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Stay Tuned prepares to tour Pacific Northwest, putting its WESTAF's IM Tour grant to good use

Stay Tuned, the outfit formerly known as MainLine, is preparing to hit the road in the next few weeks, taking advantage of the $3000 Western States Arts Federation Independent Music on Tour grant Mane Rok was awarded last year. What makes this jaunt particularly noteworthy, beside the fact that loca ... More >>

Andrew Simpson gets up to eighteen years in hit and run that killed Masoud Bahramisasharif

Last spring, we told you about the arrest of Andrew Simpson, who was thought to have visited a bar and been on a quest to buy pot when his car struck Masoud Bahramisasharif, a DU student walking his bike in a crosswalk. Now the boom has been lowered on Simpson in a big way: He faces up to eighteen y ... More >>

Marijuana: Rachel Maddow links Amendment 64 confusion to end of alcohol prohibition

While the passage of Amendment 64 has received national and even international attention (via Mexico president Felipe Calderon's comments about his nation's pot policy in A64's wake), much of the mainstream media's coverage has been less than thoughtful. But as usual, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is an exc ... More >>

Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012

This year's Great American Beer Festival played temporary home to 580 breweries -- and with more than 2,700 beers poured, the fest's professional judge panel had its hands (and mouths) full when making decisions on the winners of all 84 categories. Continue reading for the full list of the weekend's ... More >>

Oskar Blues vet John Bryant returns to sell Washington's No-Li brews in Colorado

Yet another out-of-state brewery will test the Colorado waters in a few weeks, but this one has the backing of someone who knows how to run the rapids. No-Li Brewhouse from Spokane, Washington, plans to sell four of its beers in bomber bottles and possibly on tap here starting in mid-September as p ... More >>

All signs point to go for Signal Path

The Fray at Red Rocks Saturday, May 12: Second show just added. Tix on sale next Friday

The Fray just confirmed another show at Red Rocks. Quincy Magoo probably could've seen that coming, eh? Even less surprising: The date of the second show is Saturday, May 12, the night after the first Red Rocks date -- that is, assuming that Sir Isaac Slade isn't mixing it up with Killers frontman B ... More >>

The Fray at Red Rocks on Friday, May 11

Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray's new album. On the eve of releasing their third full-length album, Scars and Stories and almost exactly a year after playing at Invesco with U2, the Fray has announced plans to return to Red Rock ... More >>

Nickelback in Denver on June 10 at Pepsi Center

By early June, Denver will long be in the rearview for the Black Keys dudes, who'll play here on Monday, April 30. Too bad. It would've been sweet-ass sweet to witness a good old-fashioned battle royale for ultimate supremacy between them and the Nickelback dudes to settle this whole "rock and roll ... More >>

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 >>

Reader: We understand that "illegal" means breaking the laws of the United States

Keep the ski porn coming: Poor Boyz Productions drops trailer for The Grand Bizarre

​We know it's kind of torturous of us to keep showing you the new trailers for this year's forthcoming ski and snowboard porn in the middle of July, but we just can't help ourselves. Keystone and Breckenridge get some love in The Grand Bizarre, this year's film from Poor Boyz Productions, whic ... More >>

Medical marijuana cultivation no different than other pot grows, says U.S. Attorneys Office

A 2009 weed bust.​U.S. Attorney John Walsh's letter objecting to elements of HB 1043, a bill meant to clean up parts of last year's medical marijuana rules, has alarmed activists and confused legislators like Senator Pat Steadman, the measure's co-sponsor. Could dispensary raids like those tak ... More >>

Kathleen Folden on destroying Jesus-receiving-oral-sex art: Where's outcry in God's defense?

Big image below.​In October at the Loveland Museum/Gallery, Montana trucker Kathleen Folden attacked Enrique Chagoya's "The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals" with a crowbar because of a panel that appears to depict Jesus receiving oral sex -- an act for which she was given eighteen-months p ... More >>

UFO Phil on his plan to build a giant pyramid on Pikes Peak

UFO Phil.​Think you're good at suspending disbelief? The latest story from Phil Hill, aka UFO Phil, will put you to the test. The vigorous self-promoter, who says he's been abducted by aliens "my whole life," now has a plan to generate free electricity for all by building a giant pyramid on P ... More >>

Boldtype tapped to open Guttermouth tour

​Hey, what do you know? Performing at the Showcase can actually be beneficial to your career. Well, so to speak. In a roundabout way, playing at the Showcase helped the men of Boldtype land an opening slot on the upcoming Guttermouth tour. Well, it sealed the deal, anyway. We'll let drummer Ma ... More >>

Ty Gregorak: Attorney doesn't rule out lawsuit for former CU Buff wrongly accused of theft

Ty Gregorak.​On Friday, we told you about Ty Gregorak, the first-ever Shmuck of the Week designate to ever be de-Shmuckified -- thanks to charges against the former CU Buff involving the theft and return of a strip-club bouncer's gun being dropped by the Boulder District Attorney's Office. Ac ... More >>

Stan Garnett tries to capitalize on AG John Suthers's link to serial killer Scott Lee Kimball

Stan Garnett's playing hardball.​In an April post announcing his intention to challenge Colorado Attorney General John Suthers at the polls this November, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett focused on issues like watching out for consumers, championing the environment and crafting a workab ... More >>

Bill Ritter struck by March Madness, calls out Obama for not supporting... Gonzaga?

Ritter's rooting for Matt Bouldin.​With March Madness getting underway in earnest today (we don't count the play-in game), plenty of politicos are displaying hometown or home-state pride by touting the chances of local teams. That's not really an option this year for Governor Bill Ritter -- b ... More >>

Katie Herzig and Gregory Alan Isakov preparing to hit the road with Brandi Carlile

Brandi Carlile clearly has a thing for Colorado singer-songwriters. That's what we gather anyhow from her choice of tour companions. Former Boulderite, Katie Herzig, who's hanging her hat in Nashville these days, has been tapped to open nine dates for Carlile starting with a gig at the Knitting Fact ... More >>

Southwest lets Frontier know it's not flying away

​When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was doing so because Frontier was kicking its ass in Denver. But just because Southwest eventually lost out to underdog Republic Airways Holdings in the Fron ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The doctor is still in

​Dr. Warren Hern just keeps making headlines -- whether he wants them or not. For decades, he's practiced behind bulletproof glass at his Boulder clinic, occasionally attracting the attention of publications ranging from Westword (you can read one of our profiles here) to the current edition o ... More >>

Threat against abortion doctor Warren Hern: Read the indictment here

Warren Hern, in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video.​As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder's Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks ... More >>

The way the Adams County Coroner is running his office could be dead wrong

SAME Cafe: The restaurant where you pay what you can

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 >>

Colorado baller becomes Gonzaga's not-so-secret weapon

Athletic skill seldom waits for developmental maturity to blossom. It's obvious from the beginning, as is demonstrated by the case of Matt Bouldin. A few years back, my wife was an assistant principal of St. Thomas More School, a K-8 facility that's in the Archdiocese of Denver system, and she rem ... More >>

Q&A with David Marion from Fear Before the March of Flames

Delegating Denver #53 of 56: Washington

Summer Movie Preview

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain.

Editorial Cartoonists Get Animated

Vegas, Baby!

Meet Danny Vegas, the Sin City showman the Killers love.

A Surprise Inside

I had to be dragged to dinner at Guadalajara. Hours later, I had to be dragged away.

On the Band Wagon

Fray as you go.

Faun Fables

Saturday, April 16, Bender's 13th Avenue Tavern, 303-861-7070.

Skate Nation

Colorado's becoming a mecca for skateboarders. But for the best parks, you'd better head for the hills.

Pet Peeve

If one schnauzer is nice, what's wrong with 150?

Whirled Music

Old Time Relijun puts a new spin on ancient sounds.

Flix Mix

Colorado filmmaking is alive and well

He's Not So Tough

Native American author Sherman Alexie is breaking down stereotypes.

The Open Space Between the Lines

Words to Stir the Soul: Readings From the American West

Star Hustlers

With the imminent release of The Phantom Menace, Fantastic Media prepares to blast off.

A Brilliant Red

Field of Schemes

A gem of a story about diamond mines--real and fake!

O'Luney Tunes

Sometime Kingston Trio member Bob Haworth has another gig--as the King of Fun.

Making Trouble