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Feature
Tough for Buffs
CU football grinds on under the weight of the past.
By Bill Gallo
Published: August 26, 2004
Back in the day, University of Colorado football players bonded with each other at pep rallies. They matched appetites at the training table. For awhile there, they went on...
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Music
Getting Your Goat
For the Melvins' Buzz Osborne, grunge means never having to say you're sorry.
By John La Briola
Published: August 26, 2004
Summing up the Melvins' contribution to rock and roll is a fool's errand at best. While the band introduced the world to a slow-plodding sludge later marketed as grunge, the...
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Cafe
Slice of Heaven
Still rightly Famous after all these years.
By Jason Sheehan
Published: August 26, 2004
It was a knee-jerk New Yorker's reflex that led me to Famous Pizza. Make that Famous Pizza #1. "The Original Famous Pizza," as spelled out on the front window and the menu....
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Film Feature
Constricted
A PG-13 rating squeezes the life out of Anacondas.
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: August 26, 2004
It should go without saying that when one goes to see a movie about giant killer snakes, the main point of the whole endeavor is to watch people get eaten by giant killer...
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Night & Day
Bas's Hurrah
Bas Bleu bids a hearty farewell to its old home.
By Susan Froyd
Published: August 26, 2004
Here in the metro area, where small theater troupes tend to crowd the cultural landscape, even the staunchest supporter of independent theater must give little thought to the...
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Art
Reality Shows
Contemporary representational art is on tap at both Robischon and Havu.
By Michael Paglia
Published: August 26, 2004
It's amazing how vast the contemporary art world is, including as it does a full array of expressions -- from the most edgy forms, such as video, to the most conservative, such...
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City Limits
Roller-Rama
Bad-ass chicks, roller skates and catfights. Roller Derby is back.
By Michelle Baldwin
Published: August 26, 2004
Like most girls born in the '70s, Amanda Gagliardi grew up on roller skates, enraptured by Xanadu and the Amazonian Roller Derby girls. So when a friend from Seattle called her...
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Music
Matli Crew
Ozomatli imagines one world under a groove.
By Eryc Eyl
Published: August 26, 2004
I have a brother-in-law in the military who got shot with an AK-47 in North Korea," says Asdru Sierra. "And we're not even at war with North Korea...not really." Sierra...
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Bite Me
Bite Me
War and Pizza
By Jason Sheehan
Published: August 26, 2004
I've never understood the draw of gummy Chicago deep-dish, and I loathe those smart-ass nouveau California cracker-crust abominations. I'll choke down a cornmeal-dusted New...
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Film Feature
Live, Baby, Live
Danny Deckchair sends an upbeat message from Down Under.
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: August 26, 2004
Some of the people who helped bring you dank, morose amusements such as The Crow, Dark City and The Matrix have a new movie to offer. Like The Matrix, it features a dork who...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Published: August 26, 2004
Thursday, August 26 This is one girl with credentials: Brazilian vocalist Bebel Gilberto carries on the samba-riffic dynasty begun by her father João, mother Miúcha and...
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Artbeat
Artbeat
Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.
By Michael Paglia
Published: August 26, 2004
There's a show at Andenken Gallery (2110 Market Street, 303-332-5582) with the cutesy title of Peachy Keen. Though the phrase has a retro '50s feel, the show itself has more of...
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Off Limits
Off Limits
Back-to-School Special
Published: August 26, 2004
During my long, murky and still uncompleted career as a University of Colorado student, I worked and quit (i.e., my supervisor told me to quit before I was fired) many jobs on...
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Music
Let's Go Crazy...Please!
Only one man can save us from our own devastating lack of sex appeal.
By Rob Harvilla
Published: August 26, 2004
The Great Super Bowl Rogue Breast Disaster of 2004 reached truly epic levels of overexposure, with every pundit, columnist, blogger and dude-standing-behind-you-at-Subway...
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Drink of the Week
Drink of the Week
Citrus Mint Martini
By Nancy Levine
Published: August 26, 2004
There are two types of people -- those who love the Palm, and those who don't understand why other people love the Palm. I was a member of the latter group when I lived in...
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Flick Pick
Flick Pick
12th Annual Denver International World Cinema Independent Fall Film Festival
By Bill Gallo
Published: August 26, 2004
The 12th Annual Denver International World Cinema Independent Fall Film Festival -- quite a mouthful, no? -- will feature three days' worth of feature films, documentaries and...
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Night & Day
Bikin' Broncos
Bike couriers ride tall in the saddle at the Road Rash Bash! Rodeo.
By Jason Heller
Published: August 26, 2004
Some people consider them only half a step above the Hell's Angels. To others, they look pretty damn cool with their cut-off pants and messenger bags. They're bicycle couriers,...
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Now Showing
Now Showing
Published: August 26, 2004
Common Ground. The Sandra Phillips Gallery specializes in abstraction, as is shown off in the current show, Common Ground, which combines neo-abstract-expressionist paintings...
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The Message
The Message
Stan's Plan
By Michael Roberts
Published: August 26, 2004
Visitors to the Denver Tech Center headquarters of Altitude Sports & Entertainment, a new network owned by millionaire investor Stan Kroenke, might expect it to resemble Athens...
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Playlist
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain... (Polyvinyl)
By Jason Heller
Published: August 26, 2004
Condensing the depth and complexity of a Joan of Arc record into a terse string of words is impossible. Instead, please accept this list of half-assed associations. This disc's...
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