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1. Feature

   Ultrarunning Gets Younger – and Faster

   Tony Krupicka takes his sport to new extremes.

   By Alan Prendergast

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Three things you need to know right away about Tony Krupicka: First, the guy loves to run. Loves it. He cruises the trails above Colorado Springs three, four, even six hours a...

2. Night & Day

   Park Place

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Remember when you could watch free plays in Civic Center Park during the summer? That was awesome. All you needed for a great night out was a blanket, a cooler full of snacks...

3. What's So Funny?

   Missionary Position

   Funny instructs the Big Apple on the art of the Denver dick joke.

   By Adam Cayton-Holland

   Published: April 10, 2008

   I was standing on line, as the Yankees say, watching a situation escalate in a bodega on the Upper West Side. A large Indian man, distressed and in a hurry, was barking the...

4. News

   Bad Execution

   A judge removes DA Carol Chambers from a death-penalty case -- and blasts prosecution misconduct.

   By Alan Prendergast

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Defense attorneys have accused her of running a death machine, but the wheels came off Carol Chambers's rattling apparatus this week. On Monday a judge ruled that Chambers, the...

5. Ask A Mexican

   Identity Crisis

   Having your Social Security number stolen makes for a taxing situation.

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Dear Mexican: On my desk is a levy from the Internal Revenue Service for over $12,000 in unpaid taxes. Turns out some dude used my Social Security number for two years in...

6. The Message

   CU's Campus Press Fights for Independence

   A contentious faculty meeting points to independence for CU-Boulder's student newspaper — but at what cost?

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: April 10, 2008

   University of Colorado at Boulder journalism professor Michael Tracey has never previously suffered from camera shyness. Indeed, back in August 2006, when bogus confessor John...

7. Letters

   Letters to the Editor

   Letters from the week of 4/10/2008

   Published: April 10, 2008

   "Target Practice," Jared Jacang Maher, April 3 Give the Man a Hand In "Target Practice," one thing clearly stands out: Jason T. Gomez didn't die from a policeman's...

8. Music

   Laylights Looks Into the Future

   The members of this quartet keep the momentum going on Auricle, their latest disc.

   By Eryc Eyl

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Sometimes it's hard to look back on your past. With a mixture of shame, sadness and nostalgia, you leaf through your baby pictures, grade-school love letters, high-school...

9. The Beatdown

   Crunk Dialing

   3OH!3 extends its coverage area thanks to a new deal with Photo Finish Records.

   By Dave Herrera

   Published: April 10, 2008

   It's official: Nathaniel Motte and Sean Foreman, the pair of hooligans known collectively as 3OH!3, are no longer free agents. "We sent the contract in the other day," Motte...

10. Rough Mixes

    Blitzen Trapper Keeps It Short

    Brevity is a strong suit for the frontman of this Portland band.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 10, 2008

    If brevity is truly the soul of wit, then Eric Earley, the lead vocalist and guitarist for Oregon's Blitzen Trapper, is the cleverest man on the planet. Earley's not the...

11. Rough Mixes

    Freeloader

    The best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads.

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: April 10, 2008

    There isn't much demand for tap dancers these days, so kudos to Omaha's Tilly and the Wall for employing Jaime Pressnall in place of a traditional percussionist. (She also...

12. Rough Mixes

    Meet Jim Rome’s Favorite Band

    Vendetta Valentine has a nation of clones behind it.

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: April 10, 2008

    On There's Nothing Safe, Vendetta Valentine's latest, the Los Angeles-based trio draws inspiration from George Orwell's 1984, touching upon topics ranging from Big Brother to...

13. Playlist

    Gnarls Barkley

    The Odd Couple
    Atlantic

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: April 10, 2008

    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...

14. Playlist

    She & Him

    Volume One
    Merge Records

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 10, 2008

    With the possible exception of the three people who look back fondly on Bruce Willis's recording career, we're well acquainted with the eardrum damage that can occur when...

15. Locals Only

    Vonnegut

    Fall Into Place
    Self-released

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Literary references abound on Vonnegut's EP, beginning with the band's moniker and continuing through songs such as "So It Goes" and "Burn Victim," which nod, respectively, to...

16. Locals Only

    Good Housekeeping

    Kind as Summer EP
    Self-released

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Kind as Summer's opening track, "Hanging in the Hollow," reveals Good Housekeeping's influence almost immediately — specifically, you'll hear the lounge end of '60s...

17. Sound Bites

    Mini Reviews

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Ben Allison, Little Things Run the World (Palmetto). Ben Allison is a brilliant composer, and here he's cooked up another batch of adventurous originals as well as a reworking...

18. Now Hear This

    Meshuggah

    Saturday, April 12, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Ministry, the headlining act on this date, plans to disband following its current tour, and that's probably just as well: Cover Up, a just-released disc filled with new...

19. Now Hear This

    In Flames

    Saturday, April 12, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-837-0360.

    By Eryc Eyl

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Walking the line between brutality and accessibility can be tricky for a bad-ass metal band. Metallica, for example, gained more radio play than ever with its infamous "black...

20. Now Hear This

    Pattern Is Movement

    Saturday, April 12, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Although Pattern Is Movement often gets lumped in with the whole math-rock phenomenon, the Philadelphia outfit's sound is much more organic and far less sterile and wanky than...