The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 16 edition

Stereolab sings. To find even more Westword.com blogs, follow the bullets. Today in Backbeat Online: • A review of Stereolab live at the Gothic Theatre, with Monade and Le Loup. • Eric Eyl's Mile High Makeout column, about a local-music benefit for Metro Denver Partners. • A Q&A with the...

By Michael Roberts

October 16, 2008

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Stereolab sings.

To find even more Westword.com blogs, follow the bullets.

Today in Backbeat Online: • A review of Stereolab live at the Gothic Theatre, with Monade and Le Loup. • Eric Eyl's Mile High Makeout column, about a local-music benefit for Metro Denver Partners. • A Q&A with the Black Angels' Christian Bland. • New songs by Chuck Potashner. • A downloadable MP3 by Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story).

Today in Cafe Society: • Cougar sightings at Rio Grande in LoDo. • The rebirth of Leenah's Deli as Melita's Greek Cafe & Market. • A Veggie Girl report about brunch at Mezcal. • Questions about the status of French 250. • This weekend's farewell for Mel's Bistro.

Today in The Latest Word: • The Rocky Mountain News "reveals" that John McCain isn't a Muslim. • Joe Tone lists the five must-dos when a dude guards a woman in a pick-up basketball game. • The reason Ken Salazar thinks Marilyn Musgrave's constituents should want to vomit. • Alan Prendergast looks into Douglas Glaser's massive wrongful-imprisonment lawsuit. • The potential attack of the monster duplexes in West Washington Park. Hide the children. -- Michael Roberts

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Michael Roberts began his career with Westword in 1990 as music editor. In 1999, he took on a new role, full-time media reporter, as author of a column called The Message. In 2008, he became the lead writer for Westword's news blog, The Latest Word, a position he held until January 2023. Michael continues to freelance for Westword, covering everything from business to sports and the media; he also contributes to Jazziz, a national music magazine. He holds a bachelor's degree from what is now Colorado Mesa University and master's degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Northwestern University.

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