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Ultrarunning Gets Younger – and Faster
Tony Krupicka takes his sport to new extremes.
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Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game
Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.
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GB Fish & Chips
If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.
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Encore Restaurant
Recycling is good for the planet – and it can taste good, too.
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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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Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game (6)
Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.
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Vonnegut (5)
Fall Into Place
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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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Shakeup in Denver Radio (4)
Denver radio's getting a shakeup, with more alterations on the horizon. But do any of the switches qualify as improvements?
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Deconstructing the DNA of a Denver Post Pulitzer Finalist (3)
Critics raise questions regarding an impressive Post series shortly after it's named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Owsley’s Golden Road
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The Swayback Raises the Bar
Long Gone Lads, this trio’s long-awaited album, is a painstaking work of art.
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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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Waking Up Daniel Johnston
The tales of this singer-songwriter’s idiosyncracies are not exaggerated.
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Denver Crack Dancers Get Down
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Monolith Line Up Announced
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Lots of Lux
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Fashion Moto 2008
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Carded: Supreme Court OKs Voter Photo ID
09:56AM 04/29/08
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Recent Articles By Michael Roberts
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From the Blogosphere to Politics
Jason Bane helped start ColoradoPols.com, but now he's stepped away from the web and into public life.
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Boulder Acoustic Society
Caged Bird
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The Raconteurs
Monday, April 28, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.
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Dale Watson
Monday, April 28, 3 Kings Tavern, 303-777-7352.
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N.E.R.D. Gets Its Revenge
When it comes to his passion project, Pharrell Williams puts music ahead of money.
National Features
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The Pitch
Time Bomb in a Bottle
"The idea that you're using sex hormones to make plastic is just totally insane."
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Houston Press
Foreclosure Pets
When homeowners are pushed out, animals get left behind.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
On Your Honor
A judge's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raise eyebrows.
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Village Voice
A Soldier's Story
Remembering the day a black mob lynched a white man.
By Tony Ortega
Subject(s): R.E.M.
With its latest release, R.E.M. has perfected a two-part strategy for earning glowing reviews. Step A: Issue tepid to dreadful albums for at least a decade. Step B: Put out a decent CD and watch it be hailed as a Work of Genius!
That's pretty much the story with Accelerate. Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills wisely hired a hot young producer, Jacknife Lee, who gives the group a sonic vitality it's lacked for ages. Thanks to him, "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" and "Supernatural Superserious" actually rock in a tuneful way. Still, the collection is fairly slight — less than 35 minutes — and the tracks recall the group's celebrated early work instead of rivaling it. In the end, Accelerate qualitatively compares to 1994's Monster, a return-to-rock disc that most listeners originally regarded as just north of okay.
Had it been preceded by ten years of suckage, though, it would've seemed like a masterpiece.
