Every Friday night since 2013, thousands of car enthusiasts have scanned their Facebook feeds, waiting for Manny Rivera to announce the first location and time of the weekly 1320 CC meetup (the club’s name is a reference to the length in feet of a quarter-mile drag race). When the information is live, hundreds scramble to gather for a “cruise.”
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The current edition of the American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare, would make the opioid epidemic and the overall addiction crisis in Colorado and beyond infinitely worse, says the man behind one of the state's leading addiction treatment centers.
Need a laugh? These are the best comedy acts coming to Denver in November 2017.
While paper may seem a flimsy theme around which to organize art, it adds up to three solid shows at the Arvada Center.
The recent arrests and legal actions against a former Marijuana Enforcement Division official and several marijuana industry license-holders here in Colorado has been touted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as an example of why this industry is not working. In actuality, a regulated system like the one in Colorado has created a boom for us in the areas of job creation, revenue generation and increased law enforcement support.
After more than two years, the prosecution of a massive federal drug investigation dubbed Operation Black Rhino is nearly over thanks to the conviction of Jorge Loya-Ramirez, a Mexican citizen living in Denver who allegedly used a taco truck as cover to deal nearly 200 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine in kilogram quantities. And he wasn't the only Black Rhino target to earn punishment. The U.S. Attorney's Office reveals that of the 38 others named in one of four federal grand jury indictments related to the inquiry, only one had his case dismissed. Find out what happened to all the defendants below.
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Sommer Browning is primarily a poet and, by day, a librarian, but she’s also a collector and purveyor of one-liners, both in person and in hand-drawn comics, as well as a curious observer of Denver’s growing cross-cultural art scenes. Her latest project? Georgia Art Space — a new multi-disciplinary arts showcase named for her five-year-old daughter and housed in her garage.
I just learned today from Google that the neighborhood surrounding Regis University in Northwest Denver is actually called Regis. I always thought it was somehow part of nearby Berkeley, but I stand corrected. In this stretch of residential blocks, with a few small businesses here and there along the swath...
Two new studies on marijuana consumption and acceptance show changing landscapes in public support toward state's rights and a stark admission on workplace use.
What happens when parents can't pay outstanding debts on school lunch? Denver Public schools says, "Let them eat graham crackers and milk."
Roommates may be an experimental rock band, but its members are unabashed pop-music fans. Guitarist Alex Goldsmith says the title of the group’s debut full-length, Victoria, is a nod to Spice Girl Victoria Beckham.
As we've reported, rents in Denver are finally coming down after a long period of sky-high costs that added immeasurably to the difficulty of making a living in Denver despite the booming economy. But the prices aren't exactly a bargain for pet owners. Even the complexes with the best deals for lovers of dogs, cats and other critters typically require hefty, non-refundable deposits that range up to $500 and significant monthly fees.
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South High School has become a haven for refugees who come to Denver from around the world. Author Helen Thorpe spent a year in Eddie Williams' class, learning from the students as they learned English and how to be an American.
In this op-ed, Tershia d'Elgin, author of The Man Who Thought He Owned Water, discusses "the naked truth" about the Colorado Water Plan.
Author and activist Erika T. Wurth puts a modern face on Native American life, which she characterizes as a vital, but invisible underground, thriving beneath the homogenized American landscape. When she’s not away teaching creative writing for her gig at Western Illinois University, Wurth, a native Coloradan who identifies as Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee, writes novels and poetry and can be heard at readings about town.
Jamaal Edwards, who had previously been found guilty of second-degree murder for killing John Shoeboot in January 2015, has now confessed to culpability in the death of James Clyde Brown during the same incident. But his plea in the Brown case was to manslaughter, not murder, and the admission doesn't add one day to his sentence for actions that he summed up to investigators by using the two-word phrase, "Shit happened."
Buddies Wellness LLC is having a tough week. The medical marijuana cultivator, which sells its products through La Bodega dispensary, voluntarily recalled its concentrates because of possible pesticide contamination July 25. But it didn't end there: On July 27, the City of Denver announced that Buddies Wellness was the first Denver marijuana grower recalling marijuana for mold and mites.
This afternoon, organizers of the Denver 420 Rally will formally file an appeal to a decision by the City of Denver to prohibit them from applying for any event permit during the next three years and rescind the priority status that's let them to regularly stage the annual gathering at Civic Center Park on or around April 20. According to rally attorney Rob Corry, the officials who ordered the ban, which followed complaints about trash at the park the morning after the get-together, have trumped up trivial matters in an arbitrary, unconstitutional way that suggests a bad reaction to the smoke plume that rose over the park at 4:20 p.m. on the day of this year's event.
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Whether you simply want to get out and explore the city or you're resolved to get an early start on your resolutions, there's plenty to do this week in Denver, which is capped off with two free fireworks shows on December 31.
This week, Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan and nine other members of the advocacy organization ADAPT pleaded not guilty to trespassing and other charges related to a three-day sit-in at the office of Senator Cory Gardner on June 29. And next week, several of the activists, many of whom have disabilities, are scheduled to be back in court regarding another matter. On Monday, July 24, the first of those cited for a previous protest targeting Gardner will go on trial, and there's definitely crossover between the two groups.
Denver has created a public-private partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation and other groups to establish a new neighborhood career resource center that will provide training and jobs for residents of the communities most impacted by the Central 70 project.
On August 21, the moon will cover the sun over a narrow, sixty- to seventy-mile swath across the U.S. for the first time in nearly a century.