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10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (8 free!), April 12-14

Warmer weather is back, so it's time to get out of the house and have some fun in Denver this weekend. From Doors Open Denver, which opens up dozens of historic buildings, to art openings and a cat show, there's plenty to do in this town for pennies. We've highlighted ten of the best events that cos ... More >>

Jones on Fire, by a Denver games developer, sets mobile gaming aflame

Endless runners -- if you've played Temple Run or Jetpack Joyride, you know the routine: Collect coins, jump over stuff, die, rinse and repeat. Jones on Fire, made by Denver-based developer Glass Bottom Games for iOS and Android, is a little different. Its low-fi graphics and little blocky kittens ... 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 >>

Michael Hawkins and James Ward, alleged schmucks, busted thanks to Find my iPhone app

Pretty much everyone in these United States understands that smartphones are essentially tracking devices. Even photos taken with them include GPS coordinates, as fugitive antivirus king John McAfee learned when authorities tracked him down in Guatemala this week. An iPhone led to the busts of Micha ... More >>

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Stoner MacGyver marijuana product review: Cannabis Logbook 1.5 iPhone app

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Cannabis Logbook 1.5 iPhone app.

Trace Bundy on the impact of YouTube, rocking a mullet and getting his start playing metal

See Also: - Trace Bundy talks about his unexpected success in South Korea - Heaven Fest quickly growing into a destination festival - HeavenFest's pure motives Boulder-based guitar virtuoso Trace Bundy has been a YouTube sensation for a few years now with more than twenty million views of his vario ... More >>

GetOutt.com offers smartphone solution to Denver's bike-theft problem

You know that awful feeling when you approach the spot where you parked your bike only to find that some or all of it has been stolen? Well, a new smartphone app -- whose makers are now looking to tap into the Denver market -- is designed to give victims of bike theft a glimmer of hope at a time whe ... More >>

Avenge past misspellings and help promote literacy at the Denver Bee

It's hard to ever really recover from losing a spelling bee: You remember the terror as you tentatively said another letter, that awful buzzer sound, the eternal shame that you misspelled the word "satellite." But now the the first annual Denver Bee this Saturday night is offering a way to put to re ... More >>

Fracking fluid about as clear as drilling rules in Colorado

Denver blog posts, assume the position. The Colorado Independent's Troy Hooper doesn't think Governor John Hickenlooper's fracking task force has done much to clear up confusion over rules for local governments. Denver Frank: In the market for a bulletproof iPhone case? Big Media's Jason Salzman ... More >>

The Forkly iPhone app update should please Instagram users

Denver-based Forkly, the iPhone app that encourages users to share photos of what they're eating while out and rate the dish, debuted a new look Friday with its 2.0 update, one that will be familiar to users of one of the most popular photo apps around.

Britt Madden works with a letterpress and an iPhone. Which one is art?

When talking to Britt Madden about her show opening this Friday at Kaze Gallery, Diversions, which features eight pieces of iPhotography, she reminded me that not too long ago, photographers, "real" photographers, wouldn't have anything to do with digital photography. "There are the guys saying iPh ... More >>

Reader: Print is dead, and someone should tell the Denver Post

Greg Moore.​Our item about the elimination of a stand-alone Travel section in the Denver Post's Sunday paper speaks to the continuing challenges facing traditional media organs. This development sparked one reader to wonder why the Post hasn't gone entirely digital.

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.

The Sexy City

R U Buzzed? The drunk-o-meter iPhone app comes to Android...and in Spanish!

Phuck phishing: Five most annoying typo-sites you can come across

You just wanted to watch YouTube and instead you get this crap.​When Al Gore created the information superhighway, he didn't account for wrong turns, most notably the frontage-road hucksters you encounter after you punch in a typo'd web address.

Kings of Leon cancel tour, including two dates at Red Rocks on August 31 and September 1

​After Kings of Leon's trainwreck of a show in Dallas over the weekend, it's not all that surprising to hear that the band has canceled the rest of its current tour, including a two night stand at Red Rocks on August 31 and September 1. "We are so sorry to say Kings of Leon are canceling thei ... More >>

Netflix's betrayal is nothing compared to what Google, Apple and Facebook are already doing

Mo' money, mo' problems.​Yesterday, Netflix informed its users that from September on, its services are going to cost more and offer less -- a pretty harsh blow to its wide base of users. The move came as a surprise to many Netflix customers, who have flooded the Netflix Facebook page, blog an ... More >>

Get Dazbog Coffee, even if you forgot your wallet

Flickr photo by dyobmit​Dazbog Coffee understands that its undercaffeinated, too-tired-to-function customers may not always remember their wallets -- and so the stores are offering a payment method that doesn't require a wallet. "Everyone has their cell phone before their wallet these days," s ... More >>

Top ten tweets from Westword Music Showcase, a.k.a. #wms11

The Sword ​You can't be everywhere at once, especially during events like Saturday's Westword Music Showcase, with more than a dozen venues across a few blocks in the Golden Triangle. Thankfully, we've got Twitter to read about people complaining and dancing and high-fiving across the festival ... More >>

The hard cell: Ditch the electronics when you're in a restaurant

​Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you -- most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don't take it personally; he just needs to vent because he's been doing this for about thirteen years. Enjoy your meal. Some ... More >>

George W. Bush refuses to speak at same event as Julian Assange: Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

Dubya.​We're working for the weekend -- and so are these Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols shares George W. Bush's decision to pull out of a Denver speech tomorrow because Wikileaks controversy-magnet Julian Assange is also on the bill. Would he have boycotted Bill Hader, too? Mile High Hocke ... More >>

The Swayback rocks SoDak during Sturgis

​Last year, as you might recall, the Swayback landed a gig at Rock 'N Rev, the largest shindig at Sturgis. Just before Christmas, we posted one of the videos from that trip featuring some rad footage the dudes shot to go along with a tune called "St. Francis" that they jammed in the wee hours ... More >>

Photos: Aspen Gay Ski Week got gay

​Proving definitively that nobody rocks a party like the gays rock a party, a teeming multitude of bears, twinks, butches, drag queens and the generally effete descended on Colorado's most celebrity-friendly resort town this week for the 34th Annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and they didn't stop unt ... 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 >>

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 >>

NPR's "All Songs Considered" dumps its collection into a new radio station

​ If you're anything like us, streaming music services like Pandora or lastfm don't ever seem to really get things right. They're always cool for a little bit, but inevitably, they end up repeating things to the point we get bored. We'll turn on the radio here and there as well, but even our f ... More >>

You've played the Gorillaz music, now play the game

Chances are you've heard the newest Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach at some point since its release. You may not have even been aware of it -- maybe it was in the grocery store or while you were out at a club -- but you've probably heard it. Now you can play the game based on the album on your iPhon ... More >>

Journal of a gastric bypass alternative: My week with the beFull Solution

​I am not a dieter. I am not equipped with the willpower required to say no to delicious morsels like pork belly buns or triple creme brie or basically anything that's battered and fried. Likewise, I'm never going to forgo a particularly good bread basket; in fact, I'm going to slather that s ... More >>

B-cycle launches an iPhone app to help you find and return its big red bikes

From apple.comRenting a B-cycle? Use this.​B-cycle, Denver's cool, month-old bike-sharing program, has up and gone all technological. This week, B-cycle rolled out a free iPhone app that tells users how many shiny red B-cycles are available at each station, ready to rent. It also tells users h ... More >>

Linkin Park's curious 8-Bit Rebellion reviewed

Bands are resorting to some rather strange marketing ploys these days in order to get their brand out. It's almost like just being a band isn't enough. Case in point: Linkin Park, which we didn't even know was an active band anymore until we saw their 8-Bit Rebellion pop up in the Apple App Store ... More >>

Wish you were Aerosmith? There's an App for that

Chalk this one up to a case of celebrity cash-in: It looks like Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer has an iPhone app now. And this probably isn't going to come as any surprise, but it it absolutely blows. The ap, Joey Kramer: Hit Hard, only held our attention for about three minutes. Even so, those thr ... 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 >>

RU-Buzzed? or are you going to get a DUI?

​There were a lot of new iPhones opened on Christmas Day, and that was a big present for the Colorado Department of Transportation, which created its own iPhone application in November to help people measure whether they are too drunk to drive.

Jaya Asian Grill is hot — in more ways than one

The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 8 edition

Photo by Aaron ThackerayBlink-182's Tom DeLonge.​Blink and you'll miss it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Blink-182 at Fiddler's Green. • Over the Weekend: Fell at Larimer Lounge. • Over the Weekend: Ween at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Warlock Pinchers (almost) reuni ... More >>

Jay Marvin well enough to head home at week's end

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June.​ We've been keeping you abreast of developments regarding an epic surgical procedure undergone by AM 760 host Jay Marvin; the operation, which took place in New Jersey several weeks ago, addressed serious medical issues that have kept him fro ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: High on the Mile Haiku City

Verse came to worse last night at the Central Library, where close to a hundred people gathered for last night's Fresh City Life poetry reading inspired by "Mustang," Luis Jimenez's blue horse sculpture out at Denver International Airport. We were in the depths of the basement, but spirits soared ... More >>

Today's Featured Event: Objectified Screening with Directory Gary Hustwit

An "Objectified" image. How many different manufactured objects do you lay hands on in an average day? From the moment you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock until the moment you switch off the lights and snuggle into bed, almost every second involves an interaction between you and a manufac ... More >>

In the Limelight

45 Second Reviews: Jaymay, Fat Joe, Ferras, Paul Benton

Best 2007 - Houston: Teeing Off with Scarface

Hot for Teacher

At least the Graland sex scandal gives me something to talk about at holiday parties.

Produce Paradise, August 29

Transformers

There's nothing more than what reaches your eye in this crash-and-bang flick.

Review: Transformers and License to Wed

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