Curry moved to Colorado in 2009 and has since made something of a splash. I first encountere...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/culture/kevin-curry-rule-gallery-review/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/culture/now-showing/ Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist's realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 19...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/culture/now-showing/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/ask-a-mexican-cold-weather-mexicans/ I'm coming to Denver! Gentle cabrones, my much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America has finally hit bookstores, and I'll be in town at the end of this month to talk tacos. Mark your calendars for 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, when the real fiesta comes down at Su...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/ask-a-mexican-cold-weather-mexicans/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/signal-path-mixtape-release-bluebird/ When Signal Path first started out, over a decade ago, the goal was to bring elements of the jam scene into the realm of electronic music. "We were all living in Missoula at the time," remembers guitarist Ryan Burnett, "and we all had this vision to create something different, musically."

So what are these terrifying tasks, these death-defying deeds? Here's a...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/denver-dares-are-pretty-tame/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/4h-royalty/ Since 4H Royalty's Zach Boddicker spent time playing in Drag the River, it wasn't surprising to find a few similarities to the latter's sound on 4H's debut, 2010's Colossalalia. And while there are still hints of the same to be found on the act's followup, Where UFOs Go to Die (slat...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/4h-royalty/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/kajmir-royale/ Kajmir Royale is not just an MC; he's also a producer. His street mixtape, Heir to the Throne, features damn near every MC you love out of the city, including Rockie, AP and Mr. Midas, to name a few. The project is a mix of anthemic rhythms, hard-body rhymes and songs for the ladies. "Righ...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/kajmir-royale/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/bostic-beats/ Beat tapes can be some of the most enjoyable releases to vibe out to, especially when you don't feel like hearing someone's voice in your ear. Bostic Beats, half of One Eyed Kings, just released his debut instrumental album, Spring Cleaning Sessions: Volume 1. It starts slow, with a couple...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/bostic-beats/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/galaxies/ From the beginning of "Across the Ocean," the opening track of Galaxies' Letters From Sea, it sounds as though Dillon Groeneman recorded the album while on a ship. And it's not just the sound samples that make it feel that way, but also the sense of peace and isolation that you get, simila...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/galaxies/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/rockie-mixtape-release-24k/ Last winter, Rockie released Censored, a project that gave the MC the chance to say everything that he didn't get to say out of the gate: He talked about the bitches, the money and being a single father in a city where damn near everyone is a rapper. Amid the club hits — "Don't Stop"...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/rockie-mixtape-release-24k/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/darin-epsilon-riddle-of-the-sphinx/ Darin Epsilon has long been on the cutting edge of the progressive and tech-house genres, possessing both the selective taste of a premier club DJ and an elite producer's talent for creating hypnotic tracks. He was a winner of John Digweed's DJ competition in 2011, he hosts a radio show an...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/darin-epsilon-riddle-of-the-sphinx/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/culture/fuenteovejuna-theater-review/ The 11 Minutes Theatre Company has revived Fuenteovejuna, a seventeenth-century play by Lope de Vega based on a historical incident that took place in 1476. Fuenteovejuna is a small village that has come under the control of a violent and amoral commander. The play begins by celebra...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/culture/fuenteovejuna-theater-review/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/sucker-punch-the-big-bitch-from-mayhem-festival/ It was close to seven on a warm July evening in Greenwood Village, time for the suburb's more sedentary citizens to fire up their grills and televisions. But at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, the headbanging was just getting started.

On the main stage, Five Finger Death Punch was windin...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/music/sucker-punch-the-big-bitch-from-mayhem-festival/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/rite-of-passage-youth-corrections-is-messed-up/ "Bad Company," Melanie Asmar, May 17

As a former youth corrections officer at a branch of Rite of Passage, I could not agree more with t...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/rite-of-passage-youth-corrections-is-messed-up/ http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/marijuana-is-real-medicine-for-a-long-list-of-ills/ Marijuana keeps Craig Rodgers alive.

With his muscular physique and energetic, fast-talking personality, the 36-year-old Las Vegas resident seems the epitome of health — except for the banana-size scar on the left side of his head.

Rodgers was on a good career track as a tra...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.westword.com/2012-05-24/news/marijuana-is-real-medicine-for-a-long-list-of-ills/