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2003 Stories by Laura Bond

• Hit Pick

  published December 11, 2003

  Mary Flower wasn't among the artists featured in Martin Scorsese's recent cinematic homage to the blues, but several of her heroes were.... More >>

• Nowhere Boy

  published December 4, 2003

  For David Mallamo, fantasy has always been kinder than reality. At fifteen, with scruffy brown hair and glasses, he resembles his hero, Harry... More >>

• The Centers of the Storm

  published December 4, 2003

  The structure of public funding for mental-health care changed dramatically in 1995, when Colorado moved from a fee-for-service system and began... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 13, 2003

  The old rock-and-roll cliche dictates that aspiring musicians head to New York or Los Angeles if they're halfway serious about taking a shot at... More >>

• Monster Stash

  published October 30, 2003

  The radioactive vomit will not spew fast enough for Ed Edmunds. Standing in the showroom of Distortions Unlimited, the Greeley gore factory he... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published October 30, 2003

  Carla Bozulich has always been a country girl at heart. You just had to look -- or listen -- through the fuzz and distortion to notice. As... More >>

• At Close Range

  published October 23, 2003

  It's a beautiful Wednesday in October, bright and cloudless, and the Cherry Creek Shooting Center is packed at noon. Smelling equally of gun smoke... More >>

• Laura Got Her Gun

  published October 23, 2003

  Don Robinson has a surprisingly gentle manner for a guy who spends so much time around firepower. Red-haired and friendly faced, he resembles Ned... More >>

• Coloradans Take Aim

  published October 23, 2003

  The 1999 shootings at Columbine High School put guns at the center of the public scope. But the Second Amendment has long been a loaded issue in... More >>

• A Dog's Life

  published October 9, 2003

  Of the 4,000 critters that scamper, slither, swing and swim at the Denver Zoo every day, a tan mutt named Bodie may be the least exotic. The... More >>

• Sayles Pitch

  published October 2, 2003

  All of Denver was starstruck in August when director John Sayles announced that much of his next feature film, Silver City, would be shot... More >>

• Late Love

  published October 2, 2003

  THURS, 10/2 In the early scenes of Gus Edwards's Louie and Ophelia, the title characters are crazy about each other. By... More >>

• Raw Power

  published September 18, 2003

  The first clue that Matthew Helms is not your average thirteen-year-old boy lies atop his pre-pubescent head. Long, flowing and cut with rough... More >>

• Hollywood Confidential

  published September 18, 2003

  More than twenty years after scoring his big break, Kelly Reno remains Colorado's most famous contribution to the firmament of child stars.... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published September 11, 2003

  It's been seven years since we've heard from Evan Dando, who once lent the Lemonheads a perpetually stoned swagger as well as an affinity... More >>

• Jazzercise

  published September 4, 2003

  Donald Rossa thought the six adults crowded around a small table at Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge looked a little out of place. Unlike most of the... More >>

• June Carter Cash

  published September 4, 2003

  Wildwood Flower's liner notes are reason enough to recommend the final recording by June Carter Cash, who died unexpectedly from... More >>

• Mad About Mars

  published August 28, 2003

  Imagine it's 50,000 years ago. You live in France, paint oxen on cave walls, start fires and sharpen arrows, which you, a clever Cro-Magnon, just... More >>

• Poem on the Range

  published August 21, 2003

  It's a sticky Friday night in Katie Wirsing's cramped Capitol Hill walkup, and "Puff the Magic Dragon" is turning into a real pain in the ass.... More >>

• Positive Thinking

  published August 21, 2003

  Once Lorenzo discovered he had HIV ten years ago, after a friend suggested he should be tested for flu-like symptoms, he began coming to grips... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published August 7, 2003

  Peopled with local anarchists, artists, radicals and muckrakers, the Breakdown Book Collective (1409 Ogden Street) is a refuge for alternative... More >>

• Kicking Asphalt

  published July 31, 2003

  SAT, 8/2 Slap on your saddle shoes, pile on the pomade, and head directly to LoDo where the sparks are flying at today's Built for... More >>

• Miller Time

  published July 24, 2003

  Rich and Brock begin their Saturday mission with a 7:30 a.m. wake and bake. "We need a little Colorado kind bud to get into the proper spirit... More >>

• All's Phair

  published July 24, 2003

  Sellout. Fake. Phony. Career killer. Catastrophe. Those are some of the words used recently to describe Liz Phair, the artist, and Liz... More >>

• Sick, Dangerous -- and Funny

  published July 17, 2003

  FRI, 7/18 If your joke repertoire includes more references to penises and priests than puppies and Pollocks, head straight to the... More >>