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