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The Curious Skeptic

October 14, 2009 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

J. Allen Danelek isn’t a ghost hunter or a UFO conspiracy theorist or a hypnotist specializing in past life regressions, but he has written the book on the subject. All of them, in fact.

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As Oktoberfest approaches and you prepare for polka music and brats, let’s celebrate what unites us as Coloradans: beer. Here, we raise our glasses to fall beer, locally brewed Märzens and our hop-loving forefathers.

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Beyond the Axe

September 10, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

On Aug. 13, the most important living person in rock and roll history died due to complications from pneumonia. He was 94 years old. And he invented the solid-body electric guitar.

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Irish Rockers Flogging Molly

September 10, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

Flogging Molly is a breath of boisterous emerald bombast, a Jameson-and-Guinness-soaked septet whose music captures the working-class Irish mythos. Here, mandolin/banjo virtuoso Bob Schmidt talks about family life and thriving on an indie-label…

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The Dreamy Jason Mraz

September 10, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

Jason Mraz’s hit single, “I’m Yours” might just be the most played single in radio history. As he puts it, it’s the “happy little hippie song” that legions of fans have gravitated too. Here, Jason talks about that lightning in…

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Remember the Time

August 17, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

By the time you read this, it won’t exactly be timely, but at this point, I can’t really fathom writing about anything else.

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Grandpa Pete’s Vodka Recipe Lives

August 17, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

The story behind 303Vodka is almost as good as the smooth, 80 proof potato concoction it describes. Almost.

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9 Questions with Country Crooner Darius Rucker

August 17, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

He is not Hootie. If you still need an explanation around that one, turn in your iPod, as it has been revoked. Darius Rucker’s success with Hootie and the Blowfish wasn’t the end of the line for him. Since then,…

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Duly Noted: Reach Out and Violate Someone’s Right

July 22, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Thanks for nothing, Judge Walker. Last month, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in favor of AT&T in its landmark wiretapping case, upholding the law former President George W. Bush signed in 2008 effectively immunizing from prosecution all telecommunications.

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Burrus at the Bar: High-Octane Beer Gets the Wine Treatment

July 22, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Big beer. It’s a creeper trend that has, in the past year or so, gone ballistic as evidenced by the proliferation of high-alcohol, massively hopped special brews often sporting familiar names with “imperial” bolted on the front. Avery’s Maharaja Imperial…