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Go for the Gold: A Dozen Free Things to Do in Denver This Week

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Jason Heller

Jason Heller is a staff writer at Westword. He’s the author of the book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded (Melville House/Penguin Random House), and has contributed to the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and NPR.org. His work has won a Hugo Award and a Colorado Press Association Award.

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Your Mom’s House Gets New Owner and Pumps Up the Punk

By Jason HellerJanuary 3, 2025

With her purchase of the Capitol Hill nightclub, Jillian Johnson is bringing a big change to its music.

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Remembering Denver Musician Luke Fairchild: “Fuck It, Dude”

By Jason HellerJanuary 3, 2025

The fierce frontman of numerous local bands, including the Planes Mistaken for Stars side project Git Some, died on January 1 at the age of 49.

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Music to My Ears: I Took My Year-in-Review Assignment a Little Too Far

By Jason HellerDecember 27, 2024

I didn’t stop with looking back a year. I went all the way back to 2002, and a writing career that almost ended before it began.

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Mutiny to Host the Live Comic Book Radio Show You Never Knew You Needed

By Jason HellerDecember 27, 2024

The Jack Kirby Players are bringing their retro-pulp mayhem to Mutiny Comics & Coffee on New Year’s Eve.

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Blood Incantation Makes Time Magazine’s Top Ten

By Jason HellerDecember 27, 2024

The Colorado-based metal group’s latest album, Absolute Elsewhere, has been racking up spots on high-profile year-end lists.

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Remembering Marc Campbell of the Ravers and the Nails

By Jason HellerDecember 26, 2024

The Colorado singer and guitarist pioneered punk in Boulder and beyond.

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Denver Metalcore Band Drop Dead, Gorgeous to Reunite at Summit

By Jason HellerDecember 23, 2024

The nationally popular group is back in action after releasing major-label records, then fizzling out in 2011.

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First Season of Dune: Prophecy, Based on Books by Kevin J. Anderson, Ends Tonight

By Jason HellerDecember 21, 2024

“I have gotten myself so trained to write by walking around. I kind of get into this creative zone when I’m out on the trail and dictating.”

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Boulder Band Features Members of Black Keys, Cage the Elephant on New Song

By Jason HellerDecember 20, 2024

The Velveteers, one of Colorado’s fiercest bands, have released the music video for “On and On,” which rages against misogyny.

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Colorado Springs and Neighborhood Group Continue to Spar Over Ford Amphitheater Noise

By Jason HellerDecember 18, 2024

The ongoing feud between Ford Amphitheater and Ford Hurts Families was not resolved at the December 17 meeting with Mayor Mobolade.

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Capitol Hill Books Has Survived for 44 Years, but Can It Survive BRT Construction?

By Jason HellerDecember 18, 2024

Capitol Hill Books has anchored the intersection of Colfax and Grant for decades, but now its future is in doubt.

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Remembering Denver Artist Markham Maes, aka Shitty Kitten

By Jason HellerDecember 16, 2024

“Rest in paint” is the phrase that friends, colleagues and family members have been posting online to mark his death last week.

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Two of Colorado’s Best Hardcore Bands Are Reuniting for a One-Off Show

By Jason HellerDecember 13, 2024

The pair of bands will be on a stacked hardcore bill this Saturday at D3 Arts.

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The Best Independent Bookstores in Denver and Beyond

By Jason HellerDecember 12, 2024

If corporate bookstores aren’t your thing, Colorado still has plenty of independent sellers to support.

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The Best Record Stores in Denver

By Jason HellerDecember 12, 2024

From used jazz to new pop, the vast array of vinyl in Denver-area record stores makes for a collector’s heaven.

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Pearl Jam to Take Denver Band on Tour in April

By Jason HellerDecember 9, 2024

Denver punk band Dead Pioneers was hand-picked by Pearl Jam to open four East Coast tour dates next year.

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Calling All Sideshow Freaks and Magicians: This New Venue Aims to Shake Up Golden

By Jason HellerDecember 9, 2024

The owners of the Gnarly Toybox are bringing their warped, wonderful sense of fun to downtown Golden.

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This Explosive Denver Post-Punk Band Is Reuniting With a New EP

By Jason HellerDecember 6, 2024

One of Denver’s most significant groups in the ’00s and ’10s, the Photo Atlas is reuniting for the first time since 2015.

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A Nob Hill Inn Patron Immortalized the Bar With LEGO Bricks

By Jason HellerDecember 6, 2024

Zachary Lamb, a regular at the Capitol Hill dive, constructed a diorama using LEGO bricks gifted to him by late bartender Bart Case.

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Ten Covers of the Beatles by Colorado Bands

By Jason HellerDecember 6, 2024

You don’t have to wait for a tribute show to sample Colorado’s love for the Fab Four.

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Remembering Denver-Based Anime Legend Jan Scott-Frazier

By Jason HellerDecember 5, 2024

The local producer, animator and executive was a driving force in international anime.

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Remembering Colorado Rapper Raymond “Ray Bones” Salazar

By Jason HellerDecember 4, 2024

The Denver-area musician graced many of the region’s stages with his smart, gutsy, soulful rhymes.

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