Jaimes Brown isn’t happy. The Colorado Libertarian candidate for governor wasn’t invited to a Channel 12 gubernatorial debate on September 10. He says he found out about the debate in a Denver Post article after the event had been taped…
If on some crisp, fall afternoon you find yourself walking down a tree-lined avenue past a jailhouse, the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center is the one to see. The exterior of the building is beaming with Indiana limestone to complement the nearby Denver Mint, and visitors are greeted with an epoxy…
Ignite Boulder’s 12th installment of blog-style rants presented as multi-media performance art was held last night at the Chautauqa Theatre. Speakers expounded on subjects ranging from why waitresses are uniquely positioned to adapt to a post-apocalyptic society to the epic profundity of children’s picture books…
Dan Maes might have some fight left in him after all. Amid Hank Brown’s retracted endorsement, campaign financing malaise and allegations that he exaggerated his responsibilities as a member of a Kansas police department, Maes today tweeted from the storm. And he didn’t need anywhere near 140 characters…
At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, some party members derisively passed around shots of Scope to wash the bad taste from their mouths following the presidential nomination of former Republican, Bob Barr. It wasn’t just that Barr was seen as an impure strain of Libertarian; some members felt…
In February 2009, Barack Obama showed up at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to sign the $787 billion federal stimulus package. Since then, anyone who has been stuck behind an army of trucks on I-25, delayed by spates of lane closures on I-70 or winced at the infestation…
The Black Crowes have been remarkably durable, wisely cultivating a blues-rock and Americana fan base after summiting alt-rock radio in the early ’90s. But after twenty years of commercial peaks, commercial wanes, pubic-hair album art, hiatuses, movie-star marriages and countless bales of weed, and on the heels of their apt…
Denver’s new Lindsey-Flanigan Justice Center, which opened July 6, has 35 courtrooms, 48 conference rooms and modern art installations spread across its 317,000 square feet. And while it will be used by judges, lawyers and parties in all kinds of criminal, drug and juvenile cases, most people dealing with garden-variety…
In this week’s Rough Mixes entry, we got a much needed introduction to Ariel Rosenberg, the creative force behind Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. He has a reputation for being a bit of a pistol, but now that we’ve felt him out, we feel comfortable digging a little deeper. In this…
As the first artist that was not Animal Collective to release an album on Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks imprint, L.A.’s Ariel Rosenberg spent the past decade reissuing his stock of eight-track bedroom recordings under the guise of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. Those albums ranged in refinement from lo-fi to no-fi…
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Thao Nguyen are West Coast-based singer-songwriters who came together at wildly different points in their career arcs. After clicking at this year’s Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, they formed indie-chick super-group Thao and Mirah With the Most of All and immediately embarked on a…
Kevin Boyer knows how to run a punk rock band. He has a clear vision for what he wants from Tyvek (playing tonight at the hi-dive), while steadfastly avoiding any rigidity that might try to latch on to that vision. In this week’s Rough Mix we discovered that there was…
Tyvek is an all-purpose synthetic substance and a registered trademark of the DuPont Company. You’ve probably handled it in the form of a priority-mail envelope, or as that sticky bar bracelet that identifies you as being over the age of 21 when you go to a show. But Tyvek’s most…
Last year, Local Natives battered SXSW with nine shows in three days, ultimately leading to a record deal in the U.K., followed by a tour. This year, the L.A. five-piece is gaining traction stateside, thanks to a debut album stocked with sturdy indie-rock arrangements and a touring schedule that slots…
Some bands require creative tension or mercurial relationships to provide a spark. In our Local Natives Rough Mixes piece this week, we learned that this is not the case for these five So-Cal dudes. They’re in a band because they like being around each other, and the music starts with…
