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The Good Soldier
When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, it messed with the wrong coward.
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Ultrarunning Gets Younger – and Faster
Tony Krupicka takes his sport to new extremes.
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Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game
Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.
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Fisher Clark Urban Delicatessen
Man does not live by bread alone – but you could come close here.
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Encore Restaurant
Recycling is good for the planet – and it can taste good, too.
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Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game (6)
Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.
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Vonnegut (4)
Fall Into Place
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CU's Campus Press Fights for Independence (3)
A contentious faculty meeting points to independence for CU-Boulder's student newspaper — but at what cost?
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Sunshine Megatron to Move From T-Shirt Hell (3)
Should millionaire T-shirt mogul Sunshine Megatron make Denver his new neighborhood? You be the judge.
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Deconstructing the DNA of a Denver Post Pulitzer Finalist (3)
Critics raise questions regarding an impressive Post series shortly after it's named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Vampire Weekend Takes on Its Buzz
Hot on the heels of SXSW, the nation’s hottest buzz band returns to Denver.
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The Swayback Raises the Bar
Long Gone Lads, this trio’s long-awaited album, is a painstaking work of art.
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Mile Highlights From South by Southwest
Nathaniel Rateliff puts his voice in peril while other locals prove themselves worthy of national acclaim.
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Waking Up Daniel Johnston
The tales of this singer-songwriter’s idiosyncracies are not exaggerated.
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Laylights Looks Into the Future
The members of this quartet keep the momentum going on Auricle, their latest disc.
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Barfly Taxonomy: The Faux Roller
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Q&A with Artist Ray Young Chu
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Over the Weekend...Ian Cooke and Laylights @ Bluebird Theater
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Friday Rap-Up: Locals Get Radio Play, Foxy Brown, Jay-Z, Beyonce, 50 Cent, Young Buck
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Look of the Day - Chelley Canales
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The Pajamas Letter - Part Four
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Delegating Denver #39 of 56: Ohio
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Denver in 103
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Subject(s): Gnarls Barkley
We expect a lot from our crossover pop stars nowadays, even from a duo as inspired as Gnarls Barkley, aka DJ Danger Mouse, and Cee-Lo Green. We expect guilt-free-yet-radio-worthy earworms like "Crazy," not to mention genuine pathos, both of which the act somehow managed to deliver on its debut, St. Elsewhere. By these standards, The Odd Couple does not entirely succeed. Catchy songs such as "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)" and "Going On" aren't especially introspective, while introspective tracks like "Whatever" and "She Knows" lack St. Elsewhere's improvised feel. Even so, The Odd Couple is a well-crafted, consistent album that should get better with age. Cee-Lo's manic-depressive shtick is strangely endearing, and Danger Mouse effortlessly mines '60s and '70s Top 40 and soul samples while throwing wildly inventive beats into the mix, as on "Blind Mary" and "Open Book." Overall, the album maintains an avant-garde sensibility that, yes, still works as pop.
