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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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GB Fish & Chips
If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.
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Encore Restaurant
Recycling is good for the planet – and it can taste good, too.
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Rent-a-Cop
Denver's finest protect and serve, whether they're being paid by the city or the corner bar.
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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 (5)
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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Shakeup in Denver Radio (4)
Denver radio's getting a shakeup, with more alterations on the horizon. But do any of the switches qualify as improvements?
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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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Owsley’s Golden Road
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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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Laylights Looks Into the Future
The members of this quartet keep the momentum going on Auricle, their latest disc.
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Tera Melos
Friday, April 18, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.
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Waking Up Daniel Johnston
The tales of this singer-songwriter’s idiosyncracies are not exaggerated.
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Denver Crack Dancers Get Down
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Monolith Line Up Announced
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Lots of Lux
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Fashion Moto 2008
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Carded: Supreme Court OKs Voter Photo ID
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Dale Watson
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N.E.R.D. Gets Its Revenge
When it comes to his passion project, Pharrell Williams puts music ahead of money.
National Features
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The Pitch
Time Bomb in a Bottle
"The idea that you're using sex hormones to make plastic is just totally insane."
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Foreclosure Pets
When homeowners are pushed out, animals get left behind.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
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A judge's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raise eyebrows.
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Village Voice
A Soldier's Story
Remembering the day a black mob lynched a white man.
By Tony Ortega
Subject(s): Boulder Acoustic Society
Boulder Acoustic Society members tend to be characterized as makers of hippie music. By those standards, then, Caged Bird qualifies as first-rate hippie music — a batch of songs that are often deeper, darker and more intriguing than haters of the style typically expect.
The playing of multi-instrumentalists Kailin Young, Brad Jones, Scott Aller, Aaron Keim and Scott McCormick doesn't meander in search of inspiration. It's tight and pungent on the plaintive "Walk" and an unexpectedly sinister version of the Dylan chestnut "Maggie's Farm." And while material such as "Sparrow Weeps" doesn't exactly revolutionize the subgenre, other tunes push at its boundaries, including "In the Year of Our Lord," featuring a muted brass section, and "No Matter What I Do," which finds common ground between bluegrass and rockabilly, with a little yodeling thrown in for good measure.
That's putting the "hip" in hippie.
