On December 10, the same day he signed Amendment 64 into law, Governor John Hickenlooper assembled a 24-member task force charged with developing policy recommendations. One of its members? “Addiction” expert Dr. Christian Thurstone. “I was personally sad for kids about the passing of 64,” Thurstone told Sam Levin. “But…
No one could have predicted that all the wacky doomsday predictions tied to the Mayan calendar and December 21, 2012 would mark a new beginning for PeaceJam, the homegrown effort that links Nobel Peace Prize winners with kids, teaching them how to make a difference in the world. But assuming…
The query came from Jim Romensko, who covers media across the country: “Hi Patti, I’m checking to see how Colorado news outlets are responding to the relaxed marijuana law. Have you screened new hires in the past? If so, will you hire journalists who smoke marijuana on their own time…
Representative Ed Perlmutter wants to introduce gun-control legislation on the first day of the new Congress, and is calling for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. Representative Diana DeGette wants to pull the trigger on gun control even earlier — this week, if possible. She’s joined with other Democratic…
“Does the GOP have a death wish?” That’s what former congressman, former gubernatorial candidate and longtime rabble-rouser Tom Tancredo asks, in the wake of a number of Republicans signing off last week on the Colorado Compact on Immigration. Tancredo, who left the Rrepublican Party to run for governor in 2010,…
Josh and Jen Wolkon and their talented crew put plenty of time and planning into Ace, the ping pong hall/bar/restaurant in a renovated 9,000 square foot garage next to Steuben’s, their second restaurant. (They opened the first, Vesta Dipping Grill, fifteen years ago.) And when Ace opened in August, it…
For our New Year’s Guide, we asked thirteen cultural tastemakers three specific questions — but since they’re all very involved in the local arts scenes, their answers were very different, and very wide-ranging.As programming manager for the newly christened Sie FilmCenter , Keith Garcia works hard to bring eclectic first-run…
If the world doesn’t end on December 21, maybe something else will disappear: all the rumors and speculation regarding the Mayan calendar. As they worked with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum on Mayan Renaissance, Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff started collecting the worst myths about the Mayan predictions…
If the world doesn’t come to an end on December 21, it could be the start of very big things for PeaceJam. “We’re an overnight success story…seventeen years later,” says Ivan Suvanjieff. Actually, he got the idea for PeaceJam almost twenty years ago, during Denver’s so-called Summer of Violence, in…
Conspiracy theories are flying about the shootings at Newtown, and the e-mail that Alan Prendergast received over the weekend pretty much summed it up. Under a subject line that read “Someday we Might get the Truth from the Owned & Controlled Puppets in the Press,” the writer launched into a…
The lights went on outside the Lowenstein yesterday — ten hours after we published a post about frustrated business owners who’d had been kept in the dark about the status of the “enhanced transit corridor”” project along East Colfax Avenue. But shortly after 6 p.m., we got the word from…
Jake Adam York passed away Sunday, dead at forty after suffering a stroke. It’s a sad loss for Denver, where he taught at the University of Colorado, and a sad loss for this country’s cultural scene. But he lives on in his poetry — and the memories of the students…
The McRib has been resurrected for the holiday season, and Jenn Wohletz celebrated its reappearance yesterday in her Merry McRibness ode. But not everyone is celebrating its return (or another fast-food post on Cafe Society). See also: – Merry McRibness! A holiday poem -The McRib is back, and Denver’s got…
Denver has been very, very good to some New Jersey transplants — and now they want to give back to the state where they got their start. From 5 to 11 p.m. tonight, they’ll gather at Vesper Lounge, which Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno opened this past Saturday, to “raise a…
Businesses along a stretch of East Colfax Avenue have been in the dark about why, well, they were still in the dark last week – months after a new lighting project had started on the street, as part of a package of city improvements to “create an enhanced transit corridor.”…
During the public hearing portion of yesterday’s Amendment 64 task force meeting, one member of the audience asked if the group would address the issue of DUI charges related to pot, a topic that Fox31 recently took on. And then a marijuana activist took on Fox31, accusing the station of…
Jax is about to add a fourth location, in the new City Set development in Glendale, behind the Hilton Garden Inn at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Cherry Creek Drive — an area definitely shy of good restaurant options. Jax isn’t the only eatery going into the project: Udi’s…
Colorado is one of the country’s top two markets for Tuaca, a liqueur as ubiquitous as snow (and sometimes more so) in the high country. But how did that happen? Blame it on two Summit County bartenders who came across the brand on their travels, then made it at home…
A week after John Hickenlooper signed Amendment 64 into law, and four days after President Barack Obama said that the feds have bigger fish to fry than prosecuting recreational users of pot in states that have made it legal, Colorado’s Task Force on the Implementation of Amendment 64 will have…
Can there ever be too much bacon? Diners were in hog heaven at last weekend’s Bacon and Beer Festival, featuring craft beers from some of the state best breweries as well as bacon in every form imaginable, some edible — and some not, as the photo above indicates. It was…
The Louie C.K. show at the Paramount Saturday night sold out fast. But even if you couldn’t snag a ticket, it’s easy to catch up with the comedy of Louie C.K. The web is full of examples of how his standup specials have not only changed the course of comedy…
Pardon our dust! Exactly a year ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a complicated land swap at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge — the former nuclear weapons plant, minus several hundred acres too contaminated to go public — that would expand the refuge to the west in…
