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Super Bowl ads: MSU Denver marketing professor Darrin Duber-Smith on what makes them successful

It's on your mind. You can't stop thinking about it. Your blood starts to pump. Your mouth begins to water. And while the buildup lasts for days, the actual live action (from start to finish) only lasts about ten minutes. No, I'm not talking about sex; I'm talking about the Super Bowl, baby. And whi ... More >>

3 things to do for free this week, December 3-6, 2012

If paying your December 1 emptied your pockets, don't despair: You can still have fun -- for free! -- this week. Among the options are watching a campy horror movie about a Franken-prostitute, catching a candle art show, and playing drag queen bingo. For a full listing of all events around town, vis ... More >>

Reader: My first beer was a Bud -- nicely played, Mom!

The Great American Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow, and fans of craft-beer are already pouring into the city. Tickets to the GABF sold out in under an hour, but Cafe Society managed to snag a few that we've been giving away in contests. The most recent asked people to spill the story of their first ... More >>

Ten best places to watch the presidential debate tonight

Some sports fans and barflies are going to be very unhappy tonight. That's when many of their favorite bars will switch channels from whatever game is on to the first of the three presidential debates, which will be happening right here, at the University of Denver. Those tickets are impossible to c ... More >>

Five worst food and beverage slogans ever

Clever, market-savvy purveyors of food and drink have spent some serious Cheddar on making sure that we, the consuming public, buy whatever they are peddling. Sometimes their efforts work like Lucky Charms, and other times the slogans are so bad that people will go out of their way to avoid the poor ... More >>

Five things you'll always find in the fridges of the Denver FIVE

Like a lot of voyeurs, I'm intrigued by the contents of other people's refrigerators, especially the refrigerators of chefs. And apparently, so is Leigh Sullivan, the innovator behind FIVE -- five local chefs and their bar cohorts, all of whom cook (and pour) at various restaurants and venues around ... More >>

Super Bowl commercials: Elton John, Flavor Flav, Echo and the Bunnymen and more

See also: Top 5 Greatest Super Bowl halftime shows and Video: M.I.A. flips off Super Bowl audience during halftime show So we all know that half the fun of watching the Super Bowl is seeing all the commercials. If you missed them for whatever reason -- your loud mouth buddy was yapping about this ... More >>

Denver may be the thirteenth-drunkest city, but we're tops in beer

Happy Birthday To Breck

LoHi Steakbar is a convincing home away from home

​Happy Place: LoHi Steakbar, 3200 Tejon Street, 303-927-6334 The Hours: Daily from 4 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: $2 Budweiser drafts, PBR, and Coors bottles; $3 house margaritas and well drinks; $5 wines by the glass; $5 sliders. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out.

Leaked: Goose Island's new marketing strategy in wake of AB InBev Acquisition

The old Goose Island logo. Leaked, new logo below.​The headlines screamed across the beer-drinking world on Monday that AB InBev was buying Chicago-based Goose Island brewing for a delicious $38.8 million. Double-secret sources in St. Louis have leaked very rough drafts of a new Goose Island ... More >>

Bud Light vs. Coors Light: An accident waiting to happen

​Does fiction follow real life or does real life come from fiction? The drivers of two beer trucks had to put philosophical questions like that aside during a snow storm on January 19 when one of their trucks slid into the other in Boulder, as seen in a comical YouTube video produced by the B ... More >>

Drunk of the week: An open letter to Lakeview Lounge on Sheridan

10 kinds of bros you'll find at a music festival

Click to enlarge​Urban Dictionary, the Internet's home for crass generalizations, defines a bro as, "Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren't making an ass of themselves, they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exci ... More >>

Great American Beer Festival brew is ready and waiting to be judged -- in a Bud warehouse

This is what we imagine the warehouse looks like.​A refrigerated Budweiser warehouse isn't normally the kind of thing that would make a hop-headed craft beer geek salivate, but for the next couple of weeks, the facility at 62nd Avenue and Franklin Street in Denver is every beer geeks dream. I ... More >>

Drink more whiskey, fix my swamp cooler

Lala’s Hops on Hops

The Wild West: Table Mountain Inn likes us unsober

​The Place: Table Mountain Inn, 1310 Washington Avenue, Golden, 303-277-9898. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6 p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m. The Deals: $5 Honcho Mesa margaritas; $3 select wines by the glass, cocktails and Colorado microbrews; $2 Coors and Budweiser; $4 and $5 appetizers

Willis Case has a bar under par

The Daily Show blows some smoke with Westword's pot critic

Top five Super Bowl commercials of all time

You can agree to disagree, but Sunday's Super Bowl left much to be desired. The spread was wide, all of the commercials seemed to be created by a sleep-deprived schizophrenic coming off of a Ritalin bender, and The Who should clearly never perform again. Ever. We'll chalk it up as a wash, but hopef ... More >>

Roll out the Brown Barrel -- you'll have a barrel of fun

The Rustic Tavern

Border War

Rob Kramer’s Romeo and Juliet is soaked in suds

Argonaut toasts its new store

It was hard to tell if the three homeless men gathered outside the brand-new Argonaut Wine & Liquor this morning were waiting for the store to open to the public or for Mayor John Hickenlooper, who was scheduled to arrive for the grand-opening ceremony. Either way, they got what they wanted when Ar ... More >>

JD's: It'll do

Taking a gamble on drinking in Black Hawk

The best of the West at the Great American Beer Festival

Miller, Coors, Bud are Aleing

Rearview: The Week in Review (6/7/08-6/13/08)

Matthew Moon Lands Song on Budweiser's Olympic Promo

Breckenridge Brewery Blake Street Pub

Beer today, gone tomorrow.

A Subject He Can’t Refuse

Does the Mexican have a godfather?

Meadowlark

A club as comfy as old slippers.

Thunderbird Lounge

A cure for the common code.

Halloween Humor

The Comedy Works yuks it up.

J’ Shabu

This shabu shabu will bowl you over.

Piatti Locali

Time to take a shower.

A Federal Case

Cruising down the boulevard, Denver’s avenue of schemes and dreams.

Drink Up!

When is a Mexican beer not a Mexican beer?

Best Anytime Drink Special

The Lounge

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Reverend Horton Heat

Revival (Yep Roc)

The White Stuff

Snow sculpture challenge packs a creative punch

Ice Ice Baby

Ice-skating returns to Cherry Creek

Drunk of the Week

College Inn

Guided By Voices

Isolation Drills (TVT)

The Joint

One for the Road.

I Drink, Therefore I Am

An incomplete history of local barchitecture, undertaken in two sober afternoons.

The Simpel Truth