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  • Music

    April 19, 2012

    Civil Twilight

    Wednesday, April 25, Bluebird Theater, 888-929-7849.

  • Culture

    April 19, 2012

    Now Showing

    Wednesday, April 25, Bluebird Theater, 888-929-7849.

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2012

    Nearer, My God, to Thee

    Wednesday, April 25, Bluebird Theater, 888-929-7849.

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Meet your 2012 slam poetry teams: Slam Nuba, Mercury Cafe and Minor Disturbance

    Among the lines delivered at poetry slams, one is often repeated: "The point is not the points; the point is the poetry." This has never been more true than over the last week and a half in Denver, when all three of the city's national teams -- Slam Nuba, the Mercury Cafe team and teenage dreamers M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Radio 1190: Mikey Goldenberg on doing a pledge drive that's not annoying

    Radio 1190, CU Boulder's campus radio station (and winner of at least ten Best of Denver awards since its 1990s launch), is in the midst of a pledge drive that runs through Friday. But Mikey Goldenberg, who's overseeing his first major drive since becoming the outlet's general manager last fall, thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Watch: Video of Tupac hologram at Coachella performing with Snoop Dogg, "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted," from All Eyez on Me

    Tupac at Coachella. While there were plenty of memorable performances and an equal number of WTF moments at the first weekend of this year's Coachella, there's only one from last night that we guarantee everyone is talking about this morning, and It happened early this morning around 12:30 or so our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Talib Kweli keynote speaker at Metro State College for its Sankofa Lecture Series

    Talib Kweli got all hip-hop scholarly this past Friday as the keynote speaker for the spring Sankofa Lecture Series at Metropolitan State College of Denver. The event was designed to focus on the anthropology of hip-hop, and Kweli, who was succinct and clear with his message, was absolutely dynamic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Denver Zoo's poop-and-trash-powered rickshaw on display at 1700 Broadway

    We first told you about the Denver Zoo's plan to turn a shitload of shit into electricity and heat back in 2009. The key is a scientific process called gasification. Basically, it works like this: Poop and trash and other waste goes in, science happens, and then voila! The end product is a useful c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    It's a circus out there: Frequent Flyers brings Cirque de Minuet to The Dairy

    Getting a dance show off the ground in this economy can be a real circus, a delicate dance requiring high-flying financial acrobatics. Nancy Smith, the founder and artistic director of Frequent Flyers Productions, a Boulder-based aerial dance troupe, is uniquely qualified for the job. Last month Smi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Furthur at Red Rocks, three nights, September 21, 22 and 23. Tix on sale next Friday at 10 a.m.

    Furthur is making its way back to Colorado for a three-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheater that kicks off on Friday, September 21. Pre-sale tickets ($55-$60) go on sale this Monday, April 16, at 10 a.m. through Furthur's fan page and will be available until 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, after whic ... More >>

  • Music

    April 12, 2012

    Steel Blades of Vengeance cut loose at 3 Kings on April 12

    Furthur is making its way back to Colorado for a three-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheater that kicks off on Friday, September 21. Pre-sale tickets ($55-$60) go on sale this Monday, April 16, at 10 a.m. through Furthur's fan page and will be available until 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, after whic ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 12, 2012

    Now Showing

    Furthur is making its way back to Colorado for a three-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheater that kicks off on Friday, September 21. Pre-sale tickets ($55-$60) go on sale this Monday, April 16, at 10 a.m. through Furthur's fan page and will be available until 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, after whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Chartbreaker: Madonna's MDNA falls harder than Lady Gaga's Born This Way did, while Nicki Minaj takes the top in the U.S. and U.K.

    In the ultimate twist of "Give Me Some Luvin'" irony, Nicki Minaj has dethroned Madonna from the top of the Billboard 200 chart this week, as Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded easily takes the top spot with 253,000 copies sold, while Madge's MDNA dropped to number eight, selling only 48,000 in its second ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    Spit Happens!

    In the ultimate twist of "Give Me Some Luvin'" irony, Nicki Minaj has dethroned Madonna from the top of the Billboard 200 chart this week, as Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded easily takes the top spot with 253,000 copies sold, while Madge's MDNA dropped to number eight, selling only 48,000 in its second ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    The Yuk Stops Here

    In the ultimate twist of "Give Me Some Luvin'" irony, Nicki Minaj has dethroned Madonna from the top of the Billboard 200 chart this week, as Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded easily takes the top spot with 253,000 copies sold, while Madge's MDNA dropped to number eight, selling only 48,000 in its second ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Black Star show at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom this Saturday moved to Friday, May 11

    Update (4/10): We've confirmed that Talib Kweli will indeed be performing at Cervantes this Satruday, April 14, in place of Black Star, originally slated for that same date but moved to 5/11. Tickets for the show are $5 ($10 on Saturday for those under 21). Heads up, hip-hop heads: Black Star (the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Phish returns to Colorado, three days at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, August 31 through Sept. 2

    Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods in Commerce City, three days, confirmed! The band just announced the second leg of its summer tour, and Colorado is on the docket for three shows: Friday, August, 31, Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2. A limited number of tickets are available through Phish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    DJ Maladjusted's devotion to vinyl and obscurity attracts record geeks to his vinyl club nights

    After booking hardcore and ska shows around Denver for the past six years, DJ Maladjusted has taken his massive record collection and almost dogmatic devotion to vinyl and garnered a small but devoted following with his obscure selections. Spinning 2tone, ska and reggae every third Friday for One St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Fiona Apple at the Paramount Theatre on 7/20

    Fiona Apple's coming to the Paramount Theatre on Friday, July 20: With a newly revitalized career thanks to a stint wowing audiences at this year's SXSW and fresh off releasing a brand new album with a notably pithy title (in comparison to When the Pawn..., her 1999 album -- The Idler Wheel is wiser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Who loves you? Galleria Theatre celebrates its twentieth birthday with I Love You extension

    There's a reason I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change -- a gently musical that we dubbed "pure peach souffle" over a decade ago -- returned to the Garner Galleria Theatre earlier this year for a several-month run. It's the perfect show for dating couples, professionals looking for after-work relax ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Reader: Protest police brutality by refusing to spend money in Denver

    In a post yesterday, the attorney for four women suing over an alleged 2009 police brutality incident at the Denver Diner criticized the naming of Mary Beth Klee as head of the Internal Affairs bureau; he accuses her of being a brutality apologist. In response, one reader shared his method of protes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    The Future of Human Touch asks participants to check egos at the door

    For last night's interactive Future of Human Touch experiment at Redline Gallery, the crowd that gathered was asked to leave all egos, comfort zones and fears behind. Milling around the courtyard of the gallery under the slow glow of hanging LED lights just after 7:30 p.m., it was hard to tell who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Chartbreaker: Madonna's MDNA outsells Lionel Richie's Tuskegee (what year is this again?)

    Madonna nabs the top spot on the Billboard 200 with her new album, MDNA. The set, her twelfth studio album, is also her eighth number-one; Madonna is now second only to Barbra Streisand with the number of top albums, and even then Babz only leads by one. MDNA shifted 359,000 copies, nearly 80,000 mo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2012

    Sound the Horns

    Madonna nabs the top spot on the Billboard 200 with her new album, MDNA. The set, her twelfth studio album, is also her eighth number-one; Madonna is now second only to Barbra Streisand with the number of top albums, and even then Babz only leads by one. MDNA shifted 359,000 copies, nearly 80,000 mo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2012

    Power to the People

    Madonna nabs the top spot on the Billboard 200 with her new album, MDNA. The set, her twelfth studio album, is also her eighth number-one; Madonna is now second only to Barbra Streisand with the number of top albums, and even then Babz only leads by one. MDNA shifted 359,000 copies, nearly 80,000 mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Mystery Mike: Who is Benjamin Butters?

    Yo! We've got a hip-hop whodunit on our hands. Well, maybe not a whodunit, but still, there's a mystery afoot in the world of rap. And if there's anything we love more than rappers, it's mystery rappers! Who the hell is this Benjamin Butters cat? Do you know? We need answers, and it appears as thoug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Lisa Kennedy to split film and theater critic duties at Denver Post

    Newspapers across the country have slashed staff to save money, with movie reviewer and theater critic positions among the most popular cuts. Given that reality, the Denver Post deserves credit for continuing to dedicate a staff writer to these subjects, even though one person -- Lisa Kennedy -- wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Flipper: "We had people reporting that they'd seen our graffiti on the Great Wall of China"

    Flipper (due tonight and tomorrow night at the Lion's Lair) got its start in 1979 in the creatively fertile arts and music scene in San Francisco. Formed after the break-up of Negative Trend and including two former members of that band, Will Shatter and Stephen DePace, Flipper didn't set out to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Punk invades MCA this Friday: Steven Wolf on West Coast punk

    The West Coast punks are pogoing into town this spring at MCA Denver, Gildar Gallery, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other locations, for a series of shows falling under the aegis of Search & Destroy. So-named for the San Francisco 'zine or the '70s), the ring of satellite shows will come ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Chartbreaker: Taylor Swift and The Hunger Games top Adele and One Direction this week

    Lots of noise on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the past two weeks, and it hasn't been from Adele...for once. Last week, newcomers One Direction made history as the first British import with a number-one album debut -- neither the Spice Girls nor the Beatles had albums ever debut at number one in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    R.I.P. Earl Scruggs, 6/26/24 - 3/28/12

    Redefining an instrument and creating a new genre are rare musical feats, creative accomplishments that come once in a generation, at best. The death of Earl Eugene Scruggs on Wednesday at the age of 88 marked the passing of such an innovator, an American artist who built a brand new sound out of fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Jewel: "I've never held back because I'm a woman. I feel like I can accomplish anything a man can accomplish in my field.""

    Since having her son, Kase Townes Murray, last summer, Jewel might have taken time off the road, but she's still busy at home with a number of things, including working on a new Christmas album. Her free solo acoustic show this Saturday night at the Colorado Convention Centeras part of the Women's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    The Ting Tings: "We didn't mean what we were singing. It was bullshit lyrics, bullshit sounds"

    The Ting Tings (due at the Ogden Theatre this Saturday, March 31) were one of the first bands to emerge from the Apple iPod commercials in 2008. Thanks to the overnight exposure of "Shut Up and Let Me Go," the band went from being a blogged-about British import to becoming a major player in American ... More >>

  • Music

    March 22, 2012

    DJ Carlos brings salsa house to the Beauty Bar on March 23

    The Ting Tings (due at the Ogden Theatre this Saturday, March 31) were one of the first bands to emerge from the Apple iPod commercials in 2008. Thanks to the overnight exposure of "Shut Up and Let Me Go," the band went from being a blogged-about British import to becoming a major player in American ... More >>

  • Music

    March 22, 2012

    The Ting Tings cycle through the music-industry machine and back

    The Ting Tings (due at the Ogden Theatre this Saturday, March 31) were one of the first bands to emerge from the Apple iPod commercials in 2008. Thanks to the overnight exposure of "Shut Up and Let Me Go," the band went from being a blogged-about British import to becoming a major player in American ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 22, 2012

    Now Showing

    The Ting Tings (due at the Ogden Theatre this Saturday, March 31) were one of the first bands to emerge from the Apple iPod commercials in 2008. Thanks to the overnight exposure of "Shut Up and Let Me Go," the band went from being a blogged-about British import to becoming a major player in American ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Tonight: Poetry Out Loud gets proud in Lakewood

    On a Tuesday night on the cusp of spring, when a young man's fancy turns and the cruelest month looms just days away, you could do worse than head to Lakewood to hear great verse declaimed at the seventh annual Poetry Out Loud state finals. Declaimed, emoted, and embraced -- by high school student ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Randy Rhoads: Thirty years ago today, a tragic accident took the life of a legendary guitarist

    The 1980s did not start well for Ozzy Osbourne. After being kicked out of Black Sabbath, the Prince of Darkness holed up in an L.A. hotel room, planning to remain as drunk as possible until his money ran out, and then probably move back to England to work as a laborer. He met future wife Sharon Arde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Ten authentic Irish drinking songs

    Finding an Irish soundtrack for a St. Patrick's Day celebration doesn't take a lot of exhaustive research. Generic "Best of Ireland" compilations abound in outlet stores, on iTunes and even on racks in gas stations, collections that feature anonymous artists playing generic versions of traditional C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Photos: Paper Fashion Show at the Denver Center

    The Art Directors Club of Denver presented the eighth annual Paper Fashion Show Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Guests were treated to 50 original fashion designs created (almost) entirely of paper. Flowers, wings, lace and all ass ... More >>

  • Music

    March 15, 2012

    Rebelution takes a spin through dubstep and acoustic

    The Art Directors Club of Denver presented the eighth annual Paper Fashion Show Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Guests were treated to 50 original fashion designs created (almost) entirely of paper. Flowers, wings, lace and all ass ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 15, 2012

    Now Showing

    The Art Directors Club of Denver presented the eighth annual Paper Fashion Show Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Guests were treated to 50 original fashion designs created (almost) entirely of paper. Flowers, wings, lace and all ass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Chartbreaker: Bruce Springsteen shows Adele who is Boss with his new album, Wrecking Ball

    Adele finally fell from the top this week, thanks to none other than the Boss. That's right -- Bruce Springsteen's new release, Wrecking Ball, his seventeenth studio album, managed to end Adele's reign at the top of the Billboard 200, shifting 224,000 units to Adele's 195,000. Sales for Adele's 21 d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Poetry came out the winner when Denver hosted Women of the World

    Poetry will win! That was the prediction of queencityslamster on Saturday, before the twelve finalists competed in the last round of the Women of the World Poetry Slam at the Denver Art Museum that night. But poetry wasn't the only winner: Denver came out a champ, simply for hosting the competition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Alert: SXSW coverage ahead

    "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Video: Slam Nuba's Dominique Ashaheed wins 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam

    If there's any winner in the Women of the World Poetry Slam, it's Denver, first figuratively and now literally. The international championship, in its fifth year and Denver's first as the host city, kicked off Thursday and held its second preliminary round on Friday before ending with two X chromos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Notorious B.I.G.: Fifteen years ago today, we lost a legend, one of the greatest rappers of all time

    Today marks fifteen years since the Notorious B.I.G. was tragically gunned down in a murder that remains shrouded in opinion, mystery and haunting culture appeal. You probably remember exactly where you were on this day in 1997 when you heard the news that one of the game's greatest rappers had died ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Women of the World Poetry Slam enters second preliminary rounds

    Last night, the Denver poetry scene was reintroduced to the national stage with the first preliminary rounds of the Women of the World Poetry Slam. With two bouts each at Mercury Cafe, Eden and Leela European Cafe, the night ended with the first scores for 72 international competitors. Hundreds of a ... More >>

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