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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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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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Bad Execution (3)
A judge removes DA Carol Chambers from a death-penalty case -- and blasts prosecution misconduct.
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Put Me In, Coach (3)
Funny's friends throw him a curveball.
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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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R.E.M.
Accelerate
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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
The Raconteurs
Monday, April 28, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 24, 2008
The second Raconteurs album, Consolers of the Lonely, is getting more pub for the way it was released — quickly, mere weeks after its completion, with little prep time for marketers or retail outlets — than for the music it contains. That's appropriate, though, since the best of the new material conceived by Jack White, Brendan Benson and their pals is the most spontaneous. The players continue to draw upon well-worn rock, blues and country conventions in an overtly self-conscious manner that threatens to turn stifling on numbers such as "The Switch and the Spur," a comparatively ornate number marked by south-of-the-border brass, and "Rich Kid Blues," for which Robert Plant and Jimmy Page deserve songwriting credit. But the boys' ragged enthusiasm predominates on the title cut, the rollicking "Salute Your Solutions" and "Hold Up," a willfully dumb retro-nugget that's as much fun to hear as it probably was to make. That's the kind of speed the Raconteurs need.
