Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 11, 2008

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2001 Stories by Michael Roberts

• Dave Matthews Band

  published March 8, 2001

  Upon its emergence in the early '90s, the Dave Matthews Band was either critically ignored or dismissed by reviewers as yet another in a seemingly... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published March 8, 2001

  Britt Daniel, the frontman for Spoon, scheduled to arrive at the 15th Street Tavern on Friday, March 9, has watched the indie-rock growth... More >>

• Priority Shifts

  published March 1, 2001

  Since the approval of the joint operating agreement that will bind the business departments of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver... More >>

• Various Artists

  published March 1, 2001

  There's something reassuring about metal. No matter what member of the Bush family is president, or what member of the Clinton family is in... More >>

• Head to Head

  published February 22, 2001

  In Denver, sports is to many locals what Catholicism is to residents of Vatican City -- and for that, Tim Griggs, vice president and... More >>

• Anchor in Waiting

  published February 15, 2001

  "I don't think there's any real TV sports journalism in this market any longer," says veteran Denver broadcaster Les Shapiro. "It's been... More >>

• Beyond Burns

  published February 15, 2001

  Coloradans couldn't have been pleased by a Benny Goodman anecdote that cropped up in Ken Burns's epic documentary Jazz, which debuted on... More >>

• Payback

  published February 8, 2001

  Linda Chavez lost her chance to serve as George W. Bush's Labor Secretary when the news broke that she'd once sheltered an illegal... More >>

• Jennifer Lopez

  published February 8, 2001

  That Jennifer Lopez. I mean, whew. Look at her. She's got hair like a wheat field in the wind and brown eyes richer than all the Rockefellers put... More >>

• Abandoning Ship

  published February 1, 2001

  At first glance, the Denver Post's January 14 introduction of columnist Tina Griego seemed benign -- but wrapped inside it was a... More >>

• Bluer Than the Blues

  published February 1, 2001

  When Denver bluesman Otis Taylor first played the songs he wanted to include on his latest CD for Kenny Passarelli, his producer and bandmate,... More >>

• Rage Against the Machine

  published February 1, 2001

  Original-recipe Rage was one of the greatest live acts of the past decade, and its handful of recordings over that period had plenty of juice in... More >>

• The Name Game

  published January 25, 2001

  The chiseled sign in front of the building at 400 West Colfax still reads "Rocky Mountain News," as it has since long before October 1998, when... More >>

• Net Losses

  published January 18, 2001

  Despite the deadly hits that dot-com stocks have taken of late, no one's ready to declare the Internet revolution an overhyped flop -- if only... More >>

• Good Girls Do

  published January 18, 2001

  Morgan Lander, lead singer/ shrieker for the metal act dubbed Kittie, calls it "Feline Association Disease" -- the inability of journalists to... More >>

• Bang for the Bucks

  published January 11, 2001

  No Denver event in recent memory has received the sort of unleavened media praise that was heaped upon the New Year's party staged at the 16th... More >>

• Making the Grades

  published January 4, 2001

  For the most part, the mood at the Colorado State Board of Education's last work session of 2000 is polite, collegial, even chummy. More >>

• Know Your Boardmembers

  published January 4, 2001

  INCOMING Evie Hudak: As a teacher with about two decades of experience, Hudak, a Democrat from Arvada who will fill the seat... More >>

• Marty Stuart, Rodney Crowell, Billy Joe Shaver, the O'Kanes, Joy Lynn White, Shelby Lynne

  published January 4, 2001

  Eras, like individual artists, often get typecast. For instance, ask most fans of real country music (as differentiated from the vacuum-sealed,... More >>