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At 5 a.m., the green foothills near Fort Collins look spongy in the early light. Along a wide residential street of Laporte, a farming town turned suburb, a yellow windbreaker...
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Truman's Water
Milktrain to Paydirt
(Homestead)
You can't describe Truman's Water as just another punk band--not when the closest thing to an influence you can scratch out of...
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Since the only thing lying between Denver and the deep blue sea is a two-hour plane trip, the notion that we can't get fresh fish here doesn't hold water. The fact is, we can...
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Clearly, the Art Cinematic has made great strides since the days when extraterrestrial invaders were all huge, featureless carcasses encased in blocks of ice, or spiders blown...
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Wednesday July 12 Designing children: The Denver Department of Parks and Recreation wants the city's junior swingers to come out and tell it how to build a new playground at...
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Few artists in this country have achieved the kind of fame that Georgia O'Keeffe has. Her life and work are, without exaggeration, the stuff of legend.
But there's been a...
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part 2 of 2
Oscar Lopez Rivera arrived at ADX in January. He says his first two months there were the hardest time he's ever done.
At first he was aware of only three other...
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"I think people will enjoy our music most when they're on their third beer," says Matt Squires, bassist for Denver's dream popsters Gray Parade. "When they're just kind of...
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Try to come up with a more obvious recipe for disaster: I get an invitation to dine at the home of a woman who tells me that she and the entire "Filipino community" of Denver...
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The absorbing drama Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker is set on a family estate and in a bustling northern Chinese river town at the end of the Ching Dynasty. These are the...
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Cult classic The Rocky Horror Show is just so Seventies. It must have seemed fiendishly outrageous when it came out in London in 1973 (the movie version, The Rocky Horror...
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Raymond Luc Levasseur arrived at his new Colorado home in February. Shackled and under heavy guard, accompanied by one other prisoner, he stepped off a government...
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Johnny Rzeznik, vocalist/guitarist for the Goo Goo Dolls, describes his reaction to A Boy Named Goo, his group's latest excursion into power pop, with characteristic candor....
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The movies did it better. "Women's pictures" such as All About Eve, The Women and even The Bad Seed, for all their melodramatic silliness, at least presented complex and...
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The last train to Clarksburg: The good folks of Clarksburg, West Virginia, never really knew what hit them. Late last year former Denverite JT Colfax, who dumped his given...
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Even if multi-instrumentalist John Hartford found a cure for cancer, the discovery would probably be overshadowed by what the public sees as an even greater achievement--his...
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This is not a pretty picture.
In a matter of weeks Denver City Council members, whose average aesthetic tastes tend to John Denver songs and paintings of big-eyed little...
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The image that's long defined Peter Murphy simply does not exist anymore--if it ever did. The former frontman for England's Bauhaus (the standard-bearer for the early Eighties...
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Say you're lounging around the campfire in your animal skins, wondering if all that ice will ever melt, when a couple of underfed mammoths come charging out of the forest....
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David Yow tried everything. The lead singer for the Jesus Lizard, second on the lineup at the Lollapalooza Festival (which stopped at Fiddler's Green on July 8), jumped into...
