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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...
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Cross Purposes

By Gustavo ArellanoFebruary 21, 2008
Dear Mexican: Why do you suppose Mexico has such a hard time getting its act together? It has vast natural resources, good climate, natural ports, super-generous and good-looking neighbors, and plenty of laborers who seem to be willing to do all sorts of crappy jobs. But instead of having a...
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Flick Pick

By Amber TaufenJanuary 17, 2008
According to filmmaker and actor Ash Christian, I am a fat girl. So is he. As explained in Christian's debut film, Fat Girls, anyone can be a fat girl, regardless of gender or body mass index. A fat girl is anyone who doesn't fit in, who's too quirky for the...
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Fat Girls

By Amber TaufenJanuary 17, 2008
According to filmmaker and actor Ash Christian, I am a fat girl. So is he. As explained in Christian's debut film, Fat Girls, anyone can be a fat girl, regardless of gender or body mass index. A fat girl is anyone who doesn't fit in, who's too quirky for the...
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Jane Austen: Literature’s Posthumous It Girl

By Amber TaufenJanuary 10, 2008
Jane Austen is an anomaly. No other author aside from Shakespeare has sustained such modern acclaim and interest. The evidence is abundant: Austen's success on the big screen includes classic versions, such as the 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle, Emma, as well as modern takes on Austen's stories, such as 1995's...
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Campus Press Documents, Part 2: The Voakes Report

By Michael RobertsApril 9, 2008
The April 10 Message column refers to a report by Paul Voakes, dean for the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder, about the Campus Press, CU’s student-operated online newspaper. The de facto investigation into the Press following its publication of “If It’s War the...
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So Chong

By Amber TaufenJanuary 24, 2008
"I'll be seventy years old on May 24," says Tommy Chong. "I can still get it up. That's all I want you to know." Thanks for sharing, Tommy. The soon-to-be septuagenarian -- best known for his work with Cheech Marin in such comedy classics as Cheech & Chong and Up...
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Going, Going, Gone

By Adam Cayton-HollandMay 22, 2008
Jessica Young can remember the exact moment when politics infiltrated what was until then her exclusively biological viewpoint regarding the Gunnison sage grouse. "I was out to breakfast with a lot of different guys from the Division of Wildlife," says Young, then a visiting scholar at Western State College of...
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Fan-Tastic Journey

By Joel WarnerNovember 29, 2007
Wackos. Weirdos. Dorks. That's what we call folks who are so into certain subjects, such as Star Wars figures or Andy Griffith Show trivia, that it makes the rest of us uncomfortable. Denver author Shari Caudron wondered what made such fanatics tick — and she set off across America to...
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The Right Stuffed

By Amber TaufenNovember 15, 2007
Chris Loffelmacher and the rest of the Denver Public Library's Fresh City Life team had their work cut out for them when they decided to tie in cooking demos with the overarching theme "Scene." "Food that you eat with your eyes first," explains Loffelmacher. "Food that tends to be very...
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Boys Will Be Wetboys

By Jared Jacang MaherMay 1, 2008
First things first. The Wetboys are not gay. They're not the Wetfags, or the Homo Skate Crew, or the Denver Dicksuckers, or anything else they've been labeled in the hard-core skater world. Sure, some of them wear tight pants. Yes, their name was cribbed from a gay phone-sex ad. And...