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Love, Irish style
The Political Correctness Police seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the Irish. Racial slurs against African Americans, Asians, etc. are obviously right out. Heaven forbid you should question Caitlyn Jenner’s beauty or courage. And you can’t call the 350-pound...
Book events | Week of Feb. 6
Thursday, January 6 Karen Douglass. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495- 3303. Caregiving for the Genius — by Jane Barton. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070. Scent of Butterflies — by Dora ...
hewn and hallowed
full moon poetryjagged and rawbleeding from the woundsof an ancestral saw
back and forth as it goesthrough the passage of timewith these hands, grandfatherthat cannot...
All roads lead to Rowan
Peter Rowan is one of those risk-takers who’s so dexterous in his abilities as a bluegrass guitarist that he can play with just about anyone, under any circumstances. And it’s this versatility that placed him in the middle of some of those legendary moments in the ...
No music, no life
Tower Records was once the place where many gathered to hear great new music, tell their friends about a record they just heard and, most importantly, to purchase it. Tower Records was the place where Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl worked the ...
Bayou burden
It's not the stuff on the TV Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit’s singing about. Not the “may cause side effects,” hyper-disclaimered, check-with-your-doctor-first gel cap in the reassuringly pastel boxes...
The sun comes out today
When you’ve seen Annie as many times as I have, it’s easy to dread another couple of hours spent with that plucky, Depression-era redhead,...
Progress via antiquity
During the 2011 Communikey Festival, a few hundred local hipsters packed the obscure and highly under-used Odd Fellows Hall on Pearl Street to see why Dark Dark Dark — a poignant Minneapolis-based indie-pop and chamber-folk group that plays old-world instruments — ...
Kevin Costner on His ‘Fearless’ Life, Family and Returning to the...
Call it the softening of Kevin Costner. When asked about his new History miniseries, Hatfields & McCoys...