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#FreeCrunkBear: Carly "Crunk Bear" McKinney is free -- from her job, that is. Paging Diplo...

Carly McKinney, otherwise known as "Carly Crunk Bear" is "no longer employed" by the Cherry Creek school district, according to our Latest Word blog. The teacher, as you might remember, made headlines at the end of January for comments and photos on Twitter she's alleged to have made/posted. Diplo, ... More >>

A Great! First Date, new local online dating site, is about deeds, not words

Rory O'Rourke thinks traditional dating sites are too static. "You talk about yourself or fill out a bunch of survey questions, and throughout your experience online, you don't change that," says O'Rourke, who works in software. "Everybody says they like to travel but nobody updates their page wit ... More >>

A release party, firkin tapping and "hoedown" on this week's beer calendar

Breckenridge Brewery's 22nd anniversary is this Saturday, but that's not the only reason the company has to celebrate. The brewery -- which merged with Wynkoop Brewing Co. in 2011 -- just received approval of a somewhat complicated method of expansion and will move forward immediately on building a ... More >>

Guess where I'm drinking rosé on a hot, hot day?

"When did Denver's climate become Kenya?" quipped a friend, who was dripping -- as we all were -- with sweat. The heat, by just about anyone's standards, is insufferable, but a cold glass of rosé, or, in this case, four, in an air-conditioned bar, provided a bit of temporary relief, lasting just lo ... More >>

Reader: Celebrity chef shows are more about drama than true talent

Jenna Johansen got the boot from Bravo's Around the World in 80 Plates this week, after making it through seven countries -- and countless challenges. "When I came on to this competition, I thought this would be an adventure, and I thought that there would be a lot more cooking," she told Lori Midso ... More >>

Summer's here with a trio of hot new bar and restaurant patios

Three Denver restaurants will have new patios for summer time enjoyment. EDGE, at the Four Seasons Hotel downtown, opens its renovated outdoor patio on June 26, featuring new planters and an enclosed cover to protect eaters from chilly nights on the town.

Reader: You're an idiot to drink and ride

The streets of Denver are filled with bicyclists -- some doing errands, some going to and from work, some out for recreation, and others seeking a drink. For that latter group, Laura Shunk served up a weekend B-Cycle bar tour that was "seriously cheap and disgusting," according to Bradman.

Dubstep for Dummies, a primer for newly-minted dubstep fans (infographic)

So thanks to our pal Skrillex and his utterly inescapable ubiquitousness since the Grammys, dubstep has steadily made its way into the mainstream to the chagrin of true aficionados and the delight of unsuspecting casual music fans. But for as many newbies that have embraced the low-end sound, there' ... More >>

Get a free cookie at Woody Creek Cafe today

It's National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! To celebrate, Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe -- formerly Paradise Bakery & Cafe -- is giving away free chocolate chip cookies at all six of its locations today. The limit is one per person, but if that's not enough to satisfy your craving, check out this easy reci ... More >>

Tails of the Painted LOLcats: I can haz a charity auction?

Since long ago, the Cat Care Society has employed a truly creative method of raising money for its various cat-related endeavors: Tails of the Painted Cats, in which artists around town are called upon to doll up fabulous fiberglass cat statuettes which, after a couple of months of showcases (they'r ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating the best paella in Denver?

Eureka! I've searched all over the city -- and beyond -- for the best paella, and finally, after years of hanging my head in despair, I've found the holy grail. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week's Guess Where posts is entered into ... More >>

Guess where I'm biking near this country club and win a Denver B-Cycle season pass

The Denver bicycle trail system connects a lot of landmarks with safe and accessible means for cyclists to travel. Slightly off the path, this week's installment has a nice view of the links, but I wasn't able to schedule a tee time. Pull out the nine iron folks... You just might need it if you ca ... More >>

Reader: Fast food sometimes hits the spot...especially on Mondays

Jenn Wohletz has been covering the fast-food beat in Jenn in Chains, and on Friday she served up "href="http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/04/top_five_reasons_why_reviewing.php#Comments">"Five reasons why reviewing isn't the worst idea in the world." And readers have some ideas of their own ... More >>

Luciano's auction on April 24

Luciano's Pizza and Wings has reached the end of the line. In addition to the notice posted last month that the property had been seized by the City of Denver for non-payment of taxes, there's now a sign announcing an April 24 auction of the contents of the eatery at 1043 Broadway. Follow @CafeWestw ... More >>

Photos: Charcoal, the subject of this week's review

Patrik Landberg is turning out some pretty awesome food at Charcoal, the seven-month-old restaurant in the Golden Triangle that I review this week. His seafood dishes, in particular, are like a fun, fast joyride -- they exhibit skill and playfulness, and they're absolutely delicious. Here, to go w ... More >>

Reader: Telluride Mountainfilm program looks out of this world

Telluride just announced the focus of its 34th annual Mountainfilm festival program over Memorial Day weekend -- and it's the population explosion. One reader is ready to make some space here on Earth:

Spinach-and-chickpea coconut curry for a quick, easy dinner on Meatless Monday

​No one's saying you have to go meatless just because it's Monday -- but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we're offering an animal-free recipe. There are times when the last thing you want to do after getting home from a long day at work is to make dinner -- especially someth ... More >>

Reader: An amazing...and real...body of work at Xcentricity

Talk about painting the town! Every weekend, Denver is overflowing with activities and events. But Mythica von Griffyn's live body-painting performance at Xcentricity Gallery Friday could have topped them all.

Garbage at the Ogden Theatre 4/25

While Butch Vig is probably best known for his work as a Grammy-winning producer who's worked with the likes of Nirvana or, more recently, the Foo Fighters, he's also a member of Garbage, an alt-rock act (and a rather decent one at that) that formed in the mid '90s and was led by the fiery Scottish ... More >>

The Fray treats fan in San Jose to an unexpected pizza party/performance in her living room

Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray's new album. Remember that scene in La Bamba when Richie Valens shows up at a fan's house with a bunch of pizzas for private pizza party. More than two decades after that event played out on the s ... More >>

Occupy Denver: Ideological split spurs idea for Liberate Denver to fight oppression

​Recent divisions inside Occupy Denver have led to the ideological creation of Liberate Denver, a related but completely separate entity much like the Thunderdome. Although the idea has spread through the ranks for a while, it solidified on Sunday afternoon during a general assembly devoted to ... More >>

Duo and Olivéa pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom tapped to bake at the James Beard Foundation awards gala

​The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin' soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout ... More >>

Aaron Carter and Charlie Sheen, is Twitter a celebrity death machine?

Dead, you say?​As a social phenomenon, probably the most interesting thing about celebrity death hoaxes is that they are a social phenomenon at all. There's no point to them. They're not particularly funny (aside from the resulting lulz if the celebrity in question gets all offended about it), ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Patrick Hester, our featured Twit

Patrick Hester, aka @atfmb​Our featured Twit this week is one Patrick Hester, or @atfmb, as he's known on Twitter. In addition to his very fine hat, Hester is a Denver writer, blogger and Twitter wit who captured our attention with this plea: "How about me?! I'm a Denveridianiteism looking to ... More >>

More tweetup do-gooders party for a cause

We're here to do good! And for free food.​While ignorant outsiders are busy slandering Twitter as a place to talk about what you ate for lunch, the social networking service is quickly becoming the place to organize informal fundraisers. These aren't fancy nonprofits, with their fancy high ove ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Space station, sex advice, slanket

​Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @satsight: Growing up obsessed with space travel led directly to my current fascination with the ongoing march of technology. T ... More >>

Denver Police Department just discovers it's on Twitter

​Members of the local media are seldom effusive about the timeliness and responsiveness of the Denver Police Department's public-information office -- and a release issued today exemplifies its effectiveness. or lack thereof. "The Denver Police Department would like the community to know they ... More >>

Denver Post gives J.R. Smith a "C"

J.R. Smith.​As June ended, Nuggets prodigy J.R. Smith was sentenced to thirty days in a New Jersey jail and 500 hours of community service in regard to a 2007 crash that killed his friend, Andre Bell. But shortly after doing his time, he headed to Las Vegas -- not exactly a location that bespe ... More >>

Twits Unite! Tweetup tonight at Wynkoop Brewery

I mentioned this last week in my Twitter Tuesday post, but in case you missed it, there's a tweetup tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Wynkoop Brewing Company. In other words, a bunch of people who kinda-sorta know each other from Twitter will be hanging out, drinking beer and getting to kinda-sorta k ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Need a date, a job or the news?

Back again with three more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @TheDatingDr: If you're plagued by questions like, "Why can't I find that special someone?" and "Why do my dates always make excuses for hav ... More >>

With Coathangr, social media meets "You're wearing that?"

If you've got a hot date but just can't decide what to wear, Coathangr is here to help. Coathangr is, in the words of their beta slogan, "Social media for your pants" -- although co-founder Dave Wiskus says that will probably change to the less catchy but also less-apt-to-be-misinterpreted "Social ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Variety pack -- culture, sports and technology

Back again with three more great Twits to follow (sure, that sounds insulting, but "Tweeters" just sounds stupid) for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @psmyth12 and @champbailey: I know it's the height of baseball season, but ... More >>

Breaking up is hard to do -- unless, that is, you Tweet it

Recently, a Denver music scene personality (who asked to remain anonymous, for obvious reason) reached out to me to tell me his tale of getting dumped via Twitter. It's as tragic as it sounds. The guy didn't get dumped via direct message (Twitter's version of e-mail, a private, two-way communica ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Librarians on Twitter? Hot!

Back again with three more great Twits to follow (sure, that sounds insulting, but Tweeters just sounds stupid) for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. TweetDenver: TweetDenver is a Twitter aggregator -- they seek out and reTwe ... More >>

Tech: Let me tweet you a secret

Psst: Want to know a secret? Shenae Von Liebt did, so she asked a few friends via Twitter to tell her theirs. "I was reading one of my Post Secret books while waiting in church's parking lot," she recalls. "I was bored with it and tweeted for everyone to text me a secret of theirs. Someone then t ... More >>

Free beer at Rialto Cafe today for all you tweeters

If you follow Rialto Cafe on Twitter (@rialtocafe), then you already know that the restaurant at 934 16th Street is handing out free brews today to its Twitter groupies. If you're just learning about this deal from reading our blog, here are the details: Between now and 4 p.m., belly up to the bar, ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Denver Twits you should know

Editor's note: Starting today, Westword contributor Cory Casciato will be blogging regularly for The Latest Word about the local tech and social-media scene. Feel free to e-mail him with links, story ideas, hate mail, and slices of congratulatory pizza. If you're not on Twitter yet, you're one of ... More >>

Twittering up a nice, frothy beer

These days, the Twitter backlash is powerful and vociferous. Today, a colleague of ours coined a new term -- "twate" -- which means, "To have disdain for anything having to do with Twitter." But while there are many, many uses of Twitter that are worth, ahem, twatting, we've discovered one local e ... More >>

Murphy-Goode Winery will pay you $10,000 a month to drink, Twitter and Facebook

The grape geeks at Murphy Goode Winery are offering one fellow wine nerd "A Really Goode Job." Specifically, the winery is searching for a "Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent who will report on the cool lifestyle of Sonoma County Wine Country, and, of course, tell people what you're learning about ... More >>

Who are the tweetest of the Denver Post's Twitterers?

Lots of news organizations, including this one, have embraced Twitter -- but few have done so with as much vigor (and volume) as the Denver Post. The broadsheet's Twitter page lists more than twenty feeds specific to the paper, with some contributed by departments or topics (e.g. crime news and po ... More >>

Channel 4 to Twitter -- gallbladder surgery?

Chop, chop. Who isn't jumping on the Twitter bandwagon? Last week, we told you about the Boulder Police Department's new Twitter feed. Now, Channel 4 is boasting about Dr. Dave Hnida, the station's medical expert, Twittering the gallbladder surgery of a seven-year-old girl. This gimmick, which can ... More >>

Westword seeks online intern, because we hear this web thing is huge

Attention college students (and overbearing mothers of college students): Westword is looking for an online-journalism intern to contribute to westword.com. The intern will focus on growing the site's multimedia presence, specifically with audio and video, but will contribute to all aspects of t ... More >>

Denver no longer has to wonder: What Would Molly Brown Tweet?

Historical Tweets, a website that imagines what historical figures -- from George Washington to Urkel -- would have tweeted on Twitter, recently waded into familiar territory with the above offering between El Capitano and Denver's Molly Brown. So one burning question has been answered. But here' ... More >>

The Rocky Mountain News headline of the day

Remember the hullabaloo stirred up by a Rocky Mountain News reporter's mega-awkward attempt to Twitter at a three-year old's funeral? Reporter Lynn Bartels certainly does. Earlier today, she posted an item to the Rocky's Live From the Legislature blog about state senator Dave Schultheis getting in ... More >>

Last rites on the Rocky Mountain News's Twittering

Rocky Mountain News plan to Twitter another funeral canceled after staff complaint

Twittering an F-bomb during the DNC

Journalists react to the Rocky Mountain News Twittering a funeral

The celebrity-starved Denver media is all Twitterpated during the DNC

The Rocky Mountain News discovers Twitter