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Ohio Rejects Pot Initiative as Colorado, Denver Fatten Up on Tax Revenues

While the results of the Jefferson County School Board recall were the biggest election story locally, there were plenty of other important measures that went before Colorado voters, including Proposition BB, which was touted as allowing the state to spend excess tax money generated by marijuana sales beyond state estimates — a requirement...
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Four Amazing Feats of Broncos Pride for Orange Friday

Today is officially Orange Friday, as proclaimed by Mayor Michael B. Hancock, and buildings all over the city will get lit up in orange and blue to celebrate the home team. But the celebrations have spilled far beyond Denver, all the way to a sculpture hoax in Asia. Keep reading for...
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How the Spring Storm Forced Me to Piss Into a Cup

Yesterday's spring storm closed Denver International Airport for only the second time ever (DIA is open again, but delays remain) and turned some of the highways in and around the metro area into parking lots for hours at a time. I know about the latter from personal experience. I was...
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Beer Calendar: Tappings at TRVE, Dry Dock, Wit’s End, Cerebral, Grandma’s

While breweries might argue over whether bottles or cans are better for packaging beer, two of the companies that make rival packaging equipment are joining forces. Meheen Manufacturing, a well-respected, two-decade-old Washington-based maker of craft-beer bottling lines, and Wild Goose Canning, the Boulder canning-line upstart, have merged into one business...
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CVA Votes for Political Satire and Caricatures, Both Old and New

When I think of the Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University’s off-campus art center, I think of contemporary art because that’s what’s typically shown there. So I was surprised to find the place decked out, in part, in James Gillray’s hand-colored etchings from the late 18th and early 19th...
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Oskar Blues Stuns Industry, Buys Florida’s Cigar City Brewing

Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it's rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters...
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Opiates for the Masses Brings the Street Into Helikon Gallery

Karl Marx has been quoted — not quite accurately — as calling religion the "opiate for the masses." If art is your religion, you'll want to overdose on Opiates for the Masses, a new show at Helikon Gallery that's guest-curated by Myah and Scott Bailey, the busy duo who own Sally Centigrade gallery.  In...
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The Ten Best Newly Packaged Colorado Craft Beers of 2015

Colorado soared past the 300 brewery mark in 2015, helping it remain one of the biggest, most important states in the nation for the craft brewing industry. But it isn't the numbers so much as the variety and quality of our beer that makes Colorado shine. In the meantime, bottling...
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One Flew West Collaborates With CU Denver for New Video

When Denver band One Flew West set out to make the music video for the single “Had It All” (which debuted this week) the band got help from an unexpected place: students at University of Colorado Denver. The Cam Records course is a requirement of the music business program at...
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The Twelve Halloween Costumes Googled Most in Colorado

Estately, the website that revealed the top ten cities for douchebags (including two in Colorado) is back with a timely list: "The Costume Ideas Each State Googles More Than Any Other State." Findings are based on a whopping eleven years of Google Trends data. The results are both fun and...
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Driving-While-Stoned Cases Are a Hazy Area of Colorado Law

Melanie Brinegar woke up one morning in July 2014, took her daily dose of medicine and then headed to work. She never got there. Police pulled her over for an expired license plate, then noticed an empty dispensary bottle in the back of her car. Brinegar, an employee of RiverRock...