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   Boys Will Be Wetboys

   It was fun while it lasted — but now MTV wants to mainstream Colorado's weirdest skateboarders.

   By Jared Jacang Maher

   Published: May 1, 2008

   First things first. The Wetboys are not gay. They're not the Wetfags, or the Homo Skate Crew, or the Denver Dicksuckers, or anything else they've been labeled in the hard-core...

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   Harping on It

   Harptallica enters like a sandman.

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Metallica is a magnet for performers dedicated to covering the band's music in a manner 180 degrees removed from its noisy, aggressive origins. Consider Fade to Bluegrass: The...

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   Redoing Denver

   The Parker Road Players take John Denver's music to Aurora.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Join the Parker Road Players for Almost Denver: The Songs and Failures of Jim Aurora, a John Denver parody that pokes fun at the legend by creating a "forgotten" fictional folk...

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   Golden Oldies

   Classic cars hit the streets for the Super Cruise.

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: May 1, 2008

   When Michael Mason was younger, he and his friends used to cruise downtown Denver in their parents' cars. "When you're young, you want to get older, and when you're older, you...

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   Go, Dog, Go!

   PETCO seeks the nation's fastest Chihuahua.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: May 1, 2008

   I am the proud owner of an 81-pound Victorian bulldog named Marshall. He’s the best dog on the planet, and I wouldn't trade him for anything. But there will always be a...

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   Talking Shop

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: May 1, 2008

   The fruits of the regional retail union known as the Original Shopping Districts are finally beginning to ripen, as evidenced by tonight's Ladies Only Sample Tour event, taking...

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   Sex Science

   Mary Roach's new book takes on the wild side of research.

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Polyester might not wrinkle like its natural-fabric cousins, but neither will this disco child get you laid. Well, actually, it won't get rats laid. In Mary Roach's new book,...

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   FutboLucha

   There's no faking fouls in this game.

   By Adam Cayton-Holland

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Truth be told, El Hijo del Santo probably could have ridden comfortably on his father's coattails. The son of legendary professional wrestler and Mexican icon El Santo, El Hijo...

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   Quiet Death

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: May 1, 2008

   What is it about Trevor Appleson's new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver that reminds me of Cormac McCarthy's prose? Is it the intense quiet, the obsessive...

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    Making Raves

    Get excited about the first Denver Food Rave.

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 1, 2008

    I've been raving about Jeff "Maestro" Hughes, a violinist whose music mixes hip-hop sensibilities with classical technique, since I first clicked on his website...

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    Children of the Corn

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 1, 2008

    In Pueblo mythology, the Corn Mother is the ultimate earth mother: Like the corn she emulates, this deity dies and is renewed again and again, carrying in her kernel the very...

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    Poetry Perfect

    Local wordsmith Andrea Gibson releases her latest work.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 1, 2008

    When we asked poet Andrea Gibson about the significance of her poetry collection's title, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, she had this to say: "One night, my girlfriend and I...

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    Give 'em the Boots

    Fresh City Life fashion faces West.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 1, 2008

    A visitation of things both "wild" and "Western" couldn't possibly be complete without a style element, so the concept of the Fresh City Life exhibit I Wanna Be a Cowboy, and...

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    On the Wagon

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 1, 2008

    lthough we no longer live in the days of the Wild West, it's tough to get away from our Western roots here in Denver, with events like the National Western Stock Show,...

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    Talkin' Trailer Trash

    Connect with an interactive work of art.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Artist Sherri Lynn Wood likes to say that her Mantra Trailer is "parked at the intersection of imagination, evangelism and propaganda." Inspired early on by slogan-swathed...

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    Feeding Frenzy

    Alto's Wine Dinner in the Dark heightens the senses.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Eating in the dark might be a recent trend, but jumping on a bandwagon was the last thing on Greg Goldfogel’s mind when the Alto owner conceptualized tonight's Wine Dinner...

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    Spiked

    Spike Lee talks about doing the right thing.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Spike Lee, who speaks under the auspices of the University of Colorado Denver tonight, is among the most fascinating and frustrating of modern directors. He's extremely...

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    Bear Market

    Brush up on the Elements of Style.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 1, 2008

    A lot of women need to be kicked out of their houses this time of year, like mama bears from their dens, and forced to put on makeup, buy new outfits and rejoin the real world....

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    Cho Funny

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Standup comedy is best seen live. The atmosphere of a live set (not to mention the alcohol usually involved) has caused me to laugh at jokes that I didn't actually think were...

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    The B-52's

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Funplex, the B-52's' first album in sixteen years, pumps up the volume, cranks the guitars, and rocks harder than anything the veteran group has done since its 1979 debut....