Here’s your big chance, Aurora. Denver fun crushers are making a name for themselves by snuffing a plan to marry the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the region’s budding recreational marijuana industry.
The Denver Post reported today that Denver officials sent a nasty-gram to CSO brass, telling them that their plan to hold some “High Note Series” concerts with get-high hippy types in the Space Gallery of the Santa Fe arts district is a no go.
The CSO made itself internationally famous in hours after they announced last week it would hold three bring-your-own-pot shows, two in an art gallery and one at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison. Denver events and permit curmudgeons pretty much said they’ll bring firehoses if CSO persists.
Now where in the area is there a struggling arts district with lots of empty and cool spaces that is also courting the retail marijuana trade and would just LOVE to have the CSO come and rub a little yellow diesel into Denver’s grumpy craw? BINGO! That would be us. Someone get Aurora Cultural Arts District chief Tracy Weil on the phone with the CSO and tell them we would LOVE to have the CSO and all their tony-stony patrons out to East Colfax — where everyone is already getting high. Sure, city property would be forboten, but there are a lot of private galleries and THE VINTAGE THEATER that would be a perfect place show just how welcome the CSO is no matter what fans are doing when they walk away from their seats.
And to hell with that Red Rocks show, where it’s illegal to smoke dope and no ever has before. Aurora’s Utah Park has a natural amphitheater now and no one has ever smoked pot there, either. Best part is, it can keep the price down and there’s a ton of actually good places nearby to eat once the concert is over.
Whaddya say, Aurora? A few Aurora concerts this summer and, BAM, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra gets new digs adjacent to the Gaylord Western Conference Center and Regional Amphitheater next year. Plenty of room for a new Broncos stadium out there, too.
— Dave Perry, Aurora Sentinel Editor
Love it! Go Aurora! Denver will be sued over their overstepping. Private venues are just that. Any consumption in a private venue is private consumption. When we wrote the regs we used these venues and events as what is allowed under 64. Either the Denver City Council doesn’t like our decision or they just really hate Colorado’s fastest growing industry. I say take it all away from Denver. They do not deserve to benefit in any way…
I suggest u get a legal opinion on your statements. The legal opinion I have heard says that would be public consumption not private. Check your facts.
I work with many attorneys and I helped to draft HB 1317 and 1318. If consumption takes place on private property, it is permissible per HB 1317. It is even legal to do so on a front porch in full view of the street. This is no different than any event that serves alcohol. It looks as if the Symphony will stand their ground on this, and rightly so.
Stickman aka Jason Warf is a person who collects disability for a bad back (note his avatar of him carrying a backpack).
That alone should give you a hint of the credibility of any of his statements.
Ha. This is rich. I do hike and backpack at the encouragement of my Doctors. I am able to carry about 20lbs and walk about 5- 8 miles a day. This is after five years of working up to that. I deal with pain and there is no further damage to be done. I encourage everyone with back issues to walk. You may find it helps you, as it does me. I am baffled as to how me trying to stay somewhat healthy makes me a bad person. What is a fact is that I have haters who have nothing better to do with their time…
Go Aurora!! Bye Denver! You’re morons!! Fire Hancock!! A drunk that’s against pot!! GENIUS!!!
Just because Denver is reluctant to break state law doesn’t mean Aurora should be. The Aurora Sentinel: the more stoned you get, the better it looks.