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

• Robbie Williams/Richard Ashcroft

  published April 24, 2003

  Among the coalition nations engaged in Operation Iraqi Freedom, England is obviously second among equals. When it comes to contemporary music,... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published April 24, 2003

  The members of Deerhoof, who drop by Monkey Mania (2126 Arapahoe Street) on Wednesday, April 30, understand the difference between... More >>

• Cross Purposes

  published April 24, 2003

  When asked if he considers any subject to be off limits, comedian David Cross replies, with as much mock seriousness as he can muster, "I... More >>

• Springy Time

  published April 24, 2003

  SAT 4/26 Three cheers for choreographer Deborah Reshotko's Speaking of Dance: The local company has bravely squeaked through ten years... More >>

• The Message

  published April 17, 2003

  The Rocky Mountain News's Charlie Brennan has always considered himself to be lucky. So when one military spokesman predicted that a... More >>

• Brian Thomas Bourgault

  published April 17, 2003

  A Denverite by way of Vermont, singer- songwriter Bourgault, who appears at the Lion's Lair on Friday, April 18, with Local 33, could easily have... More >>

• Pan African Images

  published April 17, 2003

  Ashara Ekundayo knows full well that there's more to people of African descent than what's on view at the typical multiplex. "If the only thing... More >>

• The Message

  published April 10, 2003

  A report about the contract status of Channel 9 anchor Jim Benemann didn't wind up in Rocky Mountain News gossip specialist Penny... More >>

• [Linkin Park]

  published April 10, 2003

  In every musical movement, there are innovators -- the acts that introduce stylistic breakthroughs -- and there are popularizers, who co-opt the... More >>

• The Message

  published April 3, 2003

  Traditionally, media companies with news organizations have shied away from taking sides on specific issues in order to project an aura of... More >>

• Hometown Boy Makes Bad

  published April 3, 2003

  In some respects, Ministry's Al Jourgensen has mellowed. For instance, he says he's no longer helping his friendly neighborhood heroin dealer keep... More >>

• The Message

  published March 20, 2003

  As President George W. Bush prepares to launch his own variation on the Outkast hit "Bombs Over Baghdad" (key lyric: "Don't even... More >>

• Missile Attack

  published March 20, 2003

  John S. Hall, leader of the music/spoken-word project King Missile III, and George W. Bush, president of the United States, have at least one... More >>

• The Indulgers

  published March 20, 2003

  Many performers consider the term "bar band" to be pejorative, believing it implies that folks will enjoy a certain outfit's music only if they're... More >>

• The Message

  published March 13, 2003

  On the surface, there are major differences between Pam White and Pamela Clare. White is an area journalist known for passionately... More >>

• Grachan Moncur III

  published March 13, 2003

  The Muses -- daughters of Zeus whom the ancient Greeks credited with inspiring artists of the day -- were a contrary bunch, as capable of cruelty... More >>

• The Message

  published March 6, 2003

  In today's version of television news, graphics are slowly but steadily eating the screen. Broadcasts without at least an update ticker running... More >>

• Lord of the Ring

  published March 6, 2003

  Describing Soul Circus, the latest book by George P. Pelecanos, as a crime novel is like dismissing the Mercedes-Benz piloted by one... More >>

• The Message

  published February 27, 2003

  Picture a successful salesman, and odds are good the image will look a lot like Kirk MacDonald. The head of the Denver Newspaper Agency,... More >>

• 50 Cent

  published February 27, 2003

  Rap marketing may have grown more sophisticated with the years, but you couldn't prove it by the pimping of 50 Cent. After all, the man born... More >>

• The Message

  published February 20, 2003

  Throughout her years in Denver television, Channel 7's Julie Hayden has specialized in being where the action is. She's been to more crime... More >>

• Slave New World

  published February 20, 2003

  Westword: In preparing for this interview, I read a lot of articles and reviews that have been written about Audioslave. So I want... More >>

• Jude Ponds

  published February 20, 2003

  Unlike Detroit, New Orleans, Seattle and other musical hotbeds, the Denver/Boulder axis has yet to spawn a truly distinctive sonic style that... More >>

• Eye of the Beholder

  published February 13, 2003

  At some point in the not-too-distant past, being likened to Republican senator Trent Lott might have been a compliment, depending upon... More >>

• Various Artists

  published February 13, 2003

  Among the more enjoyable offspring of the electro-dance movement is chill-out music -- sounds that help bring a listener down from the ecstatic... More >>