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This is what we did. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: No Doubt, Paramore and The Sounds at Fiddler's Green. • Q&A with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. • Missed FoCoMx? No worries. Check this out. • Musicians: Get your ears lowered for free. • Update: Monolith to reveal...

By Michael Roberts

May 28, 2009

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This is what we did.

Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: No Doubt, Paramore and The Sounds at Fiddler's Green. • Q&A with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. • Missed FoCoMx? No worries. Check this out. • Musicians: Get your ears lowered for free. • Update: Monolith to reveal line-up a few acts at a time on Twitter and Facebook.

Today in Cafe Society: • A nonstop night of fun, food and wine events around town. • Snooze liquor license hearing today. • Where for art thou, schooner? • Bistro starts serving (and pouring) today at Tony's. • Free baby burgers today at CityGrille. • Gaspare's unleashes pastries, pizza and more in Parker. • May showers bring Belgian beer flowers.

Today in The Latest Word: • Q&A with James Toback, director of Tyson. • Ball busters: Five Coloradans who should get the first batch of male birth-control meds. • Judge gives inventor three years -- and his company a death sentence. • John Temple: We didn't wish death upon Dean Singleton. • Twittering up a nice, frothy beer. Tweet, tweet, slurp.

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Michael Roberts began his career with Westword in 1990 as music editor. In 1999, he took on a new role, full-time media reporter, as author of a column called The Message. In 2008, he became the lead writer for Westword's news blog, The Latest Word, a position he held until January 2023. Michael continues to freelance for Westword, covering everything from business to sports and the media; he also contributes to Jazziz, a national music magazine. He holds a bachelor's degree from what is now Colorado Mesa University and master's degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Northwestern University.

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