Tucker Carlson is sort of the Paris Hilton of political punditry: he’s famous for just being famous. Which is enough, it needs be said, to have your own show for a near three-year run on MSNBC. But then, Paris had The Simple Life, too. Life with Tucker Carlson isn’t so…
BDRMPPL, State Bird, The Tanukis, Mad Happy April 6, 2008 Brooks Center Arts Better than: The last party you attended in a church basement. A show at Brooks Center Arts is a truly unique experience. If you’re strictly accustomed to theater or arena shows with lights and smoke, you’ll feel…
In the fall of 2006, A.P.O.S.T.L.E. – aka Jeff Campbell — left Denver for San Francisco with his crew, Heavyweight Dub Champion, with hopes of making a bigger splash outside the Mile High City. Fast forward to spring 2008, Apostle is no longer working with Heavyweight Dub Champion and released…
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At the moment the jury is still out in the first-degree murder trial of David Bueno, an inmate at the Limon state prison accused of killing another prisoner. Bueno and Alejandro Perez (who has yet to go to trial) face possible death sentences in the slaying, the prosecution of which…
It turns out that even New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof is a racist. In yesterday’s Sunday edition, he wrote about playing the the shooter bias video simulation developed by researchers at the University of Colorado. “I shot armed blacks in an average of 0.679 seconds, while I waited…
View larger image North Dakota Total Number of Delegates: 21 Pledged: 13 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a North Dakota Delegate: After the original building burned to the ground on December 28, 1930, North Dakota’s new state capitol was designed to soar to nineteen stories and contain enough office space…
Best. Weekend. Ever. Click on the photos. The Photo Atlas rocked 3 Kings on Thursday. Opening day at Coors Field, regardless of the outcome, was just as magical as ever. Bad Weather California got the opportunity of a lifetime when they backed up Daniel Johnston on Saturday at the Ogden…
Red Orange Yellow, Michael Trundle, Autokinoton and the Swayback Saturday, April 5, 2008 Bluebird Theater The drummer is often the most overlooked member of any rock ensemble. Providing the rhythmic foundation and propulsion for a band’s songs, the drummer is rarely noticed, unless he or she really screws up or…
Denver locals Bad Weather California — with some help from friends Roger Green and Erin Roberts — had a dream come true when, three days before the show, they were asked to be the backing band for Daniel Johnston. Of course they said yes. Here’s an interview with the band…
NBC got the jump on the rest of the networks by announcing their plans for the 2008-09 season on April 2. NBC execs have been saying for months that they wanted to embrace a new approach. Apparently, the key to that “new approach” is this: more of the same old…
If Governor Ritter has any doubts about putting pen to paper to sign the long-overdue repeal of Colorado’s Sunday liquor ban, he should remember that the state’s honor is at risk. This is Convention Summer, and Minnesota sure as hell isn’t going to beat us to the booze. A legislative…
Get it Threw Your Thick Skull, promises to be a great exhibition of works by artists Antonio Diaz and David P. Madson — aka Odd Nosdam of anticon records — opens tonight at Andenken Gallery, 2990 Larimer Street, and will run through April 25. The opening reception, which starts at…
If one single thing threatens my relationship with my soon-to-be wife, it won’t be my womanizing. That’s just not me. It won’t be the whiskey or the beer or the fact that I spend money like a drunken sailor or that night recently when I just didn’t come home. She’s…
A famous quote from Shakespeare’s Henry VI says, “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” This sums up a pretty popular – and largely ignorant – attitude that folks have about the legal field. Those folks obviously haven’t made out with Beth Patterson, one of the most caring…
Hawk Nelson Hawk Nelson is My Friend BEC Records 01:30-02:15 of “Friend Like That” Every once and a while I’ll listen to some of my old pop-punk records – that is when my upstairs neighbors aren’t already blaring Bad Religion and the Descendents. For me, it’s a reminder of my…
Jared Jacang Maher’s April 3 feature, “Target Practice Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game,” profiles a new video game system created at the University of Chicago that Denver cops have used to determine whether officers are more are less likely than your average Joe to shoot someone based on…
Of the many contributions of the Irish to world culture—from colcannon and those silly snap-brim tweed hats of which my father is so fond to the music of the Pogues and the films of Jim Sheridan—I don’t think anyone would argue with my saying that whiskey is the best. There’s…
Of the many contributions of the Irish to world culture—from colcannon and those silly snap-brim tweed hats of which my father is so fond to the music of the Pogues and the films of Jim Sheridan—I don’t think anyone would argue with my saying that whiskey is the best. There’s…
Sea Wolf, Nada Surf April 1, 2008 Bluebird Theater Better Than: A sound-check that lasts all night “Politicians are at their worst when they’re talking about politics,” my friend Brett said to me as we were leaving the Nada Surf show at the Gothic Tuesday evening. “Same holds true for…
You’d be forgiven if you thought that buzzing sound was the arrival of Africanized killer bees finally arriving as promised a decade ago, but it was actually indie internet darlings Vampire Weekend arriving April 1 to play a show at the Bluebird Theater. Enjoy this slide show review by Cory…
