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Photos: Top ten Passive-Aggressive Notes from Colorado

Have you discovered PassiveAggressiveNotes.com? The site is dedicated to hilarious scribblings from upset people who express their frustration in ways that range from teeth-gritted politeness to full-out rage -- and since it's searchable by location, we've collected our ten favorites from Colorado. ... More >>

Top ten outmoded industries Colorado should lure after snagging Blockbuster

If the last time you rented a movie from Blockbuster also happened to be the last time you watched an Eddie Murphy movie, you're not alone. But just in case you did feel like giving up Netflix, Hulu and Redbox, and rewinding that copy of Beverly Hills Cop III you borrowed in 1994, Colorado's got you ... More >>

Blockbuster is moving to Colorado. I'm sending poop.

A twelve-year-old degenerate needs a spot for daily operations: some place that's secluded, where you can stash your collection of pornos and light a bunch of weird shit on fire, and no one will bother you. For my best friend Noah and me, the central vector for our troublemaking was behind the Block ... More >>

Seth Lepore on his one-man show, the happiness movement and infomercials

Naropa grad Seth Lepore will bring his newest one-man show, SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious, to Boulder this weekend. The new show targets the happiness movement, humorously critiquing everything from Oprah Winfrey to those Texas megachurches that all insist we need to be constantly chipper. We ... More >>

In-n-Out Burger will come to Denver...for a price

Lori Midson​Sorry, that headline is cruel. In-n-Out Burger, which now has locations in California, Nevada, Dallas-Fort Worth and Utah, is not opening a store in Denver, but if you don't want to drive the 350-plus miles to get your double-double burger fix, you can have it delivered straight t ... More >>

Netflix is tapped into your psyche

You've lied to us all, Beyonce. ​Interpellation: a word I learned in my college critical theory class, which I admittedly skipped almost every day of. The Althusser day, however, I dragged my semi-stoned, semi-drunk ass out of bed and learned some useless philosophy. Interpellation, as it was exp ... More >>

There's a Facebook inside my Facebook's Facebook

We are so on the same page.​It's like I went to bed on a normal Tuesday night and woke up yesterday morning to find a Facebook like I had never seen before. Okay, like most things I talk about that happen in my life, that's an exaggeration. It wasn't really all that different, but according to ... More >>

Dear Netflix: I already broke up with you. Stop pretending like it was the other way around.

Ugh.​Hey Netflix, er, Qwikster, er, Reed Hastings: Here's the deal. You can't send me an "I'm sorry I broke up with you" letter, when I have already broken up with you. After the July announcement that consumers (you know, those people who pay you money for your stuff) would see a 60 percent p ... More >>

Proposition 103: Are opponents' claims of job losses tied to education tax hike bogus?

Rollie Heath.​The Denver blog post cooperative is open for business. Colorado Pols notes that the author of a study saying Rollie Heath's Proposition 103 would cost 119,000 jobs doesn't exactly stand behind that figure. Free Colorado's Ari Armstrong isn't sure why the response to Netflix's d ... More >>

The 10 best BDSM movies (Images are NSFW)

​BDSM-themed movies, and films with hot kink scenes in them provide us with two very important things: mainstream popular-culture acceptance, and something to jerk the gerk/smack the peach to when we're bored.

Four ways to get your Mad Men fix until the real thing returns

"All I have is a crush-proof box, and four out of five dead people smoked your brand."​With another new television season almost upon us, it's also another season missing AMC's Mad Men. The '60s-era period drama, which has been on hiatus since October of last year due to negotiations between t ... More >>

Friendly reminder: The Netflix price-hike starts today. Here's what you need to know.

​Nobody is really a fan of Netflix's rate increase, but if you've been holding off selling the children into slavery for the price hike, you might want to start hitting up Craigslist, because it's about to hit you hard. Thankfully, you've probably still got a little time before your bank acco ... More >>

Network Awesome is here to remind us what television was like before it sucked

​This week, Nickelodeon has been running some of its favorite shows of the '90s, finally tapping into what the Internet has been saying all along: People like old television programming. And, as Netflix continues to make its customers increasingly irate with price increases (information releas ... More >>

Netflix's betrayal is nothing compared to what Google, Apple and Facebook are already doing

Mo' money, mo' problems.​Yesterday, Netflix informed its users that from September on, its services are going to cost more and offer less -- a pretty harsh blow to its wide base of users. The move came as a surprise to many Netflix customers, who have flooded the Netflix Facebook page, blog an ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Harlem is a band, and its tweets are both gross and awesome

Hey, Harlem. Haaaaaay.​The general rule for Twitter Tuesday is that we cannot highlight the account of someone/something unless it is public. Meaning, just because we are friends with a person and can read his or her or its tweets doesn't mean we can share them with everybody. Basically, we're ... More >>

As the music industry circles the drain, Netflix tops torrents in traffic. When is the music industry going to catch up?

​Earlier this year, a report surfaced detailing current BitTorrent usage, with porn being the number one most torrented media and music sinking to a miserable 2.9 percent. Now, Sandvine company has detailed the biggest data hogs of the past year, and Netflix's streaming is on the top. When is ... More >>

Is Vincent Gallo writing his own Netflix reviews? And if so, is that art?

​Does Vincent Gallo write his own Netflix reviews? Artist Jason Barr thinks so. In a recent blog post, Barr points out that the auteur responsible for bizarre but captivating films like Buffalo '66 and The Brown Bunny might just be responsible for the reviews posted on Netflix for his latest f ... More >>

The art of the mockbuster: Good artists copy, great artists steal

​The art of stealing art is a long lasting one -- since the dawn of the civilized era, people have been copping other people's ideas and running with them. On some levels, there's no real shame in it, but when stealing is turned into a profitable business, things start to get a bit wonky. Toda ... More >>

Ten best fictional killer plants

​Tonight at the Denver Botanical Gardens, writer Amy Stewart will be presenting a history of killer plants of the very real variety. While that's all well and good, we prefer to keep our deadly botanical assassins in the realm of the fiction so we can still sleep through the night. Killer plan ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, March 18-20, 2011

Would Sly stay in bed all weekend because of a hangover? No way.​While you might still be nursing your hangover today, that doesn't mean you can't start setting your weekend plans. We understand you're probably in terrible shape, you might have a bit of a headache and you're probably battling ... More >>

Why Facebook movies isn't a threat to anyone

​Facebook dove into the movie streaming arena with The Dark Knight yesterday and people flipped out: Netflix's stock, in particular, took a significant dive. But what evidence do we have that this will actually work on a large scale?

20 things to do solo in Denver on Valentine's Day

Who needs people with all their talking and opinions? Not you, you're a lone wolf who doesn't need a pack of yapping furballs to cramp your style. Here's what to do on Valentine's Day. Alone.

The Daily: Five ways it could fail

​Rupert Murdoch's News Corp unveiled The Future of Journalism this morning in an elaborate, hour long event at the Guggenheim in New York. The product: The first tablet-native newspaper, a 14 cents per day, iPad-only publication called The Daily. There was some amount of fervor surrounding it ... More >>

Netflix Instant: What Denver is watching on its freeze day

​There's a storm in the midwest that's causing everyone to roll out their stupid snow puns again (Snowpocalypse Now!) and here in Denver we're getting into the negative double digits -- a big day for Netflix Instant, the movie rental option that doesn't require pants, much less a jacket and i ... More >>

Hulu might die. Here's why you shouldn't care.

​News Corp. and Disney (who own Fox and ABC, respectively) are considering pulling their ad-based free streaming shows from Hulu -- remember that they are two of the three companies who founded Hulu back in 2008. Hulu has done incredibly well in terms of viewership, but its subscription-based ... More >>

American Skins Versus U.K. Skins: Looks like MTV forgot that the boobs were the best part

Hey MTV: Give Tony his naked bedspread back!​There are many things that make English television better than American television. Mostly, it is a lack of censorship; American TV loves violence but hates sex, drugs and profanity. English TV loves them all equally, and luckily for us, by the good gra ... More >>

The Christmas movie selection on Netflix Instant Streaming is terrible

Yep, that exists.​It's 2010. We demand a solution to our seasonal movie needs that doesn't require leaving the house. Netflix Instant Streaming is our usual go-to in these sorts of occasions, but holy crap, have they dropped the ball on this one. There is no convenient way to browse what's ou ... More >>

Reel Social Club launches tonight, aims to make movies hipster-friendly

The Coreys want you to be there.​For the younger set, film-watching isn't the social event it once was. Nowadays, cinema appreciation is usually enjoyed at home with a Netflix disc in the DVD player or Hulu.com on the computer. After all, what self-respecting hipster wants to be caught dead in ... More >>

Catching The Heart is a Drum Machine on the second rotation

The first time The Heart is a Drum Machine caught my eye was sometime in March when it popped up on my Netflix Instant queue. It looked interesting -- but I quickly moved on to something else -- probably something with explosions or monsters or some obscure foreign film that put me to sleep. Eithe ... More >>

Cephalic Carnage gets nod on the silver screen

​Have you seen Mike Judge's latest flick, Extract? No? Allow us to save you the trouble: The movie, which came out last year, is occasionally amusing; it's no where near as funny as Office Space or as incisive as Idiocracy. If anything, it leans far closer to the former in tone and texture. If ... More >>

Rock Stunts = Stunt Rock

Click play to witness the awe-inspiring trailer for the 1978 Ozploitation obscurity Stunt Rock. The band Sorcery (owners of one of the worst Wikipedia entries ever) delivers its wizard-filled brand of prog rock. Australian director Brian Trenchard-Smith delivers a buttload of stunts and a meager p ... More >>

What are Jay-Z's 99 problems? We know a bitch ain't one.

​ It's well known an this point that Jay-Z (appearing tonight at the Pepsi Center with Sound Tribe Sector 9, Trey Songz and Young Jeezy) has 99 problems, and a bitch, most certainly, ain't one. Curiously, though, until now, no one's really taken a hard look at just what Hova's 99 problems are ... More >>

Let's get Lost tonight

Unless you've been living in a cave on an island somewhere, you've probably gathered that Lost is starting its sixth and final season tonight. Haven't been watching? No problem: you can get caught up on the series in eight minutes, fifteen seconds with this helpful video. And if you're anything l ... More >>

Denver's favorite 2009 Netflix rental was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Really?

"I'm more appealing than I look."​ Wondering how your friends and neighbors spent their evenings last year -- the ones who close their blinds, anyway? Turns out many of them were watching a dreary, seemingly endless movie in which Brad Pitt spends a long, long time looking like an ancient, qua ... More >>

Pixies bringing Doolittle tour to Denver in November

​It's true. Mark your calendars: We just received word that the Pixies, one of the world's greatest bands, will return to Denver to perform Doolittle, its classic 1989 platter, in its entirety on Thursday, November 16 at the Fillmore. Although Black Francis (aka Frank Black, aka Charles Thompson) ... More >>

Departures

​It's true. Mark your calendars: We just received word that the Pixies, one of the world's greatest bands, will return to Denver to perform Doolittle, its classic 1989 platter, in its entirety on Thursday, November 16 at the Fillmore. Although Black Francis (aka Frank Black, aka Charles Thompson) ... More >>

The mystery of Lou Pai revisited

Illustration by Jay BevenourKing of the mountain and former Enron exec Lou Pai. A blog by The Atlantic's James Fallows gives a shout-out to a 2002 Westword feature, "The Mystery of Pai," dealing with one of the more mysterious figures in the Enron debacle. Fallows was apparently catching up on his ... More >>

There's a bit of truth in every stereotype

Illustration by Jay BevenourKing of the mountain and former Enron exec Lou Pai. A blog by The Atlantic's James Fallows gives a shout-out to a 2002 Westword feature, "The Mystery of Pai," dealing with one of the more mysterious figures in the Enron debacle. Fallows was apparently catching up on his ... More >>

Feds out of voucher money for digital conversion boxes, so I guess I'm quitting television.

Well, the deadline for the big television conversion to digital is only a month away and I missed my shot at getting the government vouchers for the converter box. Last week, the Commerce Department announced they had hit the $1.34 billion funding limit set by Congress for the coupon program, whic ... More >>

Mile High Makeout: Like a kid on Christmas

I finally stopped by my post office box yesterday to pick up the mail that has accumulated over several days. Normally, I cruise by on my way to or from the day job and things don't pile up. Life, however, has been a bit abnormal lately, so I haven't been able to get in there, and it just hasn't see ... More >>

Spinning in circles

I finally stopped by my post office box yesterday to pick up the mail that has accumulated over several days. Normally, I cruise by on my way to or from the day job and things don't pile up. Life, however, has been a bit abnormal lately, so I haven't been able to get in there, and it just hasn't see ... More >>

Blogging at 10 MPH

I finally stopped by my post office box yesterday to pick up the mail that has accumulated over several days. Normally, I cruise by on my way to or from the day job and things don't pile up. Life, however, has been a bit abnormal lately, so I haven't been able to get in there, and it just hasn't see ... More >>

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