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21. Ask A Mexican

    The mother of all Mexican curse words

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Dear Mexican: I'm a Spanish teacher, and I've been hearing my students say a phrase, Tiki tu madre, and I am unsure what it means (if it truly means anything, which they swear...

22. Off Limits

    They write the songs that make the whole world yak

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Reports that a soldier was beaten to death late last week just because he played Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" on a jukebox in the Tap House Sports Grill in Steamboat...

23. Letters

    From the week of January 8

    Published: January 8, 2009

    "Perfect 6," Jason Sheehan, December 25 Clearing the Table Just read Jason Sheehan's review of Table 6. Great review; they deserve it. But, unfortunately, we have to read...

24. Backbeat

    The Potato Pirates steal the show with a new CD

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: January 8, 2009

    The Potato Pirates take various styles of music considered dead — or at least exhausted of ideas — and injects them with an infectious, youthful exuberance. Part...

25. Backbeat

    From Akon to Usher, today's R&B is a shadow of its former self

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: January 8, 2009

    VIBE music editor Sean Fennessey recently posited that contemporary R&B music has gone soft. He's on to something: There are too many emasculated, blue-balled crooners on the...

26. Bar Back

    What's wrong with mariachi music at Mezcal?

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: January 8, 2009

    When Mezcal (3230 East Colfax Avenue) celebrated its fifth anniversary last month, owner Jesse Morreale booked a mariachi band as part of the festivities. He's featured live...

27. Playlist

    Mike Marchant

    Outer Space and the Sea
    Self-released

    By Eryc Eyl

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Mike Marchant's crystalline songwriting and lived-in vocals provide the beating heart of Widowers' psychedelic pop scintillation. With his solo debut, Marchant cuts that heart...

28. Playlist

    Zack Nichols

    Bright Eyes EP
    Self-released

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: January 8, 2009

    In his info sheet for the 2007 Westword Music Showcase, Zack Nichols described his music as "vulnerable," "soulful" and "optimistically heartbroken" — and these terms can...

29. Playlist

    303 Daisycutter

    303 Daisycutter
    Self-released

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: January 8, 2009

    With surprising aggression and brutality, this five-song EP seethes with angst and burns with boiling, irrepressible fire. Former Mood Syrup frontman Lloyd Arcesia possesses...

30. Playlist

    Dang!

    Tornado
    Self-released

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Everything about Dang! screams "bar band," from the ridiculous name and cheesy CD graphics to the generic hard rock/blues boogie style and instantly forgettable tunes. That's...

31. Critic's Choice

    Space in Time at the Larimer Lounge

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Any time you feel like you've stepped through a door to another era at a show, it's usually because the band on stage is perpetrating a hopelessly retro musical crime against...

32. Scratching the Surface

    Treasure Fingers at the Gothic Theatre

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: January 8, 2009

    I'm a sucker for a great name, and I don't think I've ever heard as perfect a DJ moniker as Treasure Fingers. The fingers in question belong to Ashley Jones, a man who's...

33. Cafe

    Denver doesn't have good Irish bars — but the Celtic Tavern comes close

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Fish fry is not just a food. Fish fry is a sacrament, a religious and cultural duty carrying with it a freight of comfort and damnation. To some kids (like this kid) who grew...

34. Bite Me

    How to create a great Irish bar

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: January 8, 2009

    As I note in this week's review of the Celtic Tavern, Denver doesn't have a truly great Irish-American pub. But having spent some time working in good ones and a lot of time...

35. Second Helping

    Irish eyes aren't smiling on Delaney's

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: January 8, 2009

    On Sunday nights, the Celtic Tavern is closed and Delaney's is open. On Mondays, Delaney's goes dark and the Celtic handles any disappointed Delaney's drinkers. Every other...

36. Drink of the Week

    Pepper Blossom at Root Down

    By Nancy Levine

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Wow. I can only hope that every bar I go to in 2009 will be half as well-designed as Root Down, a pure-genius revival of a '50s service station. Though I'd originally heard...

37. Film Feature

    The Wrestler

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: January 8, 2009

    The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it's no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Chronic over-reacher Darren Aronofsky's relatively...

38. Film Feature

    Waltz With Bashir

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. Folman, whose magic-realist...

39. Film Feature

    The Unborn

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: January 8, 2009

    For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its pageant of cold-sweat...

40. Theater

    Is the OpenStage Doubt worth seeing? Beyond a doubt.

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: January 8, 2009

    Set in 1964, when the Second Vatican Council was convening, Doubt tells the story of a priest who may have molested a twelve-year-old boy — who just happens to be the...