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William S. Burroughs

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Vibrators: A pop-culture history of this buzzed-about device

    Like gay marriage, marijuana use and tattoos, public perception of female sex toys is not what it used to be. While male sex toys still weigh heavy on the shame scale, a female pleasure device is mostly seen as a cute novelty. Encountering one while snooping is comparable to finding a rutabaga in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street turns 40

    By the spring of 1971, the heroes of the '60s were dropping like flies. The Beatles had broken up, Angela Davis and Timothy Leary were on the run, and meanwhile everyone in California was becoming born again Christians. The previous autumn, Jimi Hendrix asphyxiated on half-digested sleeping pills an ... More >>

  • Music

    April 19, 2012

    King Foe immerses himself on Junkie

    By the spring of 1971, the heroes of the '60s were dropping like flies. The Beatles had broken up, Angela Davis and Timothy Leary were on the run, and meanwhile everyone in California was becoming born again Christians. The previous autumn, Jimi Hendrix asphyxiated on half-digested sleeping pills an ... More >>

  • Music

    April 19, 2012

    Laurie Anderson

    Wednesday, April 25, Boulder Theater, Boulder, 303-786-7030.

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Uni and Square set the street-art scene at UnseenDenver's fundraiser for Arts Street

    Street art is usually a fly-by-night phenomena, one that the artists prefer no one -- especially the police -- witness. Just ask the Knapper twins, the subjects of this week's Westword cover story. But Denver has recently taken to the idea of live street-art events. And last Friday night, UnseenDenv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Review: DJ Spooky at Astroland, 7/8/11

    DJ Spooky at Astroland​DJ SPOOKY at ASTROLAND, BOULDER | 7/8/11On the last day of this year's version of Naropa's almost forty-year-old Summer Writing Program, started by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg in the 1970s, two visiting instructors among the summer faculty signing books and chatting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Awesome People Hanging Out Together is awesome

    Oh yeah, that's Madonna, Sting and Tupac​We are flashed hundreds of images of celebrities doing regular stuff everyday via tabloids and television -- they get caught buying groceries, going to Starbucks and fighting inappropriately with their significant others in public. But who cares if they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Denver's Next Improv Star week 8 recap: in praise of the absurd

    ​Somewhere between the literary obsessiveness and the heroin-haze that, together, consumed his life, William S. Burroughs developed a technique called cut-up writing, which uses fragments of preexisting works and rearranges them to create something new. The results, generally, are dizzying and non ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tops our new release picks for this week, February 15

    ​It's time to spend that Valentine' Day cash you got from grandma, and what better way to do it than to buy something that'll make you feel less lonely? Thankfully, there is plenty to be happy about this week, with new releases that will make you nostalgic, cause you to cry and more. If you're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Tonight: William S. Burroughs rides again

    The outlaw novelist is in. ​More than two decades ago, freelance writer Gregory Daurer thought it would be cool to track down William S. Burroughs at Naropa and hook him up to a brain machine. Audio excerpts of Daurer's interview with Burroughs surface in a new documentary on the outlaw novel ... More >>

  • Music

    February 4, 2010

    Panty Raid

    Saturday, February 6, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    Future Projections

    Saturday, February 6, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Q&A with Time

    ​Time, aka Chris Steele, has been involved in the Denver hip-hop scene for over a decade, and his current and future collaborators include Sole of the Anticon collective, Talib Kweli, Drake, Kool Keith and C-Rayz Walz. The snarkier hip-hop aficionados refer to the form Time writes and performs as ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Just Beat It

    The Naropa conversation continues, thanks to a book that speaks volumes.

  • Music

    April 2, 2009

    The Nod at One Eyed Jacks

    The Naropa conversation continues, thanks to a book that speaks volumes.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Top Ten Americana Albums 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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    Delegating Denver #29 of 56: Missouri

    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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2007

    Delegating Denver #20 of 56: Kansas

    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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2007

    Top Five Thanksgiving Songs

    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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    May 31, 2007

    Cannibal Corpse

    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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2007

    Dead Beats

    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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    November 9, 2006

    Burning the Yule Log

    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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

  • Music

    April 21, 2005

    DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

    Sunday, April 24, Fox Theatre, 303-443-3399.

  • Music

    December 30, 2004

    Up From the Underworld

    This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    An Open Book

    Will everyone in Boulder please get on the same page?

  • Music

    January 8, 2004

    Lip Service

    Grazing in the bluegrass, Split Lip Rayfield keeps pickin' and grinnin'.

  • Dining

    June 26, 2003

    Perfect Landing

    A voyage of discovery leads to Han Kang.

  • Film

    March 20, 2003

    A Tormented Mind

    Spider sees little triumph over schizophrenia.

  • Film

    August 8, 2002

    Free Willies

    The Cockettes brings back nostalgia for a gay old time.

  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    Pink-ronicity

    Every second counts in the merry old land of Dark Oz.

  • Music

    November 15, 2001

    Laurie Anderson

    Life on a String (Nonesuch)

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    The Doors

    The Bright Midnight Sampler: 14 Songs/8 Concerts (Bright Midnight Records/Rhino Handmade), Various Artists Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors (Elektra)

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    The Beats Go On

    How a kid from Boulder became an eyewitness to the passing of an era.

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    The Accidental Jurist

    Leonard Peltier. Stephen Miles. Now the witness who might break the Ramsey case. It’s no wonder Lee Hill thinks he needs to pack a pistol.

  • Music

    February 3, 2000

    Trischka's Treat

    The banjo champion makes music that's finger-pickin' good.

  • Music

    February 25, 1999

    All Mixed Up

    Vienna's Kruder & Dorfmeister have become many superstars' remixers of choice.

  • Music

    February 18, 1999

    Ghost Story

    DJ Spooky is writing one of hip-hop's most mesmerizing chapters.

  • News

    February 4, 1999

    Southern Discomfort

    Writer Terry Southern helped shape a generation. Now his son is fighting for his legacy.

  • Music

    October 15, 1998

    Less Is More

    Singer-songwriter Micah Ciampa proves that good music can be made on a low budget.

  • Film

    September 17, 1998

    Hollywood Babble On

    Singer-songwriter Micah Ciampa proves that good music can be made on a low budget.

  • Calendar

    July 23, 1998

    Night & Day

    July 23 - 29, 1998

  • Film

    March 27, 1997

    Car-nal Knowledge

    July 23 - 29, 1998

  • Film

    August 1, 1996

    Smack Into Reality

    July 23 - 29, 1998

  • Music

    October 4, 1995

    BETTER DEAD THAN LIVE

    July 23 - 29, 1998

  • Film

    April 26, 1995

    SHOOTING AND MISSING

    July 23 - 29, 1998

  • Music

    March 1, 1995

    LO NO MORE

    SEBADOH'S LOU BARLOW GOES BEYOND LO-FI.

  • Music

    March 1, 1995

    SPEARHEAD'S UP

    THERE'S NOTHING DISPOSABLE ABOUT MICHAEL FRANTI'S LATEST ADVENTURE IN HIP HOP.

  • News

    March 1, 1995

    DEAD POETS SOCIETY

    THERE'S NOTHING DISPOSABLE ABOUT MICHAEL FRANTI'S LATEST ADVENTURE IN HIP HOP.

  • Calendar

    August 31, 1994

    THRILLS

    THERE'S NOTHING DISPOSABLE ABOUT MICHAEL FRANTI'S LATEST ADVENTURE IN HIP HOP.

  • Music

    February 2, 1994

    PLAYLIST

    THERE'S NOTHING DISPOSABLE ABOUT MICHAEL FRANTI'S LATEST ADVENTURE IN HIP HOP.

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