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Could Denver Have a Better Music Scene Than L.A.?

When you live in Los Angeles, you don’t really think about music scenes anywhere else. Why would you? L.A. has it all. Sure, you might occasionally give a passing nod to cool shit going on in other places. Kudos to Seattle for that grunge run way back when. And, yeah,...
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Léa Seydoux Enthralls in a Patchy Diary of a Chambermaid

Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named Célestine, has famously been adapted twice before, by two of cinema’s immortals. Benoît Jacquot’s uneven take on the material won’t challenge the stature...
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With The Magic, Deerhoof Finally Captures the Energy of Its Live Show

Deerhoof has been unleashing frenetic, eccentric rock music upon the world since 1994. That the San Francisco-based band's sound is impossible to pigeonhole has long been a part of its appeal. It has never aimed to embrace a single genre or genre at all beyond loosely categorized "rock." “We've never...
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Little Machine Beer

Robots make some people nervous, but not at Little Machine Beer, where their faces decorate the tap handles and their images run throughout the brewery. In fact, Little Machine has one of the most laid-back, friendliest atmospheres around – in addition to great beer across a wide range of styles. Part of that is the […]
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Happy Hour at Sugarmill Is a Prelude to a Sweet Serenade

The hip-hop booming from Los Chingones fades into '80s AOR as you enter Sugarmill. Though conjoined physically as well as spiritually as part of Troy Guard's TAG Restaurant Group, the two restaurants take very different places in the TAG empire. Chingones is loud, spicy, lascivious. Sugarmill is forthright and laid...
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Chef Lonni Byrd on Vegan Soul Food and Love, Peace & Sol Cafe

Vegan soul food? Isn’t that concept a little odd, like baseball without a seventh-inning stretch, or a backyard barbecue without beer? Not to Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, a vegan soul-food restaurant that opened in Park Hill this winter. “We knew the anomaly of...
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NORML’s Erik Altieri on Trump and Pot: We Need to Be Ready to Stand and Fight

In a recent interview, University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin outlined three ways Donald Trump could shut down state-legal marijuana — a prospect that has raised increasing levels of concern among cannabis reformers since the president-elect's nomination of pot-hating Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. Erik Altieri, executive director...
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Why Colorado Tokers Love Grape Ape

Sharing weed stories has become commonplace over the past ten years or so. As with sexcapades, drunken stupors and fisherman’s tales, everyone has a story about some one-hitter strain that took them higher than they’d ever been. More than half the time, those stories begin with the words “This purple...
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The Oh Hellos on C.S. Lewis, Christian Art and Learning to Trust the Music Industry

Hailing from Southern Texas, the Oh Hellos are a brother-sister duo turned ten-piece band, and they're bringing their Celtic-influenced style to Denver's Ogden Theatre on Thursday, September 29. Identified by slightly harrowing vocals, somber strings and celebratory eruptions of drum and choral cheers, the Oh Hellos captivate listeners with intensely emotional harmonies...
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“Die, Woman”: More Female Guards Describe Denver Jail as House of Horrors

In November 2015, two female deputies with the Denver Sheriff Department filed a lawsuit alleging that Denver County Jail is a house of horrors for female guards. The complaint suggested that profane verbal abuse, sexual harassment and intentional masturbation are common occurrences at the facility and argued that female deputies are "discouraged...
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Miami Comes to Denver With the Cuba Bakery & Cafe

Denver isn’t home to many Cubans or Cuban-Americans; there are fewer than 6,500 in the entire state of Colorado, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. As a result, the number of Cuban restaurants in the metro area can be counted on one hand. There’s Cuba Cuba, the breezy, upscale eatery...
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Being Téchiné: Five Decades Into a Great Career, the Auteur Opens Up

In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more than 40 years explored sexual self-awakening, alienation and family strife in films notable for their consistency and...
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Another Craigslist Shooting — This Time Over a Ford

A little over a month after a shooting associated with a Craigslist ad, police are tying gun play in Lakewood to the online sales site. One man was hospitalized as a result of the incident; at this writing, his condition was unknown, although his injuries are described as not life-threatening...