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Shakeup in Denver Radio
Denver radio's getting a shakeup, with more alterations on the horizon. But do any of the switches qualify as improvements?
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CU Hires Three Pulitzer Winners
Some of newspapering's best and brightest are trading journalism for academia — including three Pulitzer winners hired at CU.
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Sazza
If you must go for gourmet pizza, go to Sazza.
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Crepes ’n Crepes
French food is no flash in the pan.
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Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State
How does DA Carol Chambers beat the high cost of a death-penalty prosecution? By billing the prison system.
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A Cold Case Frozen in Time (10)
Until this cold case heats up, Sharon Skiba is lost in limbo.
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Con Artist Gives Funny Cause for Pregnant Pause (7)
Would you pay $20 to get a scam artist off your front porch?
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Big Trouble (8)
Gary Haney was living the high life until meth took him down.
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To the Max (5)
A publicity-hungry student shows how easy it is to become a media darling -- with a little help from CU.
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Hope for the Colorado Rockies Springs Eternal (5)
A What's So Funny special report from spring training in Tucson.
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Bad Luck City Haunts Denver
These folks like their Americana dark.
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Cue the Cricket
One of Denver’s most storied stages may soon be silenced.
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SXSW 2008 Preview
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Tia Fuller Has Sax Appeal
Find out how this Aurora native wailed her way into Beyonce’s band.
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Boulder Gets a New Elixir
The Purple Martini’s owner opens a club in the People’s Republic.
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Jeffco Cockfighting Bust Nets Four Men, 27 Birds
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John Ashton, Take Two
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Bandicoots: What to Wear and How to Score
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Q&A With Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig
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Look of the Day - Dolce & Gabbana's Newest Male Model
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The Pajamas Letter - Part One
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Bitch is the New Black
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Speech in the City of Brotherly Love
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Recent Articles By Michael Roberts
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Credit Is Due
The Associated Press credits the Rocky Mountain News for a story about Nuggets star Kenyon Martin that Channel 7 broke weeks earlier.
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Vampire Weekend Takes on Its Buzz
Hot on the heels of SXSW, the nation’s hottest buzz band returns to Denver.
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Serj Tankian Goes His Own Way
Even on his own, System’s frontman bucks the system.
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Snoop Dogg
Ego Trippin'
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Something Underground
We Came to Get Down
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National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Twista
Sunday, October 30, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 27, 2005Chicago's Carl Mitchell, aka Twista, isn't a musical or lyrical innovator, but he's got the fastest tongue in hip-hop, and his quick spitting -- and the collaborators he's attracted as a result -- help explain why his career's on the upswing after nearly a decade in the game. His verbal skills are so freakish that he's essentially an instrument in and of himself, and with 2004's Kamikaze, his fourth disc, he finally found a producer who could make the most of them: Kanye West, who turned "Slow Jamz" into an irresistible hit by revving up a Luther Vandross sample to supersonic speed. The success of the cut helped draw enough talent to The Day After, Twista's latest, to compensate for West's absence, including producers Rodney Jerkins and the Neptunes and guest stars such as Pitbull and "Slow Jamz" alum Jamie Foxx. Yet the disc's most effective track is "Girl Tonite," an erotic exercise co-starring Trey Songz that's more likely to cause pregnancy without physical contact than any David Copperfield magic trick. Although Twista, who joins Mike Jones at tonight's KS-107.5 Boo Ball, gets by with a lot of help from his friends, he still gets in his licks.
