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Dropping down Route 9 from Hartsel into Lake George is like entering a thicket of gauze. A clear Colorado day gives way first to haze, then gray, then brown. Smoke grows...
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There may very well be something terribly wrong with the members of Speedealer.
"Everybody in this band is pretty pissed off," says bassist Rich Mullins. "I think our...
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When I first sat down at Maruti Narayan's, the table was a blank canvas, holding only white plates and white napkins set against a white tablecloth. By the end of the meal, it...
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Blood Work, Clint Eastwood's 23rd film as a director, is another crime thriller in the mode of True Crime (1998) and Absolute Power (1996) -- although it's better. More than...
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"Don't clone, darling, colonize!" That's the motto of a secret society that will soon infiltrate a bar near you -- but you don't need a coded knock or password to join the...
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A press pass, reporter-turned-novelist Gregory McDonald once said, is good for one thing: It allows the journalist to ask very smart people very stupid questions. Certainly,...
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Jonna Cohen and Michael Sobol knew they were taking a risk when they joined thousands of other protesters at the gates of an Army base in Georgia last November. With the...
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Denver-born trumpeter Shane Endsley migrated this summer from balmy, laid-back Los Angeles to dense, teeming Brooklyn so he can be closer to his fiancée -- and to New...
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Food for thought: I've been on this job for a month now -- thirty days that have been a cyclone blur of restaurants and reservations, a juggling act with me trying to keep a...
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The past is a foreign country -- they do things differently there." So goes the immortal line from The Go-Between. And in the brilliant new documentary The Cockettes, that...
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When the back-to-back UFO Canine Frisbee World Cup Tournament and Quadruped Canine Frisbee Disc Competition get under way on the Arapahoe Community College campus this...
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The history of art in Colorado has yet to be written, so those of us with an interest in the topic have to get our information in dribs and drabs, chiefly through exhibitions....
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There was a time when Colorado bars weren't allowed to open until the polls closed. This year, though, you can vote in a bar -- or close enough. On August 13, the banquet room...
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Statewide drought be damned, releases from Colorado musicians continue to flow into local retail bins -- and the mailboxes of Backbeat writers. In the first installment of a...
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Karen Beeman is tending her WeeBee Farms stand at the Boulder Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. A band with alternating dried flowers and garlic heads adorns her hat....
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Veterans of Clay, in the North Gallery at the Lakewood Cultural Center (470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7800), is a small show, but it's filled with work by...
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If you're going to suffer through an undergraduate business degree, work a demeaning restaurant job in order to pay tuition, sell out for the sake of money -- well, you might...
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The word "mature" keeps cropping up in positive reviews of this disc --mature songwriting, mature arrangements, mature subject matter, mature performances -- and such...
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As Russell Crowe strutted around the Colosseum -- a scantily clad warrior seeking revenge -- he should have challenged his opponents to the Gladiator drop-shot at the Foundry...
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I walked into the Denver Center's Stage Theatre harboring the darkest of suspicions. I'd read all about The Vagina Monologues -- who hasn't?--but somehow I'd managed to miss...