Today AdCellerant and Voice Media Group (Westword's parent company) announce the launch of their programmatic advertising network for businesses in the cannabis industry, an entirely new service that will allow marijuana entrepreneurs to market themselves more effectively on the Internet through programmatic display advertising. AdCellerant will work with Voice Media Group...
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This is a big weekend for big events in Denver — PrideFest, Juneteenth and Denver Comic Con — and after the shootings in Orlando last weekend, you can anticipate higher security at all of them. Comic Con poses a particular challenge, since fantasy weapons are such an intrinsic part of...
Dan Jacobs, the director at the University of Denver's Vicki Myhren Gallery, used to be a high-ranking staffer at the Denver Art Museum. As a result, he has brought museum-like programming, like the current exhibit, Learning to See Color, to the Myhren. Jacobs and co-curator, Jeffrey Keith, a well-known Denver artist and...
Two local breweries had big years in 2016 and are hoping for even more in 2017. Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project "saw the culmination" of its $3 million customized brewery — one that includes a coolship; a new hard-piped, stainless-steel fermentation cellar; twice as many wooden foeders; and new packaging...
Last month we reported that four female pilots, with help from the ACLU, had filed discrimination claims against Frontier Airlines with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The pilots charge that Frontier Airlines has unfair practices regarding pregnancy and does not provide adequate accommodations to female pilots who are breastfeeding. Now, the...
Slot houses, as they've been dubbed by CU Denver's Christine Franck, are among the most controversial, and most hated, building styles currently on view in the Denver metro area. But there's another approach that raises the hackles of Denver City Councilman Rafael Espinoza: garden court buildings, which are supposed to...
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Boulder is under attack — from television producers eager to mark the passage of two decades since the murder of JonBenét Ramsey. And while the number of TV types who have reached out thus far is fairly modest, officials anticipate more, and are in the midst of developing a strategy about how...
We're not in the habit of advising people how not to become a Schmuck of the Week. That would be bad for business. Still, it's just common sense to avoid drawing attention to yourself while committing a crime. Apparently, though, common sense is one thing Denver's Nicholas Broviak lacks. So, too,...
According to RTD, Civic Center Station, located on Broadway between Colfax and 16th Street, is among its most used transit centers. But just over two weeks from now, the 15,000 passengers who use it a day will be unable to use it — for a year. Why? RTD is embarking...
Nothing has ever persuaded me more that our dialogue is broken than the current political quagmire. When I began the Mayday Experiment, one of my goals was to try to change the conversation and have in-person dialogues about sustainability, as opposed to arguing about the existence of climate change —...
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Fourth Judicial District Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez has found that Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear is incompetent to stand trial for a clinic attack that killed three people and injured twelve others in November 2015. Instead, he'll be interred at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo for reasons that are...
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For years now, as we've reported, families with sick children have been moving to Colorado for medical marijuana access — especially those whose kids suffer from assorted seizure-related disorders that have responded favorably to MMJ, which is typically administered via pills, liquid or patch. However, such kids face an obstacle when...
In March, 2015, we told you about a sex-filled lawsuit against Terry Maketa, formerly the El Paso County sheriff. Among other things, the suit accused Maketa and Undersheriff Paula Presley, one of three employees with whom he was said to have had affairs, of practicing sexual favoritism and running a...
A decision by state court officials to remove the presiding judge in an infamous death-penalty case just days before he was expected to issue a long-awaited ruling on thorny issues dealing with possible prosecution misconduct has drawn fire from defense attorneys. They claim that the abrupt dismissal of Arapahoe County...
West-side pizza aficionados will finally be able to get their fix of Neopolitan pie when the third outpost of Racca's Pizzeria Napoletana fires up the wood-burning oven and swings open its doors at the Colorado Mills shopping center on West Colfax Avenue on Monday. If the name doesn't quite ring...
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery outposts around town. Rosane Volchan O’Conor grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied music...
June brings fun and games — and lots of color — to Denver galleries with a First Friday grab-bag of shows to satisfy every taste. The weather’s great for an art stroll or two or three; here are some spots to put on your itinerary. The Nkisi Project 965 Gallery,...
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As summer draws to a close and the school year begins in earnest, workaday concerns crowd out the carefree vibe of summer. But you still need to get out and enjoy yourself, so we've assembled a list of ten shows that demonstrate the wide variety of comedic entertainments in town...
Two years before starting the wildly exuberant keyboard-drum duo Matt and Kim, Matt Johnson met Kim Schifino at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute — and he was instantly intimidated. “I grew up in a small town in Vermont,” Johnson says, “and I’m a little bit younger than Kim is — and here’s...
Over the years, anti-marijuana groups have argued that greater legal access to cannabis inevitably leads to increased teen pot use. Last year, for example, Project SAM, an organization co-founded by former Representative Patrick Kennedy and launched in Denver, claimed that national figures from the Department of Health and Human Services showed...
As we've reported, the number of officer-involved shootings in the metro area has been on the rise, particularly in Aurora, where three OIS incidents have taken place in May. Even so, it came as a shock to Boulder residents when such a shooting took place in that idyllic community, too...