Diplo and Justice Saturday, March 22, 2008 Ogden Theatre Pulling off electronic music live is very tricky. The same tracks that can absolutely rock a dancefloor, a party or your headphones can fall completely flat when all there is to watch is a nerdy dude lit by his laptop. You…
Slide Show Beach House, Papercuts, Future of the Ghost, Bad Weather California Saturday, March 22, 2008, Hi-Dive Better than: not much. On the frigid, sloppy walk to the Hi-Dive, my friend John asked a question that had been renting some space in my mind of late. “When was the last…
It was pretty obvious from the outset that some sort of clandestine conspiracy run by the Bush Administration was sneaking a peek into Barack Obama’s passport file on hand with the State Department. The whole thing reeked of 1972—a paranoid party desperately collecting secrets and deep background on leading Democratic…
Leave it to The Onion, those fuckers…
Slide Show De Novo Dahl, the Jimi Austin and Vanessa Peters & Ice Cream On Mondays Thursday, March 20 Hi-Dive Better than: Watching the Grand Ole Opry on TV I was floored by De Novo Dahl’s set at Monolith last year, especially the Nashville-based band’s closer “Shout,” which I’m still…
Dent has been putting in work in the Denver scene for close to a decade. He’s been a freestyle battle champ, he’s appeared on a variety of local albums, and has put together a compilation album featuring some of Denver’s finest hip-hop artists. He released six-track EP called Platinum in…
The current rumpus over whether the state prison system is letting too many criminal fiends out on parole is a pretty good example of what Governor Bill Ritter is up against in his effort to bring some economic common sense to our criminal justice system — namely, a bunch of…
Sometimes, things happen that make you question all of your assumptions. We all operate within a framework of misunderstood half-truths and well-understood falsehoods. We know what we know, and we can extrapolate from what we know to understand things we don’t really know, if only within the limited confines of…
Bitch is the New Black on FunnyOrDie.com Tina Fey started it. In her hosting role on the first Saturday Night Live back from the recent writers’ strike, Tina Fey appeared on the “Weekend Update” segment and capped her piece on “Women’s News” with a pro-Hillary rallying cry. And in recent…
Four men cruising through Colorado last week with a Dodge SUV full of fighting cocks probably didn’t know that they would be facing some of the nation’s toughest laws against cockfighting if they got caught…
Slide Show March 17 at Larimer Lounge was an adventurous night full of rock and roll, fights, the police, drunks getting taken away in an ambulance, and a marriage. This, Denver, is what RAWK looks like…
We get soused and remember the glories of DuckTales…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: You’ve heard of this South by Southwest thing, right? The Village Voice sent some folks who reported on things like the giant pile of crap picture here, a killer set by the Constantines…
I finally watched Jesus Camp this weekend. It’s a documentary about a North Dakota-based Pentecostal summer camp for children called Kids on Fire School of Ministry. Yeah, a terrifying name for a camp. But in the context of the cult-like atmosphere where 7-year-olds are instructed on how to properly speak…
View larger image New Mexico Total Number of Delegates: 38 Pledged: 26 Unpledged: 12 How to Recognize a New Mexico Delegate: If Hawaii is the state that is the most like a foreign country, then New Mexico is the state that is most like another planet. It is an established…
Wayne Allard isn’t ready to go fishing in the clear mountain streams of retirement just yet. The Colorado Republican, who was famously criticized by TIME magazine for being one of America’s five worst senators as the “Invisible Man” who never did anything, brought a $1.4 trillion budget amendment to the…
While Denver itself frequently ranks in national polls for having one of the biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, none of our local Irish pubs ever get so much as nod from out-of-towners. Whatever, we don’t need some national booze critic to tell us where to get soused. For a town…
While Denver itself frequently ranks in national polls for having one of the biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, none of our local Irish pubs ever get so much as nod from out-of-towners. Whatever, we don’t need some national booze critic to tell us where to get soused. For a town…
Lawyers take a back seat to no one in the muffled expression of their delight in the suffering of others. So, now that one of the meanest, most imperial judges in the history of Colorado finds himself under investigation after his phone number was reportedly found in the files of…
Dear Bandicoots, See comments from “Chad” here — in which his close to 700-word diatribe calls into question a “thriving” Denver scene and forces me to put South Broadway culture into context. Chad, I feel your frustration. As someone who has given his blood, sweat, and tears to the Denver…
The Internet, unwieldy and nebulous as it may be, still has a number of defining characteristics. You can uncover trivial facts or basic information in just a few short moments. There’s the convenience of email, the power of search engines, social-networking capabilities, maps and directions, free music, stupid videos and,…
