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part 2 of 2
Watson's primary public role, it seemed, was to get arrested. "I spent a lot of time spread-eagled over somebody's hood or trunk," he says.
Today many of the...
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Los Straitjackets
The Utterly Fantastic and Totally Unbelievable Sound of Los Straitjackets
(Upstart)
The Aqua Velvets
Surfmania
(Mesa)
Friends of Dean Martinez
The Shadow...
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With all the action just a few blocks away, the 16th Street Mall is starting to feel like it's off the beaten path. Most of the restaurants along this stretch rely on lunch...
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Once your acne starts to clear up, there's not much reason to see an Allan Moyle movie. Or so it first seems. The Montreal-born director specializes in high-test teenage...
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Wednesday September 20 A brand-new bag: Few men have the distinction of having worked with two of the most influential funkmeisters of all time, James Brown and George...
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Words, just like art objects, are subject to fashion. Suddenly everyone is using the word "venerable" or mouthing a phrase like "narrative content." Everywhere I go these...
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part 1 of 2
A quarter of a century ago, Lauren Watson organized the Denver chapter of the Black Panther Party. For a little over two years he led the local arm through the...
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Thanks to a current tour and a new CD (New Dark Ages) on a new label (Boulder's W.A.R.? imprint), the Radiators have been busier than ever--so busy, in fact, that the...
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Barrel of pork: The owner of House of Bunbuster, whose name I never was able to procure, phoned to say he was disgruntled over the category of "Best Pig's Ears" in the 1995...
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Actress Diane Keaton has declared herself a film director, and she hasn't taken long to set a style. In Unstrung Heroes, a bittersweet tearjerker combining a twelve-year-old...
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One can respect a play and hate it at the same time. Drawn in to the premise completely, you can ultimately feel manipulated, and finally angry. Ariel Dorfman's Death and the...
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The letters arrived in the third week of May. They came in the mail, dozens of them, addressed to city council members, county commissioners, ministers, teachers,...
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Over the years, critical reverence for the Velvet Underground (celebrated in the new five-CD boxed set Peel Slowly and See, to be released by Polydor September 26) has become...
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Parents are difficult in every culture. If they're kind, loving people who only want the best for their adult children, they can be pretty darn willful about just what that...
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Home improvement: Back when voters passed Amendment 1, elected officials across Colorado were wringing their hands and moaning that such tax limitations would put the state in...
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If you've always found Morrissey a might too perky and Rush Limbaugh a trifle unsure of himself, U.K.-bred rocker Edwyn Collins could be the man for you. With a dossier of...
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Hey, y'all. This here's Jerry Jones, and I wanna tell you this afternoon 'bout a couple of changes to our fuhball team that's gonna git us back in the Super Bowl faster'n a...
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16 Horsepower, Friday and Saturday, September 22 and 23, at the Bluebird Theater, is in town to celebrate the release of an EP (issued by Ricochet Records) that is meant to...
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Poem on the Range
Regarding the September 13 Off Limits:
Legal lyrics not done solo
News for some within Westword
Prosecution prose pro bono
But not without some effort.
Verse...
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Low, with Soul Coughing, Friday, September 27, at the Ogden Theatre, likes to take things slow. Really slow. Imagine the Cowboy Junkies performing from the depths of the...
