Apple Inc.

The ten most noteworthy music publicity stunts

Sometimes flawless technique, inspired lyrics and a devoted fan base aren't enough. Sometimes you've gotta do something outlandish to step up your game and grab the world's attention. Some would say that getting on a stage and saying, "Hey! Watch what I'm doing!" might be considered attention-seekin ... More >>

Original Pancake House is reason to rise and shine

It's pretty effin' rare that I eat at a restaurant and can't find anything to complain about. I've dined at countless restaurants in my 35 years on this shiny blue orb, and I've seen plenty of good, bad and ugly. I've had meals that were overcooked, undercooked, cocked-up so badly my cat wouldn't go ... More >>

Tom Cruise leads an all-star sing-along in Rock of Ages

John-Paul Maxfield and Waste Farmers are growing a business based on ending waste

To keep up with the world's exploding population, farmers will have to produce more food over the next fifty years than during the past 10,000 years combined. Given environmental issues and a scarcity of fossil resources, this daunting task seems almost impossible. But it's a problem 31-year-old Joh ... More >>

In The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, actor Christopher Willard tries to "dig past the inaccuracies"

Starting next Friday, Christopher Willard of Backstage Theatre Company will stage four readings of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The acclaimed one-man show earned notoriety recently after it was revealed that the author, off-Broadway performer Mike Daisey, had fabricated some details abou ... More >>

Adam Dunbar: If you're not having fun, it's not worth it

In this interview, Freshcraft's Adam Dunbar weighs in on the night of the Beast, his go-to beer and where he heads for a perfectly made Manhattan.

Black Keys: "Rock & Roll is dying because of Nickelback"

Despite the pointed assertion of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney that rock music is dying because of Nickelback, the genre still appears to be selling quite well. Granted, not quite as well as hip-hop or pop, but it's still kicking. In a recent Rolling Stone cover story, Carney is quoted as sayin ... More >>

Steve Jobs: the Lost Interview plays at the Esquire Theater tonight and tomorrow

Steve Jobs​Steve Jobs says he's more a hippie than a nerd. He hires computer programmers who, in another life, would make excellent poets, musicians, even zoologists. "The spark of that was that there was something beyond what you see everyday. There's something beyond a job, a career, a car. ... More >>

Week of a Woman photo contest ends; let's see what develops!

​Now that I've submitted my entry in the Colorado Mills "Week of a Woman" contest, I can reflect on how well I represented my sex. The contest rules urged me to "capture everyday women on film," so I took a bunch of pictures doing things women do. But now that I've studied the heart graphic pr ... More >>

Muve Music from Cricket: Our immediate impressions after taking it for a test spin

It was somewhere around 8 o'clock when the woman in front started dancing like crazy. She had to be in her forties, maybe fifties. She was dancing to Snake Rattle Rattle Snake at the Walnut Room in front of a collection of VIPs who had been summoned to witness the launch of Cricket's new Muve Music. ... More >>

Sneak Peek: Mountainfilm in Telluride 2011

​This week, Mountainfilm in Telluride promoters released the full program for the 32nd annual festival (May 25-30). Since there are more than 70 films on the schedule, we caught up with Mountainfilm's program director Emily Long to bring you a sneak peek at some of this year's most hotly antic ... More >>

Marijuana bud's name slip your mind? There's an app for that -- called Strain Brain

​Smart phones can already do all sorts of clever things, like tell you where the nearest medical marijuana center is located. But can they help you tell a sample of Green Crack from G-13 Haze? If Strain Brain makes good on its word, they will soon be able to -- courtesy of the company's stra ... More >>

Beastly, Red Riding Hood and five other horrible fairy tale adaptations

​The releases of Beastly and Red Riding Hood mark just two more additions to a time-honored film tradition: hackneyed, shitty movies based on fairy tales. Inspired by these cloying new releases, we decided to take a look back at five more insipid films that were vaguely based on magical childr ... More >>

Sony's new Qriocity streaming service launched yesterday, is it enough to kill iTunes?

Sony's hoping to pique your qriocity (sorry) with it's new streaming music service this week, by offering a free thirty day trial, tons of different streaming options and a library of over six million songs from the four major record label and most everyone they distribute. We spent the day with t ... More >>

Box Mobile Radio aims to fill in the gaps in local hip-hop music left by radio

​Graffiti Black and his team -- Big Mike Smooth and the rest of the crew from the now-defunct Livewire program Your Favorite Show -- have decided to change the way local music is heard in Denver and maintain a progressive listening audience by offering a platform for local artists to highlight ... More >>

Ten pop music paradigm shifts in 2010

​Teen dream Justin Bieber is arguably the biggest pop star in the country and Simon Cowell isn't doing American Idol. A lot's changed since last year in the world of pop. Institutions fell, ideas were challenged, and the Black Eyed Peas didn't have the number one song in the country at any poi ... More >>

It's 2010, and some members of the music industry still have no clue

​This magical Internet machine has been up and running for a while now, transmitting music from the ether to our ears using a mix of faerie dust and marketing panache. It seems, however, that there is still a decisive split on what this new mystery machine means for the future of music. You' ... More >>

Waste Farmers farm waste for a more sustainable future

Stream CocoRosie's newest album now in all its quirky splendor

​ There's a clear trend in music right now that makes the oncoming disappearance of LaLa -- which has been absorbed by Apple and is subsequently going the way of beepers by the end of the month -- all the more unsettling: Music fans, it seems, prefer to preview an entire album before purchas ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Feijoada from Emporio do Brasil

Lori Midson ​Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society continued to count down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes, a project that ends today with our final dish, the feijoada from Emporio do Brasil.

100 Favorite Dishes: Fried tacos from Mexico City Lounge

Lori Midson​Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society is still counting down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Pork knuckle sandwich from the Highland Tavern

Lori Midson ​Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society is still counting down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Dungeness crab salad from Rioja

Lori Midson ​ Best of Denver 2010 was released April 1, but Cafe Society is still counting down, in no particular order, our 100 favorite dishes. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Clam chowder from the Oceanaire Seafood Room

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: French dip from Second Home Kitchen & Bar

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Rack of lamb from Cafe Brazil

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Lap dogs from Interstate Kitchen & Bar

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Wild striped bass from Black Pearl

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Shrimp cocktail from El Camaron Loco

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Waffles from the Waffle Brothers

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Tortilla soup from the Pioneer

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Spicy edamame beans from Karma Asian

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Aguas Frescas from El Taco Veloz

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Steak chili from Elway's Cherry Creek

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

100 Favorite Dishes: Chicken and poblano crepes from Chili Verde

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

YouTube Music Discovery Project unceremoniously enters the fold

Apparently Youtube launched a Pandora-esque service last week dubbed the Music Discovery Project with very little fanfare. Near as we can tell, it functions the same way as services like Last.fm and Pandora and operates based on some crazy mathematic algorithm we can't wrap our tiny minds around, "F ... More >>

Rolling Stone really likes our search for a medical-marijuana reviewer -- they really, really like it!

Now we know why Gene Shalit seems to love so many awful movies.​The amount of coverage generated by our quest for a medical-marijuana dispensary reviewer has proven conclusively that national media outlets such as the New York Times to National Public Radio have a heretofore unimagined ganja o ... More >>

When Rock 'n' Roll meets Hollywood: Ten Awful Decisions

​ Taking Woodstock is in theaters Friday. Maybe it will be really good, or maybe taking a stand-up comedian and sticking him in a semi-dramatic movie about Woodstock that doesn't feature any -- any! -- musical performances is a terrible idea. Still, rock 'n' roll and Hollywood have been ugly, ... More >>

Get "Pussy Whipped" for free

Photo: Jonathan ShoupWith the blessing of Orange Peel Moses and DJ Hot to Death, we are pleased to present you with a free remix of Orange's latest opus, "Pussy Whipped," a song that celebrates the joy of casual hookups, friends with benefits and other non-traditional sexual arrangements. The track ... More >>

Richie Cole

Saturday, August 4, and Sunday, August 5, Dazzle, 303-839-5100.

The Beatles

Love
Apple

Aural Pleasure

The talented tongue of Atmosphere goes to work.

How to Survive...A Summer Stuck at Home

Head to far-flung shores with this season's crop of travelogues.

Best Solo by an Out-of-Towner

Rex Ray: Recent Work

Israel Vibration

Power of the Trinity (RAS Records)

Israel Vibration

Jericho
(RAS Records)

Playlist

Night & Day

January 28 - February 3, 1999

Thrills for the week