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The Ten Best New Street Murals of Spring — Paint the Town!

Denver street art never sleeps, but it does hibernate during the winter. Now that spring is here, you can see new murals all over town — just in time for the International Art Materials Association convention at the Colorado Convention Center that opens today and runs through April 17. Some...
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Teen Pot Smoking Declines Nationally, Study Finds

One of the most popular arguments among marijuana-legalization critics is that greater cannabis accessibility for adults will lead to more use by teens. But a new study from the University of Michigan calls that assumption into question. Michigan researchers found that teen pot use actually declined this year despite legalization...
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What’s Developing in Denver Isn’t Pretty

As I was driving through Jefferson Park yesterday on a short detour to get to the 20th Street Gym downtown, I finally saw the horror with my own eyes. It's one thing to see photographs of it, but to actually witness that kind of destruction is overwhelming. I'm talking about...
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Is the Grateful Dead Screwing Over Its Fans?

The Grateful Dead is still noteworthy, fifty years after the San Francisco band’s emergence amid the remnants of the Beats and the beginnings of the hippie generation. According to longtime Grateful Dead Hour producer David Gans (who also co-hosts the Grateful Dead channel on SiriusXM with Gary Lambert), “People are...
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Beer Calendar: Hops, Key Lime, Brewery Anniversaries and a Call to Arms

Two beer-related Colorado crowdfunding campaigns have recently launched. The first is for Lady Justice Brewing Company, which describes itself as "the world’s first solely women-run, community-focused philanthropic brewery." The three women behind the concept — which would be organized as a low-profit limited liability company — are looking to raise $15,000...
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Marijuana Lawsuit Claims Legal Pot Grow Makes Horse Riding Less Pleasant

When we previewed the announcement of new lawsuits targeted Colorado's pot laws (filed by Safe Streets Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based group that misspelled "marijuana" in its press release), we noted that one of the challenges for the plaintiffs would be establishing standing in court — in other words, demonstrating that...
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Controversial Medical Pot Caregivers Bill Passes Senate Committee

The pool of medical marijuana caregivers and patients could get smaller under provisions of a bill that's now been endorsed by a bipartisan Senate committee. SB 15-014, sponsored by Senator Irene Aguilar, a Denver Democrat, swept through the Colorado Senate Health and Human Service Committee by a 5-0 vote Thursday,...
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Bald Tires on Snowy I-70 = $100 Fine Under New Bill

Coloradans know that driving through the mountains on Interstate 70 when it's snowing can be a nightmare, particularly given the volume of traffic coming and going from ski areas and roadside tourist attractions. But are drivers whose tires aren't in great shape making a bad situation worse? That's the theory...
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William Matthews: Drawn to Paint

William Matthews, who grew up in San Francisco, didn’t set out to be a Western artist. His first show in Denver, in the then-just-six-year-old Larimer Square, featured pastoral watercolors and poster typography. But in the early ’80s, Matthews was invited to Elko, Nevada, for a cowboy poetry gathering, and it...