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21. Calhoun

    Cut! On a third take, the Denver Film Society board finally lets Bo Smith go

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: June 11, 2009

    In retrospect, the new executive director's on-stage debut at the screening of Slumdog Millionaire at last November's Denver International Film Festival should have been a...

22. Ask A Mexican

    Survey says: Domestic violence doesn't play favorites

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Dear Mexican: I was riding the local light rail when two female Mexicans sat down and started talking rapid-fire Spanish non-stop for 45 minutes! It seemed as if neither one...

23. Calhoun

    Colorado Film Commission, Take 2

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Colorado, Take 2 "I found it in Colorado." That's how Billy Crystal explains his smile at the end of City Slickers, the 1991 movie filmed largely in Colorado, and it's the...

24. Backbeat

    Meet the Pirate Signal, one of Denver's most compelling hip-hop acts

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: June 11, 2009

    "At 26, dude, I can't really split my time anymore," declares Yonnas Abraham. "You know what I mean? It's like, what you cash your checks doing is what you do — and I...

25. Backbeat

    For Built to Spill's Doug Martsch, music is a different kind of hoop dream

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 11, 2009

    At first blush, professional men's basketballers and guys in rock bands don't have a lot in common. Those who fall into the first category are most often enormous, physically...

26. Music Showcase

    A band-by-band guide to the 2009 Westword Music Showcase

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Fifteen years ago, on a cool, damp night in LoDo, a local music festival was born. By the standards of today's Westword Music Showcase, the inaugural event was modest. I know,...

27. Scratching the Surface

    The Juan MacLean at Beta

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: June 11, 2009

    You want to understand The Juan MacLean? Start with disco, follow it in the disparate directions it evolved — house and the synth-pop side of new wave — then...

28. Bar Back

    Doing time in the Hole

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: June 11, 2009

    When I pulled into the parking lot of The Hole (990 South Oneida Street) last Saturday just after midnight, I found two squad cars parked in front of the bar. I could have kept...

29. Cafe

    Finally, a perfect plate at Rioja - followed by a second one

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: June 11, 2009

    I'm sitting at Rioja on a Monday night. A full book Monday night — rare for the best restaurants in the best of times, bordering on miraculous for this day and age, this...

30. Bite Me

    Larimer Square is a garden of eatin'

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: June 11, 2009

    This week's review of Rioja served a couple of purposes. One, it cleared up a bothersome bit of karmic dead weight. Two, it gave me a chance to see how a strong-starting...

31. Second Helping

    Judging from Tamayo, Richard Sandoval's empire is in decline

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: June 11, 2009

    I gave Rioja four years before going back (in a professional capacity) and finally finding the meal I'd always wanted to have there. Richard Sandoval opened Tamayo, his "modern...

32. Drunk of the Week

    The Rustic Tavern

    By Drew Bixby

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Eighty-two year-old JoAnn Turner, who bought the Rustic Tavern (5126 West 29th Avenue) with her husband 52 years ago and continues to oversee its daily operations, is showing...

33. Film Feature

    Away We Go

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers's solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic...

34. Film Feature

    Departures

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 11, 2009

    The stately Japanese movie Departures comes to theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Israel's Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign...

35. Flick Pick

    Big Man Japan at the Esquire

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Like Hancock, the Will Smith flick from last year, 2007's Big Man Japan tweaks the superhero myth by focusing on a shaggy, thoroughly unconventional guardian of society —...

36. Film Feature

    The Taking of Pelham 123

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it'll take a million bucks to pass...

37. Artbeat

    Museo de las Americas hires Maruca Salazar

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: June 11, 2009

    The board of directors of Denver's Museo de las Américas (861 Santa Fe Drive, 303-571-4401, www.museo.org) has announced that Maruca Salazar (pictured), a well-known...

38. Now Showing

    Now Showing

    Capsule reviews of current exhibits

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Barbara Takenaga and Mary Ehrin. These two solos feature contemporary work that's informed by the influence of nature. Barbara Takenaga: Fade Away & Radiate, comprises a nice...

39. Theater

    The verdict is in: The Trial inspires a worthy play in Joseph K

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, in which a man is accused of an unnamed crime and, having faced all kinds of baffling and inexplicable encounters as well as a wall of...

40. Encore

    Capsule reviews of current shows

    Published: June 11, 2009

    Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it's so relentlessly nice....