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1. Feature

   Going My Way

   Meet us on Alameda, where cultures collide. In a good way.

   Published: July 24, 2008

   William Newton Byers gave Denver a newspaper and a street, and one of them is in no danger of disappearing. The same year he founded the Rocky Mountain News, in 1859, Byers...

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   Punch It Up

   The Punch Brothers headline etown.

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: July 24, 2008

   In the acoustic-music realm, über-mandolinist Chris Thile needs no introduction, but some of his Punch Brothers bandmates, regrettably, might. Guitarist Chris Eldridge,...

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   Home and Away

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: July 24, 2008

   The feature film Where God Left His Shoes deals with an issue many people don’t like to think about: family homelessness. “It really helps people understand what...

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   Bringing Sexy Back

   Grin and bare it at this lingerie party.

   By Aubrey Shoe

   Published: July 24, 2008

   With the dog days of summer upon us, it’s tempting to strip down to your skivvies and sit at home sipping a cool drink with the A/C cranked up to full blast. Venturing out...

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   Planetary Vibes

   Swallow Hill celebrates world-fusion folk music.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Explore the sounds of Eastern Europe filtered through a contemporary lens tonight when the Swallow Hill Music Association brings the sounds of Luminescent Orchestrii, Los...

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   Sweet and Spicy

   Tijuana Sweetcakes heats up Lannie’s.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: July 24, 2008

   The lineup for the musical act Tijuana Sweetcakes reads like a who’s who of Denver’s cabaret scene: Kim Franco on vocals, piano and percussion; Dario Rosa on vocals...

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   Big Scooter Nights

   By Erin Vanderberg

   Published: July 24, 2008

   For Colin Shattuck, it all started with ska music. The founder of Sportique Scooters had always loved the rude-boy lifestyle, and when he grew up, he wrote the book on it: Red...

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   Summertime Brews

   Microbrews, music and more infiltrate the Coors Field parking lot.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: July 24, 2008

   I love beer. Ales, stouts, pilsners, lambics — I love them all. In the summer heat, my love affair with beer evolves into something like a full-blown obsession. Lucky for...

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   Cake or Death

   Eddie Izzard takes the Paramount Theatre stage.

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Eddie Izzard’s heady and manic standup routines ramble like some Ritalin-popping offspring of a transvestite and my favorite Baileys-and-coffee-swilling professor....

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    Dog Days of Summer

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: July 24, 2008

    “Nathan’s has its contest on the Fourth of July,” notes Steve Ballas of Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs. “They have official competitors eating 65 hot dogs,...

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    A Taste of Italy

    By Aubrey Shoe

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Italy has always enchanted me. I was twenty when I first floated through the canals of Venice at dusk, and the magic of the twinkling Rialto bridge was enough to draw me back...

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    Soap Box

    The Art Students League of Denver raises its voice.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: July 24, 2008

    I think the world is going to shit. And not in that new-age, Nostradamus, Mayan-calendar doomsday-silliness sense — in the we...

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    Mi Casa, Su Casa

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 24, 2008

    How Gregorio Alcaro and Trinidad “Trini” Gonzalez — cousins whose family members started the Casa Mayan restaurant in Auraria in the 1930s and maintained it into...

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    Good Judgment

    The Animation Show 4 goes deep.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Mike Judge is a deeper guy than you might have thought. That’s the only way to explain why The Animation Show 4, the latest in a series of independent animation...

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    Mötley Crüe

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 24, 2008

    When veteran groups release albums long after their commercial prime, they’re routinely described as new. But this last word usually belongs in quotes — a point...

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    The Assault is On

    New Belgium Brewing Company hosts an adventure.

    By Crow Jonah Norlander

    Published: July 24, 2008

    For those who pine for the days of their carefree youth but don’t want to sacrifice their booze, New Belgium Brewing Company is offering a happy compromise: the Urban...

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    Sweet Tooth

    Get your cupcake fix at a Fresh City Life demonstration.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: July 24, 2008

    The British sometimes call cupcakes “fairy cakes.” Maybe that touch of magic explains the recent cupcake renaissance — which you’ll have noticed unless...

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    Space Cadets

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Alternative spaces often feature the work of emerging artists, and that, of course, means their offerings are a mixed bag, and most often, the shows aren’t very good. But...

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    Fast Times

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Cydney Payton has scoured the world looking for exciting cutting edge art. Her latest pick is Israeli-born...

20. Art

    Payton's Place

    After seven years of moving up, MCA director Cydney Payton is moving on.

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Last week, Cydney Payton, curator and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, announced that she was stepping down, effective this fall. My reaction to the news,...