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Coates: Actually, ‘Accidental Racist’ is just plain racist

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Country star Brad Paisley has made waves with a recent song that talks directly about issues of race and understanding. But, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic writes, the song probably says a little more than Paisley realizes...

Lotus: Cleaning out the grease

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We asked Luke Miller, guitarist and one-half of the brother team that comprises the core of the funktronica quartet Lotus, about the flyer we came across in Cleveland last January, while we were in town visiting family. It was a little slice of home, not even so much...

Green light for Boulder band Na’an Stop

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The five friends who make up Na’an Stop couldn’t believe they sold out their first headlining show at the Fox Theater last January. It was a big achievement for the reggae-roots band born out of CU-Boulder, which had been slowly gaining recognition around town for ...

A drama in thriller drag

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To quote Public Enemy, “Don’t believe the hype.” To paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, I’m not saying that The Other Place isn’t a good play. It’s a fine play, an all-American play full of good, upstanding people. It’s just that it, like the residents of the trailer park ...

Life before test screenings

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"And then the big Native American smothers him to death with a pillow after he sees that he’s been lobotomized! Wait, Mr. Producer! Where are you going...

CWA: A magnifying glass on art

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When Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, was completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in the late ’60s, he spent a summer as program director for a camp of chronic schizophrenics. The camp took 25 patients from a Boston ...

Update: Film critic Ebert, 70, dies amid cancer battle

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UPDATE: Film critic Roger Ebert has passed away amid a years-long cancer battle, the Chicago Sun-Times announced...

Twitter takes down videos from Vine, after Prince request

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Twitter's Vine, an app that allows users to post brief videos, has apparently taken down several videos at the request of musician Prince...

Justin Bieber’s pet monkey: Stunner, it’s a terrible idea

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It doesn't matter how popular singer Justin Bieber is or how many albums he sells. It's a bad idea for him or for anyone else to own primates as pets...

Read Boston cops’ pathetic attempts at infiltrating DIY punk scene

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Poor police. They don't make the laws, they just have to come up with some way to enforce them — which sometimes means some embarrassing missteps...

Gasoline Lollipops: Through a filter of romance

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Gasoline Lollipops’ founder Clay Rose is tired of people saying that songwriters should just be themselves. Though this may manifest itself more overtly in his side project where band members dress and act like 1920s zombies, Gasoline Lollipops certainly creates its ...