Willie Nelson, Nathanial Rateliff team up for cannabis line
Singer-songwriter Willie Nelson and Denver’s own Nathaniel Rateliff have teamed up to promote a new line of cannabis products ahead of Rateliff’s annual holiday concerts, cannabis PR agency Grasslands said this week. The new strain of cannabis flower is part of Willie’s Reserve: The Nightstache Collection, which also includes a vaping cartridge that launched in August just before Rateliff’s annual Red Rocks concerts. The strain is “hand-selected from local grower AJ’s Craft Cannabis,” according to Grasslands, and was made available starting Dec. 11 to promote Rateliff and his band The Night Sweats’ Dec. 13-14 concerts at Mission Ballroom. williesreserve.com
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Jake Jabs loves a parade
Jake Jabs, the founder of American Furniture Warehouse and a personality so colorful he was parodied by “South Park” in 2007, will lead the 2020 National Western Stock Show Parade, the nonprofit organization announced this week. Jabs, a “Stock Show enthusiast” and Colorado business legend, will act as Grand Marshal of the event’s 114th annual rodeo, livestock competition and cowboy-culture gathering at the National Western Complex, Jan. 11-26. The Stock Show Kick-Off Parade begins at noon Jan. 9 outside Union Station before marching 15 blocks down 17th Street to Tremont Street in downtown Denver, the Stock Show said. nationalwestern.com
MCA goes full-spectrum
The Museum on Contemporary Art Denver on Tuesday unveiled new glasses for colorblind visitors that correct their vision to show the full spectrum of the rainbow. The partnership with EnChroma, which manufactures the specialized spectacles, makes MCA the first Colorado museum to offer the glasses. “It was honestly a very emotional experience for the four people who tried the glasses on,” MCA spokeswoman Courtney Law wrote via email. “Our first visitors in the door (on Tuesday) were a gentleman and his father, in his late 70s, who had never experienced the full color spectrum before.” According to MCA, colorblindness affects about 350 million people worldwide, with more men (one in 12, or 8%) than women (one in 200 women, or 0.5%). The glasses are free for visitors to use while perusing the museum. mcadenver.org
Evans School open to artists, events
The historic Evans School, at 1115 Acoma St. in the Golden Triangle, is now available for rental to artists and event planners, its new owners said this week. That’s a stark contrast to the preceding 40-plus years, which found the 115-year-old building sitting vacant. The roughly 48,000-square-foot building, which sits on the National Register of Historic Places, is licensed to operate as office space, The Denver Post has reported. But its new owners are courting arts and culture events as well. “Thirty rooms totaling 50,000 square feet are available immediately,” City Street Investors said in a press statement this week, “and an auditorium seating more than 100 are ready for conferences, performances, and other meetings and special events” Short-term leases will be available throughout the long-term planning process that begins next year. citystreetinvestors.com
