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Zevolution

There's more to Z-Trip than the mash-up phenomenon he helped make famous.

By David Holthouse
Aug 25, 2005

Zach Sciacca wanted to know one thing, and one thing only: "Did that motherfucker just grab his dick at me?" That motherfucker was big-time raver DJ Icey, and, yes, that motherfucker had, in fact, just grabbed his dick at Sciacca, who was then a fast-rising hip-hop battle DJ and all-around...
Dazed and Confused

Denver's newest party drug can be one bad trip.

By David Holthouse
Feb 3, 2005

The first thing that needs to be said about 2C-B, the newest designer drug to find favor in Denver's club scene -- or, rather, the old, obscure designer drug that's newly popular -- is that it needs a street name in a bad way. 2C-B sounds like the working name...
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You're Out!

By David Holthouse
Jan 27, 2005

Several sisters of the University of Colorado's Theta Beta chapter of Delta Delta Delta were, like, sooooo bummed last week when the Tri Delta executive board announced that their memberships in the national sorority had been terminated. "A culture change is in order," Tri Delta president Michelle Shimberg declared. The...
Building a Better Mousetrap

Biologist Rob Ramey isn't afraid of taking risks -- but taking on environmentalists may be his riskiest move.

By David Holthouse
Jan 20, 2005

When you shoot an elephant in the ass, bad things can happen. Rob Ramey learned this in Zimbabwe in 1990. Now the chair of zoology and curator of vertebrate zoology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Ramey is a gutsy, boots-on-the-ground researcher who mocks "armchair biologists." He has...
Girl Trouble

When CU students take the Delta Delta Delta pledge, they take it very seriously.

By David Holthouse
Dec 16, 2004

It was one in the morning on November 8. Whitney Lynch, a University of Colorado freshman from San Antonio, was chatting with her roommate in their dorm room on the third floor of Smith Hall when they heard what Lynch calls "a clatter of giggles." She went to the door...

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