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Issue: September 30, 1999
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  • 1. Feature

    McPrison

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Saturday, July 17, 1999. Grace Aragon drives 170 miles from her home in Denver to the Kit Carson Correctional Center, a private prison on the outskirts of Burlington, just ten...

  • 2. Music

    Oh, L'Amour

    By Chris LaMorte
    Published: September 30, 1999

    If there's any doubt that something strange and terrible has happened to the good, old-fashioned love song, consider this fact: Barbra Streisand, who once sang that love was...

  • 3. Cafe

    Good Buzz

    By Kyle Wagner
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Ready or not, here they come. When husband-and-wife team Tim Elenteny and Janice Henning decided to open a restaurant in the space formerly occupied by Diced Onions, the San...

  • 4. Film Feature

    The Puck Stops Here

    By Bill Gallo
    Published: September 30, 1999

    The premise is preposterous, the final score inevitable and the record reading on the feelgood-o-meter totally predictable. But Mystery, Alaska comes furnished with some...

  • 5. Night & Day

    Animal Dreams

    By Susan Froyd
    Published: September 30, 1999

    The first thing you focus on is their eyes. The animals in James Balog's portraits seem to be -- to borrow baseball's colloquialism -- staying within themselves: living in...

  • 6. Art

    Old Times

    By Michael Paglia
    Published: September 30, 1999

    In a way, the historically important and aesthetically compelling Vanguard Art in Colorado: 1940-1970, which just opened at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, provides a...

  • 7. Feature

    Judging the Judge

    By Steve Jackson
    Published: September 30, 1999

    The young man in the tailored gray suit stands behind the defense table and waggles his finger at Judge R. Brooke Jackson. He's pretty full of himself, and he occasionally...

  • 8. Music

    Drag City

    By James Mayo
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Before there was a band of the same name, the Hemi Cuda was an automobile that Chrysler manufactured in the mid-Fifties. At first the car's appeal lay in simple economics: A...

  • 9. 2nd Helping

    Tapas the Rockies

    By Kyle Wagner
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Remember tapas? The Spanish tradition, which calls for serving up little tidbits of food meant to be snacked on with drinks, enjoyed another wave of popularity in Denver...

  • 10. Film Feature

    Fops and Robbers

    By Andy Klein
    Published: September 30, 1999

    In general, period films are not what you would call a commercial sure shot in the current marketplace -- unless, of course, the period in question is the 22nd century or...

  • 11. Night & Day

    Moving Pictures

    By Susan Froyd
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Janie Geiser doesn't do just one thing. She doesn't even do two things. Instead, her creative world seems to be constantly ascending: one thing leading to another, with every...

  • 12. Artbeat

    Art Beat

    By Michael Paglia
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Craig Miller, the curator of architecture, design and graphics at the Denver Art Museum, has a gift for putting together small yet thoughtful shows. One of three exhibits...

  • 13. Sidebar

    Trials Can Be Murder

    By Steve Jackson
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Jimmy Myers was eighteen the night he rolled the car with the body of Geoffrey Hobin inside. Eighteen months later, in March 1999, he stood before Judge R. Brooke Jackson to...

  • 14. Music

    Genre Divide

    By Thomas Peake
    Published: September 30, 1999

    For the unwitting punk-rock aesthete, happening upon Sweep the Leg Johnny in a crowded dive bar can be startling. The four unassuming lads from Chicago who make up the band...

  • 15. Mouthing Off

    Waiting Room

    By Kyle Wagner
    Published: September 30, 1999

    No restaurant is happy about no-shows, but the smaller the place, the harder it's hit when people make reservations and then fail to cancel them -- much less show up. The...

  • 16. Film Feature

    War Is Heck

    By Gregory Weinkauf
    Published: September 30, 1999

    There is nothing gratifying about watching a bullet blast through a woman's skull. Exploding helicopters and splattered cattle are utterly indefensible. And few would smile at...

  • 17. Theater

    G.I. Janes

    By Jim Lillie
    Published: September 30, 1999

    If talent, poise and charisma were the only qualities needed to triumph in theaters of war or pleasure, then the sparkling quintet in Swingtime Canteen could claim absolute...

  • 18. News

    A Case of Coors

    By Juliet Wittman
    Published: September 30, 1999

    When Coors Brewing Company worker Homer James was summoned to a meeting with his supervisors in April 1996, he thought it was because he'd been called "nigger" by a co-worker....

  • 19. Music

    The Janis Fund

    By Michael Roberts
    Published: September 30, 1999

    It's a lucky thing so many rockers die young, because a big chunk of the music industry is dedicated to making money off past greats presently residing in pine boxes or...

  • 20. Theater

    Northern Exposure

    By Jim Lillie
    Published: September 30, 1999

    Snugged away in a remote fishing shack in northern Minnesota, a burly loudmouth named Junior laments to his fellow ice-anglers that citified "income poops" have made a mess of...

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