Twenty-five years ago this week, Colorado voters approved Amendment 2, whose backers portrayed it as outlawing "special rights" for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The measure's passage on November 3, 1992 provoked outrage nationwide, with Colorado's branding as the "hate state" resulting in boycott calls from singer Barbra Streisand and other members of the national entertainment community. But while Amendment 2 was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 1996 ruling, a University of Denver professor sees its legacy in the current Masterpiece Cakeshop controversy and other cases she considers to be problematic on every level.
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The hilarious twin duo recently made a long, strange stop in Denver while recording a comedy special.
The current offering at William Havu Gallery, Transmutations, brings together three abstractionists — a sculptor, a painter, and an artist who uses smoke on paper to create drawings — for solo shows that masquerade as a group effort. Occupying the floor space are sculptures by well-known Denver artist Michael Clapper,...
Denver artist Nick Scotella's heading to Atlanta for Bassnectar’s Annual New Year's Eve celebration as one of only eighteen artists selected by Lorin Ashton's team to participate in the event.
Becca Williams provides the cannabis, always CBD-dominant and usually in flower form, but there’s no requirement to smoke.
After more than forty years with Colorado Public Radio, the majority of it as the organization's president, Max Wycisk has announced that he'll step down as CPR's boss at the end of June 2018. But he stresses that his move shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of turmoil within the state's largest and most powerful public-radio network.
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Gun violence is a common occurrence in Colorado. In July, at least 67 incidents involving guns took place across the state. Not all of them resulted in injury or death, but each could have. See where they happened here.
Trimming is one of the final steps in yielding a successful harvest, and proper technique and equipment is critical to the process.
Forty teams of medical marijuana growers put themselves to the test in the Grow Off, a competition that gives commercial marijuana cultivations the same genetics and then tests the harvest for potency, terpenes and yield.
The MED had been holding stakeholder meetings and accepting public feedback on many of the proposed rules since September.
Even though Coloradans voted to legalize medical marijuana use in 2000 and recreational pot sales in 2012, employers in the state can still legally sack workers who score positive for cannabis on drug tests. But the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws' local branch is trying to change that. Denver NORML executive director Jordan Person says the organization is currently looking for Colorado legislators to sponsor a bill that would prevent businesses from, in her words, "firing people on Wednesday for performing a lawful activity on Saturday."
Three Sweet Leaf budtenders arrested for alleged illegal cannabis sales saw their first court date in Denver County Court on Friday, December 29, with one of the defendant's attorney leaving the court feeling optimistic.
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Ten days after a double murder outside a bar on one of RiNo's hottest blocks, no arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. But the Denver Police Department is hoping to change that and is asking for the public's help in identifying the killer or killers of two fathers, Guillermo Ornelas and Jose Herrera-Cabral.
Jordan Knecht is interdisciplinary art in motion—as he tells us below, he relies on whatever tools he can master as a means to an end, whether it’s for multimedia installations, fine art, performance art, making music, making noise and often, for a combination of all of the above and more.
With the temperature dropping, pho season is here. After stopping by the legendary Pho 95, Nick Evans decided to make his own version of beef noodle pho at home for DIY Takeout. But some readers think this is one dish he should have skipped.
A year after moving away from its longtime home in Vail, the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival is still adapting to new digs in Breckenridge. But the second iteration of the renewed festival, taking place January 4-6, at the Beaver Run Resort, should reflect some of what the festival’s...
Talk about a crazy ride. This year has been filled with controversy and hot button issues, like sexual harassment allegations, gun reform, basic LGBTQ+ civil rights and, who can forget, angry teachers storming the Capitol as part of the #RedforEd campaign. Of the more than 700 bills legislators considered this session, here are the most significant pieces of legislation that passed and failed.
The Globeville, Elyria-Swansea Coalition Organizing for Health and Housing Justice released a comprehensive survey that finds that residents of GES are in the early stages of experiencing mass displacement as a result of the influx of development in their neighborhoods.
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As Labor Day approaches, many locals focus on getting back to business after months of summertime idleness. As a result, September can feel like a rather humdrum time. Luckily for comedy nerds, the entertainment calendar for September is packed with standup showcases, wrestling matches and even an improv show. Here are the ten best ways to laugh September away.
This is part two of our three-part Beermuda Triangle series, which explores the Beer Depot, Tennyson's Tap and the Berkeley Inn, three bars at the corner of West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street that are as easy to get lost in as the mysterious waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Read...
While the USPS has been catching more packages with pot, as much as 90 percent of the marijuana that's mailed is not detected.
Yesterday, September 17, Denver Baby Animal Save posted a Facebook video detailing what the activist group characterizes as the rescue of three chickens from a local business identified elsewhere online as Long Shadow Farm in Berthoud. The clip, on view below, has resulted in an explosion of responses on social media, prompting a debate about whether this action constituted a bold gesture on behalf of respect for all living creatures or criminal behavior.