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  • 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

    February 14, 2012

    Team Pit-A-Full passes the halfway mark in its mission to avenge pit bulls

    The city's ban on the pit bull breed has created tension since 1989, but the most recent effort to bring awareness to it (and against it) is only two months old. Yesterday, the breed's supporters reached 6,500 signatures, significantly more than half their goal of 10,000. But what does this actual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2012

    Review: Ghost at Marquis Theater, 1/27/12

    GHOST @ MARQUIS THEATER | 1/27/12Even before Ghost took stage, people started chanting for the band, which was interesting considering this is the outfit's first big tour. But that enthusiasm was rewarded when the strains of "Masked Ball" by Jocelyn Pook came over the P.A., with its reversed Romania ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Odd Future at Fox Theatre in Boulder on 3/11

    Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All has announced its upcoming North American tour dates. The act is returning to the scene of the crime, as it were, on Sunday, March 11, to the Fox Theatre in Boulder, which as you might remember, was the first place the act played in Colorado last fall. The Fox appe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    The Fray posts "The Fighter," another track from new album

    ​Just before the holidays, the Fray offered another peek of its upcoming album, Scars & Stories, the follow-up to the act's eponymous sophomore release from 2009. While the record's first single, "Heartbeat," debuted this past October and has already charted, the Denver-based quartet recently ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Frasca Food and Wine's Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson on eating fox tartare and the get in -- and get out rule at Frasca

    Lori Midson​ Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part one of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part two of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Reader: The stigma attached to smoking is saving a lot of lives

    Yep, we all know.​The main argument for quitting smoking is that it's bad for you; indeed, the evidence is well documented. That's perhaps why a lot of people who don't smoke have a hard time understanding why smokers continue to smoke despite the risks -- and certainly plenty of those people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Sin Desires Marie on Fugazi and the puzzling novelty of women playing powerful music

    Tom Murphy​In the eloquent liner notes of Sin Desires Marie, the band's sole full-length, bassist Yoon Park explains that Sin Desires Marie (due tonight at Glob for this weekend's Titwrench Festival) was started by friends who learned how to play their respective instruments as they learned to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Coloradans kick butt in Xterra Mountain Championship triathlon

    Photo courtesy Xterra Mountain ChampionshipJosiah Middaugh, from Vail, won the Xterra Mountain Championships triathlon at Beaver Creek on Saturday​You don't want to go up against a local in a race like the Xterra Mountain Championship at Beaver Creek: On Saturday Vail's Josiah Middaugh set a n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Chef and Tell, part two: Robert Bogart on fluffernutters, nutty protein drinks and cooking for Julia Child

    Lori Midson​ This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Robert Bogart, executive chef of Elway's Downtown. In part one of that interview, which ran yesterday, Bogart raps on strange guest requests, one roof and how he wishes that cooks would get the respect they deserve. Rules of condu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    International Pop Overthrow at City Hall

    Melissa Ivey​A festival that began in Los Angeles a decade ago, the International Pop Overthrow now goes down throughout the year in over a dozen cities in North America, highlighting acts from each local music community.

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010

    Get Slap Happy with the Avalanche

    Melissa Ivey​A festival that began in Los Angeles a decade ago, the International Pop Overthrow now goes down throughout the year in over a dozen cities in North America, highlighting acts from each local music community.

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Smoking pot by yourself made somewhat okay by SeshRoulette.com

    Who's this masked man?​Looks like Three Dog Night was right. Apparently one really is the loneliest number. The folks at SeshRoulette.com realize that and have made it their mission to end solo marijuana smoking through video chat. Much like the infamous (and currently on-hiatus) Chatroulette ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Medical pot & Ken Weaver: How did plane-stealing ex-con get on state MMJ committee?

    Ken Weaver.​For its new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment selected Ken Weaver, subject of this week's "Blowing Smoke." It's the latest item on a résumé that includes going to prison for stealing a plane and making up a fake life -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Justin Bieber challenges Carmelo Anthony to a basketball game: Anyone wanna place a bet?

    Bieber: "Let's get it on!"​ Mystery solved. The secret meaning of Justin Bieber's cryptic tweet to Carmelo Anthony yesterday? The floppy-haired teen idol simply wanted to play the NBA All-Star in basketball -- not convince him to become Canadian or sing backup vocals or get down on one knee a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists

    Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were playing this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colo ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 26, 2009

    SAME Cafe: The restaurant where you pay what you can

    Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were playing this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Breathe Carolina premiers new video, tours until the end of time

    Breathe Carolina, a band that tours so often these days that it almost doesn't seem like a Denver band anymore (seriously, with the exception of April and May, the act is going to be on the road from now until at least the end of August; check out the list of tour dates on the next page), recently p ... More >>

  • Music

    December 6, 2007

    Vampire Weekend

    Most bands would kill for the buzz surrounding this NYC quartet.

  • News

    September 6, 2007

    A Run for the Border

    We spend a day on Denver's dividing line: Sheridan Boulevard.

  • Music

    August 30, 2007

    Christie Front Drive

    Marquis Theater

  • Film

    May 10, 2007

    Away From Her

    Love and marriage meet life and Alzheimer’s in this adaptation of an Alice Munro novel.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2007

    Pimpin' for Upstate

    Love and marriage meet life and Alzheimer’s in this adaptation of an Alice Munro novel.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2007

    Pimpin' for Upstate

    Love and marriage meet life and Alzheimer’s in this adaptation of an Alice Munro novel.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2006

    Nine Lives

    Love and marriage meet life and Alzheimer’s in this adaptation of an Alice Munro novel.

  • Music

    September 28, 2006

    Dead on Arrival

    Drop Dead, Gorgeous is kid-tested and mother-approved.

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of May 26, 2005

  • Music

    May 12, 2005

    Call of the Wild

    Tweaked and irreverent, Caribou's digital psychedelia refuses to be tamed.

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of September 23, 2004

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2004

    Talking Shop

    Spice House makes scents

  • Music

    November 6, 2003

    Wired Science

    From laptops to insects to wineglasses, j.frede's sonic experiments leave no sound untweaked.

  • Music

    January 23, 2003

    Backwash

    Teetering on the edge of oblivion, COMA gets a wake-up call from its members.

  • Film

    September 19, 2002

    Curl Up and Die

    A Canadian comedy gets swept away with its obscure sport.

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    A Gumper Stumper

    So you think you know hockey, eh? Here's a quiz to see if you Av half a brain.

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of August 16, 2001

  • News

    November 23, 2000

    Call Her Madam

    Kwang Suk Campbell Walker wasn't just looking for a handout.

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    Uh-Oh, Canada!

    The first nation of hockey won't be taking home the Stanley Cup this year.

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Stonewalled

    A year after the Columbine murders, agonizing questions remain — about the attack, the police response, and a sheriff under siege.

  • News

    September 2, 1999

    Sacrifice Zone

    When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  • Music

    December 3, 1998

    Feedback

    When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  • Music

    July 2, 1998

    Feedback

    When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  • Music

    May 21, 1998

    Feedback

    When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  • Music

    February 5, 1998

    Uphollow Victories

    When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  • Music

    May 2, 1996

    Playlist

    When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  • News

    August 3, 1994

    FAMILY FEUD

    DO YOU HAVE TO BE AN INDIAN TO TEACH INDIAN? A BOULDER SQUABBLE BECOMES A NATIONAL DEBATE.

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