If you’ve tasted Teakoe iced tea at one of the various Colorado eateries that carry it: Illegal Pete’s, Larkburger, Hacienda Colorado, Woody Creek and more, then you’ve experienced how habit-forming small-batch iced tea can be — and now, Teakoe is putting its tea bags on the shelves of area gourmet…
The inaugural Weedstock, a three-day conference at the Westin Hotel-Tabor Center, examined the investment opportunities that have opened up in the cannabis world. The event featured numerous securities-and-exchanges experts offering tips for prospective investors — and many, many prospective investors looking for information and leads. At one breakout session, analyst…
Now that the Outdoor Handmade Homemade Market is in its third year, it’s easy to forget the event’s humble origins — as a bartering party for crafty folk. “It came out of somebody’s living room and back yard,” notes Handmade Homemade’s Stephen Toma, “and it was an opportunity for people…
Suzie Ahlers, boardmember of the Rotary Club of Five Points Cultural District, has wanted to throw an event with food trucks ever since the food-truck scene exploded in the city a few years back. So in some ways, tonight’s Final Friday Food Truck Fiesta is a dream come true for…
Between the hotel-room antics of Maureen Dowd and a tragic pot-related tourist death and a fatal shooting earlier this year, marijuana’s national image has taken some heavy hits recently. All of those incidents involved edibles — and like members of any industry, marijuana salespeople (medical and adult-use alike) are concerned…
Although Arish Ahmad “King” Khan (of King Khan and the Shrines fame) lives in Berlin — which isn’t too far from Amsterdam — he says it’s not common for the crew he runs around with to travel to the Netherlands for pot. But he was beyond thrilled to purchase marijuana…
Last winter, Sara Martinelli, owner of Three Leaf Farm, decided to host an art show in her barn. “It was a huge success; we had tons of people,” she remembers. “So I thought I’d do it for the summer solstice, too.” The big draw of Art on the Farm is…
We’ve known for a while that we have some amazingly talented burlesque performers in this city. But now, the rest of the planet has been put on notice: Earlier this month, Denver burlesque cutie Midnite Martini (aka Kim Townsend) was crowned Miss Exotic World in Las Vegas at the annual…
The consumption of certain products can contain inherent ethical conundrums — and those are the sorts of conundrums that cause outright hostility between, say, vegans and carnivores. What you eat is part of the issue, but another equally important component is how that food product was created and, perhaps, how…
Fans of Tom Robbins have (rightfully) wondered what the creative powerhouse has been up to since the publication of his most recent book, B Is for Beer, in 2009. For decades, the mystical-realism giant has been creating worlds that captivated readers, and many of his books have become New York…
Colorado sure loves the arts, as shown by the lineup of summer festivals — and one of the best is the annual Denver Chalk Art Festival, which turns Larimer Square into one big canvas. “It’s a unique opportunity for people to see art being created from the ground up and…
There is a generally agreed-upon set of rules among young and hungry music fans: You show up early, you stay late, you find new things, you stand in the front. That’s how Amber Taufen learned to love music. It’s how she met her husband, in fact. But in this week’s…
The first time I met with my doula, she asked me about all of my feelings and fears about going into labor, about what was important to me. Much to her surprise, I told her one of those things was music. But she was supportive. She told me I should…
Jordan Wieleba is an old hand at creating captivating variety shows, and for her latest effort, Something Fabulous, she’s making the venue — Blush & Blu, Westword’s pick for Best Lesbian Bar in 2014 — one of the stars. “A big part of this show is the atmosphere,” Wieleba says…
When it comes time to plan a new production of Stories on Stage, creative director Anthony Powell is sometimes lucky enough to have his audience do the work for him. “For How Does Your Garden Grow?, one of our subscribers just said, ‘You should do a garden show — and…
When Govinda’s Garden, the weekend-only vegetarian/vegan dinner buffet, re-opened last October, it quickly became insanely popular; within a half-hour of the restaurant openings its doors, the dining room was usually full. And now we’re going to get even more of a good thing: another dinner and three lunch shifts have…
Raising money isn’t easy, which is why Brent Heinze, the organizer of Flame 2014: Colorado Queer Music & Art Festival, tried to think of creative ways to get people to donate money to LGBTQ youth programs. “I wanted to do something that related to the gay community, and there’s such…
Christopher Moore is one of those rare authors who can charm people who don’t particularly enjoy reading. His whimsical, irreverent style has been applied to vampires and demon lizards and even the story of Jesus Christ. In fact, one of Moore’s signature traits is his ability to take a well-known…
Author, researcher and counselor Kat Duff says she’s always loved sleep, but she didn’t start delving into the topic seriously until about a decade ago. “I started to notice that many of the clients who came to me as a counselor were not sleeping well,” she says. “And when we…
There’s nothing like getting whomped with colored powder at every kilometer marker when you’re running a 5K — which is probably why events like the Color Run have become so popular during the past few years. But today’s event at Copper Mountain is going to be unlike other, similar events…
The transportive power of music never ceases to amaze me. Whenever I hear the Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” it’s suddenly 1997 inside my head; I’m back in high school, daydreaming while sitting on my bedroom floor, and my little blue boombox’s dial is tuned to my favorite radio station, which…
I love electronic music. I love the sound, the artists, the parties, the people, the scene — in fact, I’m into pretty much everything about this particular genre of music. But there’s one thing about electronica that I’m really, really not into. At all. It’s the term “EDM.” I hate…
