The CELL: The Center for Empowered Living and Learning, the super-creepy Denver terrorism museum, has a new name. Now it’s The CELL: The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab, which makes it no less super creepy…
A cameo on the red-hot-high-school-musical-dark-comedy-Jane-Lynch-extravaganza Glee is nothing to sneeze at, even if that cameo involves nothing more than a glimpse of an unexceptional bread wrapper. That’s why Boulder animation studio Mighty Fudge is all atwitter about the fact that a Walmart bread packaging they designed appeared in last week’s…
Pot brownies are so 2009. Now you can find THC infused in nearly every product imaginable, from marijuana cheesecakes to marijuana teas to marijuana hummus. It’s not too surprising, then, that you can now also medicate through the cold, refreshing taste of a soda…
Hometown hero Chipotle has made a name for itself with its innovative marketing gimmicks, and now it’s partnering with cheeky British chef-turned-food-crusader Jamie Oliver for a special Halloween treat that could earn you a super-cheap burrito and maybe, just maybe, save the world. What’s the catch? You have to dress…
This week’s feature story, “Wired for Sound,” tells the tale of Next Big Sound, a Boulder tech company that’s found a new way to look for rock and roll’s future and is poised to become the next big thing in Boulder’s red-hot startup scene. But could Next Big Sound fail…
The founders of Next Big Sound believe the Boulder-based tech company can use online chatter to uncover the next big breakout bands. To test their system, we asked them to track down the most buzzed-about Colorado acts. And here are the results: the top 24 bands listing Colorado on their…
The shaggy-haired unknown, dressed in a faded T-shirt, perches himself on a wooden stool and begins plucking at his guitar strings. “There is no destination,” he croons into the microphone before building to a moving chorus. “You are one…you are one.” He’s at the Cup, a Boulder coffee shop, singing…
Lately I’ve been spending a good chunk of my minimal free time working with Jared Jacang Maher, a former Westword writer now at Face The State and John Dicker, founder of the Geeks Who Drink quiz night empire, to launch the Denver Diatribe, a weekly half-hour podcast on culture, politics…
Thanks to recording programs like GarageBand and social-music sites such as MySpace, Twitter and Last.fm, it’s never been easier for wannabe superstars to record and distribute music. But how to find rock and roll’s future among all this discordant noise? As described in this week’s feature, “Wired for Sound,” a…
As recounted in the April story “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Tell,” Alan Sudduth has spent more than half his 31 years behind bars for the 1995 killing of Denver cab driver Finley Bradshaw Myers, even though somebody else — a friend of Sudduth’s named Nicholas Reed — has repeatedly confessed…
Under Colorado’s MMJ laws, patients aren’t supposed to buy pot until 35 days after they’ve submitted their paperwork, because that’s how long the state has to reject/return applications. In the past, however, most dispensaries would sell to patients before then because everyone believed they were covered under Amendment 20’s “alternative…
Talk about a coup! Somehow, we landed an exclusive video clip of the National Geographic pirates exhibit hitting the Denver Museum of Nature & Science next March. From the looks of it, the show’s going to be all sorts of awesome, with special effects that will make Avatar look like…
Has the war between intoxicants formally begun? The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November…
First there were blogs, wherein people would opine about stupid subjects. Then there were Internet memes, which involved people sharing stupid subjects with web-buddies (think “The Tron Guy” and local hero Leeeeroy Jeeeenkins!) Now there are memeblogs, a perfect union of the two. How do we know such things? As…
Despite valiant efforts to resuscitate it, Colorado’s movie biz has been more or less flat-lining ever since those purty pictures of downtown in the title sequence of Dynasty went off the air. Still, at least we can take solace in the fact we have some heavy hitters in the TV…
Lots of authors dream of their books scoring glowing praise from the New York Review of Books, topping the bestseller lists, getting optioned for a Hollywood movie. But getting turned into a musical? How often does that happen? That could be the fate for Nine Lives, a nonfiction account of…
As recounted in the July feature “Up from the Ashes,” northeast Park Hill residents are hoping the site of Holly Square Shopping Center is ready to turn the corner after years of drug deals, gang skirmishes and, most recently, a gang-related arson attack that leveled the strip mall. The first…
You can find just about everything you want at Mile High Marketplace, that collection of kitsch north of downtown Denver at I-76 and 88th Avenue that’s long been a local institution (and in our hearts, will always be known by its old name, the Mile High Flea Market). Just about…
Have you heard the Biblical news? Using satellites, supercomputers and what looks like graphics stolen from World of Warcraft, Boulder researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado have digitally recreated how Moses may have parted the Red Sea. This is big news, capable of…
Hallelujah! The parting of the Red Sea, one of the great miracles of ancient times, has occurred again — only this time it happened on computer simulators designed by Boulder researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The result, say the scientists…
Guido and guidettes, have you heard the news? Pauly D, the super-creepin’, GTL-in’ cast member from the cultural phenomenon Jersey Shore will be beatin’ up the beat tonight at Beta. Personally, we haven’t been this excited about anything since Walgreens offered two-for-one spray tan in a can. There’s no other…
In our feature story about Louisville company NetDevil’s attempt to fuse the magic of World of Warcraft and LEGO into a massive multiplayer online game called LEGO Universe (slated to be released next month), we looked at how respecting “the sacred language of LEGO” added extra challenges for the developers…
