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Rearview: The Week in Review (9/27/08-10/3/08)

By Cory CasciatoOctober 3, 2008
Due to a crippling, worldwide shortage of seventeen-minute solos, Phish has decided to reform Here's a friendly, easy-to-use index to all the great content you might have missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy doing that weird stoner hippie dance in celebration of the recent news that...
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The Peak is forced to pull up its tent stakes on Block 162

October 16, 2008
The prominent mega-tent that has occupied much of the once-blighted Block 162 at the corner of 15th and California streets since June is coming down much earlier than expected. Known as the Peak, the fifty-foot-high, 20,000-square-foot carpeted and air-conditioned venue hosted movie premiers, concerts and the unofficial post-presidential acceptance-speech party...
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Graffiti Index

By Cory CasciatoJuly 16, 2008
Graffiti is consistently cited as one of the top concerns of Denver residents and, fittingly, Westword has covered the issue frequently over the years, both in the paper and online. To accompany this week's cover story on the retirement of Denver's top graffiti cop, we've assembled this handy index to...
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Milking It: Cocoa Puffs Combos

By Michael RobertsJuly 28, 2008
Cocoa Puffs Combos General Mills Rating: Two and a half spoons out of four Cereal description: Whole corn grain and corn meal inflated into uniform orbs -- half of them a pleasant light brown that visually says "chocolate," the rest a light tan hue that, well, doesn't. Vanilla is so...
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Sweet Tooth

By Amber TaufenJuly 24, 2008
The British sometimes call cupcakes “fairy cakes.” Maybe that touch of magic explains the recent cupcake renaissance — which you’ll have noticed unless you’ve been hiding your head in the sand for the past two years or so. The term “cupcake” actually began in the nineteenth century, when cupcakes weren’t...
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Papa John’s Gets a Pizza the Action

By Patricia CalhounAugust 7, 2008
That crust is pretty chewy... Jared Jacang Maher's August 2007 feature story about Denver International Airport conspiracy theories revolved around a lot of freeaakky phenomena. But even the looniest loons -- make that "most knowing analysts" -- alluded to in the article didn't predict the appearance in Commerce City of...
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Serving Boulder

By Mark DragottaJuly 3, 2008
If you’re looking to get away to where sand tickles your feet and bronzed men and women strut around all well-muscled and half naked, then look no further than the AVP Crocs Slam Boulder. Starting today at 10 a.m. and continuing through Sunday at Folsom Field, 29th Street and Colorado...
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The Potential Horror of the 2008 Colorado Ballot

By Michael RobertsAugust 6, 2008
You civic-minded types out there have no doubt heard by now that the 2008 Colorado ballot could be the largest in the state's history. But hearing about it and seeing an approximation of what we could be facing in the voting booth in November are two very different things. Ballotpedia.org,...
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The Potential Horror of the 2008 Colorado Ballot

By Michael RobertsAugust 6, 2008
You civic-minded types out there have no doubt heard by now that the 2008 Colorado ballot could be the largest in the state's history. But hearing about it and seeing an approximation of what we could be facing in the voting booth in November are two very different things. Ballotpedia.org,...
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Rearview: The Week in Review (6/21/08-6/27/08)

By Cory CasciatoJune 27, 2008
Here's a wrap-up of all the great coverage you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were digesting the news that Amy Winehouse's emphysema may end her singing career (and, eventually, her junkie career as well...)...
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Encounters at the End of the World

By J. HobermanJuly 10, 2008
Some say the world will end in fire, some — like Werner Herzog — say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly idiosyncratic filmmaker leads an expedition, alternately comic and visionary, to the heart of coldness. Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World chronicles his trip...
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Thrice

By Michael RobertsMay 15, 2008
Overtly ambitious musicians open themselves up to ridicule when they shoot for the stars and fall short — but their attempts can pay dividends anyway. Witness The Alchemy Index, a multi-part magnum opus released by Thrice, a quartet joined on this date by Circa Survive and Pelican. Dustin Kensrue, Teppei...
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Red Mountain Grill

By Drew BixbyJune 5, 2008
Even with mud season well under way in Summit County, the small smoking patio in front of Red Mountain Grill (703 East Anemone Trail in Dillon) still sports a snow shovel and other all-weather tools. Through scratched sunglass lenses, I squint at this peculiarity in the early evening sun, run...
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Twenty Questions Sex and the City Style

By Aubrey ShoeMay 29, 2008
Only 24 more hours before the streets are lined with Sex-a-holics. It’s been nearly five years since we last saw our girls, so take a minute to make sure you’re still up on all the gossip of years gone by. Here’s a sampling of questions from the Sex and the...
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On the Wagon

By Amber TaufenMay 1, 2008
lthough we no longer live in the days of the Wild West, it's tough to get away from our Western roots here in Denver, with events like the National Western Stock Show, summertime rodeos and more bringing history to life. And why bother escaping? The West has so much to...
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Nintendo’s Wii Fit ignites yet another fitness fad.

By Chris WardMay 29, 2008
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that "strenuous indoor exercise" does not top anyone's summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a video game. Me? I'll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii...
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Grand Archives

By Noah W. BaileyMarch 20, 2008
Just as his former band (Band of Horses) en-dured countless comparisons to other groups, Mat Brooke's Grand Archives will undoubtedly be likened to other indie-pop luminaries. On songs such as "Index Moon," for instance, Brooke's voice resembles that of the New Pornographers' A.C. Newman, while "Torn Blue Foam Couch" evokes...
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Campus Press Documents, Part 3: The Herdy Study

By Michael RobertsApril 9, 2008
The April 10 Message column discusses three documents handed out to attendees of an April 2 faculty meeting held to consider the fate of the Campus Press, the student-operated online newspaper affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder, in the wake of a divisive column by scribe Max Karson that...
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Whiskey Bar

By Drew BixbyApril 10, 2008
My sister once had a moody boyfriend who, once he had a few drinks in him, would transform like a true alcoholic into a ray of smarmy sunshine and say, "Just needed to put a little primer in the tank." Minus the bit about being a manic, sycophantic inebriate, this...
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Passport Privy: Wherein I Try to Hack My Own State Department File

By Sean CroninMarch 21, 2008
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...