, cow, fowl, things with fins or anything else that might be construed as meat by PETA, then we have just the contest for you. The animal-rights group is in the final throes of its annual Sexiest Vegetarian ... More >>

Mile Highs and Lows: One Brown Mouse/Cannabis Healing Arts

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering ... More >>

Mile Highs and Lows: Evolution Medicine Services

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering ... More >>

From the week of December 10, 2009

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering ... More >>

Troy Guard's TAG: Play that funky music, white boy!

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering ... More >>

Top Meds: Award-winning medical marijuana strains

All hail the munificence of Haze-Wowie!​Afghani, OG Kush, Purple Skunk, White Widow... With so many strains to choose from at local dispensaries, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Thankfully, a variety of medical marijuana contests have popped up around Colorado recently, and they ... More >>

Chef and Tell with Brian Laird of Barolo Grill

Lori MidsonAll fired up: executive chef Brian Laird of Barolo Grill ​"It was a step off the cliff for sure, but at the same time, I just knew that I was a good fit for the job," says Brian Laird of Barolo Grill, the Northern Italian restaurant whose kitchen Laird has cooked in for the past twe ... More >>

Colorado is fourth happiest state -- despite all that stress!

A Flickr photoSee: even our puppies are happy!​The barrage of apparently contradictory surveys continues. Just last week, we told you about American Psychological Association survey that showed Denverites are more stressed than Americans nationwide. Now comes a roundup from the Gallup Organiz ... More >>

Top Model's Nicole can win this thing, bitches!

Nicole is seen merging Japanese and Malagasy with fierceness.​Early on, Louisville's Nicole Fox seemed too quirky to have a real shot at taking the America's Next Top Model cycle thirteen crown. But over the past few weeks, she's become a force as unstoppable as her flame-colored hair, and her ... More >>

From Cañon City to Maui: Ex-con Weldon Long's strange trip

​It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed "worthless piece of shit" -- then ... More >>

CSU's Japan earthquake test: best experiment ever

Yesterday, a Colorado State University team led by civil engineering professor John van de Lindt successfully staged a very large-scale test in Miki City, Japan. They've come up with a new approach to building earthquake-proof (or at least more earthquake-proof) buildings, and to see if they're on ... More >>

Thousands of true-believing teens descend on downtown for Dare 2 Share conference

Dare 2 Share's Greg Stier. Some 10,000 evangelical Christian teens from around the state and region will descend on downtown Denver today and tomorrow for the annual Dare 2 Share conference at the Pepsi Center. They may even show up at your door on Saturday asking for canned goods – and wanti ... More >>

Gospel Journey Teens Dare 2 Share

Greg Stier is raising an army of adolescents to help save your soul.

Dare 2 Share Web Extras

Greg Stier is raising an army of adolescents to help save your soul.

John Doe Rises Again

An ex-member of X puts poetry in motion.

Irish Ay-Yay-Yay-Yay’s

Don’t blame Ireland on the Mexicans.

Towering Inferno

Pinnacle Club

Dream Acres

Architectural gems abound in Englewood.

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing.

Hard to Swallow

This month's energy-drink events calendar.

The Talking Penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight.

Titles With Subtitles

The World Cinema Series

Lame Dunk

The World Cinema Series