Cheetos

In For Life: Day Two of the Michael Tate Trial

Dear Representatives Kerr and Kerr: We Are All Graffiti Tools!

Flobots and Wrist Deep Productions Touch Each Other. Down There.

Best Peckman Alien Video Parodies

Dork Night at The Dark Knight Premiere

Don't hate the playa: Thoughts on writing in the Digg era

The nature of print media is strange these days. Pages shrivel and shrink, then disappear altogether, while paid positions dry up like teens on Proactiv, resulting in a frenzied scramble toward writers and editors doing more with less, pissed off at their frozen salaries yet unable to bitch about ... More >>

More scenarios in which Dave Schultheis might not intervene to protect babies

Dave Schultheis. State senator Dave Schultheis, a Colorado Springs Republican, has long been an expert at saying things that slacken jaws -- but he truly outdid himself yesterday, when he spoke out against legislation that would require pregnant women to receive HIV tests in order to prevent their ... More >>

What's So Funny

Dave Schultheis. State senator Dave Schultheis, a Colorado Springs Republican, has long been an expert at saying things that slacken jaws -- but he truly outdid himself yesterday, when he spoke out against legislation that would require pregnant women to receive HIV tests in order to prevent their ... More >>

Ship Tavern

Setting sail three sheets to the wind.

Flick Pick

Setting sail three sheets to the wind.

Seconds at Boulder Public Library

Setting sail three sheets to the wind.

Killer Instinct

After Michael Tate lost all hope of a family life, he found the Devil.

Are You Game?

After Michael Tate lost all hope of a family life, he found the Devil.

Papi Knows Best

The Mexican’s father is exactly what this country needs.

Super Ape

A former Denverite was the star of the Super Bowl commercials.

Lamm Basted

If Bill Owens were Asian, he'd act smarter.

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything.

American I-Dull

Since anointing Kelly Clarkson, the star machine's been running on empty.

Hot Flashes

Getting to know Denver's Hottest Service Employees.

Wizards Welcome

The Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown lights up.

Kirtan Call

Be here now with Dave Stringer

On 4/20, the worst places to stash your stash

This does not belong in your car. Ever. (See more such photos here). Despite the obvious enthusiasm for its legalization -- see today's rallies in Denver, Boulder, Santa Cruz and other hemp-friendly havens -- marijuana is still technically illegal. So it behooves us to consider that it might someti ... More >>

Boulder's renegade lunch lady

Now serving: Renegade Lunch Lady Ann Cooper, who's taking on the Boulder Valley School District. Cooper is known nationally as an advocate for healthier school lunches for children, and has already created greatly improved nutritional meal programs in New York and at the Berkeley Unified School ... More >>

Five reasons to believe the future has arrived

Still no flying car, but I've got something better​All too often, people get so hung up on the fantastic future we didn't get that they can't focus on the even-crazier one we did. You know the complaints: "Where's my flying car? Why can't I live forever? When do I get to visit the moon?" But f ... More >>

Qdoba: Now you can have your tacos and eat your quesadilla, too

Qdoba​Munchies were the best invention ever. You know -- the snack bags stuffed with a combination of Doritos, Sun Chips, Rold Gold pretzels and Cheetos. Eating an entire bag of any singular item is so mundane, but Munchies offered variety: They added texture to an otherwise monotonous crunch. ... More >>

Top 10 things Denver should do to get greener on Earth Day 2010

A Flickr photoOn Earth Day, we vow to pick up after our next beer-pong game in Wash Park. They're only baby steps, but hopefully these ten small tokens of our appreciation for Mother Earth will add up to one slightly larger and biodegradable token. 10. Planting a tree and then neglecting it until ... More >>

Congressman Jared Polis wants kids to have healthy lunch options

No Lunchables would be found in this congressman's childhood lunchbox.​No tater tots or fruit cocktail were harmed in the upbringing of Congressman Jared Polis. No Cheetos or Little Debbie snack cakes either for that matter. In fact, Colorado's second district congressman says he brought hi ... More >>

ILLEGAL, from Terry Greene Sterling

No Lunchables would be found in this congressman's childhood lunchbox.​No tater tots or fruit cocktail were harmed in the upbringing of Congressman Jared Polis. No Cheetos or Little Debbie snack cakes either for that matter. In fact, Colorado's second district congressman says he brought hi ... More >>

Crispin Porter Bogusky behind advertising ploy aimed at getting kids to eat vegetables

Crispin Porter Bogusky​Boulder-based advertising firm Crispin Porter Bogusky is renowned for using viral tactics and edgy (and sometimes controversial) campaigns to turn around floundering companies and proliferate products or ideas that, prior to their input, had little airtime.

Culinary treasures are revealed through a family's history

Crispin Porter Bogusky​Boulder-based advertising firm Crispin Porter Bogusky is renowned for using viral tactics and edgy (and sometimes controversial) campaigns to turn around floundering companies and proliferate products or ideas that, prior to their input, had little airtime.

Torchlight and more drains on your time in our new release picks for March 8, 2011

​While party people are likely celebrating Fat Tuesday by hitting the streets and getting sucker punched by as much beers as their gut can handle, some of us prefer to spend our days indoors consuming mass amounts of media and feeling sorry for ourselves for not having any friends. Thankfully, ... More >>

Photos: Steampunks galore at the AnomalyCon Grand Ball

Set the steam-powered wayback machine to the future.​As a precursor to AnomalyCon, Denver's first big steampunk convention, we brought you on Thursday some easy tips for steampunking everything, including your toilet paper dispenser and your cat. From the looks of it, folks took that advice to ... More >>

dish's Jenna Johansen thanks the universe for supplying the world with pig

​ Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part one of my interview with Jenna Johansen, co-owner/chef of dish restaurant in Edwards. Part two of this interview will run in this space tomorrow. "I can talk about an apple for an ho ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Run on Grass promotes pot as an athletic performance enhancer

Georgia Edson.​"Most people think someone who wants to end marijuana prohibition sits on the couch eating Cheetos and watching bad TV all day -- someone who isn't necessarily a motivated person," says Georgia Edson. "And that's so untrue." This message helps power Run on Grass, Edson's new or ... More >>

My Smart Snacker, taking the hassle out of driving and snacking

Orca CommunicationsBecause driving should not keep man from his Cheetos.​The story of My Smart Snacker begins with a man eating out of a portable dog bowl. The man is Brighton resident Loren "Sam" Samuelson, whose sister invented the To Go Bowl, a water bowl for pets that fits into a cup holde ... More >>

O, Barnum! An ode to Denver's least desirable neighborhood

Front porch chillin': A favorite occupation of what I like to call "the Barnumployed."​If you happen to find yourself in Barnum and you don't live there, chances are you're lost. And not just because it's not a neighborhood that lends itself to being found -- find one of two streets that make ... More >>

I'm an idiot, and other misconceptions about retail employees

If only I was the Criss Angel of retail.When I'm not interviewing drag queens, reviewing concerts and rating Santas for Westword, I'm working at Shirt Folding Store. For twenty hours a week, I fold shirts (and, more important, jeans) alongside other part-timers, who in their other jobs might be bank ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Timberline Herbal Clinic

​Timberline Herbal Clinic isn't anything fancy, nor does it pretend to be. It's a working-class shop in a working-class part of town north of I-70 on Colorado Boulevard, where hardworking guys at nearby tire yards and truck-repair shops stop in on their lunch break to pick up edibles for after ... More >>

Top five things food snobs should stop doing

​There is nothing wrong with being a food snob. Food snobs offer valuable services to their communities, such as market insight, educated opinions and keeping the restaurant industry honest and on its toes. But still, there are always some culi-nazis pissing in the crab bisque; food snows who ... More >>