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Rosa Parks

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2012

    Review: Big Boi at SnowBall Music Festival 3/2/12

    BIG BOI @ SNOWBALL | 3/2/12The purple lights cast Big Boi in a Prince-ly hue. He's leading the audience through the chorus of "Ms. Jackson" and the entirety of the crowd is bobbing around like crazy. Big Boi is leaning back, with one arm up, casually steering an invisible Cadillac at about two miles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Outkast is one of hip-hop's most successful and creative groups

    ​Outkast is easily one of the most noted and respected hip-hop groups in the game. Big Boi and Andre 3000 met in the East Point section of Atlanta when they were sixteen. The outfit combined funk, soul, jazz and blues influences with hip-hop lyrics on its 1994 debut, Southernplayalisticadillac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Negative Degree is trying to keep Denver's hardcore scene on a "street level"

    Negative Degree, one of the more active hardcore bands in the Denver punk scene for the past year or so, is part of a small wave of new local bands playing hardcore punk music, which first sprang up in basements in the '80s and has been romanticized and gold-plated in more than a few books and docum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Latest Word is off for Martin Luther King Day...but the news marches on

    Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that's march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police accounta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Ladies' night foe Steve Horner takes on Las Vegas... and lives to tell about it

    Steve Horner.​Local bar owners breathed a sigh of relief when Steve Horner left town taking the discrimination charges he'd filed against them for offering ladies' night deals with him. Denver's gain is Las Vegas's loss: Sin City is the current focus of Horner's campaign. But rather than earni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Guns N' Rosa Parks final show at Bar Bar video, 4/28/11

    Guns N' Rosa Parks last night. See video below.​A few minutes after 1 a.m. this morning, the last incarnation of Guns N' Rosa Parks hammered its way through one last thirty-minute set. Broken microphone cables, standard cover songs (Blitz, Last Rights, Infest) and dives off bar were all in ord ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2011

    Big Boi at the Ogden, 1/28/11

    Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​ BIG BOI With Eligh & Scarub and The Foodchain 01.28.11 | Ogden Theater Corporate sponsorship, lead by local ski and snowboard company Icelantic, brought Big Boi to Denver last night. The Atlanta rapper, who we'd venture has never set ski/board on a mountain in his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, January 24-30

    Hell yeah, beer. This is your day. ​There are a number of so-called "drinking" holidays that roll around once a year -- St. Patrick's Day, Fat Tuesday, Black History Month -- but those, as you once heard a bartender say and now like to pretend like you came up with it yourself, are like "amate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Gorinto Pedicab Holiday Party tonight at The Mercury Cafe

    ​Since it finally feels like winter, it seems appropriate to begin throwing "official" holiday parties. Consider the Gorinto Pedicab Holiday Party the first one of the new year, going down tonight at the Mercury Cafe. $5 gets you in the door for a night of bands, booze and jug music, while another ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Free Movie Time: The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

    ​It was one of the most egregious and highly publicized miscarriages of justice in American history: the murder of Emmett Louis Till, a 16-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered for the supposed crime of flirting with a while woman in rural Mississippi in 1955. Though the obviously guilt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Whoops, forgot about this amazing Outkast album

    ​In the year 2000, I heard my first Outkast album, Stankonia. You'll have to excuse my sheltered existence -- being a small-time kid from a small mountain town didn't exactly lend itself to being on the cutting edge.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Peeps lawyer doesn't like Peeps, and other revelations from Stephen Colbert's latest Colbert Report investigation

    Stephen Colbert and John Pineau -- sort of.​Yesterday, we told you that attorney John Pineau -- who represents Carol "Chay" Burdick in a dispute that pits Peeps against possible eviction -- had agreed to speak to The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert about a trial delay without commenting on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Top 10 Colorado feuds of the decade

    ​Most people just go along to get along. But every once in a while a hellacious disagreement -- about principle, turf, money, or who cut the cheese -- makes for an old-fashioned Western display of rootin'-tootin' feudin' and cussedness. The most memorable Colorado showdowns of the past ten ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    Steve Horner fights for his right to be wrong.

    ​Most people just go along to get along. But every once in a while a hellacious disagreement -- about principle, turf, money, or who cut the cheese -- makes for an old-fashioned Western display of rootin'-tootin' feudin' and cussedness. The most memorable Colorado showdowns of the past ten ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Emmett Till, RIP

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • News

    May 21, 2009

    Ladies Night foe Steve Horner doesn't even live here. So how can we discriminate against him?

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 16, 2009

    Three shows take hold at Spark Gallery

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    The Colorado Civil Rights Division has a double standard for ladies' nights -- and newspapers

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Get on the Bus

    Awele Makeba tells it like it was

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Fucked Up at the Larimer Lounge

    Photo: David WaldmanFucked Up, Mustangs & Madras, Guns N Rosa Parks Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better than: The G.G. Allin documentary. Right off the bat let's dispense with two things. One: Fucked Up is an awful name for a band. Two: If you are going to name your band Fucked U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2008

    Scratch and Dent Sale: Seven Reasons Why I Don't Dance (But You Should)

    Photo: David WaldmanFucked Up, Mustangs & Madras, Guns N Rosa Parks Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better than: The G.G. Allin documentary. Right off the bat let's dispense with two things. One: Fucked Up is an awful name for a band. Two: If you are going to name your band Fucked U ... More >>

  • News

    December 27, 2007

    The 2007 Hall of Shame

    It's one thing to embarrass yourself. It's quite another to take an entire city with you.

  • News

    August 30, 2007

    Sit Down, Stand Up

    Is Elvira Arellano a modern-day Rosa Parks?

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    I'll Drink to That

    Is Elvira Arellano a modern-day Rosa Parks?

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2007

    Mavis Staples On The Main Line

    Is Elvira Arellano a modern-day Rosa Parks?

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    No Pain, No Gain

    The Enclave has Commerce City fit to be tied.

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of 2/22/2007

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    Ladies' Plight

    Rosa Parks didn't surrender to discrimination and take a different bus. So why should Steve Horner go to a different bar?

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    What's in a Name?

    Qusair Mohamedbhai just wanted to open a bank account. Instead, he was labeled a terrorist.

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Guns N' Rosa Parks

    Climax Lounge

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2005

    Let Us Prey

    Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    Off Limits

    High in the sky

  • News

    June 6, 2002

    The Big Cheese

    Making book on the Webb legacy.

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Off Limits

    Turf rebirth

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Year in Review

    2001? What 2001?

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Cheese Wiz

    Are you a man or a mouse? Read all about it.

  • Music

    September 9, 1999

    Lady, Sing the Blues

    Odetta is happy to find trouble everywhere she goes.

  • Music

    November 19, 1998

    Two for the Future

    To hip-hop's OutKast and Black Eyed Peas, the glass is half full.

  • News

    April 12, 1995

    THOSE HIDE-BOUND TRADITIONS

    CAN A BUNCH OF LEATHER GUYS BE SWAYED BY IRATE DRAG QUEENS? WE THINK NOT.

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