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Blogus interruptus. Today in Cafe Society: • Fry me to the moon. • Candy Girls: Strawberry Charleston Chew. • Colorado's fast-expanding, fast-improving fast-casual world. Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile High Makeout: Guerillas in the mix. • This just in: Thursday is the new Friday. • Update: Mile-Hi Fidelity stream...

By Michael Roberts

January 16, 2009

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Blogus interruptus.

Today in Cafe Society: • Fry me to the moon. • Candy Girls: Strawberry Charleston Chew. • Colorado's fast-expanding, fast-improving fast-casual world.

Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile High Makeout: Guerillas in the mix. • This just in: Thursday is the new Friday. • Update: Mile-Hi Fidelity stream + playlist 01-14-09. • A Shoreline Dream shifts into "Hypermode" for new record. • The Fray on (inside) cover of Rolling Stone.

Today in The Latest Word: • Feds out of voucher money for digital conversion boxes, so I guess I'm quitting television. • Colorado first among equals in NBC correspondent Chuck Todd's new Obama election book. • Meet Jeff Wilks, new owner of The Wolf, The Mix and KOOL 105. • Ranking the 2009 holidays: the Childless Dirtbag edition. • Music director John "Whip" Wilbur fights to save 101.5. And his gloves are off.

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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