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Javier Silva-Acosta busted 3 hours after crime video post in latest social-media-aided arrest

Deep within each college student beats the heart of a crime fighter. This statement may seem absurd, but not to the folks with the CU-Boulder police. Department personnel recently nabbed Javier Silva-Acosta on fraud-related charges just three hours after sharing information about him on social medi ... More >>

Broncos blog Mile High Report has a new starting lineup

Denver blog posts offer a mile high salute. Mile High Report's Kyle Montgomery introduces the new starting lineup at the venerable blog, which has turned over staff. Colorado Pols: Michael Bennet's non-binding but politically controversial vote in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. Denver Egotist ... More >>

Photos: iPad finder's dopey self-portraits show up on owner's iPhone

The photo seen here is not a mug shot, even though the woman seen in it is definitely mugging. No, it's a self-portrait of the person who apparently found and snagged an iPad left on a plane traveling from Phoenix to Denver. Finders, keepers. Why are we seeing this snap? Because the pic, and quite ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (9 free!), February 1-3

Did you pay your rent yet? Since it's the first of the month, we're celebrating tight pocketbooks everywhere by featuring nine events this weekend that are totally free. Whether you attend a Screw Your Resolutions party or sample the wide variety of First Friday art openings, there's plenty to do th ... More >>

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Jay Ahern to launch Modular Cowboy, a new electronic-music imprint out of Boulder

Modular Cowboy, a Boulder-based electronic-music label, is getting set to launch later this month. Jay Ahern, who moved to Colorado from Berlin in 2010, is the man behind the new imprint. You may know Ahern from his aliases Cheap and Deep or Add Noise; he's also collaborated with To Rococo Rot's Ste ... More >>

Denver start-up Octa wants to make your iPad more adorable

Denver-based Octa has created a new product that aims to make your iPad more user-friendly, and also more adorable in the process. "When we got our first iPad, we said, 'This is really cool, but really hard to hold,'" says Octa co-founder Kevin "Prometheus" Trotsky. So the group made a handle for ... More >>

If you have a face, caricature artist Brooke Howell wants to draw it

Looking for a new Facebook profile picture? Brooke Howell can help. Her company, *LoL* Caricature Company, celebrates its grand re-opening on the 16th Street Mall this weekend and for just $12, you can get a digital caricature (drawn on an iPad), e-mailed to you to use on social media sites, or howe ... More >>

Morton Subotnick: The pioneer of synthesizer on what keeps him engaged in electronic music

Morton Subtonick (due Thursday, April 26 at ATLAS Institute as part of the annual Communikey Festival) is the pioneer of synthesizer music. Before he commissioned engineer Don Buchla to build a device that didn't yet have a name, the synthesizer did not exist. Electronic music existed but not to the ... More >>

Game of Thrones Season 2 premiere was full of tumult (spoilers within)

Warning: Spoilers within! In one of the final scenes of the Season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones, henchmen of boy-king Joffrey, the incestuous product of his mother and uncle, tear through King's Landing, slaying the many bastard children of Robert, Joffrey's official but now totally dead father. B ... More >>

Furniture designer Ray Hill turns to iPad cases with the F3 Folio

Ashley Tauch shows off her iPad inside the Folio around the Westword office.The Denver-based company F3 Designs, has stumbled upon success in that much-coveted of technology niches: Apple product accessories. Its flagship product, the "F3 Folio," has become a local hit and has begun to gain moment ... More >>

Reader: Baking bread takes as much talent as making a perfect sauce

​Many chefs are sour on baking, but enough sour beer convinced Patrick Langlois to come up with a gingerbread cookie recipe that worked perfectly with Crooked Stave Wild Wild Brett Orange. That no-baking chef business gets a rise out of Mantonat:

Signal Snowboards brings iShred Steve Jobs tribute to Loveland

​Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple's iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for s ... More >>

Andy Turner of Plaid on The Black Dog, Michael Arias, Scintilli and virtues of soft synths

Terrorbird MediaPlaid​Andy Turner and Ed Handley of Plaid (due Saturday, November 19, at the Bluebird) were part of the groundbreaking electronic music project The Black Dog in the late '80s through the earliest part of the '90s with Ken Downie. Mixing ambient soundscaping with textured, synco ... More >>

Brandon Smith gets 25 years for iPad finger-ripping theft -- and soliciting victim's murder

Big pics below.​Brandon Smith set out to steal an iPad shortly after the device's release, and he did. That's a relatively minor crime -- so how did he wind up being sentenced to 25 years behind bars? By pretty much shredding the finger of the iPad purchaser, and then, after the act got inter ... More >>

Songza tops our list of music apps this week

Music apps are quickly taking over our smartphones, turning music into toys, productivity tools and providing free tunes no matter where we are. This week, we've got a few great ways to find music and stream it, plus one of the best score readers for iPad yet.

Turntable.fm finally becomes mobile and VidRhythm lets you make idiotic cat videos

​This past two weeks in music apps have been chock full of awesome for music apps. Some of the incredibly ridiculous things you can do with your smartphone this week: VidRhythm gives you the ability to make stupid songs out of videos, we're finally introduced to a Turntable.fm app, Play It Dow ... More >>

Tradesmart wants to sell you media like its 1995

​It would seem the '90s are going to come back, whether we like it or not. This apparently doesn't just mean flannel shirts and Velcro shoes, as the recently opened Tradesmart, 8500 West Crestline Avenue, Littleton, hopes to also bring you the shopping experience you might remember from decade ... More >>

Music App Roundup: Bandito, Groove Coaster, My Wedding Music, Voloco, Rdio

​As smartphones have opened the door to amazing mobile applications, the sheer amount of them being released makes it difficult to keep up with the best of them. So to help filter though all of it, we take a look at the best and tally them up here. This round, we've got an amazing rhythm game, ... More >>

Marijuana critic William Breathes's sublime & ridiculous global media blitz (AUDIO, VIDEO)

Mr. Breathes.​If medical marijuana reviewer William Breathes looks tired lately, it's not because he's been critiquing too much weed. Since being featured on Rupert Murdoch's iPad-friendly The Daily and National Public Radio, he's been absolutely inundated with interview requests, many from in ... More >>

It's time to start playing our books

​Interactive texts have been around since the '70s (or earlier, depending on how you're defining them), but the recent push of handheld electronic reading devices has exploded the potential for creating and reimagining works. Still, it hasn't been until recently we've started seeing anyone mak ... More >>

Medical marijuana critic William Breathes gets the NPR treatment -- thanks to Starbucks

Mr. Breathes.​A few weeks ago, in an interview for Ruper Murdoch's iPad newspaper, The Daily, I casually mentioned that Denver has more dispensaries than Starbucks -- a fact Denver Post's Chris Osher first pointed out back in January. I had no clue then that paraphrasing that quote would re-ig ... More >>

Medical marijuana critic William Breathes fires up for Rupert Murdoch's The Daily (VIDEO)

Video below.​Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes has gotten blurry-face time on loads of media outlets, from CNN to The Daily Show. But the latest profile can be found in an unusual place: The Daily, an iPad-specific venture launched by Fox-y titan Rupert Murdoch. In the video, ... More >>

Lola's Don Julio bartending competition serves up "luxury drops"

Jenny AnBrian Melton's drink included coconut powder, maple agave, sea salt and toasted coconut.​Fourteen bartenders. Twenty minutes. One winner of an iPad. That was roughly the formula for the bartending competition Sunday night at Lola, sponsored by Don Julio. Using either Don Julio's Reposa ... More >>

Björk's new album, Biophilia, slated for simultaneous iPad app release

​Björk has a relationship with technology that rivals that of Joe Satriani with his guitar -- the two cannot exist without each other. It has always seemed like Björk has been waiting for technology to catch up with her, and when Apple launched its iPad, she finally had a place to experiment ... More >>

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Science Lounge combined the whimsy of childhood with the drinking of adulthood

Please touch the artifacts.​As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I'd be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and ... More >>

Jason Hann of EOTO on how the group made a name of its own apart from String Cheese

​ "EOTO" in Japanese means "good sound," which perfectly suits the like-named electronic duo EOTO. With extensive histories as professional drummers, it seemed only natural that members Michael Travis and Jason Hann would evolve to another level in their musical careers. After all, they had m ... More >>

Review preview: Flagstaff House at forty years

Mark Manger​I try to table all expectations when I first visit a restaurant. But sometimes, that's simply impossible. And when I decided to review Boulder's Flagstaff House -- a legendary romantic spot -- in anticipation of Valentine's Day, I suspected that I was in for some disappointment.

The Daily: Five ways it could fail

​Rupert Murdoch's News Corp unveiled The Future of Journalism this morning in an elaborate, hour long event at the Guggenheim in New York. The product: The first tablet-native newspaper, a 14 cents per day, iPad-only publication called The Daily. There was some amount of fervor surrounding it ... More >>

Stormtroopers trying to break into cars in Centennial? May the Force not be with them!

​Plenty of thieves have active fantasy lives. Remember the guy who robbed a 7-Eleven using a Klingon battle weapon called a bat'leth? Or the teen who reportedly deployed a sword to steal Oxycontin? But alleged lawbreakers in Centennial recently took things to the next level, disguising themse ... More >>

Mac App Store: Five best free apps

​Apple debuted its app store for computers today. And it's way cooler than you thought it would be. Yes, right now it's mostly carryover from the iPad and iPhone app store, which is somewhat uninteresting because those apps were designed for a mobile touch screen. But there are some regular o ... More >>

The five best music apps of 2010

​As 2010 has come to a close, we've seen plenty changes on the music landscape, but nothing has been as strange and welcome as the increasingly more awesome new ability to create fully fleshed out albums on your phone. This all came to a head when the Gorillaz decided to release The Fall, an a ... More >>

Hall of Shame: Westword's worst of the worst from 2010

Graphic.ly: Boulder-based start-up aims to become the iTunes of comic books

​So present-unwrapping is over and you're freshly stocked up on new socks, kitchen utensils and copies of the soundtrack to Glee, but is there a tiny, immature part of you that's still hungering for something that's just pure fun? If so, Graphic.ly is your answer. The Boulder-based start-up is ... More >>

iPad theft defendant Brandon Smith, 2010 Shmuck of the Year nominee

Theft in action.​Westword is asking readers to help us select the Shmuck of the Year by rolling out five candidates this month. The winner -- loser -- will be announced on January 3. Our first four candidates were Josh McDaniels, Scott McInnis, Gary Faulkner and Ron Perea. This week, say he ... More >>

Deck the shelves with boughs of cookbooks: Local chefs sound off on their favorite culinary reads

Lori Midson​Ah, Christmas: The season of giving, receiving, in-law spats, road range, parking lot clusterfucks, check-out line massacres and cookbooks and food books -- the ones that you hope will end up wrapped under the tree, right alongside the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Over the course of the ... More >>

Two major synth and drum machine apps make music making easier on the iPad

We don't generally spend too much time talking about gear here, but over the last couple of days, two incredibly rad and hard to ignore apps made it onto the iPad. We're talking about the release of ReBirth and the Korg iMS-20 -- both of which, even if you're not a musician, are exceptionally keen ... More >>

Social Media Sobriety Test: top signs you're too drunk to use Twitter/Facebook

A Flickr photo.​As we reported yesterday, Boulder-based Internet security company Webroot has released the Social Media Sobriety Test, an app that checks your level of inebriation before you risk making a drunken fool of yourself to all your online friends. But there's an easier way to tell if ... More >>

iShmuck: accused iPad thief and wannabe murderer Brandon Smith

Brandon Smith​Just when you thought the story of the iPad thief who caused his victim to lose a finger couldn't get any weirder, the alleged genius, Brandon Darnell Smith, 21, has been accused of trying to have the man killed so he couldn't testify against him in court. Is there an app for th ... More >>

Brandon Smith: Alleged iPad thief who tore off man's finger now accused of wanting to kill him

Full-sized photo below.​Back in April, newly introduced iPads were in high demand -- so much so that Brandon Smith allegedly tore off the finger of customer Bill Jordan trying to steal one of the gadgets at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Smith's actions made international news due to the c ... More >>

Guitar amps in your pocket with new AmpliTube app for iPhone

Sure, there are guitarists who'll say that no software will ever come close to emulating a '65 Deluxe Reverb or a Marshall JCM800. But the folks at IK Multimedia have been doing a pretty good job emulating those amps as well as effects for a while now. Earlier this month, the company came out with ... More >>

Keytar not ridiculous enough? Try the iTar!

Until now, if you wanted to look exceptionally silly playing an electronic instrument the keytar was your best bet. Not anymore. That's all changed with the introduction of the iTar, a "Guitar/DJ frame" for the iPad sporting doofus with everything but a sense of shame.

High water in Golden gets the finger

Move rapidly.​The spring runoff in Colorado has made recreation dangerous, with multiple drownings on the Western Slope in recent days. No fatalities in Golden yet due to fast water. But fire fighters there responded to multiple rapids-related emergency calls yesterday, including one that co ... More >>

Watch some pretty lines with interactive pocket-art Thicket

Yesterday's news might have been a bit too iPhone-centric for normal, non-tech-dork human beings, but for those of us enthralled with shiny, touchable objects, it's a format and medium we've come to love. While the iPhone and iPad are often lauded as great media consumption devices they're rarely ... More >>

Brandon Smith charged with third-degree assault in pinky-shredding iPad theft

Brandon Smith allegedly took off with more than an iPad.​Most snatch-and-grab crimes don't get nearly as much attention as the one Brandon Smith is accused of committing at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center earlier this month. But he made national news because his alleged attempt to steal a tr ... More >>

iPad thief gets the finger: Icky pinky-mauling story is the talk of the town

The alleged iPad thief​ You know what people everywhere love to read? Wacky crime stories. And sometimes, a wacky crime from Colorado catches the world's eye. Like the threesome from hell that shook up Niwot. Or the guy who robbed a 7-Eleven in Colorado Springs with a Klingon bat'leth. Or the ... More >>

iPad thief!: Denver Police on the lookout for early adapting criminal

Have you seen this presumably tech-savvy fellow?​Update, 3 p.m.: Channel 31 has posted video of the suspect. Check it out below the original item, which was published at 11:37 a.m. Last week may have marked the first-ever iPad theft in the state of Colorado! Hooray! Of course, the person who ... More >>

The iPad launch is tomorrow. Here's five awesome music apps.

​ We're all pretty well aware that the iPad launches tomorrow, and while your standing in line at the Cherry Creek Mall waiting for yours, we'll be busy banging drum sticks on a stone tablet wishing we were you. Just because we're not getting one, however, hasn't stopped us from drooling at ... More >>

Is iPad an iFailure, or are we just iSpoiled little crybabies?

​Haven't had a chance to watch the Apple keynote yet and kind of wondering if we need to at this point. From the sounds of it, the ingenuously named iPad (killed a lot of brain cells there, eh, Apple?) sounds like a enlarged, glorified iTouch. We gleened this notion, of course, from the Twitt ... More >>