Steve Jobs

ISteve gives the iFinger to the iCompetition

Denver's five best homegrown, fast-casual chains -- from Noodles to Chipotle

Fast-casual restaurants are taking over the world, one burrito, burger and bowl of pasta at a time, offering customers the convenience of quick-service joints and some of the atmosphere and ingredient quality of sit-down places. And given Colorado's casual lifestyle and entrepreneurial spirit, it's ... More >>

Loveland Ski Area opens for its 75th anniversary season on Tuesday

Loveland lost the annual race to open first this season to the neighbors at Arapahoe Basin, but first chair tomorrow at 9 a.m. will still be a hot ticket when the ski area marks the start of its 75th anniversary season with a top-to-bottom run on the Catwalk, Mambo, and Homerun trails. See Also: ... More >>

If Mitt Romney won't tell you about these tax loopholes, we will

In The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, actor Christopher Willard tries to "dig past the inaccuracies"

Starting next Friday, Christopher Willard of Backstage Theatre Company will stage four readings of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The acclaimed one-man show earned notoriety recently after it was revealed that the author, off-Broadway performer Mike Daisey, had fabricated some details abou ... More >>

Lessons from the Spicy Pickle and other Colorado-based chains

A former location of the Spicy Pickle.​Ask Kevin Morrison why the Spicy Pickle chain went belly up, and the former executive of that company, who now owns Pinche Tacos, doesn't exactly mince words. "When you have people who aren't businesspeople or restaurant people trying to run a restaurant ... More >>

Tim Tebow: Ten things non-sports fans should know about The Chosen One

Tim Tebow is big news. In fact, he's such big news that it's no longer acceptable for non-sports fans to not know who he is. Don't worry: Westword has your back. For all of you who think NFL stands for National Forensic League and spend your Sundays and Monday evenings crocheting or tossing cabers o ... More >>

Ten most memorable post-Steelers miracle Tim Tebow tweets

Tim Tebow.​Tim Tebow's latest miracle win over the Pittsburgh Steelers caused Twitter to erupt like Mount Vesuvius, setting a new record of 9,420 tweets per second. Suck it, Bin Laden raid and Steve Jobs's death. And today? The flow of Tebow-related tweets continues at such an awesome rate th ... More >>

Arron Afflalo winds up on Stiffs list after Nuggets' awful loss to Hornets

Denver blog posts want to have your baby. On his latest "Stiffs List," Denver Stiffs' Nate includes Arron Afflalo and plenty of others. Ooof. Colorado Pols: Sal Pace's well-funded Scott Tipton challenge. Denver Egotist shares an alleged letter from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs featuring the line, " ... More >>

FML, white girl sitcoms and other things that can stay in 2011

R.I.P. FML 2008-2011​Yes, 2012 is creeping up on us like my 32nd birthday (no need to send presents -- I will only be accepting fan letters as gifts and creepy Facebook messages of adoration from high school stalkers). Since the world is not going to be ending as some of us maybe thought it wa ... More >>

Signal Snowboards brings iShred Steve Jobs tribute to Loveland

​Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple's iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for s ... More >>

Steve Jobs: the Lost Interview plays at the Esquire Theater tonight and tomorrow

Steve Jobs​Steve Jobs says he's more a hippie than a nerd. He hires computer programmers who, in another life, would make excellent poets, musicians, even zoologists. "The spark of that was that there was something beyond what you see everyday. There's something beyond a job, a career, a car. ... More >>

Barack Obama should respond to ET disclosure petition in Denver, says UFOlogist Jeff Peckman

Watching the sky.​Later this morning, President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the Auraria campus, with subjects expected to include student-loan reform. But former mayoral candidate Jeff Peckman, the man behind the failed ET affairs commission initiative, would like him to touch on som ... More >>

Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, Attack the Block top our new release picks for October 25, 2011

With too many solid book releases to count this week, picking just a few was difficult. But with a biography on the recently deceased Steve Jobs, a new novel from Haruki Murakami, and a special re-release of a children's classic, there should be something for everyone. We also have a few incredibly ... More >>

Tigran Mimosa of MiM0SA on moombahton and his in-store at Albums this past spring

Tigran Mimosa of MiM0SA​Tigran Mimosa (aka MiM0SA, due at the Fillmore Auditorium this Saturday, October 29) hails from the West Coast, but after returning from a summer spent in a New York studio, he can attest to the positive influence and energy emitting from that side of the country. On th ... More >>

Ten topical Halloween costumes to avoid this year

Just go as a beer.​If only because when you look back at the photos ten years from now, you may slap your palm to your face and think, "Did I really dress as the physical representation of WikiLeaks?!" And how many people did you see dressed as Zach Galifianakis's "Alan" from The Hangover duri ... More >>

Ten best Steve Jobs tributes (1955 - 2011)

Businessweek​10. Bloomberg Businessweek On Friday, Bloomberg Businessweek revealed its tribute to Steve Jobs. With a photo essay, an incredibly thorough biography and first-person input from Eric Schmidt, John Sculley and Steve Jurvetson, it's impressive in scope and quality. But it's just ... More >>

Summer season suck: The 6 worst movies Hollywood crapped out this year

Spoiler alert: This is one of them.​We generally try not to let our hipster cynicism and pessimism override us here at Show and Tell, but there's no way around the truth of hindsight. Now that it's September, and the official Summer movie season is over, we know: The tentpole Summer movies of ... More >>

Remembering Joybubbles: Short-term Denver resident, general weirdo and hacker O.G.

The ill communication.​Before email, before the interwebs, before hackers, there were phone phreaks. And before there were even phone phreaks, back in the '60s, there was Joybubbles, a little blind kid with a 172-I.Q., perfect pitch and an obsession with the phone. Then named Joe Engressia, he ... More >>

St. Paddy's Bass For Free at Cervantes', 3/17/11

Photo Britt Chester​ BASS FOR FREE J. Wail and Chuck Morris • Future Simple Project • Eminence Ensemble Flinch • Dirt Monkey • Matamorphic • Rodway 03.17.11 | Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom and Otherside Last night, Cervantes' threw a hell of party with J. Wail and Chuck Morris, ... More >>

What's killing the music industry? Auto-Tune? The Internet? American Idol? All of the above?

​The music industry has been marked for death for a long time now, but amazingly, nobody has managed to come up with a concrete reason as to why. Sure, it's easy to assign blame, but the real reason the music is dying is still a mystery to most people in the industry. Thankfully, plenty of sta ... More >>

We had a party and tweeted about it: Westword #WebAwards winners!

​If you were there last night, thank you for coming to the first-ever Westword Web Awards party at Casselman's, 2620 Walnut Street. The room swelled (see full slideshow from the Web Awards) to about 400 bloggers, photographers, shameless self-promoters and artists, who tweeted about the thing ... More >>

Ten people who should take a cue from John Mayer and STFU

​ The recent verbal missteps made by John Mayer and his subsequent radio silence got us to thinking about a number of people who've been vomiting in our ears lately that would do well to take a cue from him and STFU. Look, we understand that being a celebrity is probably not easy, but not bei ... More >>

The ten worst stocking stuffers of all time

​Stockings can be a favorite part of the Christmas experience, mostly because of the surprise factor: While kids often write Christmas lists that rank items by price, catalog page and level of absolute need, they don't often bother listing stuff that is stocking-appropriate. So tearing through ... More >>

Are you Westword's new pot critic?

Some lucky writer is waiting to inhale in the really Mile High City

Wheels of Fortune

Steve Meyer wants to sell pedicabs to the world — but is the world willing to go along for the ride?

Roc-A-Fellas

Are today’s rappers ballin’ as hard as they claim?

Popcorn Lung, September 6

Coming Zune

Once again, Microsoft is chasing Apple in the hipster-hardware game. Will it make sweet music this time?

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

The answer is in the cards -— Blue Mountain cards.

Building the Perfect Beast

Special-effects wizard Phil Tippett--creator of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--envisions the digital future.

Thrills for the week