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2011 Stories by Jef Otte

• Adele's tour rider asks, er, charges crew $20 for "charity"

  published December 15, 2011

  Last week, Adele ate an apple. She also watched Gladiator. If you did Adele's bidding, these facts were your... More >>

• Occupy Christmas: What protesters could learn from the true meaning of the holidays

  published Dec 08, 2011

  There once was a Grinch who hated Christmas. By extension, he also hated a group of creatures called Whos who loved Christmas, and so one night he snuck into their village and stole all of their Chris... More >>

• A Grateful Dead musical would be as entertaining as staring at a brick wall

  published December 8, 2011

  The last time I tripped mushrooms, it went down exactly the way you might imagine it: I was sitting on a patio nursing a beer when an elfin... More >>

• You'll Eat It Up!

  published November 24, 2011

  Matt Stone and Trey Parker clearly aren't keen on letting people produce Cannibal! The Musical, the first project they worked on... More >>

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  Winning Movember: How I learned the true meaning of the month

  published Nov 30, 2011

  Just as the cherry blossom opens in April, so has the brilliant lip foliage burst forth this month -- even in November, traditional harbinger of winter's cruel silence. Indeed, this Movember has seen ... More >>

• Leave it to Jimmy Fallon to screw up a good thing

  published December 1, 2011

  Somewhere around the second or third time you watch "More Cowbell" — possibly the greatest role of Christopher Walken's career —... More >>

• Nickelback will ruin the Detroit Lions' otherwise miraculous year

  published November 24, 2011

  Ah, Thanksgiving, when we gather together to give thanks for that handful of well-meaning but unbelievably misguided Native Americans who fed... More >>

• Winning Movember, week 4: On the sexuality of the mustache

  published Nov 22, 2011

  It's nearly Thanksgiving, and since gratitude is for the weak, I'm thankful this year for one thing and one thing only: imminent victory. As we move into the fourth week of Movember, that great month ... More >>

• Art Is Dead

  published November 3, 2011

  The Mexican Día de los Muertos tradition dates back a thousand years, to the time of the Aztecs. But what really popularized the Day of the... More >>

• The Steven Tyler Cabbage Patch Kid is as creepy as you'd expect

  published November 17, 2011

  Their birthplace was discovered in 1978, when a ten-year-old boy name Xavier Roberts followed a BunnyBee behind a waterfall into a magical... More >>

• T.J. Miller's No Real Reason debuts on Comedy Central tomorrow night

  published Nov 11, 2011

  Ever since he attained cinematic immortality with a moving performance as Ranger Jones in last year's live-action adaptation of Yogi Bear, T.J. Miller has been pretty much the greatest thing to come o... More >>

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  O, Barnum! An ode to Denver's least desirable neighborhood

  published Nov 10, 2011

  If you happen to find yourself in Barnum and you don't live there, chances are you're lost. And not just because it's not a neighborhood that lends itself to being found -- find one of two streets tha... More >>

• Poe’s Woes At Byers-Evans

  published October 27, 2011

  Take a second to imagine Edgar Allan Poe’s chamber, at whose door the Raven so famously tapped, and chances are what you’re picturing... More >>

• Taking a Stanhope

  published November 3, 2011

  There’s almost always a heckler at Doug Stanhope’s show. Even for fans who are paying customers, Stanhope’s casually... More >>

• It's official: Bob Dylan has no integrity

  published November 10, 2011

  In the slew of also-ran movies released during the cinematic abyss of February this year, you might have missed Drive Angry, a nu-metal... More >>

• Winning Movember, week 2: Slow and steady is already kicking mustache ass

  published Nov 08, 2011

  October 4, 1957: a dark day for America, the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite ever to orbit Earth. It was the first milestone of the USA vs. USSR space race, and w... More >>

• A Special Kind of Guy

  published October 27, 2011

  It was a pretty sweet score for film students at the University of Colorado at Boulder when the program landed Alex Cox, acclaimed director of... More >>

• First Friday of the Dead: A Studio 12 photo preview

  published Nov 04, 2011

  When Carlos Fresquez teaches young children about Dia de los Muertos, the day of the dead, he has a strategy for making the skeletal imagery not so scary: "I would just say, hey, knock on your head. T... More >>

• The Spice of Life

  published October 27, 2011

  It’s not a matter of whether there will be doll-on-doll rape in one of the short films at Hueso de Perro’s Halloweird II;... More >>

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  Doug Stanhope on the evolution of jokes and why Breast Cancer Awareness is a scam

  published Nov 03, 2011

  For every parent out there worried about pedophilia, Doug Stanhope offers a reassurance: In all likelihood, nobody wants to fuck your kid. That bit is up there on the list of incredibly offensive Stan... More >>

• Kitezh's CD release show tonight at the hi-dive will be Grant Israel's last with the band

  published Nov 03, 2011

  Grant Israel and Cole Rudy have been playing together for a long time -- over eight years, in fact -- and the intricate guitar interplay they've developed together over the years was a focal point of ... More >>

• The John Denver musical A Moment in Time is crap -- but it's our crap

  published November 3, 2011

  On the home stretch of the drive from Denver to Pittsburgh, you cut at one point through the West Virginia panhandle, a roughly ten-mile... More >>

• Kitezh is a lot like the Fucking Champs -- with more of everything

  published November 3, 2011

  In February 2006, Cole Rudy was pulling an epic guitar-god move at the Climax Lounge during an opening set for To Be Eaten, with his leg up on... More >>

• It's mustache season, and I'm winning Movember. Week 1: clean slate for my upper lip.

  published Nov 01, 2011

  Everyone knows that, aside from being the greatest of facial accoutrements, the mustache serves several versatile and important societal functions -- it's great for saving small amounts of food, for e... More >>

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  Review: Paul Simon at 1STBANK Center, 10/26/11

  published Oct 27, 2011

  PAUL SIMON at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/26/2011It was not late in the evening when Paul Simon began to play. It was exactly 8:22 p.m., in fact -- and it's interesting to note that, when he penned the story ... More >>