When Lonely Boy (also known as Joshua Heath) launched the Blend in Los Angeles about ten years ago, he envisioned the night as a combination — a blend — of electronic and live music. “At the time, I had a live band, and we wanted to do a night where…
How does a theater company create a play about a statue missing a conspicuous part of its anatomy? The project began when Buntport Theater member Brian Colonna saw “Landsdowne Hercules” at the Getty Museum and brought up the statue at a pitch meeting. “I saw the statue and was interested…
Warm Cookies of the Revolution, Denver’s one and only “civic health club,” is offering an intense training program in advance of the upcoming elections: the Two-Day Civic Workout: Show Us Your Muscles. “People can come to either or both of the days, and they are interrelated,” explains organizer Evan Weissman…
“The Moth is a place where people tell true stories on stage with no notes, in front of strangers, and the stories are on a specific theme,” explains director Sarah Austin Jenness. On a very basic level, that’s what you can expect from tonight’s Moth Mainstage: When Worlds Collide event…
Like ribs? Like doughnuts? Like music? Like pot? Hopefully you’ve snatched up an invite to tonight’s Wellspring Collective anniversary party. If not, well, we’ve got plenty more pot-related events where that came from. Here they are: See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Golden Meds in North Denver…
Every morning when yoga instructor Jeannene Levinson leaves her Stapleton apartment, she sees the area there known as The Green. “I kept thinking that it would be the perfect place to have a yoga festival. It was in my head every time I saw the space,” she says. So she…
Yesterday, a hearing was held about proposed modifications to Colorado’s medical marijuana rules, including regulations outlining how patients must apply for registry identification cards and how stakeholders can go about adding debilitating medical conditions to the state’s list. However, the most intense public testimony centered around a suggested change to…
The Moth is coming to Denver! The internationally beloved, true-stories-told-live-on-stage-without-notes series will host a Moth Mainstage event (the theme is “When Worlds Collide”) on Tuesday, September 30, at the Paramount Theatre. And it needs one more storyteller — a local one — to join the four others who’ll be standing…
Should recreational cannabis edibles manufacturers be required to ensure that their products are distinguishable from similar non-medicated products even outside the original packaging materials? That’s the tricky question that was discussed on Thursday, September 11, when a working group met to discuss implementation of the Smart Colorado-sponsored House Bill 14-1366…
If you’ve seen the billboards around town for Odysseo, which opens on Wednesday, September 17, in the Pepsi Center parking lot, then you know that tastemeister Larry King says this horse-and-acrobat extravaganza “surpasses the world’s greatest shows.” In fact, there’s a lot of hyperbole surrounding the performance, but after chatting…
Cannabis activists and industry workers have a busy day ahead of them today and tomorrow, between the CannaSearch job fair and Colorado Board of Health rulemaking hearing, both of which are scheduled to start early tomorrow morning. And there’s a lot more here for your dank datebooks, too. See also:…
The marijuana business in Colorado keeps growing — like a weed, as a matter of fact. Between August 1 and September 2, the state issued licenses to sell recreational marijuana to facilities in ten new cities — and none of them was Aurora. See also: Marijuana: Three Colorado communities to…
There’s a lot of movement in Colorado’s marijuana industry, but most of it seems to be taking place on the recreational side of the corridor these days. Between August 1 and September 2, 2014, one addition and four more changes were made to the state’s list of licensed medical marijuana…
Health care professionals from all over the country are gathering in Denver through Thursday for the Marijuana for Medical Professionals Conference at the 1770 Sherman Street Event Complex. Yesterday’s speakers covered a range of topics, including a care provider’s duty to the patient, the difficulties in dosing and detailed discussions…
Eleven dispensaries opened their to recreational marijuana users age 21 and older in Colorado in recent weeks — ten in August, plus one that we missed in our July roundup. The total includes four in Denver, three in Boulder and one each in four different municipalities around the state. Here’s…
Planning your schedule? We’ve got a rundown of all of the cannabis-related events taking place this week — and beyond — so you can jot them down in your datebook. Here’s our roundup: See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: The Green Solution in Denver…
On Friday, the CU Denver School of Public Affairs hosted its first Buechner Breakfast of the 2014-2015 school year. The topic: “Driving Stoned: The Challenges of Regulating Marijuana and Driving.” Most of the arguments about marijuana impairment and driving that panelists Robert Ticer (chief of the Avon Police Department and…
Vivienne VaVoom (aka Michelle Baldwin) has made a brand out of the “Burlesque As It Was” concept. Indeed, if burlesque has become a runaway train of popularity in recent years, VaVoom was the woman who drove that locomotive into Denver. And after earning accolades for her old-timey style of burlesque,…
It’s no surprise that the commenters at yesterday’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) public hearing for proposed rule changes to marijuana legislation brought up an array of associated social issues. And yes, they included representatives from Smart Colorado, including attorney Rachel O’Bryan, who noted that although increased regulation of marijuana edibles…
The Chipotle Sustainable Food Film Series is in its fourth year at the Denver Botanic Gardens – and that longevity has a lot to do with the sense of community that the series has created. “There’s a growing desire to know more about the food industry, where our food comes…
Sunrise yoga sounds like such a healthy thing to do for your mind, body and spirit — but not everyone has the discipline to get up early and stretch all on their own. Thankfully, the Denver Botanic Gardens has offered Sunrise Vinyasa Yoga for the past three years, and it’s…
Many of the individual events that comprise the Wild West Weekend have been taking place in Estes Park for years, but in 2013, they were rolled up into a single weekend for the first time and presented as a group. This year’s version of the extravaganza begins again today. An…
