Subject: Retail Trade

• Sweet Shots

  April 26, 2007

• Sweet Shots

  April 26, 2007

• Cheap and Chic Monday Part 1: Fashions For Less Than $100

  June 25, 2007

• Jason Isbell tonight at Twist and Shout

  November 16, 2007

• Spring For Less Bling

  May 21, 2008

• The Preppy Side of Grunge

  July 23, 2008

• You Should Thrift Here: Flatirons Habitat Thrift Store

  July 25, 2008

• Shop Express For Less

  August 6, 2008

• Backwash

  The downfall of Napster is wussifying the Web.

  August 3, 2000

• Focus on the Family doesn't blame Obama for layoffs -- yet

  Lord save us. News that Colorado Springs' Focus on the Familiy is eliminating 202 jobs -- the biggest single cut in the ministry's history -- naturally raised the question of whether Focus reps would lay the blame at Barack Obama's door. After all, prior to the November 4 vote, Focus published a "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," which imagined a country where the Boy Scouts ceased to exist and pornography would be openly displayed in every grocery store -- read the remarkable document

  November 18, 2008

• Black Friday in a bleak economy no big deal

  Media updates the weekend after Thanksgiving are always filled with attempts to judge the strength of the Christmas shopping season by the opening surge of buyers, and this year is no exception. But reports about a robust start to this annual exercise in consumption tend to ring false when they run counter to personal experience -- and that's certainly the case for yours truly. My daughters had a basketball scrimmage between noon and 3 p.m. on Black Friday, so my wife and I decided to fill t

  December 1, 2008

• Cyber Monday coverage more about hype than specifics

  Back in 2005, the folks at Shop.org declared the Monday after Thanksgiving to be "Cyber Monday" -- supposedly the equivalent of Black Friday for e-tailers. Obviously, this designation is a wholly artificial construct intended to pump up business, but the media has signed on anyhow -- including local info purveyors. A quick search turned up Cyber Monday tie-ins from Channel 2, Channel 7, Channel 31, KKTV in Colorado Springs, the Denver Business Journal and more, more, more. But mighty few of th

  December 1, 2008

• Today's Night & Day featured event: Shop, don't drop, in Olde Town Arvada

  An old German tradition, the lagniappe (pronounced lawn-yahp) offers merchants an opportunity to show appreciation for their customers, both loyal and brand-new, by opening their doors for a snow-kissed evening stroll. In other words, it's a tradition tailor-made for the already cozy boutiques of Olde Town Arvada, where retailers host the annual Olde Town Arvada Lagniappe, a free, old-timey holiday-season kickoff complete with carriage rides, refreshments and special deals. Begin your lagniap

  December 1, 2008

• Best store at Cherry Creek Shopping Center, Jr.

  June 29, 2000

• Limp Bizkit

  November 16, 2000

• Best Place to Fill Up on Falafel While Filling Up

  March 29, 2001

• Best Cheap Luggage

  April 4, 2002

• Best Urban Funk in a Mall

  March 25, 2004

• Best-Looking Wine Store

  March 25, 2004

• Best Store at Denver International Airport

  March 24, 2005

• Best Furniture Row

  March 24, 2005

• Record Store Day preview: April is the month for the Decemberists

  The Decemberists. The latest Decemberists album, The Hazards of Love, is a challenging yet rewarding song cycle. Yet "The Rake's Song," which serves as the recording's centerpiece, is as musically compelling as it is lyrically unusual: Lead singer/tunesmith Colin Meloy portrays a widower who bumps off the "three little pests" left in his care after his wife's passing, and feels not the slightest guilt for doing so. It's grim, gripping, catchy as hell, and available on seven-inch on Record Store

  April 3, 2009

• Record Store Day preview: Jenny Lewis waxes eloquent with Elvis

  Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis and Elvis Costello are into sharing. "Carpetbaggers," the A-side of a vinyl single up for sale on Record Store Day, is a Lewis cut from her Acid Tongue album that features Costello on backing vocals. In contrast, the B-side, "Go Away," is a Costello cut from the Momofuku platter that sports back-up singing by Lewis. Equality lives. Note: Record Store Day is an annual event honoring independent record stores -- a onetime retail staple that's becoming an endangered speci

  April 6, 2009

• Corner Market

  The Mile High Business Alliance helps consumers buy local.

  November 27, 2008

• Consumed

  Sunday Drive

  May 9, 2002

• Independence Day

  Musicians band together to support record stores.

  April 16, 2009

• For the Record

  April 17, 2008

• Hot Wheels

  June 21, 2007

• More Is Not Less

  April 26, 2007

• Carjacked

  Car dealerships are seeing more guns coming onto their lots -- carried not by thieves, but by state inspectors. They want that policy holstered.

  November 23, 2006

• Sole Survivor

  Bryan LaRoche just did it.

  September 28, 2006

• Last Call

  Just before Prohibition, the Colorado Legislature gave us 3.2 beer. Now Blake Harrison wants to repeal the scourge.

  March 30, 2006

• Malled!

  For revenue-hungry cities in the northern metro area, it's shop 'til you're dropped

  October 20, 2005

• Consumer Aborts

  Don't look for DJ Spooky's new CD in his slot at the record store. It's not for sale.

  May 29, 2003

• Best Beer Selection

  The Wine Company

  March 27, 2003

• Industrial Revolution

  Napster's gone, but the record industry's copyright woes aren't.

  December 20, 2001

• Best Hardware Store for the Handyman-Impaired

  Ace Hardware Neighborhood Solutions

  March 29, 2001

• Best Australian Hats

  Wallaroo Hat Company

  March 29, 2001

• Ransom Notes

  Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their “free” music?

  November 9, 2000

• A Golden Future

  The big showdown out west will come to a head on Tuesday.

  October 28, 1999

• Feedback

  May 14, 1998

• Doing a Slow Burn

  The Colorado AG grabs a hot potato in the state's tobacco lawsuit--and hopes she won't get scorched by the legislature.

  March 5, 1998

• the lost action hero

  arnold schwarzenegger kicks tail in hollywood, but he's still waiting for a happy ending in denver real estate.

  August 28, 1997

• Get Local

  Begin 1997 with the ten best Colorado CDs of 1996.

  January 2, 1997

• Record Store Day preview: Give the gift of Slayer

  Slayer. For a desciption of "Psychopathy Red," the Slayer seven-inch arriving in time for Record Store Day, we turn once again to our friends at Vintage Vinyl. "The first new music since 2006's ferocious Christ Illusion, 'Psychopathy Red' is a blast of proper thrash metal by the band that invented it," they write. "The track is inspired by the truly heinous Russian serial murderer, Andrei Chikatilo, and if this is any indication of where Slayer's heading with their new album (Summer 2009) then,

  April 14, 2009

• Record Store Day preview: The Flaming Lips meet the Black Keys

  Come to think of it, their lips do look pretty hot... The Flaming Lips have recorded more than their share of inspired covers over the years -- a fact that raises hopes for their latest, a collaboration with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs on the Madonna chestnut "Borderline." The song will be twinned on a seven-inch single produced for Record Store Day with "Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles," from Captain Beefheart's indelible Clear Spot LP. Both numbers are on Covered: A Revolution in Sound,

  April 15, 2009

• Record Store Day preview: Uncontrollable Serge

  Serge Gainsbourg. Histoire de Melody Nelson, a 1971 tour de force by eccentric French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, is among the top reissues of this still young year -- and thanks for unearthing it goes to Light in the Attic, an imprint that specializes in bringing worthy oddities back onto the market. (Its roster includes Karen Dalton, The Last Poets and more.) And now, in honor of Record Store Day, the label is putting out a new Gainsbourg seven-inch, along with titles by Rodriguez, Wh

  April 16, 2009

• Record Store Day preview: The MC5 will be kicking out the jams tomorrow

  The MC5. Plenty of amazing seven-inch singles will be available at Twist & Shout for Record Store Day other than the ones we've featured thus far in April -- stuff by Sublime, Taking Back Sunday, Tom Waits, Magnolia Electric Company, the Pretenders, the Jesus Lizard (a pack of nine singles, believe it or don't) and many more. For me, though, the big one is "Kick Out the Jams"/"Motor City is Burning" by the MC5. Packaged in a duplicate of the original picture sleeve, the 45 will be available for

  April 17, 2009

• Black Tuesday for fourteen Colorado Chrysler dealers

  An image from an economic-impact study about car dealers in Colorado. Today's the day when fourteen Colorado auto dealers are supposed to stop selling Chrysler products as part of the beleaguered company's attempt to emerge from bankruptcy -- an effort that hit a bump in the road yesterday when a ruling by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delayed the firm's sale to a consortium led by the Italian automaker Fiat. Tim Jackson, spokesman for the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, ha

  June 9, 2009

• Macy's and Food Bank of the Rockies aim to feed 10 million

  ​ September is Hunger Action Month, and department store giant Macy's is partnering with Feeding America and food banks across the country to fight hunger here at home. Macy's will launch its "Come Together" awareness and fundraising campaign, which aims to feed 10 million people suffering from hunger, from 6-8 p.m. today, September 15, at more than 650 Macy's stores. All Colorado locations will participate in the World's Largest Dinner Party, offering customers appetizers as well as info

  September 15, 2009