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Photos: Top ten politicians who've smoked pot

Last week, onetime Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo revealed that he would take a single puff of a marijuana cigarette to settle a bet with a comedian-filmmaker. Once he does, he'll join a large number of politicians who've done likewise -- and most of them admit it. Continue to coun ... More >>

James Holmes rumor mill after Aurora shootings: More viral than Columbine

In the aftershocks of the shootings at an Aurora theater that left twelve dead and dozens wounded, it's inevitable that the tragedy would evoke comparisons to the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. Certainly, the instant online speculation about the shooter and his motives is eerily reminiscent o ... More >>

Photos: Twenty faces of accused child-porn fans

Yesterday, we told you about Jesse Evans, an alleged child pornographer -- and unfortunately, he's got plenty of apparent peers. The Colorado Internet Crimes Against Children website assembles photos and descriptions of accused creepazoids from across the state -- most of them white men, with only a ... More >>

Medical marijuana software: Developers MJ Freeway and idWeeds roll out wired weed

​Colorado boasts a thriving medical marijuana industry as well as a vibrant tech scene. It's little wonder, then, that, courtesy of forward-thinking companies such as MJ Freeway and idWeeds, we're now starting to see inklings of a homegrown marijuana tech industry sprouting up along the Front ... More >>

Arianna Huffington at MapQuest party on "frivolous" blogger suit, "useful" Drudge design

Arianna Huffington.​Internet years are like dog years, which makes fifteen-year-old MapQuest more like 105. But this old dog can learn directions home if you believe Arianna Huffington, now a player in the old-money empire of AOL, which owns the company headquartered in LoDo. She talked about ... More >>

Bernie Buescher Pandora ad wins national award (despite not winning him the election)

​So what if Secretary of State Bernie Buescher didn't win re-election last November. In our book, he's still the coolest cat at the Capitol for being the only Colorado candidate (and one of the few in the country) to advertise on Pandora Internet radio, a move that just scored him a prestigiou ... More >>

Arianna Huffington's sale of Huffington Post to AOL not expected to impact HuffPo Denver

Huffington.​The sale of the Huffington Post to AOL this week has been much debated in media circles. Yet most of these conversations haven't addressed what, if anything, the move portends for the four regional HuffPo branches, including the one in Denver. The word we get: status quo.

MapQuest's new error-reporting tool for "neighborhood watch" not quite error-free

​MapQuest, the AOL-owned online mapping service with strong Denver ties, has unveiled a new site that's supposed to encourage users to contribute data and correct errors in its maps -- a kind of cartographic Wikipedia, or what MQ is calling a "neighborhood watch" concept. It's a great idea -- ... More >>

Skrillex on his stage name: Blame AOL

Frontier Airlines' CEO Bryan Bedford nearly gets a sh@# shower on Undercover Boss

Bryan Bedford.​Executives have had to do a lot of crappy jobs on the CBS reality series Undercover Boss. But on last night's episode, Frontier Airlines CEO Bryan Bedford may have set a new standard -- by risking a literal shit shower while off-loading what an employee refers to as a "lotta po ... More >>

Unfriending: These are exactly the type of Facebook updates that will get you booted

zazzle.com​University of Colorado-Denver PhD student Christopher Sibona recently used science -- science! -- to figure out why people "unfriend" each other on Facebook. One big reason? Frequent, unimportant posts -- which got us here at Westword thinking about the all-time worst Facebook stat ... More >>

J.R. Smith: Lawyer David Lane cites allegations "so-called victim" is shaking down J.R., Nugs

J.R. Smith.​As speculation ramps up about where Carmelo Anthony will be traded (not if), ugly reports have surfaced about another Denver Nugget who may not be long for the team: J.R. Smith. But Smith attorney David Lane says assault accusations made against him are without merit and predicts ... More >>

CDSea recycles discarded discs into beautiful art

Photo by Mark Pickthal​Now, here's a cool idea. Take all those thousands and thousands of useless, forgotten and worthless, but oh-so-shiny CDs, and use them to make something beautiful. In this case, a giant piece of public art called "CDSea" in Kilmington, UK by artist Bruce Munro.

Moving Pictures: A first look take on Meese's "Tell Me It's Over"

On it's Just So You Know music blog yesterday, AOL had the exclusive premiere of Meese's brand-new video for "Tell Me It's Over," the unabashedly sugary single previously known as "The Start of It." We'd embed it here for you, but that would seem to invalidate the whole notion of exclusivity on our ... More >>

Strange Sauce: The week in national food news

We know, you just threw up in your mouth a little.​The trailer for Jamie Oliver's new television show, Food Revolution, has been released. According to ABC, Oliver will attempt to transform the eating habits of a bunch of rednecks in Huntington, West Virginia, and rumor has it that he bawls w ... More >>

Hearsay bits: What About Pluto? takes your questions, listen to Matt Morris's new album free

Videodrome: If you're a fan of alt-rockers What About Pluto?, or maybe just a fan of people being goofy on camera (and aren't we all fans of that, really?), then the band's recent foray into video blogging should be of some interest. Last week the outfit kicked off the affair with feat of physical s ... More >>

Spinner dubs Boulder's Biafra one of music's 10 biggest geeks

​AOL's music blog, Spinner.com, posted a list late last week titled "Revenge of the Rock Nerds: The 10 Biggest Geeks in Music." Between such dorky songsmiths as Talking Heads' David Byrne (#10) and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo (#1) lies former Dead Kennedys frontman and longtime Bay Area fixture Jello Bi ... More >>

Action at the Icehouse

No, Via's not coming back (although AOL sure made it look that way the other day, when it LoDo restaurant -- defunct for many months -- on its home page). But we hear the Momo family, which didn't find the commercial success with Via, even with famed chef James Mazzio in the kitchen, that they have ... More >>

Advice to American journalists looking for work: Learn to speak German

Andrew Bulkeley is a Littleton native who attended journalism school at Colorado State University with an eye toward working in the media. Little did he know that he'd find his greatest success only after leaving the United States. Today, Bulkeley is a Berlin-based correspondent for TheDeal.com, a ... More >>

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Freeloader

The best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads.

Delegating Denver #15 of 56: Hawaii

Arachnoid Cyst, August 10

Old Town

As new ethnic enclaves appear, the originals die off.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of February 16, 2006

Caught Mapping

How MapQuest helps the lost generation find itself.

Off Limits

Mule Be Sorry

What's So Funny

The Boy on the Bus

Internet TV died on the coasts, but it's alive and well at 5,280 feet.

Mr. Spam Man

Microsoft wants to shut him down. New York's attorney general wants to see him in court. But Scott Richter keeps thinking big.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 23, 2003

Off Limits

Tree hugs and kisses

A Click in Time Saves Minds

The cyber-brawl over Scientology spreads to search engines.

Backwash

Jello does a shot on the latest local-music compilation.

Virtual Strangers

Denver researchers study how the chat room leads to the bedroom.

The Grandfathers of Punk

Denver's early punk rock pioneers are remembered

Cleared for Takeover

Backwash gets caught up in merger mania!

Off Limits

What a tangled Web we weave...

Doom Rules

Much of what we think we know about Columbine is wrong.

Savage Love

Letters

Adios AOL, Hola Problema

What's in a name? A fight, if your name is America Online.

A Reporter Stands Accused

The Post's David Algeo faces a charge of sexual assault on a child.

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