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2001 Stories by Laura Bond

• Discmania

  published December 27, 2001

  The year 2001 produced its share of catastrophes: major terrorist campaigns in D.C. and New York, a widespread anthrax scare -- and J. Lo's solo... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published December 27, 2001

  In two shows, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Sunday, December 30, and Monday, December 31, at the Bluebird Theater, will say farewell to the year... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published December 27, 2001

  The Tarmints help break in a new performance space with a triple-bill show that includes the Cool-Rays and the Fifth Utility. On Saturday,... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 20, 2001

  On Monday night, the Denver City and County Building reeked of teen spirit. During a meeting at which they were finally to vote on a... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published December 20, 2001

  Gigi, at the Palace Event Center on Saturday, December 22, has helped to modernize and popularize a style of pop music that thrived in... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published December 20, 2001

  Though they're unabashedly spunky and devoid of pretense, the Dinnermints' brand of bubble-punk still has its artistic leanings: The band... More >>

• Learnin' German

  published December 13, 2001

  When Ursula Schletz was preparing to move to the United States from Berlin in 1984, she reached out and wrote someone. "I had lots of pen... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 13, 2001

  The kids, it appears, will be all right after all. On Monday, December 17, Denver City Council is expected to approve a new type of cabaret... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published December 13, 2001

  Brenda Harp helps ring in the season, community style, as one of the musical guests at the Colorado Music Association Holiday Celebration... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 6, 2001

  Presiding over a press conference in the mayor's office last Tuesday night, Theaters and Arenas director Fabby Hillyard gushed that she was... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published December 6, 2001

  Shoegazers sometimes get a bad name. There's something to be said for bands that investigate the more restrained spaces of ethereal, dreamy pop --... More >>

• Snow Globe Trove

  published December 6, 2001

  It is difficult to mistake the humble snow globe for an objet d'art. While today's variety of the cultural relic -- generally, a plastic orb... More >>

• In Simple Language

  published November 29, 2001

  About 24 hours before arriving at a friend's home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a rare day off following a string of live dates in the northeastern... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 29, 2001

  For more than two months, the American powers that be have given us plenty of indirect warnings that Westerners who dare set foot on certain soils... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 29, 2001

  If you were to imagine folk music made on a faraway planet called Aquatari -- where Sonar's Captain 69, Commander Colt 44, Commodore 64 and... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 22, 2001

  Some items from the what-ever-happened-to? file: When Skull Flux, the visceral and heady Denver-based combo that trudged along for more... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 22, 2001

  Not only does Armando Zuppa have the distinction of being one of Denver's first and only Italian-born and -bred banjo players, he is also... More >>

• After Midnight

  published November 15, 2001

  When Andrew Herm sealed the envelope on his early-decision application to Brown University just over a month ago, he included the usual materials... More >>

• Spanish Magic

  published November 15, 2001

  In some parts of Mexico, Jaguares frontman Saul Hernandez is more popular than President Vicente Fox, political muralist Diego Rivera and his... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 15, 2001

  The Pepsi Center is actually an okay place to pass an evening, no matter what's going on inside, if you stick to the outer edges and avoid the... More >>

• The Langley Schools Music Project

  published November 8, 2001

  First, some background: The Langley Schools Music Project is a relic, a lost recording originally produced sometime in 1976 or 1977. It stars an... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 8, 2001

  The great dot.com crash proved that the Internet is not the pot of entrepreneurial gold that start-up types had hoped. But for some of us, the... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 8, 2001

  School Aid, Sunday, November 11, at the Paramount Theatre, is a charity event organized to raise money for New York City students and... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 1, 2001

  A few weeks ago, Backwash received a press release from Wind-up Records in New York, a label whose most high-profile client is the ubiquitous... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 1, 2001

  Though Justin Roth is a native of Minnesota, he sounds very much at home in his adopted hometown of Denver. Roth's simply instrumented but... More >>