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Top five reasons why people should get to buy fast food with food stamps

​Yum! Brands -- parent company of such fast-food chains as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- is currently lobbying the Kentucky state government to allow people to use their food stamps in its restaurants. Is this an example of unabashed corporate greed trying to divert state benefits from buyi ... More >>

The hipster's guide to sports: an info-graphic

​If religion is the opiate of the masses, as Karl Marx once observed, then sports are, like, the meth of the masses... or something. Whatever. The point is that mainstream sports -- or "borts," as we like to call them ("boring" "sports") -- like football and baseball are for plebeian doucheb ... More >>

Jay Marvin on his wife's possible breast cancer and the decision to pass the torch to David Sirota at AM 760

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June, before his epic surgery.​Earlier today, Jay Marvin appeared on the AM 760 program he used to host with David Sirota, who's been named his permanent replacement. And those who missed hearing it may not get another chance to catch him on the ou ... More >>

Everything Absent or Distorted calling it quits

Todd Roeth We heard some rumblings a month ago that this might happen, but we were hoping against hope it wouldn't. Well, hope got played, because today Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) officially announced that they are calling it quits. The poetic and obscure post names "built-in cont ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local-music radio playlists

Here's the most recent playlists from the area's local-centric speciality radio shows. We're still tracking Radio 1190's long running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is rebroadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave. We're still in the proc ... More >>

Confessions of a closet Paul Harvey fan

Paul Harvey. Yeah, I know: Paul Harvey, who died in Arizona on Saturday, was so conservative that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Karl Marx in comparison, and in recent years, his famously precise diction had begun to fray at the edges. But cut the man some slack: He was still working at age 90. If ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Letters for the week of September 18, 2008

Down to Business

Southland Tales

Richard Kelly leaves nothing behind in his pop-packed, apocalyptic pageant.

Day-by-Day Picks

From the week of November 10, 2005

Twice Bitten

Tarantella gets caught up in an exotic whirlwind.

Get a Move On

Revoluciones celebrates old times and new digs

The World Within

When DJ Vadim traveled to the ends of the earth, he found hip-hop in every corner.

The Same Old Shlock

Proof that today's popular music is just as good -- and bad -- as it's always been.

Coop d'Etat

Chicken Run cooks up a radical bucket of fun.

Letters

Workers' Compensation

Letters

Bragging Rights

Fatherhood has given Billy Bragg a new reason to make music.

Still Crazy After All These Years

The names of the patriots have changed, but not their tune.

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