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KFC Corporation

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Draw Something takes another smart friend away with every lewd sketch

    I've never played Draw Something for the same reason I've never tried cocaine: I know that if I did, I would become immediately addicted, drop out of society and ruin what's left of my life. If you're not familiar with Draw Something, it's an app that, according to the App Store, is "the most popul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2012

    SXSW travelogue: Morning Clouds do laundry and play college flophouse

    Thursday, March 15: Thousands of bands were packed into stages around town, fans were going nuts on every street corner. How'd the Morning Clouds spend their off day? Doing laundry. We're pretty rock like that. With piles of clean undies and non-smelly socks back in our room, we managed to catch a g ... More >>

  • Articles

    January 26, 2012

    Drama and humor mix well in The Whale

    Thursday, March 15: Thousands of bands were packed into stages around town, fans were going nuts on every street corner. How'd the Morning Clouds spend their off day? Doing laundry. We're pretty rock like that. With piles of clean undies and non-smelly socks back in our room, we managed to catch a g ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 26, 2012

    Drama and humor mix well in The Whale

    Thursday, March 15: Thousands of bands were packed into stages around town, fans were going nuts on every street corner. How'd the Morning Clouds spend their off day? Doing laundry. We're pretty rock like that. With piles of clean undies and non-smelly socks back in our room, we managed to catch a g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Five Thanksgiving buffet foods that have nothing to do with Thanksgiving

    ​The only thing Americans love more than a buffet is a holiday buffet. We also love that the fourth Thursday every November is a thinly-veiled justification for a massive meat-and-starchy gorge by evoking images of shysty Pilgrims and wary Natives sharing corn on the cob. But the real gem of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Top five reasons why people should get to buy fast food with food stamps

    ​Yum! Brands -- parent company of such fast-food chains as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- is currently lobbying the Kentucky state government to allow people to use their food stamps in its restaurants. Is this an example of unabashed corporate greed trying to divert state benefits from buyi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Stop inviting me to ruin your camping trip

    Welcome to hell on earth.​From 1988 to 1992, I attended Girl Scout camp at Tomahawk Ranch in Baily. It was awesome. We made tie-dye T-shirts, ate burnt s'mores and hunted for Snipes (a fictionalized skunk-rat that was rumored to live in the woods and could only be captured in pillow cases by G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Death to the brown bags: school lunches vs. homemade, a fight to the finish

    ​Is the concept of students bringing lunch from home dying a hideous death -- just like live social interaction and Gilbert Gottfried's career? At Little Village Academy on Chicago's west side, students are not allowed to bring lunches from home unless they have a medical excuse, so they have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Top five dinners to serve your Internet date on Valentine's Day

    ​With Valentine's Day upon us once again, love is in the air. Birds are tweeting, butterflies are floating on the gentle breeze, and Internet connections are blinking away as the lovelorn hit up their hard-working little modems and wireless routers to locate a date. Finding that date can be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    KFC offers $20,000 scholarship for college-hopeful with best tweet

    ​Forget entrance essays: If you're looking for a few extra dollars for college, you might want to dial in your ability to express yourself in 140 characters or less. KFC just announced that it bestow a $20,000 scholarship on the person who blasts out the single best tweet between now and Novem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Art Meets Beast, round one: Buffalo Bill and the cave paintings

    ​"What we eat is an expression of who we are," said Adam Lerner, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by way of introducing the first session in the three-day Art Meets Beast project. "Food is our most immediate introduction to culture." And there was plenty of food for thought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Top five ways to eat like a foodie

    Not a food snob.​With the advent of the interwebs (big ups to Al Gore), just about anyone who eats -- and yaps about it -- can now be classified as a "Food Expert," or "foodie." Everywhere around us are douchey tools and butter-laden ladies who think that they are far superior to mere mortals ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Zagat Fast Food Survey gives high marks to local chains Chipotle and Red Robin

    ​Everyone loves to hate on fast-food chains -- but even restaurant ratings experts like Zagat recognize their utility in a rundown now and then. The restaurant rating aggregator just released its third annual survey of fast food faves:

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    The week in Cafe Society bloggery: Wade Kirwan exits Vesta, street food costs more than we thought and everyone has something to say about Marco's

    Lori Midson​ Welcome to the end of another full week filled with fascinating, weird and scintillating food news. Here's what you may have missed while you were, I don't know, doing something else, like working, or slathering aloe vera on your sunburn.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    That's unlikely: Top five overreaching health claims about food

    ​Forget after-school apples. Here, drink this, little Jimmy! It's got lots of vitamins and bacteria -- the good kind! -- to keep you healthy and strong.

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2010

    Free KFC for your traitorous patronage

    ​Want a free Doublicious sandwich from KFC? Put on some other fast food chain's garb and rush over to an outpost, then, because KFC is offering free samples of the boneless chicken filet sandwich to the first ten people dressed in the full uniform of a competitor today. And if you're worried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Classic picnic foods: The five best and the five worst

    FlickrIt's delicious, sure, but fried chicken has no business at your picnic (we'll explain).​Whether you're unfurling a blanket on the grass at your neighborhood park, catching Jazz in the Park on a Sunday night, or taking a basket of goodies to the pool to avoid snack bar food and the 30-ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Fast food logos make you impatient

    ​God grant me patience -- or at least a burger. New research with 57 volunteers indicates there's a real reason it's called fast food. After his study, Chen-Bo Zhong at Toronto University came to the scientific conclusion that "fast food represents a culture of time efficiency and instant gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Wild Eggs is coming to Colorado

    ​It's not all bourbon and KFC. Kentucky may know a thing or two about food after all, and it's bringing its know-how to Colorado. Wild Eggs, a Louisville-based breakfast super-mini-chain with Colorado roots is expanding into the state in the near future, according to the Denver Business Journ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    For the Derby, five foods to eat in honor of Kentucky

    Flickr​The horses will be running at Churchill Downs this weekend, which means you'll soon find yourself digging through the hall closet for the biggest hat you can find and, later, rooting your ass off for a thoroughbred named after a minor character from The Great Gatsby, only to realize ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Medical marijuana and South Park: Everybody's favorite obscene cartoon takes on Colorado's hottest topic -- plus scrotum coats!

    ​South Park's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, which explains why their celebrated show includes lots of local references. So it was only a matter of time until the duo took on the hottest topic around these parts these ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Strange Sauce: The week in national food news

    We know, you just threw up in your mouth a little.​The trailer for Jamie Oliver's new television show, Food Revolution, has been released. According to ABC, Oliver will attempt to transform the eating habits of a bunch of rednecks in Huntington, West Virginia, and rumor has it that he bawls w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Ten London fast food joints that should come to Denver

    In case you've been living in a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket, and haven't heard the news, Chipotle is opening its first London store in April of next year. This got me thinking...which, if any, Brit-Based fast food joints might be cool to have in our humble burg? I haven't been to London, so g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    The ten worst fast-food ad campaigns

    Quiznos' rats aren't nearly as creepy as the old guy from the Today Show as Ronald McDonald. Some fast-food ad campaigns work because they're funny -- like the Taco Bell Chihuahua ads from the early '90s, or the more current examples from Jack-in-the-Box, which invite us to send our respects to the ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 5, 2009

    Sheehan's up in arms over changes at the Palace Arms

    Quiznos' rats aren't nearly as creepy as the old guy from the Today Show as Ronald McDonald. Some fast-food ad campaigns work because they're funny -- like the Taco Bell Chihuahua ads from the early '90s, or the more current examples from Jack-in-the-Box, which invite us to send our respects to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Help Christmas light-smashing Hulk win a year of KFC

    Update: As an eagle-eyed blog commentor pointed out, the voting for the KFC contest ended yesterday and the winner has already been announced. Turns out we were so awed by the Hulk's majestic green majesty we just plain screwed up. The good news is that our man Komarnitsky won the contest anyway, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Five keys to guarding a woman in pick-up basketball

    Update: As an eagle-eyed blog commentor pointed out, the voting for the KFC contest ended yesterday and the winner has already been announced. Turns out we were so awed by the Hulk's majestic green majesty we just plain screwed up. The good news is that our man Komarnitsky won the contest anyway, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Swapping One McPrison for Another

    Update: As an eagle-eyed blog commentor pointed out, the voting for the KFC contest ended yesterday and the winner has already been announced. Turns out we were so awed by the Hulk's majestic green majesty we just plain screwed up. The good news is that our man Komarnitsky won the contest anyway, s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 17, 2008

    Get Cookin'

    Indulge in the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night.

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Quiznos Names New President

    Indulge in the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night.

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2007

    Sunday Best

    Indulge in the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night.

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2007

    Out of Order

    Indulge in the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night.

  • Dining

    April 19, 2007

    Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar

    Only in America.

  • News

    March 22, 2007

    Pluck You

    Hmm. Would you rather live in Commerce City or KentuckyFriedCruelty.com?

  • Dining

    July 13, 2006

    Metamorphosis

    Think globally, eat locally at Piatti Locali.

  • Dining

    April 27, 2006

    True Crime

    Beat and run

  • Music

    September 16, 2004

    Slick Rick

    Friday, September 17, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

  • Dining

    November 20, 2003

    Bite Me

    A Week in the Life

  • Dining

    September 11, 2003

    Bite Me

    Going, Going...

  • Dining

    July 24, 2003

    Bite Me

    Green Achers

  • Music

    July 3, 2003

    Critic's Choice

    Buckethead

  • Culture

    March 6, 2003

    Svich Hunt

    A playwright's intentions get lost in a murky bayou of words.

  • Music

    November 22, 2001

    Sideshow Swamp

    A Beck boy no more, DJ Swamp uses headbanger histrionics to blaze his way to the top.

  • Film

    December 28, 2000

    Wigged Out

    An Everlasting Piece finds its sharp humor amid the chaos of Northern Ireland.

  • Film

    June 22, 2000

    Coop d'Etat

    Chicken Run cooks up a radical bucket of fun.

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Deadlines

    Chicken Run cooks up a radical bucket of fun.

  • Dining

    October 8, 1998

    Mouthing Off

    Chicken Run cooks up a radical bucket of fun.

  • Dining

    September 7, 1994

    MOUTHING OFF

    Chicken Run cooks up a radical bucket of fun.

  • News

    June 8, 1994

    THAT HITS THE SPOT!

    ONCE THIS RESTAURANT BATTLED HIPPIES. NOW IT'S THE COUNTER-CULTURE'S LAST STAND.

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