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Dilated Peoples
Monday, June 23, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.
By Michael Roberts
Published: June 19, 2008
Moving from the underground to the overground is difficult in any musical genre, but especially in hip-hop, a populist medium whose participants generally look with suspicion...
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Now Hear This
Faun Fables
Wednesday, June 25, Bender's Tavern, 303-861-7070.
By Michael Roberts
Published: June 19, 2008
At first blush, Dawn McCarthy seems to have been born into the wrong time. After all, the music she makes as the main force behind Faun Fables, supported at this gig by the...
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Critic's Choice
Spiralling Stairs
hi-dive
By Tom Murphy
Published: June 19, 2008
With the demise of Motheater last year, the Denver scene lost one of its brightest lights. Because of its artier, more adventurous use of sound and volume, the outfit never fit...
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Scratching the Surface
Steve Porter
Beta
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 19, 2008
Steve Porter calls his brand of dance music Porterhouse, and if you'll forgive the terrible pun, it is indeed pretty meaty. His mixes are full of thick, dense progressive...
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Bar Back
Q Blues and Jazz Lounge
An oasis of cool in Cherry Creek.
By Jon Solomon
Published: June 19, 2008
I grew up in Cherry Creek North in the '70s and '80s, and it's hard not to think about the days before the Cherry Creek Shopping Center replaced the old mall. To think about...
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Cafe
Wine Experience Cafe
A full place is much more satisfying than an empty room.
By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 19, 2008
I started worrying about Wine Experience Cafe the moment I stepped inside. The place was empty, completely deserted on a day and at an hour when the eighty-seat dining room...
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Bite Me
Wine Time
Blend your own in Boulder
By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 19, 2008
This has been a good year for Colorado's oenophiles. First, Wine Experience Cafe (reviewed this week) brought the pleasures of both the bottle and the table to those neglected...
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Drink of the Week
The Remy Sidecar
Encore Restaurant
By Nancy Levine
Published: June 19, 2008
Several of my friends are known for their favorite cocktail. There's Matt, who drinks Ketel One and still water — and drinks it so often that we've named it the...
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Drunk of the Week
Kiva Restaurant
A happy hour that's the taco the town.
By Drew Bixby
Published: June 19, 2008
It was everywhere, the puppy piss — puddling up on the concrete beneath our chairs, flowing toward the unaware flip-flops and purses underneath the crowded patio tables....
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Second Helping
Cork House
A patio made for procrastinators.
By Jason Sheehan
Published: June 19, 2008
Three years ago this month, Tante Louise finally faded from the Denver restaurant scene, after three decades of good works — including serving as a training ground for...
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Film Feature
The Edge of Heaven
Storylines and cultures crash in this German/Turkish import -- and isn't it arty?
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: June 19, 2008
The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin's intercontinental, cross-cultural...
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Film Feature
The Foot Fist Way
Tae kwon do comedy The Foot Fist Way stars a truly cringe-tastic Danny McBride.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 19, 2008
The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in '06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life...
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Film Feature
Surfwise
Parenting off the grid — and eventually off the reservation — in the alt–family portrait Surfwise.
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 19, 2008
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, "Doc"...
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Film Feature
Mongol
Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan.
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 19, 2008
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI...
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Film Feature
Mister Lonely
Harmony Korine creates a Neverland for celeb impersonators in the singular and sincere Mister Lonely.
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 19, 2008
A man in a Michael Jackson outfit — red shirt, black jeans, white face mask — rides hunched over the tiny frame of a clown bike. Jutting out to his side, attached...
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Flick Pick
Gaia Film Festival
Boulder Theater, Boulder Public Library, St. Julien Hotel
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 19, 2008
The idea behind the Gaia Film Festival is that simple choices can inspire us to make a difference, thus changing the world, one choice at a time. That's why you'll find films...
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Theater
Matt and Ben
Fame is fleeting, and so is the fun here.
By Juliet Wittman
Published: June 19, 2008
This is how the New York Times's 2003 review of Matt and Ben begins: "Is there anyone who isn't sick of Ben Affleck, with his J.Lo and his Gigli and the salaams he elicits when...
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Theater
THE MeLTING BRiDgE
A global warning play that's not so hot.
By Juliet Wittman
Published: June 19, 2008
Thaddeus Phillips, who visits Buntport every year or so, is one of the most interesting theatrical forces around. His Lucidity Suitcase offers proof that all you need for great...
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Encore
Now Playing
Capsule reviews of current shows
By Juliet Wittman
Published: June 19, 2008
The Denver Project. Created by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of New York's UNIVERSES, this is an attempt to bring the realities of life on the streets to us, the well-fed...
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Art
Going Green
Impressionists get back to nature at the Denver Art Museum.
By Michael Paglia
Published: June 19, 2008
It was in the nineteenth century that artists in Europe and the United States, for the first time in millennia, went outside to create their works. This led to a rise in the...
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