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Five fast-food chains that should NOT serve breakfast

Customers are very fortunate to have fast-food chains that offer adequate -- if not 100 percent nutritious or gourmet -- breakfast menus for those days when flipping pancakes or cracking eggs at home isn't time-efficient. And fast-food patrons are also fortunate that not every chain offers breakfast ... More >>

Five fast-food trend fails of 2012 -- including the ruination of bacon!

The past year was a titillating one for fast-food trends. Yes, 2012 brought us healthy on-the-go, as well as sticky, cheese-covered drive-thru fodder that will linger in our colons well into 2013. We've seen the fast-food versions of the good, the bad and the ugly -- good things like healthier kid's ... More >>

Jack's Smirking Revenge

Project Arcturus
Self-released

10 things to do for $10 (7 free!) this weekend, October 5-7

October is finally here, and that means pumpkin beer, butternut squash soup and Halloween-themed events all month. But you won't have to fork over a ton of cash to get in on the fun. We've rounded up ten events this weekend that all cost less than $10, from people-watching at a zombie dash to seeing ... More >>

"It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" provides soundtrack to enlightenment -- and being fired

We all have it -- that one song that stopped us in our tracks the first time we ever heard it, that continues to give us pause each and every time it's played, and we each have a song -- and a story that goes along with it. Deep Cuts is our latest feature, in which we share the personal stories behi ... More >>

Photos: Ten weirdest new posts on Denver Craigslist

In April, we collected the ten weirdest posts on Denver Craigslist -- and since then, the strangeness supply has definitely been restocked. Below, check out our picks for the most bizarre recent items to turn up on the site. As before, they're not all for sale -- but they're all plenty twisted.

The great debate: Andrew Orvedahl and Jef Otte settle their parenting differences like men

The beef started on Facebook. Creeped out by last week's TIME cover story about attachment parenting -- you know, the weird one with the preschool-age kid standing on a stool and suckling his mom's tit -- I penned an essay for the Village Voice about how much attachment parenting sucks and posted it ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Ten authentic Irish drinking songs

Finding an Irish soundtrack for a St. Patrick's Day celebration doesn't take a lot of exhaustive research. Generic "Best of Ireland" compilations abound in outlet stores, on iTunes and even on racks in gas stations, collections that feature anonymous artists playing generic versions of traditional C ... More >>

Realize your worst nightmare with the zombie 5K run

Luckily, they aren't the running zombies. The "Run for your Lives" zombie 5K obstacle course is coming to Colorado this summer, where fitness freaks bored by the running routine will have to dodge "zombies" -- volunteers complete with fake blood and lumbering steps -- as part of the race. It's lik ... More >>

The Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield goes after gluten-free diets and admits he doesn't give a rat's ass about reviews

This is part one of my interview with Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield. Check back here tomorrow to read part two. Patrick Canfield Trinity Grille 1801 Broadway 303-293-2288 www.trinitygrille.com Most of us have scrubbed a few pots and scraped a few plates, but if you eat dinner every night at ... 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 over th ... More >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Red Rocks Fitness loses its rock

REI: The real white house

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

Delegating Denver #47 of 56: Tennessee

Confessions of a Halo Addict

Are You Game?

Morrison Inn

On the rocks at Red Rocks.

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.

Mood Swing

Swing for the fences in Glenwood Springs

Drunk of the Week

Chopper's Sports Grill

Heartful Dodgers

The Last Good Season hits a homer

Frag or Be Fragged

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

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 2, 2003

Zoom Through Doom

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

Consumed

Tidings of Good Cake

Backwash

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

The Bite

Area shoppers give in to the power of cheese.

Bonus Round

The New Order

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

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Taken for a Ride

Fiddling About

The Fiddlin' Foresters are at home on the range.