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GB Fish & Chips
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Encore Restaurant
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Rent-a-Cop
Denver's finest protect and serve, whether they're being paid by the city or the corner bar.
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Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game (6)
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Fall Into Place
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CU's Campus Press Fights for Independence (3)
A contentious faculty meeting points to independence for CU-Boulder's student newspaper — but at what cost?
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Shakeup in Denver Radio (4)
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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Deconstructing the DNA of a Denver Post Pulitzer Finalist (3)
Critics raise questions regarding an impressive Post series shortly after it's named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Pole-Dance Princess
Lori Huett combines yoga, Pilates and sexy moves for an all-out workout.
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Smokin' Hot
Help pick the 2009 Colorado Firefighter Calendar cover boy.
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Belly Up With the Bard
Celebrate National Poetry Month with a special brew.
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Gregory Alan Isakov
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Voice of the City
Kevin Larson puts on a Vaudeville show.
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Denver Crack Dancers Get Down
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Lots of Lux
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Carded: Supreme Court OKs Voter Photo ID
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By Tony Ortega
Stephen Brackett's intuition was unbelievably strong — when it came to Jamie Laurie, anyway. On his first day at Bradley Elementary, the wide-eyed fourth-grader took one look at the fifth-grader across the schoolyard and whispered to his father, "Hey, Dad, that guy's going to be my friend."
"And then," Brackett says, looking over at Laurie, "you introduced yourself to me, didn't you?"
"Uh," Laurie demurs, "that part I don't remember."
"Ha, ha!" says Brackett, laughing. "That's where the story breaks down. Whew! Cue the sappy violins."
Clearly, Laurie, aka Jonny 5, isn't as sentimental about their first encounter. Nonetheless, his friendship with Brackett, who performs alongside him under the name Brer Rabbit, is the foundation on which Flobots built their insurgent hip-hop crew. Beneath the passionate words calling for social change, railing against injustice and decrying the current war effort, there's a kinship and a deep, sincere mutual admiration.
"The music that we make is pretty weighted with messages," Brackett declares. "And it wouldn't be effective if it was just Jamie's vision and the rest of us were just like session guys. That's another thing that's really helped us — we have people that we already knew, so we could trust each other to make the music, and in that way, like, we've sort of become the musicians that we needed to be to do what we wanted."
Read more here.
Fri., April 25, 9 p.m., 2008
