The first rule-making hearing of the Department of Revenue's Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority, slated for 10 a.m. this morning, has been deemed an emergency. But why it should be categorized as one puzzles the Cannabis Therapy Institute's Laura Kriho, who notes that this terminology has previously been used in an...
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Citing Boulder's mishmash of granola-eating tree-huggers and a flourishing entrepreneurial landscape intersected by academe and technology, Kiplinger's Personal Finance has rated the city among the most promising for the next decade. Here's how "Best Cities 2010" describes the community, which ranks in the fourth position, behind Austin, Seattle and Washington...
I could use this entire page — and many more — to talk about what a lost opportunity the 2010 Biennial of the Americas turned out to be. I'd start out by exploring the story of the stillborn "In Good We Trust" theme thought up by Bruce Mau, who split...
Them Crooked Vultures • Mini Mansions Fillmore Auditorium | 4.19.10 The rawk fist (index and pinky for horns, thumb tucked) is a tricky little bugger. It's a totally sincere expression of rock-induced euphoria with all the subtlety of a billy club. Them Crooked Vultures earned thousands of rawk fists Monday...
This week, Manny Howard signs a book about his backyard farm in Brooklyn, KGNU hosts a bourbon-tasting benefit and Colorado State University puts farmers through a Beef University. But there's lots more cooking if none of that wets your whistle. Here's a taste of what's to come: Tuesday, June 1:...
Coloradans who read today's kill-joy piece in the Denver Post, which says one Coloradan dies every hour from cardiovascular disease, might be in need of a little pick-me-up. And we've got just what the doctor ordered for Colorado's heavy-hearted health nuts. According to a recent Gallup poll, Colorado was the...
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Keeping track of all the individuals and organizations duking it out on the front lines of the state's medical-marijuana debate is trickier than picking through the med strains at your corner dispensary. To help weed through the chaos, we've created this guide to the state's top marijuana power players, complete...
Keeping track of all the individuals and organizations duking it out on the front lines of the state's medical-marijuana debate is trickier than picking through the med strains at your corner dispensary. To help weed through the chaos, we've created this guide to the state's top marijuana power players, complete...
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers's name was recently juxtaposed with that of an extremely unsavory fellow -- serial killer Scott Lee Kimball. A front-page Denver Post story over the weekend noted that Suthers, who was then a U.S. Attorney, "signed the order that transferred the habitual criminal and escaped convict...
You won't find Donna Simpson, world's fattest woman, anywhere near this state. As David McSwane reported here yesterday, a recent Gallup poll crowned Colorado as the winner in the competition for slimmest U.S. metro cities, with its four largest metro areas taking a huge bite out of the top ten...
While the Aurora Police Department still has plenty of work to do regarding a double shooting yesterday at the Sommerset Gardens Apartments, the APD appears to have finally cleared a previously unsolved crime from its books. Diane Caldwell, 47, was found murdered in a field in November 1998 -- but...
Almost everything pot-related you could ever think of was on display at the Colorado Cannabis Convention over the weekend -- everything but cannabis, that is. More than 300 vendors were on hand for the event - mostly dispensaries trying to get their name out to the public and gain new...
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Summer Guide 2010
You can always count on SAFER head Mason Tvert to defend the honor of marijuana. Note that he's previously praised a study showing teen toking is on the rise but binge drinking is falling and advocated a boycott of Starbucks, allegedly because the coffee titan supports the anti-pot Colorado Drug...
The panhandler outside looked happy. The hostess inside looked happy. The server looked happy. And we were happy, to take a break from our marathon drive across Colorado to look at colleges and sit down in a booth in a Boulder restaurant with a nice view of the Pearl Street...
This is part two of Lori Midson's Chef and Tell interview with Eric Stein, chef/instructor at Johnson & Wales. To read part one of that interview, click here. Most embarrassing moment in the kitchen: I worked for a restaurant called Adesso in Providence, Rhode Island, that featured an open kitchen...
For politicians, being arrested is never a good thing -- and the combination of alcohol and firearms doesn't improve the situation. Yet David Cox, one of three Republicans running for Colorado House District 54, has no plans to stop running -- and he's clearly hoping his extremely detailed explanation of...
Lists about cities! Here in Colorado, we love 'em! Because they're usually flattering -- like the ones that named Denver the 13th best place in the country for singles and in the top ten for raising children. But these achievements are piddling in comparison to Boulder's finish in a new...
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The Lincoln Diet’s a Riot
As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy...
Late last month, the Denver Post published a piece about Colorado Springs having to cut some basic city services -- including turning off a third of its street lights on one day -- due to its horrific revenue situation. Since then, the left-wing blogosphere has piled on, with sites like...
Even as protesters complain about the repercussions of Denver's medical marijuana ordinance, the City of Boulder is on the cusp of making permanent its own procedures. A first reading of proposed regulations will be heard at tonight's Boulder City Council meeting. The folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute are encouraging...