Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

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

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2004 Stories by Michael Roberts

• The Message

  published February 12, 2004

  Words are the building blocks of journalism, and misplacing even one of them can cause the entire superstructure to collapse. The Denver... More >>

• Various Artists

  published February 12, 2004

  The fine soundtrack that accompanied 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou? earned a Grammy as best album. It's no wonder, then, that the... More >>

• Built to Last

  published February 12, 2004

  FRI, 2/13 Delbert McClinton has never gone out of style, partly because he's never really been in style. Consider that... More >>

• The Message

  published February 5, 2004

  Many of the changes that have taken place in this country since 9/11, including color-coded terror-alert warnings, Toby Keith's... More >>

• The Message

  published January 29, 2004

  Erik Dyce, director of marketing for the Denver Division of Theatres & Arenas, is paid to boost Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and he takes the... More >>

• People Pleaser

  published January 29, 2004

  Perry Farrell is either the youngest 44-year-old in the pop-music game or (with apologies to Captain Beefheart) an old fart at play. On... More >>

• Just the 'Fax, man

  published January 22, 2004

  Amid the nourishing chaos of city life, we urban dwellers find ourselves brain-deep in startling juxtapositions. Mid-morning one Tuesday, a... More >>

• The Message

  published January 22, 2004

  The images that recently upset Fort Collins Mayor Ray Martinez and University of Northern Colorado professor Junius Peake aren't exactly... More >>

• The Message

  published January 15, 2004

  At any given time, untold thousands of folks are trying to get into journalism -- and quite a few are looking for a way out. The turnover rate... More >>

• It's All Relative

  published January 15, 2004

  If multi-instrumentalist Matt Friedberger's relationship with his sister, Eleanor, wasn't strong, there's no way the two would have teamed up to... More >>

• The Message

  published January 8, 2004

  Disc jockey and filmmaker Raechel Donahue is standing behind a bank of buttons, faders, computer screens and assorted doohickeys at the... More >>

• Mark Riva

  published January 8, 2004

  The ambient electro genre is usually associated with tropical playgrounds, not mountainous ones, which helps explains the title of this disc, as... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published January 1, 2004

  Decent national concerts in Colorado scheduled the week after New Year's Eve are about as common as politicians who aren't interested in personal... More >>