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Brandon MacGillis, communications director for Congresswoman Diana DeGette, insists that his boss understood the risks when she agreed to be interviewed by Stephen Colbert for...
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What's in a lead singer? Audioslave and Velvet Revolver have gotten along quite nicely without their prima donna leaders, thank you very much. Certainly, the Mark...
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I am happy to announce that a new bar, The Tavern Lowry (7401 East First Avenue), has broken the record for the largest-ever Institute of Drinking Studies bar tab -- and this...
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An old woman lies dying as her son sits by the bedside. Tension vibrates between them. Each character offers a poetic monologue that feels a bit forced; when a playwright has...
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Nobody wants to talk about Jennifer Marcum. Not the girls who stripped with her at Shotgun Willie's. Not the man with whom she was living. Not the men she may have testified...
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L.A. rockers the Bronx have never had to work too hard to get noticed. After just a few gigs, the quartet was beating back A&R reps because of its brutal tunes and punishing...
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When I reviewed Frisco's in April 2005, I was impressed by a couple of things. For starters, the crew's resumés included some big-time names (Batali, Bastianich, Le...
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There are many, many ways for a production to be awful, and The Yiddish Are Coming, at the New Denver Civic Theatre, hits on just about all of them. It's a cheap little...
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After seven days of deliberation in Arapahoe County -- the longest trial Judge Stephen R. Ruddick's courtroom had ever seen -- Bill Stiffler was acquitted on six counts of...
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The latest installment of Johnny Cash's epic American series, American V: A Hundred Highways, is the most poignant, cohesive album in the collection to date. Released two and...
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The Caretaker. The setting is a grimy, one-room flat filled with papers, boxes and mismatched bric-a-brac. It's an appropriate mole hole for sad, befuddled Aston, who thinks...
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In January, it looked like the McAdam family was finally on their way to a happy ending. Denver Juvenile Court was letting parents David and Tiffany bring home their oldest...
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Busta Rhymes has recently embarked on a career makeover. He's got a new label, a new haircut and a new body. But his latest album, The Big Bang, is reminiscent of the Busta of...
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Rock My Real World!
Shake and fake: Regarding Jared Jacang Maher's "Get Real," in the June 22 issue:
The story about the fake Real World was quite possibly the most...
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Brightblack Morning Light bears a rather striking, but not crippling, resemblance to the orchestral psychedelia of Spiritualized. Both bands have an affinity for taking a...
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These days, few performers are capable of crafting long-lasting careers -- but producers like Tim "Timbaland" Mosley are another story. More than a decade after emerging from...
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Toil Like Devils, the Tarmints' fourth effort, is the musical equivalent of a James Ellroy novel: brutal, uncompromising in its artistic vision, and an unflinchingly honest...
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The notorious book called The Turner Diaries concerns a worldwide race war won by Caucasians. The decision by guitarist Eddie Turner, an African-American, to give his latest...
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Naim Amor, Exsanguine (Amormusic). Naim Amor's Exsanguine is a joyously atmospheric 1960s soundtrack to a dinner party in a Tucson barrio hosted by a Parisian couple in a...
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The Court and Spark was originally lumped in with the alt-country movement largely because of the San Franciscans' choice of instrumentation: Pedal-steel and acoustic guitars...