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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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Time Bomb in a Bottle
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Foreclosure Pets
When homeowners are pushed out, animals get left behind.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
On Your Honor
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): Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Lots of folk lean on religion when they're trapped and desperate — an inmate facing thirty hard ones, for instance. Nick Cave is a prisoner of sorts, only his cell comes without concrete walls. And he, too, has leaned on Christianity, only recontextualizing its core doctrine to jibe with his principles and compulsions. While fronting the Bad Seeds over the years, the brooding Australian has embraced the darker side of speaking-in-tongues hysteria and modified many of the religion's threadbare parables. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! features more of Cave's singular spiritual ardor in the Bible-meets-the-Bowery narrative of the title track and the twisted evangelism of "Jesus of the Moon." Raw Power-style guitar rock conflates with reimagined chromatic psychedelia throughout, but there's enough sonic Babel to unsteady the soul in the Rust Belt clamor of "We Call Upon the Author." Cave is as trapped and desperate as ever here — which is good, because that's when he's at his unequaled best.
