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Feature
Arrested Development
A Denver therapist wants to lock up sexual predators -- forever. But patients say the treatment is just making them bitter.
By Julie Jargon
Published: December 5, 2002
Robert Rosberg is a convicted sex offender. Some would say he shouldn't be allowed the luxury of rejoining society. He should be locked up forever. Castrated. Even killed....
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Music
Career Remix
DJ Paul Oakenfold heads in a new direction -- and not everyone wants to follow.
By Michael Roberts
Published: December 5, 2002
Music journalists are largely responsible for turning Paul Oakenfold into the planet's foremost DJ -- a title he wears as if by right. But after the arrival of Bunkka, a CD...
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Cafe
Frite Dreams
Bistro Adde Brewster knows that to succeed, you must fry, fry again.
By Jason Sheehan
Published: December 5, 2002
On a perfect mild afternoon before the last cold snap, I found myself perched on a stool before the small, half-moon bar at Bistro Adde Brewster, contemplating a late-day...
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Film Feature
That's Better
De Niro delights, even if this sequel's slight.
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 5, 2002
Robert De Niro always did love an acting challenge, but lately those challenges have been less along the lines of "Can I convincingly play a boxer?" and more like "Can I alone...
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Night & Day
Sweep Stakes
The Broomball craze is sweeping Denver off its feet.
By Julie Dunn
Published: December 5, 2002
What's sillier than a bunch of people trying to run on ice? How about a bunch of people chasing a ball with brooms while skittering over frozen water? That's exactly what's...
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Art
Starstruck
Art-world luminary Jun Kaneko shows off at Carson-Masuoka.
By Michael Paglia
Published: December 5, 2002
In television, ratings determine everything. That's why the networks pull out all the stops in programming during sweeps weeks. There are only a few of them during the year,...
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Sidebar
The Inner Sanctum
Inside sex-offender group therapy.
By Julie Jargon
Published: December 5, 2002
Just before 6 p.m. on a recent, unseasonably warm Thursday, two young girls exit a nondescript office building off Colorado Boulevard and Louisiana Avenue. The girls, who can't...
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Music
The Heart of Country
Still a big thinker, Dallas Wayne holds out for honky-tonk.
By David Hill
Published: December 5, 2002
On the cover of his most recent album, Here I Am in Dallas, Dallas Wayne sits at the counter of a dimly lit bar with a cigarette in hand and a deeply troubled look on his face....
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Consumed
Consumed
Nuts!
By Marty Jones
Published: December 5, 2002
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire... Few lyrics capture the holiday season like those famed words from Nat "King" Cole's 1946 "The Christmas Song." But in Colorado, that line...
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Film Feature
Prozium Nation
Normal human feelings prove lethal in Equilibrium.
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 5, 2002
Transcribed verbatim from the DVD commentary track of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, here's an informative sci-fi concept from director George Lucas: "...as we go...
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Night & Day
Big Country
Photographer John McGee showcases his family’s Chinese immersion.
By Susan Froyd
Published: December 5, 2002
Boulder photographer and emergency vet John McGee grew up with the same view of China as most baby boomers: The nation was a big, crowded, backward place where people were...
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Artbeat
Artbeat
Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.
By Michael Paglia
Published: December 5, 2002
Here's some sad if not unexpected news: It will soon be time to bid adieu to the wonderful little Andenken Annex (1449 Wynkoop Street, 303-758-2290) in LoDo. Since June, the...
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News
Dog in the Manger
Is your city properly accessorized for the holidays? Ask the ADL fashion police.
By Amy Haimerl
Published: December 5, 2002
For the first time this century, Denver's baby Jesus can remain asleep on the hay, undisturbed in the reflected, garish glory of the City and County Building's annual display....
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Playlist
Chuck Pyle
Affected by the Moon (Bee 'n' Flower Records)
By David Hill
Published: December 5, 2002
Someone once dubbed Chuck Pyle "the Zen cowboy," and that's a pretty accurate description of the Colorado singer-songwriter, whose songs are filled with metaphysical musings...
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Drink of the Week
Drink of the Week
Vanilla Stoli and Orange Juice
By Julie Dunn
Published: December 5, 2002
Sometimes the best way to pass the day is by drinking -- and when the sun is shining, nothing goes down smoother than a good, old-fashioned screwdriver. Hanson's Grill and...
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Flick Pick
Flick Pick
Reel Love: A Century of the Avant-Garde
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 5, 2002
Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935) is rightly famous (and notorious) as the most powerful propaganda film ever made: a documentary account of the Nazis' massive,...
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Free For All
Free For All
Highlighting the week's greatest gratis event
By Julie Dunn
Published: December 5, 2002
Looking for a Western brand to mark your Christmas season? Then hoof it to the Buffalo Bill Museum's annual Christmas With Cody celebration. "Buffalo Bill loved Christmastime,...
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Theater
Jingle Bell Mock
Rattlebrain's gifted comic performances don't always guarantee a happy ending.
By Juliet Wittman
Published: December 5, 2002
Rattlebrain Theater should have everything it needs to become a destination for the young and hip, a thronged local hot spot, the kind of place no in-the-know visitor to Denver...
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Off Limits
Off Limits
Space case
Published: December 5, 2002
Since the North American Aerospace Defense Command was locked down to the public in April 1999 -- when NORAD brass decided that allowing the great unwashed into the top-secret...
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Playlist
Battery Park
Scattered Pictures (ICU)
By Jason Heller
Published: December 5, 2002
An indie-rock-scarred hipster's first reaction to this disc might be one of disgust. Clean, processed guitars? A singer in tune? Swelling anthems that would sound at home on an...
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