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Chess moves to Lone Tree: Check it out!

Did you miss Chess at the Arvada Center? Now you have a second chance to see the production, which has moved to the Lone Tree Arts Center's Main Stage Theater, where it opens tonight. In the meantime, here's a reprise of Juliet Wittman's review: The semi-operatic Chess doesn't have a lot of dialog ... More >>

Chess: A Musical is nearly saved by director Rod Lansberry

Did you miss Chess at the Arvada Center? Now you have a second chance to see the production, which has moved to the Lone Tree Arts Center's Main Stage Theater, where it opens tonight. In the meantime, here's a reprise of Juliet Wittman's review: The semi-operatic Chess doesn't have a lot of dialog ... More >>

Raise a glass to Jennifer Rosen (and might we suggest filling it with Chateau Canon 1959?)

Jennifer Rosen had an amazing array of interests. We met her in the early '80s, when she and sister Robin Chotzinoff covered a Chippendale's show: Jenny provided the photos, Robin the words. Robin went on to provide many more words as a longtime staff writer for Westword, but we always followed Jenn ... More >>

Even the recession can't rain on the Denver Parade of Homes

Jennifer Rosen had an amazing array of interests. We met her in the early '80s, when she and sister Robin Chotzinoff covered a Chippendale's show: Jenny provided the photos, Robin the words. Robin went on to provide many more words as a longtime staff writer for Westword, but we always followed Jenn ... More >>

Barron Christian has a small role in Eddie Murphy's Imagine That and a lifetime of out-of-this-world stories

How to describe the voice of Colorado-based Barron Christian, who has a small part in Imagine That, an Eddie Murphy movie shot partly in Denver that opens on Friday? It's a deep baritone delivered warmly and confidently -- and there's a cadence to his vowels that gives his sentences incredible ric ... More >>

Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM.Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Ka ... More >>

Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle can't save the ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM.Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Ka ... More >>

Breach

Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen.

The Good Shepherd

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 31, 2006

Off Limits

Shop till you drop

Bite Me

So Pho, So Good

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 12, 2002

Up Against the Wall

Tag, you're hit -- if you ran with Robert “Skeme” Iron.

Russia to Judgment

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.

Get Your Gold Medals Here

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.

Letters

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.

Know When to Fold 'Em

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.

Jackie Can

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.

COLLECTIVE GUILT

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.

DON'T START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME

In East-West, Russian expatriates returning home face the terror of the Stalin regime.