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21. Night & Day

    Sex Machines

    Dugibots get up, (get on up) at Edge Gallery.

    Published: April 30, 2009

    When Hungarian artist/photographer Agnes Vigil married an American, she struggled with a lot of what came out of his mouth. “Let’s just say he had a colorful...

22. Night & Day

    Now Beer This

    Tom Robbins signs his sudsy book for kids and adults alike.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Maverick author Tom Robbins is known for his whimsical (yet well-researched) forays into little-known crevices of our planet -- from peyote trips to Salome’s forbidden...

23. Night & Day

    Psychedelic Side-Trip

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: April 30, 2009

    It's not hard to fall under the spell of that psychedelic poster show currently wrecking the walls at the Denver Art Museum. The Victor Moscosos alone brought me to my knees,...

24. News

    Denver's urban gardeners are digging their backyard farms

    By Joel Warner

    Published: April 30, 2009

    La Ferme de Beau à Manger is one of the most tidy and picturesque farms I've ever seen. With the growing season just beginning, terrace upon brick terrace is primed and...

25. Off Limits

    Verse comes to worse at Mile Haiku

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Spooky blue flame steed Greets us with heinous anus This is art? Horseshit! Nearly a hundred people gathered in the basement of the Denver Public Library's central branch...

26. Calhoun

    This state's souvenirs suck. Why can't we Buy Mile High?

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: April 30, 2009

    At Greetings From Colorado, a store on the A concourse of Denver International Airport, don't expect to find many actual Colorado greetings. Yes, there are cards from Leanin'...

27. Ask A Mexican

    Request these songs while you drinko por Cinco

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Dear Readers: As you drinko por Cinco on May 5, please hold on to this column listing songs that mariachis will gladly play instead of having to glumly strum through the...

28. Calhoun

    Colorado speaks for itself, according to a new ad campaign. If only.

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: April 30, 2009

    "Colorado Speaks for Itself." That's the tagline of a new Colorado tourism campaign, a variation on the old "Let's Talk Colorado" that puts quote marks around pretty pictures...

29. Letters

    Letters from the week of April 30, 2009

    Published: April 30, 2009

    "Wild Rides," Paul Knight, April 23 Steer Clear! Thank you, thank you, thank you for writing that story about the Prius brake and acceleration problems! Our 2008 Prius...

30. Backbeat

    Andy and Kinsey Hamilton built Houses together with some friends

    By Andy Thomas

    Published: April 30, 2009

    "I promised the band that I would stay sober for this interview," declares Houses frontman Andy Hamilton before taking a gentle pull off a glass of ice and whiskey. "Now that...

31. The Beatdown

    Overlook a few bands on the Showcase ballot, and people start calling for your head

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Jeez, man, leave a few bands off the Westword Music Showcase ballot, and suddenly the hordes show up outside your window with pitchforks and torches, calling for your...

32. Rough Mixes

    After playing a supporting role for years, Elin Palmer has moved to the forefront

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Elin Palmer has spent a great deal of her career playing a supporting role, adding majestic violin textures to the music of some this town's most critically revered acts,...

33. Rough Mixes

    Future Islands is what might've happened if Joy Division had been grounded in R&B and indie pop

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Originally hailing from North Carolina, the members of Future Islands have come to call Baltimore their home in the last year. The band brought its energized live performances...

34. Bar Back

    Let your hair down at Eck's

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Back in 1981, a camp counselor convinced me that disco sucked and finally weaned me off the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. That was the same year that Mötley Crüe...

35. Playlist

    The Americans

    We the People
    Self-released

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: April 30, 2009

    I appreciate bands that try to do something different. I do. But, seriously, whoever came up with the idea of rapping over a horrific mesh of post-rock with jam-band tendencies...

36. Playlist

    Istari

    Istari
    Monster Island Records

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Chad "Chadzilla" Johnson has kept time for a slew of local musicians in addition to filling the drum throne for his main projects, Double Parked, Chadzilla & the Asteroids and...

37. Playlist

    M. Pyres

    Consider Me, Ghost
    Fir Traders Union

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Although the lo-fi quality of this recording rivals releases on the Siltbreeze imprint, its songs are similarly worthwhile for their earnest sonic character. Matt Sage,...

38. Playlist

    Spring Creek

    Way Up on a Mountain
    Rebel Records

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 30, 2009

    This Lyons-based quartet's latest album, which will be celebrated during a May 9 gig at the Boulder Theater (followed by appearances at the Gold Hill Inn and Swallow Hill on...

39. Now Hear This

    Crystal Antlers

    Friday, May 1, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 30, 2009

    The only thing delicate about the band called Crystal Antlers is its name — and then only just. The music on Tentacles, the first full-length by these Long Beach,...

40. Now Hear This

    Richard Buckner

    Friday, May 1, Walnut Room, 303-292-0529.

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: April 30, 2009

    Although Richard Buckner has lived on both coasts and in Canada, the singer-songwriter sounds like he's spent a lot of time in the South and in America's heartland. On 1998's...