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Last Comic Blogging, Part 5

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D-Town Comics Stand Up

The Democratic National Convention: Caveat Renter

Q&A With Git Some

McCain and Udall, Sitting in a Tree

McCain and Udall, Sitting in a Tree

Sticks and Stones

Good Time Gang

Yo, Flaco! was recently named the best unsigned band in America. They couldn't be happier.

Britneymania!

What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

Mind Over Matter

With Enon, former Brainiac visionary John Schmersal makes music to challenge the cerebral cortex. But he doesn't mind if you dance to it.

DeVotchKa announces spring tour dates

This Friday night in Philadelphia, DeVotchKa is kicking off a fairly exhaustive eight week tour that will take the band across the country from New York to San Francisco to Austin -- not during South By Southwest, surprisingly -- back up through the midwest before culminating in Cleveland on Saturd ... More >>

Update: Cephalic Carnage tours with Mayhem

Update: More shows added, see full list of dates after the jump. In news that's sure to have local metal fans googling airfare before they even finishing reading this post, we just learned that Cephalic Carnage has been tapped to support Mayhem's upcoming North American tour, fittingly dubbed Blacke ... More >>

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 >>

The Beatdown

Mean Old Man takes over Cricket on the Hill’s open-stage night.

XO, Elliott

Elliott Smith 1969-2003

The Beatdown

Sean Kelly weighs in on the Samples' past, present and future.

The Beatdown

Usually, the Morning After is all about regret. This one is filled with optimism.

Best Sculpture Show -- Group

Three Dimensions

Rock & Roll Grill goes up in smoke

Cheba Hut is coming to the 16th Street Mall this summer, bringing its "counter-culture" sandwiches, including Kind, Kush and Chronic. But according to Matt Clark-Johnson, co-owner of this store as well as the Boulder franchise of the Tempe, Arizona-based chain, Cheba is about more than pot reference ... More >>

If you want to know what it's like to be a veteran in John McCain's home state, stop by the Justa Center

Cheba Hut is coming to the 16th Street Mall this summer, bringing its "counter-culture" sandwiches, including Kind, Kush and Chronic. But according to Matt Clark-Johnson, co-owner of this store as well as the Boulder franchise of the Tempe, Arizona-based chain, Cheba is about more than pot reference ... More >>

Tug of War

Two counties, feuding parents, a sex-abuse allegation and one quagmire of a custody battle.

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release on July 17

Two counties, feuding parents, a sex-abuse allegation and one quagmire of a custody battle.

Now Showing

Two counties, feuding parents, a sex-abuse allegation and one quagmire of a custody battle.

Now Showing

Two counties, feuding parents, a sex-abuse allegation and one quagmire of a custody battle.

Now Showing

Two counties, feuding parents, a sex-abuse allegation and one quagmire of a custody battle.

Westword Music Showcase 2004

Fifty bands. Ten stages. Five bucks. Be there.

California Screamin'

Planes Mistaken for Stars brings the noise to Plea for Peace.

Mash It Up

Z-Trip turns the tables and elevates the art of the DJ.

Good Sex, Bad Sex

An adult advertiser complains that explicit radio stations won't run his not-very-explicit commercials.

A Hard Hit

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

Feedback

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

Seeing Red Once Again

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

A GRAND SLAM AGAINST WOMEN

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

COWBOYS? LOST IN A CLOUD OF COAL DUST

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

GIMME THAT BOWL-TIME RELIGION

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

I'M ED! FLY ME!

COLORADO SPRINGS BOOSTERS GO UP, UP AND AWAY WITH ED BEAUVAIS.HIGH FLYER HOW MUCH OF A FLIGHT RISK IS WESTERN PACIFIC'S ED BEAUVAIS? JUST ASK THE INVESTORS IN HIS LAST AIRLINE.

LATE BLOOMERS

THE GIN BLOSSOMS' ROBIN WILSON ON BOOZE, DEATH AND HIT RECORDS.

MEAT OF THE ORDER

THE GIN BLOSSOMS' ROBIN WILSON ON BOOZE, DEATH AND HIT RECORDS.

Kill Paradise lands recording deal

So the music business is allegedly in dire straits right now, having endured the sharpest decline in CD sales ever this past year. Yet if you're paying attention you can't help but notice that act after act from Denver is being snatched up by various labels at stupefying rate, that, even during th ... More >>

Cheba Hut gets ready to smoke

​Cheba Hut, the pot-themed sub-shop chain, could open its first Denver location as early as Monday, August 10, says franchisee and store co-owner Matt Clark-Johnson, who's at the store at 1531 Champa Street making some final preparations this morning. Although Clark-Johnson, who also owns a ... More >>

Flobots winter tour dates announced

​All right, break's over, kids. Time for the big takeover. Looks like the Flobots are getting back to work -- and it's about damn time, for chrissakes. While the rest of us slept in intervals as a result of our efforts to diligently invest our time in such noble, productive pursuits as drinking ou ... More >>

Q&A with Philip Chevron of the Pogues

​While this week's preview of the Pogues' show this Friday at the Ogden Theatre only scratched the surface of our interview with guitarist Philip Chevron, who also talked at length about Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... Pogue Mahone!!, the five-disc box set of b-sides, outtakes, live ... More >>

Get a sneak peek of Kill Paradise's new record before it hits stores tomorrow

Back in April, we told you about Kill Paradise inking a deal with BreakSilence Recordings, the same imprint that brought you Albuquerque's BrokeNCYDE and Tempe's Eyes Set to Kill. More than half a year later, the outfit has finished its new album, The Second Effect, which will be available exclusi ... More >>

This Just In: Devendra Banhart show at the Ogden tomorrow night canceled

Planning to catch Devendra Banhart tomorrow night at the Ogden? Boy are you going to be bummed: Evidently, broseph broke himself over the weekend trying to pull off some gnarly kick flip or ollie or something before his show in Tempe on Saturday and busted a bone in his leg. Two shows, including Den ... More >>

Titwrench 2010 at Glob

Titwrench 2010 Friday, July 9 - Sunday July 11, 2010 | Glob | Denver Over the course of one weekend, Titwrench 2010 brought together artists and people of all stripes from around the country and attracted a wider than usual swath of the local community. On Saturday afternoon, there were worksho ... More >>

Barbi Benton's oversized crib comes to MTV amid Aspen real-estate woes

Benton in '72. ​It turns out that even Aspen's elite can't escape the effects of the world recession. Smarting from the latest stock plunge, high country homeowners are also digesting today's report in the Aspen Daily News that assessed property values in Pitkin County have dropped $10 billion ... More >>

Tour de Fat raises more than $150,000 for Colorado bike organizations

Westword photographer Brandon Marshall spotted a penny farthing in City Park at the 2011 Tour de Fat Denver​New Belgium Brewing, the Fort Collins-based brewery with the iconic cruiser bike logo and best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, raised more than $90,000 on September 3 for the Overland ... More >>

Make My Day Better bill: Okay to use deadly force at work?

​A running gag in the classic comedy Raising Arizona is that just about everybody in the vicinity of Tempe is packing heat -- even the pimple-faced kid at the convenience store, who whips out a Dirty Harry special and starts blasting away at stickup man Nicholas Cage. But it's no joke that sta ... More >>