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Readers: Here’s Why Study Calling DU, Metro Sexist Is Crap

We recently shared information from a CollegeStats.org study that put DU and Metro State University of Denver on a list of the ten colleges with the most misogynistic tweets. The analysis was odd for a number of reasons — not the least of which was that the results skewed far...
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Cannabis Wins at the Ballot Box: Which States Legalized Marijuana?

Marijuana dominates at the ballot box. Voters in nine states voted on marijuana legalization measures yesterday: five on proposals to legalize recreational marijuana, and four on medical marijuana measures. While Arizona voters chose not to legalize recreational marijuana, California, Massachusetts and Nevada all passed recreational legalization measures (Maine is too...
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Pantyraid’s Martin Folb on South Africa and Whether Trap Is Dead

Last weekend, MartyParty's fast set rocked the otherwise laid-back Block Festival in downtown Denver, and afterward, Westword got to chat with Martin David Folb, the sole DJ behind MartyParty and one half of the duo known as Pantyraid. MartyParty, which Folb describes as "drum and bass, which has now turned into halftime...
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“Get in There and Create”: Pablo Larraín on Jackie and Neruda

Pablo Larraín is having a good year. The Chilean director, Oscar-nominated a few years ago for his 2012 political drama No, has just released Jackie, featuring a striking Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s assassination. He is also about to release Neruda, a complex,...
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Review: Jason Middlebrook’s Drawing Time Dazzles at David B. Smith

Mid-career artist Jason Middlebrook, who lives and works in Hudson, New York, is the subject of an elegant single-artist show titled Drawing Time at David B. Smith Gallery. This is Middlebrook’s first solo at the gallery, but his work has been exhibited nationally for over twenty years and acquired for important...
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Remembering Jack Splitt: MMJ Jack’s Law Namesake Loses Fight for Life

In April, we told you about Meagan Patrick, whose pre-school-age daughter, Addelyn, is an epilepsy sufferer who's made huge strides since she began using medical cannabis treatments. However, Addelyn's public preschool didn't allow MMJ to be administered — although liquid Valium is okay. House Bill 16-1373, co-sponsored by Representative Jonathan Singer, was...
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Retrograde

The crew at this space-themed speakeasy likes to get weird, which often results in the most memorable cocktails in town – some with ingredients like duck fat, soy sauce and caramel miso (it’s all fair game here). But first you’ll have to stride through the Frozen Matter ice cream shop to the walk-in cooler without […]
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Lawsuit: Denver CARES Detox at Mile High Stadium Is a Moneymaking Scheme

Plenty of drinking takes place at Mile High Stadium, particularly during Denver Broncos games like the team's painful loss to the New England Patriots this past weekend — and fans Denver police officers feel have over-indulged frequently find themselves in detox under the auspices of Denver CARES, a behavioral health...
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Daylight Savings Time and Eight Other Very Bad Choices We’ve Made

We all know it: Daylight Saving Time sucks. Like Columbus discovering America and diamonds coming from coal, the story of daylight savings—that we did it for farmers—is complete bullshit. The true origins lie somewhere between wartime, energy conservation, and politics; farmers, in fact, were staunchly against it as a practice, so the fact that they became blamed for it is insult to injury.Daylight Saving Time isn’t the only thing that remains part of American culture out of sheer inertia. The great John Oliver has a superb occasional feature called “How Is this Still a Thing?” that covers ridiculousness like Daylight Saving Time, including everything from Columbus Day to the popularity of Ayn Rand to pennies. But it’s not just tradition that sometimes sticks us with a terrible and yet still voluntary mess—sometimes, we see the pothole, and we drive over the damn thing anyway, wrecking our national alignment. Here’s a list of other disasters we’ve gotten ourselves into…you know, if we really insist.
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Meet Nahid “Dr. Venus” Moshrefi, Alleged Defrauding Cancer-Faker

At Colorado Springs-based Holistic Healing Health, she's known as Dr. Venus K. Moshrefi, a specialist in natural healing therapies. But the First Judicial District DA's office refers to her as Nahid Moshrefi, who allegedly bilked an elderly man out of more than $30,000 by pretending to have cancer. If true, these actions...