It’s been a long, gnarly year, hasn’t it? At some point we’re going to look back at 2020 and laugh … maybe … but right now, most of us are looking back at the last year and wincing in pain. That’s to be expected after living through a...
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Hello out there! This is Blaze and Puf, your two friendly neighborhood potheads. Last issue we kicked off a new feature in this here magazine called, well, “Ask a couple of potheads,” and this is...
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The year 2020 was the year of love — love for weed that is. OK, let’s be honest. EVERY year is a year of weed love for DGO, but this year is special.
As COVID-19 limited most of our recreational activities, we got to experiment...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been absolutely detrimental to restaurants, both locally and across the country — which is why we’re pleasantly surprised by ones that not only opened but also seemed to thrive during the year from...
Read MoreIn what hopefully proves to be the final twist in the tale of the Forrest Fenn treasure, after months of anonymity, a Michigan man is claiming that he was the finder of the hidden chest.
A grandson of recently deceased Forrest Fenn has confirmed that Jack Stuef, a Michigan medical school student, discovered the treasure...
While the mysterious monolith dropped in the middle of the Utah desert is now gone, it lives on in the imaginations of bored people everywhere.
Confused? So is everybody else.
In November, a strange silver monolith was found in the Utah desert. No one knew where it came from or how it got there. The structure was...
If you haven’t noticed, 2020 has been a weird year: it’s been stressfully contentious, horribly unlucky, and has brought out both the best and worst in people. If you haven’t noticed any of these things, we highly recommend that you crawl back under the rock from whence you came. Trust us. Ignorance is bliss.
If you are...
There’s nothing quite like being stuck at home with bars and restaurants closed for business. Many of the bars and restaurants in Durango and the surrounding areas were, early on into the pandemic, offering takeout and to-go cocktails to keep the doors open. Now that we’re more than 9 months into the pandemic, the number has...
Please, if you are able, donate to Durango’s local Good Food Collective, www.goodfoodcollective.org or the Manna Soup Kitchen, www.mannasoupkitchen.org; your local food pantry; or nationally to Feeding America, www.feedingamerica.org.
I started this year lamenting the unreal expectations directed at bodies in my column...
As I was trying to think of the words to say in this column, the only thing that came to mind were the lyrics to that old song Turn! Turn! Turn! by The Byrds:
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose, under heaven
A time to be born, a time to...
I made a pretty epic mistake, you guys. I decided to smoke some of Prohibition Herb’s Southwest Stomper at like 6 p.m. on a Monday, and let me tell you ... it wasn’t my greatest idea.
Now, this is not a knock on the strain itself. This is me knocking the fact that I almost passed out on my couch before eating the huge...