Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

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

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2003 Stories by Michael Roberts

• The Message

  published September 18, 2003

  Newspaper columnists eager to land on the good side of local readers have several surefire ways to get the job done. Rhapsodizing about the beauty... More >>

• Interpolitics

  published September 18, 2003

  Nearly every article, review or blurb about Interpol, among the ripest acts to emerge from New York City's bumper crop of nu-rock revivalists,... More >>

• The Message

  published September 11, 2003

  The August 31 announcement that Colorado Governor Bill Owens and his wife, Frances, had separated after 28 years of marriage was... More >>

• The Evolutionary

  published September 11, 2003

  The September 18 Rolling Stone touts a list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," but the accompanying article is not nearly as... More >>

• The Message

  published September 4, 2003

  Channel 4 news anchor Bill Stuart has spent a big chunk of his career competing directly against Ed Sardella, his opposite number at... More >>

• Various Artists

  published September 4, 2003

  Anthology of American Folk Music, originally released in 1952 and reissued in boxed-set form in 1997, is among the most influential... More >>

• The Message

  published August 28, 2003

  "Life is taking things in stride," says Jon Bowman. "And if nothing else, I think I've been able to do that over the years." Talk... More >>

• Joe Ely

  published August 28, 2003

  Making terrific music is its own reward. In a way, though, it's also the gift that keeps on taking. Excellence creates expectations of greatness... More >>

• The Message

  published August 21, 2003

  Ray Gifford, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Progress & Freedom Foundation, doesn't keep his political sympathies a secret. The... More >>

• With a Paddle

  published August 21, 2003

  It's no wonder that roots-music traditionalists don't quite know how to take Chris Thile. Still in his early twenties, Thile is a mandolin... More >>

• The Message

  published August 14, 2003

  At 10 a.m. on August 6, the western half of Chambers Road, one of Eagle's main thoroughfares, looks like a dusty set from The Last Picture... More >>

• N.E.R.D. Alert

  published August 14, 2003

  The typical artist has no head for business -- which is why the typical artist is starving. Like it or not, a creative person who can use the... More >>

• Seb Fontaine

  published August 14, 2003

  The mainstream media's coverage of youth movements generally demonstrates a staggering degree of ignorance -- so it's no surprise that the press... More >>

• The Message

  published August 7, 2003

  Plenty of people long to be in front of cameras, behind microphones or opposite journalists jotting down their every word -- but that doesn't mean... More >>

• The Lost Sounds

  published August 7, 2003

  The Lost Sounds, who are slated to play the 15th Street Tavern on Wednesday, August 6, know better than to embrace a simplistic retro ethos. After... More >>

• The Message

  published July 31, 2003

  At 10:20 on a Wednesday morning, the Denver Post's Woody Paige strides into his paper's newsroom wearing a cream-colored suit, a... More >>

• Just Imagine

  published July 31, 2003

  SUN, 8/3 Winnie Wenglewick brought more than her furniture with her when she moved to Denver from Orlando two years ago. The improv... More >>

• The Message

  published July 24, 2003

  For several years spanning the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Colorado was arguably the country's leading producer of... More >>

• Patrick Park

  published July 24, 2003

  Way back in the decade past, Patrick Park, who was raised in Morrison, played in Idle Mind, an act whose self-titled 1996 release on the sh-mow... More >>

• Lowdown on Lowriders

  published July 17, 2003

  SAT, 7/19 There's something that everyone from gearheads and grease monkeys to Snoop Dogg and Ice-T can agree on: The hottest way to... More >>

• The Message

  published July 10, 2003

  On the surface, the story of how Father Eustace Sequeira came to Colorado seems fairly straightforward. His decision to study counseling... More >>

• Beyoncé

  published July 10, 2003

  There's something terribly wrong about the cover shot of this CD. Not that I'm a moralist. Sure, the image of Ms. Knowles wearing a bejeweled... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published July 10, 2003

  Brett Netson, the guitarist/vocalist behind Caustic Resin, which hits the Lion's Lair on Thursday, July 12, was an original member of Built... More >>

• The Flag-Bearer

  published July 3, 2003

  On the first weekend of summer, more than twenty members of the Colorado Federation of Republican Women gather in a ballroom at the south-metro... More >>

• Independence Day

  published July 3, 2003

  Tom Tancredo may seem to be the most prominent public figure to have graduated from the Independence Institute, but there's no shortage of... More >>