The Sun Valley housing projects have gone through a beautiful transformation. Crime in this impoverished Denverneighborhood has seen a moderate drop over the past decade, thanks to more funding from the city to clean up Sun Valley streets and protect kids who attend Fairview elementary school. Now even the dumpsters…
Going out for a night on the town but pretty sure you’re going to be partaking in cannabis? Loopr to the rescue. The “mobile cannabis lounge” is a marijuana-friendly concept bus ride, similar to The Hopper, that’s like a shiny new Uber for stoners. Loopr revved up this week, with rides from 4 p.m. to…
Murals have been blooming like Denver’s cherry blossom trees this spring. No sooner had we settled on our award-winning mural in the Best of Denver 2016 than amazing street art started popping up around town. Here are the ten best new street-art murals of 2016 (so far)… 10. Dread Horseshoe Lounge 414…
The humidity increases as you enter the 43,000-square-foot grow facility tucked into a discreet location in the Stapleton neighborhood. Erik Williams, MiNDFUL’s national director of public affairs, leads the tour through a series of automatically locking doors and into the warehouse. With each door we pass through, the cannabis smell gets…
Pop. That’s a word that seems to inadvertently water down the expected quality of music because it implies its entrance into the mainstream. I’m here to say, wild and poignant pop still exists, and the 1975 personifies it. These talented musicians from Wilmslow, Cheshire, England have accrued a cult fanbase…
Caution, gratuitous motor bike-porn lies ahead! Threepence is revving up motorcycle culture in the Mile High City. Owners Alex Krill and Wesley Case are Denver natives who’ve been running Threepence for nearly five years. They started the business in a private shop that was closed to the public, and in February finally…
Children screaming, smoke, a war zone at times, and also, utter bliss. The inaugural Lantern Fest in Denver held high hopes and was the first in the state this year as the Colorado Springs two-night event last weekend was cancelled due to a snow storm (it’s been rescheduled for May 20…
The Mile High City has been mourning Prince in a big way this week. After hearing news of his passing on April 21, and getting over the initial denial, artists and city officials hit the streets to celebrate his legacy. Film on the Rocks even added a special Purple Rain…
A rhinoceros walked out of an open gate at the Denver Zoo into an area where employees were working Thursday, April 21. No civilian visitors were in the area at the time, and no one was injured. According to the zoo staff, the 2,000-pound one-horned rhino named Bandhu normally has “an exceptionally…
Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado, 4/20 is a big business — and that means things can go wrong in a big way, with policies that feel anything but pot-friendly and force the cancellation of some of the marijuana-friendly events our city has held so dear. Here are…
Westword’s Best of Denver celebrates everything to love in the Mile High City, from old venues to new, hair to food, and art both private and public. There’s so much going on in Denver’s art scene, we had trouble narrowing down the new public art contenders — created between the 2015…
This might come as a shock to many of the citizens in Denver but 4/20 ISN’T ABOUT YOU. The infamous date has gotten a lot of flack lately, mostly in the argument that it has become overrun with commercialization. Everyone is trying to capitalize off of the plant in every…
The Lantern Fest will take off from Denver (or the Colorado National Speedway in Dacano, which is close enough) for the first time on April 23. The event is so hot it sold out fast, but people still have burning questions about how it will all go down. Here are answers to ten…
Ritualcravt holds more sparkly goodness than you’d expect to find inside one store — unless it happens to be an eco-craft store, where every gem, bone, fur, nest, petal and potion is the real deal, not some fake geode, and all chosen with care by owner Missy Rhysing, who opened the…
Damn, this is a state full of pranksters — especially joke-loving business owners who have pretty amazing graphics departments. From a meow-thful of new beer from New Belgium, to a magical blend of coffee that you can actually buy from Huckleberry, to the newest barber shop in town specializing in…
If you ever wanted to go back to the Aztlan, now’s your chance. Tim Correa could write a book on the past thirty years of running the Aztlan Theatre with his wife Aurora. “We’ve seen it all,” he laughs. “More or less.” Upon entry to the front bar, the couple…
Your Broncos MVP, ladies and gentleman, can’t stop passing gas. In a classic Von Miller move, the linebacker and hometown hero told the Dancing With the Stars judges that he has been getting fined for being late and farting too much by his dance partner Witney Carson. The price? A…
The start of a new season brought another pairing dinner from Mason Jar Productions, featuring newly grown cannabis as well as Blackbelly Market chef/owner Hosea Rosenberg, back for another round. The March 24 event was hosted by MiNDFUL, a dispensary that operates out of an historic storefront in Black Hawk, as well as…
A travel ban in Denver? Say it isn’t so! Denver International Airport, bill as the “all-weather airport,” was closed, as were the roads leading to it, as of 12:34 p.m. today, March 23. The spring snowstorm, which has exceeded 24-inches of accumulation in some parts of the state, took the entire…
The team over at Denver’s RMG Engineering have made a killer infographic with ten reasons explaining why Red Rocks Amphitheatre is one of the most amazing venues in the country. Nay, on the planet. And we could not agree more. But, hey, we’re pretty biased. “We decided to make this infographic…
The writing’s on the wall. While many political pundits have counted Bernie Sanders out, there are plenty of people in this state (the same people who helped Sanders win the Colorado caucuses) who still want him to be the Democratic nominee, as evidenced by the hashtag #StillBernie trending on Twitter…
Mike Giant is a veteran artist of almost three decades, an OG in the graffiti game — but also a practicing Buddhist with an awe-inspiring presence. A transplant to Colorado who arrived almost two years ago, Giant works in a big garage studio behind his property in Boulder, continuing a…
