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Ultrarunning Gets Younger – and Faster
Tony Krupicka takes his sport to new extremes.
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Boys Will Be Wetboys
It was fun while it lasted — but now MTV wants to mainstream Colorado's weirdest skateboarders.
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GB Fish & Chips
If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.
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Rent-a-Cop
Denver's finest protect and serve, whether they're being paid by the city or the corner bar.
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Neighborhood Flix Café & Cinema
There will be grub!
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Hideous Houses of Highland (9)
More is not merrier for Highland homeowners who want to stop construction in their neighborhoods.
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Rush to Riot (8)
How seriously should we take Rush Limbaugh's fantasies of a disturbance in Denver?
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Vonnegut (6)
Fall Into Place
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Boys Will Be Wetboys (4)
It was fun while it lasted — but now MTV wants to mainstream Colorado's weirdest skateboarders.
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CU's Campus Press Fights for Independence (3)
A contentious faculty meeting points to independence for CU-Boulder's student newspaper — but at what cost?
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Owsley’s Golden Road
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Laylights Looks Into the Future
The members of this quartet keep the momentum going on Auricle, their latest disc.
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Tera Melos
Friday, April 18, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.
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Enon Slows Things Down
John Schmersal’s once hyper-prolific songwriting streak made Ryan Adams seem like a slacker.
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Kingdom of Doom Crumbles
Denver Police bust up a cornerstone of the underground scene.
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Cheer or Jeer Phil Bender Tonight at the Lab
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Do You Believe In Magic?
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Crocs Fills the Bill
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What's in a Name?
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Subject(s): Vampire Weekend
Call it an amendment to Godwin's Law: As reviews of Vampire Weekend accumulate, the probability that they'll mention Paul Simon's Graceland approaches 100 percent. It's a lazy game of connect-the-dots, really. Graceland traces an MOR-shattering pilgrimage wherein Simon spent seventeen days recording in South Africa, cheesing off the U.N. and immersing himself in mbaqanga and mbube rhythms. Meanwhile, Vampire Weekend is a pilgrimage to your local record shop...to purchase Graceland. But here's why it works: Unlike Simon, the Vampire Weekend lads are A Separate Peace fresh, revealing and reveling in young-adult minutiae. "Campus" raps about "sleeping on the balcony after class." And when they appropriate Congolese soukous in tracks like "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," they do it with maladroit fumbling. Vampire Weekend's four members never purport to be Afrobeat experts, only enthusiasts, resulting in an album that's loosey-goosey and never vainglorious.
