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The GrOpener opens your beer with one hand, keeping the other free for...

There are a lot of ways to open a bottle of beer. There are keychains and iPod cases with bottle openers embedded in them. There are openers on flip-flops and baseball cap bills, wall-mounted openers, countertops, knives and even a beer bottle stick. But a Denver photographer and part-time inventor ... More >>

Street style: What's in your bag? Dinosaur stickers, guy-liner and more!

Last weekend was filled with fun. And while many people feasted upon turkey legs at the People's Fair or gazed upon the Denver Chalk Art Festival on Larimer, others checked out the First Friday Art Walk on Santa Fe Drive or the Mutants show at the hi-dive on Saturday. Take a peek at this week's visi ... More >>

Street style: What's in your bag? Novels, sandwiches and more!

While many people laid out by the pool or devoured BBQ on Memorial Day weekend, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit or old T-shirt and shorts, true street fashion never takes time off. For proof, look no further than these stylistic movers and shakers we found downtown over the holidays, who c ... More >>

The Ting Tings cycle through the music-industry machine and back

Ski resort "smoke shacks" have the bowls that really count

Wondering what's on Mitt Romney's iPod? Wonder no more. We think we know.

If Mitt Romney wins tonight in Michigan, he'll be one step closer to earning the Republican nomination to run against incumbent President Barack Obama. Romney has a ton of money, an impeccable head of hair and a hustler's spirit. While everybody's all worried about the economy this and recession tha ... More >>

Ten best Steve Jobs tributes (1955 - 2011)

Businessweek​10. Bloomberg Businessweek On Friday, Bloomberg Businessweek revealed its tribute to Steve Jobs. With a photo essay, an incredibly thorough biography and first-person input from Eric Schmidt, John Sculley and Steve Jurvetson, it's impressive in scope and quality. But it's just ... More >>

Locally developed EchoKast app takes iPhone and iPod recording technology to the next level

OK computer: the EchoKast app logoHey, there, is that a portable recording studio in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us? Both? Ah, yes. We are pretty easy on the eyes. Oh, and you must have the installed the EchoKast app, which allows you to record, edit and playback live audio on your iPh ... More >>

Have smart phones changed how we're hearing music? Yep. Here's five apps for the geo-aware.

​There has been a bit of a gold rush on making apps ever since Apple launched the App Store and Microsoft and Android followed suit. While a lot it is absolute trash that seems to point to some incoming app-bubble, there are a lot of interesting and innovative ideas mixed in there. Most recent ... More >>

The link between depression and music is just as obvious as you think

​Think back to your teenage years. Chances are, if you were like any of us, you spent the majority of your time listening to music, reading the liner notes through and through and playing air guitar half-naked in your room. Doesn't sound that depressing, but a recent study in Pediatrics & Adol ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Danielle Ate the Sandwich checks from the road in route to Austin

​ Thursday, March 18 Uh, hey. It's Danielle Ate the Sandwich. I've been on the road and away from home a couple of days now, and am officially one hour from Austin and ready to go. Today, I play at Bar 512 for the Spokesbuzz Showcase. I'm excited to play with a lot of great bands from Fort C ... More >>

Computer captures photo of possible laptop thief -- and maybe our Shmuck of the Week

​It may not compare to HAL -- the sentient computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey who could carry on a conversation, read lips, enjoy art and feel emotions. But a laptop stolen in January may turn out to be a nemesis for the person who took it.

Stock show apologizes for gay jokes, Brokeback Mountain banter at Saturday rodeo

​Update: The spokeswoman for the stock show has responded to our post and acknowledged that mistakes were made. See her comments below our original item. I was sitting in the stands of the rodeo at the National Western Stock Show on Saturday night, watching men wrestle steer to the ground, wh ... More >>

Three ways to save Christmas (music)

"Ho ho holy crap, do I hate Christmas music"​Every season, once Thanksgiving is in the books (and sometimes earlier, god forbid) and the shopping frenzy begins in earnest, my most-hated time of the year comes around: Christmas music season. See, I don't hate Christmas, per se -- I'm no Scrooge ... More >>

The Film Dailies

Staring Up at Giants Again
Self-released

Monolith Q&A: the Bad Veins

​The indie rock world has more than its share of rags-to-riches, flannel-to-Fendi stories - glimmering groups who seem to go from the basement to the buzz bin overnight. Bad Veins - the Cincinnati-based duo of multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Benjamin Davis and drummer Sebastien Schultz - fits the ... More >>

Milking It: Special K Blueberry

Special K Blueberry Kellogg's Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Rice and wheat flakes that are large, rough-hewn and speckled with dark dots that would probably cause most folks to phone their physician if they started showing up on their forehead. There are also supposed to be ... More >>

Beyond Playlist: Chairlift - Does You Inspire You

Chairlift Does You Inspire You Columbia Records Though it's no fun to watch talented Colorado musicians leave our fair state for glimmering destinations like Portland or Brooklyn, it is fun to watch them succeed. Such is the case for Boulder-founded synth poppers, Chairlift. Shortly after lightin ... More >>

Enjoy 1,200 free songs, courtesy of SXSW

If you can't make it to Austin's fabled South by Southwest event this year (and who can? I can't even afford the gas it would take to drive there, much less the other expenses), here's something to ease the pain -- 1,267 songs from various SXSW artists, absolutely free of charge. That's enough musi ... More >>

The economy sucks, so here are 570 free songs

It's finds like this that make me glad I am a pathetic, house-bound loser who spends all his time surfing the Internet. The good folks at Amazon.com got into the MP3-selling business a while back. Not only are there formats better than the ridiculous iTunes formats (for example, no DRM, universally ... More >>

Ghost Buffalo gets robbed. May the burglars burn in hell.

Photo Jesse DawsonWhile we're not exactly the type of folks to ever wish ill will on anyone, here's hoping that karma is indeed a boomerang this time around and that the presumed lowlifes who burglarized our friends in Ghost Buffalo burn in hell -- or at least get a flat tire or something. Thanks to ... More >>

Jay-Z sadly missing from inaugural soundtrack

So I just flipped on the inauguration, a few minutes before Obama took the oath, and who do I see playing to usher in the 44th President, our first African-American president, the first president who acknowledges having Jay-Z on his iPod? Let me give you a hint. It wasn't Jay-Z. It wasn't Kanye (al ... More >>

Manic Monday

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Go ... More >>

Matt Fecher launches New Music Mondays tonight at the Larimer Lounge

Monolith Festival co-founder Matt Fecher kicks off the first of his New Music Mondays tonight at the Larimer Lounge (2721 Larimer St.). Fecher, who hosts the night as DJ Hot to Death, will be bringing in local artists, media, tastemakers, DJs and friends every Monday. In addition to having two guest ... More >>

Rocky, Post page ones judge financial crisis differently

Mile High Makeout: Riding that "Train" again

Talking Shop: Father's Day

Ellison Park

Talented beyond his years, this singer-songwriter is barely old enough to drink.

A New Look for Spring

Cranks for the Memories

Just Do It

45 Second Reviews

Best 2007 - Houston: Teeing Off with Scarface

Last Night ... The Pirate Signal, Digitata, Sims, and Mel Gibson and The Pants

Quality, Like Spelling, Matters Not at KollegeTV

How can you portray college life at CU without a date-rape joke?

Day Three: Wherein I Take Stock of My Daily Routines

Day Four: Wherein My Ass Gets Into An Argument And Dizzee Rascal Saves It

Million-Dollar Babies

Book authors can tell when excess marks the spot.

All Bets Are Off

This Weekend: Monolith Festival @ Red Rocks, Saturday, September 15

Spiral Frog, September 17

YouTube Tuesday Extra: Out Of Work Transformer

The Shins

Thursday, February 15, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

A Cutler Above

The Broncos’ new quarterback is looking good. And so am I.

Happy Feet

That whole talking-animal genre? Let's be done with it.

Rock, Rock 'Til You Drop

Get ready for Rockbar.

Diaspora Jammin'

The best underground music from the U.S., Brazil, the U.K., the Caribbean and Africa.

The Beatdown

A NARAS board gets the 411 on the RIAA.

The Polyphonic Spree

Together We're Heavy (Good/Hollywood)