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  Monolith Festival Day 1: The Fans
  Music fans invaded Red Rocks on Saturday, September 13, for the second annual Monolith Festival, starring DeVotcKa, Silversun Pickups, Vampire Weekend, Cut Copy, and more. Read our Monolith live blog, and see photos of the fans from Day One here. Oh, and just a head's up: neon is back.
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  14 memorable (and not-so) Red Rocks live albums
  With Monolith Festival, and one of the year's top lineups, headed to Red Rocks this weekend, we can't help dream of a live recording of the fest's top acts. Red Rocks, after all, has been a popular place to record albums over the years. Here are 14 of the most (and least) memorable.
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  Rocky Montain Roller Girls: Kicking ass in the name of ... kicking ass
  Denver's roller derby queens, the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls, went skate to skate with the Windy City Rollers on Saturday, September 6, 2008, and Westword was there. Catch a photographic elbow to the pancreas with photos by Jamie Secrest.
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  The Punk Rock Fashion Show at Bender's Tavern
  Local artists, designers, and musicians gathered Saturday, September 6, 2008, at Bender's Tavern to celebrate the new label of local designer Jonathan Applegate, who designs and makes his own screen-printed T-shirts under the name Broken Perception.
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  Wish: Denver's newest nightclub
  Wish nightclub, Kevin Larson's new club for the 25 and older, opened Friday night, September 5, 2008. Kim Berky crashed the party for Westword, and took her camera with her.
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  The Top 10 Denver Concerts of the Summer
  Westword ranks the 10 best shows we saw (and photographed) this summer. Think this list sucks? Tell us which shows we missed, and if we've got pictures -- it's likely we do -- we'll add them to the slide show.
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  Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects at Metro State's Center for Visual Art
  This show includes more than a hundred pieces, almost all of them works on paper from editions that were loaned to the CVA by the two artists themselves. Well-known as total control freaks, Christo and Jeanne-Claude also sent elaborate hanging instructions and blueprints locating each piece on...
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  The Church nightclub, August 31, 2008
  Dave Navarro and DJ Skribble were supposed to spin Denver's Church nightclub on Sunday, August 31. But they bailed. The crowd, however, did not. Photos by Aaron Thackeray.
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  2008 Modern Drunkard Convention
  Denver recently hosted a large convention of drunks and degenerates. But once all those damn Democrats cleared out of town, we opened our arms to a much more civilized group: the Modern Drunkards! Here, images by Jon Solomon from the magazine's convention, which took place the weekend of August...
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  DNC Cops: Chillin' like Villians
  Thousands of police, private security, Secret Service, and other law enforcement descended on Denver this week for the Democratic National Convention, in anticipation of possibly violent clashes with protesters. Here's what those clashes looked like.
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  Village Voice Media Party at La Zona Rosa
  Health, the Cribs, the Black Keys, the Soundtrack of Our Lives and ...You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead rock the crowd at our SXSW party on Friday.
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  DNC Swag: 20 Things we wish we bought (or stole) during the Democratic National Convention
  Hidden among all the complete crap that was being hawked on the streets of Denver this week was some stuff that we'll likely wish we snagged when we saw it. Don't get us wrong, some of it is pretty craptastic. But it would been fun to have in our closet.
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