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Smoke and Mirrors

Gun Show, through February 6, at Pirate

By C.J. Janovy
Jan 27, 2000

Before Gun Show even opened, Brad K. Evans was fielding phone calls from the Colorado anti-gun organization SAFE. He'd heard they were planning to demonstrate outside Pirate, the art gallery where his installation debuted on January 21. "I think it's ironic that they're protesting something they don't know about," Evans...
Take My Wife, Please

I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian

By C.J. Janovy
Jan 13, 2000

Stuart Perkin's wife left him for another woman. Four years later, he still wasn't over it -- despite three "really sexual" relationships that proved Sue hadn't dumped him over his lack of manhood (a typical though illogical fear). Finally the Denver filmmaker decided there was only one way to resolve...
And the Emmy Goes to...

Many important musicians won't be on stage in Boulder with Emmylou Harris -- but they'll be with her.

By C.J. Janovy
Dec 23, 1999

Back on her first album, 1975's Pieces of the Sky, Emmylou Harris recorded a song called "Boulder to Birmingham." Until that album, Harris had been known mainly as the harmony singer for Gram Parsons, the hippie country artist credited with inventing the genre of country rock. But two years earlier,...
The Gay Nineties

Since Amendement 2 passed seven years ago, Colorado Springs has learned a lesson in Family Values.

By C.J. Janovy
Nov 25, 1999

Frank Whitworth went down to the local gay bar. It was the usual Hide & Seek drinking crowd, and Whitworth knew everyone. A couple of men, still in suits and ties from their work day, teased the bartender boisterously. One guy, his name stitched on the patch of his blue...
Playlist

By James Mayo, Michael Roberts and C.J. Janovy
Jul 29, 1999

The Donnas Get Skintight (Lookout! Records) Fresh out of Rock and Roll High School, these California girls unapologetically ooze piss and vinegar while chomping on their bubble gum. Blitzkrieging bopping to teen-queen ditties that mix hormone-charged rebellion with a fresh sense of humor à la Ramones, these four girls named...

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