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Leviathan's cinematic density stimulates the synapses

Chuck Sink's mid-mod legacy lives on locally

Readers debate: Does gun control cause crime to rise?

Sam Levin's interview with Denver mayor Michael Hancock, who said he won't use the Aurora theater shooting to push for gun control, led a number of readers to discuss whether bans and prohibitions make us safer or less at risk. Below is a conversation in which both parties use facts and figures to b ... More >>

Global Dance Festival 2012 survival guide

See Also: - Global Dance Festival 2012 tip sheet: The twenty must-see acts - Colorado's dance scene was Global before EDM became mainstream - Show us your best rage face and win a pair of tickets to GDF - 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival - People of Global Dance Festival 2011 Got y ... More >>

Jack of All Trades

Reader: Andrew Breitbart's Barack Obama video helps Democrats more than GOP

Our post yesterday about footage of young Barack Obama introducing controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell (a clip hyped as a blockbuster by provocateur Andrew Breitbart shortly before his death) attracted some sharp commentary. Here's an example from a reader who thinks such attacks are apt to ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart's Barack Obama video: Talk radio v. mainstream media

Shortly before his death at age 43, provocateur Andrew Breitbart hyped what was supposed to be a bombshell video of young Barack Obama -- one that would supposedly unmask his radical racialist agenda. Well, the video's out -- see it below -- and the mainstream media is reacting with a collective ya ... More >>

Reader: Another restaurant in LoHi? Get ready for more bitching about parking

The edge of Highland -- now dubbed LoHi -- is the hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, and it's about to get hotter, with the addition of Central Bistro and Bar, which will open in late spring with Lance Barto in the kitchen. Don't confuse it with Le Central, the "affordable French restaurant" ... More >>

10 names better than Metro State's latest rebranding picks

Big logos below.​Back in March, Metro State's Board of Trustees announced their plan to change the school's name to Denver State University -- a lackluster choice that also managed to piss off the folks at the University of Denver. So Metro is now asking students to choose among three new poss ... More >>

Artist Aidan Grey on Hoodoo and why co-op galleries are better for artists

Attraction​ Candles lit the back room of EDGE Gallery during Aidan Grey's most recent show there, and a scrolled message on the door read, "Hoodoo is not Voodoo." Ingredients for potions were sprawled, loose and in bottles, on a table at the side of the small space: wasps, black pepper, lavend ... More >>

Littleton's Economic Gardening, up for an award from Harvard, helps jobs out-number residents

Downtown Littleton.​In 1987, Chris Gibbons was charged with revitalizing a Littleton economy that just saw it's largest employer, construction aggregate supplier Martin Marietta, lay off about 7,000 employees amid a recession. And despite long odds, his Economic Gardening program was such a s ... More >>

Thirteen hottest vegetarians, in honor of Hug a Vegetarian Day

Flickr photo​As if vegetarians don't get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn't love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we've been slaving away in our cubic ... More >>

After fifteen years as a local institution, the Denver Darkroom calls it quits

Standish Lawder is not a fan of digital photography. Part of it has to do with his personal preference: A 75-year-old former pre-med major who switched to art history after taking a fateful humanities class and went on to earn a Ph.D. in it, Lawder has a mind that just sees things in film -- the che ... More >>

Parks and Rec membership fees (and revenues) could increase under tiered structure proposal

​Denver Parks and Recreation membership fees could increase if the city council approves a task force's recommendation to create a tiered fee structure for the city's 27 rec centers. The centers would be divided into three categories: neighborhood (small), local (medium-sized) and regional (fu ... More >>

Behind the controversial Anthology of Rap, co-edited by CU hip-hop professor Adam Bradley

Human trafficking: University of Denver to host conference on modern-day slavery and religion

​ Starting tonight and running through Sunday, April 3, the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology will host what organizers says is a first-of-its-kind conference, which will bring academics together to discuss one of the world's hottest topics: human trafficking.

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a giddy, old-style avant-musical

The Anthology of Rap co-editor Adam Bradley on his background and compiling the book

​Making connections between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wonder Mike isn't such a stretch for Adam Bradley. As one of the editors of The Anthology of Rap, a newly released collection from Yale University Press, as well as the author of 2009's Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop, Bradley has ... More >>

See the trailer for A Small Act, screening tonight with director Jennifer Arnold

​It was a classic case of giving back: Chris Mburu, once sponsored by an American named Hilde Beck to attend school in his native Kenya, went on to graduate from Harvard, become a human rights lawyer and start a Kenyan school of his own for students in the situation he once was in. In A Small ... More >>

Solitary confinement study "deeply flawed," says ACLU

​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

Who needs friends? Facebook's tumultuous infancy is exposed in The Social Network

Former Boulderite A.K. Barnett-Hart's senior thesis has become a go-to guide to the financial crisis

Shaken, Not Stirred

The state will need a pot of money to maintain the medical marijuana registry

Angels & Demons

Flick Pick

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Barack Obama gives principal Michael Johnston extra credit

Colorado Connection

A powerhouse of a woman speaks for Unique Lives.

Inviting Hickenlooper to Break Bread

If the mayor can wear a stupid T-shirt, he can have lunch with me.

Hank Brown for President?

Green Thumbs Up

Catch Jamaica Kincaid at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Leeroy Deconstructed

Day Three: Wherein My Baby Starts The Revolution

Irish Ay-Yay-Yay-Yay’s

Don’t blame Ireland on the Mexicans.

Jesus Wept

Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

Swift Kick

Elijah Wood as a soccer thug in Britain? Not bloody likely.

Rivers Changes Course

Weezer's auteur takes a tentative step into the real world.

New releases available this week

What's So Funny

Out There

NASA astronomer makes sense of the cosmos

Best Way to Bag Two Fourteeners in a Day

Grays Peak/Torreys Peak

Moments of Glory

The most important events in Denver sporting history.

Over the Rainbow

In the Guralnick of Time

A New Mexico jazz trio makes smart music -- but you'll probably like it anyway.

Math Wizardry

Night & Day

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THRILLS

A TRUE CRIME