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Ten Marijuana Books for the Weed Nerd in Your Life

Some tokers are happy with smoking bud and leaving it at that, but others are interested in the historical and political context of the plant as well as its medicinal properties. Whether you're shopping for someone who wants to learn how to grow, extract or cook with cannabis, this list...
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Colorado’s Healthiest and Least Healthy Counties: Losers Include Denver

The 2017 County Health Rankings for Colorado vividly show the relationship between health and money. The Colorado counties that scored best in the report tend to be the most affluent, while the ones that finished toward the bottom of the roster are typically poorer. But there are exceptions to this rule, as witnessed by Denver winding up near the back of the pack when it comes to the CHR's two main metrics.
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Palenque Mezcaleria Launches Mezcal-Based Cocktail Menu

Palenque Mezcaleria became Denver’s first bar specializing specifically in mezcal, tequila’s smoky sibling, when it opened in April. After a few months of experimenting with mezcal drink recipes, bar manager Chris Wingate has released Palenque’s first cocktail menu, which offers a small collection of his staff’s creations. While Wingate and...
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Your Election Night 2016 Guide to Live Music in Denver

We've endured the seemingly endless death spiral of the 2016 presidential campaign, cast our votes and taken selfies of our flag stickers...now what? We'll be obsessively watching tallies and forecasts, but once the polls close, we need safe havens, distraction, healing and maybe even celebration. We need music, people, sweet music. Here are seven concerts in Denver on election night 2016.
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Top Ten Colorado Colleges for Value

Back in March, we posted about the ten best U.S. colleges for value according to SmartAsset — and one Colorado college made the cut. Now, SmartAsset is getting even more Colorado-centric. The site has revealed its picks for the ten best Colorado colleges for value, and while the top choice...
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How Denver Became the Fast-Casual Restaurant Capital of the World

The first Chipotle opened in 1993 at 1644 East Evans in Denver and eventually spawned a company that today oversees more than 2,300 locations — and counting — around the world. It also inspired countless copycats and hungry entrepreneurs to rush into what would soon be dubbed the “fast-casual” segment of the restaurant industry, radically reshaping how Americans eat in the process.
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Albus Brooks Grilled at Heated Community Meeting in Five Points

As people began shouting at Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks at an October 4 meeting at Brother Jeff's Cultural Center, Jeff S. Fard – better known as Brother Jeff — grabbed the microphone. “I hope that everybody’s hearing what’s taking place,” the moderator said sternly. “Trust me, I don’t know if...
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JonBenet: Paula Woodward on New Book, John Ramsey, Burke-Did-It Claims

The media barrage about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey is nowhere close to being over, as witnessed by The Killing of JonBenét: Her Father Speaks, an A&E documentary broadcast last night, in which John Ramsey, the father of the six-year-old Boulder girl murdered on Christmas Day, 1996, blasted a CBS series in which a...
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Review: Arvada Center’s Looking Back Is a Real Reason to Celebrate

An inordinately large proportion of Colorado’s art-exhibition venues — including alternative spaces, galleries, museums and art centers — are located within the relatively confined area of central Denver. We’re talking about approximately 80 percent of the art infrastructure in the entire state. And while a number of surrounding suburbs and...
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Pokemon Go Infests Denver With Japanese Monsters

Tiny Japanese monsters have suddenly invaded Denver. If you download the free Pokémon Go app, you'll see them popping up all over town: high-tech versions of the characters introduced to America on Pokémon cards two decades ago. While the app leaves something to be desired on a technological level (the augmented...
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New Denver Concert Announcements

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe will perform Prince's Dirty Mind with Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore at the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, October 29. Tickets ($25) go on sale Friday, September 2, at 10 a.m. St. Lucia, who recently played at the RiNo Music Festival, will headline the Ogden Theatre on Friday, October...
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Ten Best U.S. Colleges for Value — Including One in Colorado

Colorado colleges often fail to score great grades on national surveys. Last year, just two Colorado institutions made the top thirty in an NPR roster of premier U.S. colleges. And in recent weeks, we noted that a ranking of America's best public colleges featured just one Colorado school in the top...
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Ten Happiest U.S. Cities and the Two Colorado Places on the List

Each year, Gallup-Healthways issues its well-being index, which, among other things, attempts to determine the happiest cities in these United States. And Colorado communities regularly make the cut. That's true again this year. Two Front Range community finished in the top ten, based on the following criteria: Purpose: Liking what...
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Twelve State Capitals Supposedly Better Than Denver

Usually, we're able to keep lists ranking cities and states in perspective — maybe because Denver and Colorado so frequently wind up at or near the top of them. But there are exceptions. For instance, we were absolutely flabbergasted a couple of years back when Ranker suggested that there were...
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Review: CSFAC Curator Blake Milteer Caps a Career With Stephen Batura’s Solo

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has made an outsized contribution to our state’s cultural life over the years, showcasing the most important artists associated with Colorado and mounting one impressive exhibition after another. This has been particularly true since the completion of the hypersensitive addition designed by David Owen...