Mountain Dew

Confessions of a Halo Addict

Delegating Denver #47 of 56: Tennessee

REI: The real white house

Heartful Dodgers

The Last Good Season hits a homer

Mood Swing

Swing for the fences in Glenwood Springs

The Bite

Area shoppers give in to the power of cheese.

Backwash

A new local indie label has got something to Shagg about.

Bite Me

Meet the critic

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 2, 2003

Drunk of the Week

Chopper's Sports Grill

Red Rocks Fitness loses its rock

Chopper's Sports Grill

The New Order

Mail Order Children play ska--and a lot of other things, too.

Pointing you toward the best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads

Mail Order Children play ska--and a lot of other things, too.

The Truck Stops Here

And when it does, nurse practitioner David Kleberger is ready.

Stunt Boy

Meet the chairman of the board.

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Bonus Round

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Lucha Libre, Locally

What's So Funny steps into the ring with some masked men who mean business.

Are You Game?

What's So Funny steps into the ring with some masked men who mean business.

Tagging Up Denver

The city’s aerosol junkies are in the spotlight.

The Party's Over

Winners of our "My Worst New Year's Eve" essay contest.

Morrison Inn

On the rocks at Red Rocks.

Pour It On

Dan Mayer is fueled for the energy boom.

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House.

House of Kabob

Sticking with it

Snow Bored

Extreme sports might be fun, but First Descent is not.

The Alternative Voter’s Guide

The Legislative Council’s ballot-analysis booklet has inspired so many fights, it should be called the black-and-blue book. Here’s our cure.

Frag or Be Fragged

The Parker Cyber Station serves up death and destruction all night long.

Zoom Through Doom

Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real American warriors.

Consumed

Tidings of Good Cake

Don't Turn That Dial

Reading, writing and arithmetic add up to money for Channel One.

The Parking Posse

As cars clog the city's residential areas, neighborhood parking vigilantes take back their curbs.

Thrills for the week

As cars clog the city's residential areas, neighborhood parking vigilantes take back their curbs.

Taken for a Ride

As cars clog the city's residential areas, neighborhood parking vigilantes take back their curbs.

Fiddling About

The Fiddlin' Foresters are at home on the range.

The List: Minor leagues

Tocabe is giving Native American cuisine its long-overdue moment. These weekly lists are often easy to put together. I review a Mexican restaurant, I can make a list of other Mexican restaurants I love. I write about Chinese food, I can list a half-dozen other places to get good duck. But this wee ... More >>

A Crush on Cans: Ball Packaging

It's American Craft Beer Week - seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for drinking micro brews. But Colorado's beer culture is worth a deeper look, since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular interest ... More >>

Spike It: Top six things that could be improved by caffeine

They spiked jerky. Why not bananas?​Ah, caffeine. The most wonderful of all stimulants. The most legal of all stimulants, more to the point. Is there anything that can't be improved by the judicious -- or injudicious -- addition of caffeine? Apparently not, since the last few years have seen a ... More >>

RIP: A dozen dead (or almost-dead) soft drinks

​Soda, like most everything else in the world, has a lifespan. Some sodas live long and prosper, while others die and fade away (or, as is true of a few on this list, end up in the bargain section at Walmart). This list is devoted to those drinks that quenched our thirst, kept us awake, and ... More >>

Marijuana legalization: Did Obama's "pot cheat sheet" kill California's Proposition 19?

​Why did Proposition 19, the CA pot legalization measure, fail? One reason might have been Obama administration antagonism exemplified by the memo "Marijuana legalization: A bad idea." As Colorado begins the march to a 2012 legalization measure, let's see if Obama's "pot cheat sheet" holds up ... More >>

Quick, react: Four Loko banned by the FDA

Bye bye, Four Loko​As expected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- the cop-calling Debbie Downer in a room full of people who just want to party -- decided yesterday that caffeinated alcoholic beverages are unsafe and gave a handful of companies, including Phusion Products, which makes F ... More >>

A real life superhero repository

​KIROTV in Lynwood, Washington recently reported a story about a real-life superhero named Phoenix Jones who stopped a car theft by chasing the man down the street. Weird, but not unheard of in this post-Kick-Ass world. In fact, there is an entire website devoted to these real world superheroe ... More >>

Drinking Made Easy made for a great party at Govnr's Park

The Govnr's Park crew enjoys the show.​There was more cheering and drinking than watching at Govnr's Park last night, but it was definitely a party. HDNet was finally airing the Denver episode of Drinking Made Easy, and Govnr's Park had attracted a good crowd for its official watch party. "I' ... More >>

Chef and Tell, part two: Geoffrey Groditski on incompetent culinary school grads, pounds of butter and the whole hog

Lori Midson​ Geoffrey Groditski The Fort 19192 Highway 8, Morrison 303-697-4771 www.thefort.com This is part one of my interview with Geoffrey Groditski, executive chef of The Fort. In part one of that interview, Groditski raps on his $40,000 mistake, raw bull's balls and how pine nuts ma ... More >>

Mountain Dew signs the Cool Kids to "the best deal in the world"

​The Cool Kids have been stuck in label hell for over a year now trying to get their debut full-length released. Their relationship with previous label, Chicago's Chocolate Industries, went bad, and none of the majors interested in the album could figure out an offer that worked for everyone. ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Rep. Cindy Acree says MMJ edibles ban needed to protect children, patients

Cindy Acree.​We recently told you about HB 1250, a bill that appeared to ban the medical marijuana edibles industry in Colorado. Since then, there's been debate among MMJ community members -- fueled in part by articles like this -- about whether or not that was true. But in advance of today's ... 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 >>

The Phantom Tron Menace Legacy: It's the same movie

Tron: Legacy, hittin' the streets on DVD and bluray yesterday, was supposed to be a coup of geekery. A sequel no one really wanted but diehard fans of a box office flop from 1982; it got made anyway -- and against all odds, it looked like awesome 3D geeknip. Jeff Bridges was back and young due to ad ... More >>

Potcheen brings its eclectic Irish songbook to the 2011 Colorado Irish Festival

Tron: Legacy, hittin' the streets on DVD and bluray yesterday, was supposed to be a coup of geekery. A sequel no one really wanted but diehard fans of a box office flop from 1982; it got made anyway -- and against all odds, it looked like awesome 3D geeknip. Jeff Bridges was back and young due to ad ... More >>

The Legend of Zelda Symphony at Boettcher on April 7

​Gamers and Geeks, rejoice! Here's another reason to leave the house besides MileHiCon and the occasional run to stock up on Mountain Dew and pizza bagels: The local premier of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, a four-part symphony celebrating the storied franchise's theme music ... More >>