Volume 33, Issue 20 - Feb. 10, 2011

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Ladies stay on top of RMAC Back-to-back wins keep women tied for No. 1 spot in conference

By Mark Babish mbabish@mscd.edu

Metro forward Cassandra Bratton goes for a layup against Colorado Christian University’s Stephanie Allen Feb. 4 at the Cougar Center . The Metro Women’s team won both games and finished the weekend at the top of the RMAC and ranked No. 12 in the national poll. Photo by Andy Schlichting, Special to The Metropolitan

NEWS

Construction in 2012 to claim more parking spots • 3 Homecoming to be largest ever • 3

The nationally ranked Metro women’s basketball team was in need of a dominating road performance — and on Feb. 4 that is exactly what they got.

“For our program, this game is huge,” Head Coach Tanye Haave said. “We needed a statement game. We needed a win in a big gym versus a big program.”

The ’Runners traveled to take on Colorado Christian, who sit in third place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference standings and fourth in the Central Region rankings. Earlier this year, Metro beat the Cougars, 72-56 at Auraria Event Center.

In the rematch, CCU came out with a chip on its shoulder, having lost two straight and falling from a tie for first place. CCU senior guard Jodie Krall gave the raucous crowd something to cheer about as she helped the Cougars to an early 14-8 lead, scoring eight points.

“We knew they were going to come out on fire and they did,” junior guard Alyssa Benson said. “They’re a great team and it just shows that we’re that much better. [We’re] working that much harder.”

In the first half, Metro could not have thrown the ball in an ocean from long range; shooting 0-10 from the 3-point line. The ’Runners did manage to grab 12 offensive rebounds in the first half alone, which kept them in the game as they only shot 28 percent from the field. Metro went into halftime down 24-23.

Haave’s squad came out of halftime and started firing on all cylinders. Sophomore guard Emily Wood scored the first nine points of the half hitting three long-range shots to give Metro an eight-point lead.

“I was just feeling it, so I kept shooting them,” Wood said.

CCU cut the deficit to four points after junior forward Kelsey Hert scored two of her eight points on the night. That would be the closest the Cougars would get the rest of the

night as Metro responded with a 15-5 run over the next six minutes to extend the lead to double digits.

The ’Runners defense in the second half was their best performance all season. They only allowed CCU’s offense to score 11 points in 16 minutes. After scoring a team high of 10 points in the first half, Krall was held scoreless in the second frame; only firing off two shots.

“We picked up ball pressure on her [Krall] and luckily she didn’t make any [shots],” Wood said.

Benson would pace the team with 16 points coming off a career high 24 points vs. Mesa State, Jan. 29. Three other players joined Benson in double figures, including junior guard Jasmine Cervantes who was one rebound shy of a double-double.

The following evening, Feb. 5, the ladies braved the snow and cold and traveled to Golden to take on the Orediggers at Colorado School of Mines. Metro would win the game, 64-54, against an injury-ridden Mines team.

Once again Metro fell behind early, thanks to Mines’ great guard play. This time it was junior Stephanie Fogle torching the ’Runners for 13 first-half points. Mines went up by as many as five in the first half before Metro cut the deficit to one at halftime, 27-26. “[Haave] was pretty upset, we weren’t playing our game,” sophomore guard Kristen Valencia said. “She just wanted us to be more aggressive and play our game” The Orediggers would not go down easily as they kept the lead all the way to the midway point in the second half. Metro’s freshman guard Sullivan Zigler tied up the game with her only two points of the night. Once again it was Benson who came through, hitting three clutch 3-pointers down the stretch to give Metro the lead.

The ’Runners would hang on and hit their free throws to clinch the victory. Metro is still tied with Fort Lewis College for the top spot in RMAC standings.

In the latest Women’s Basketball Coaches of America poll, the ladies are ranked No. 12.

They continue on the road to take on Nebraska-Kearney and Chadron State, Feb. 11 and 12.

METROSPECTIVE Denver native marries night life and poetry • 10 Metro student’s passion, exhibit open in gallery • 9

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EWS

“The biggest downside of rebranding Metro’s name will be a probable tuition increase. A university name implies higher tuition and with it, a higher quality education.”

— STAFF EDITORIAL • INSIGHT • 7

CCD parks building in lot

By Brittney Dahl bdahl4@mscd.edu A new building for CCD will be erected in an Auraria parking lot, costing campus another 197 spaces.

An authorized ground lease to develop the Student Learning and Engagement Building for the community college was made at the Auraria board meeting Jan. 26.

Plans for the new building are in continual progress from the Auraria Higher Education Center’s meeting Oct. 27, where the board first approved the site for CCD’s first neighborhood building.

The new independent building will be located at Lot L on the corner of 7th and Curtis Streets, adjacent to the 9th Street Historic Park.

Ground breaking will be sometime in spring 2012.

“CCD is commencing with the development of their own neighborhood, similar to Metro State starting with the first phase of their neighborhood, located over on 9th and Auraria Parkway,” said Barbara Weiske, interim executive vice president for administration.

The new building will house CCD’s student services, additional classroom space, faculty offices, a cafeteria, meeting spaces and an outdoor green space that will be available to students, she said.

The building is consistent with the 2007 Auraria Master Plan developed to handle campus growth.

Under the plan, Auraria will develop into neighborhoods for each

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www.bit.ly/met-lots school, Weiske said. The neighborhoods are to support educational objectives of the three institutions for learning in and out of the classroom.

Lot L is currently reserved for permit parking.

Those with permits will park in Lot K starting in 2012 after construction starts, said Mark Gallagher, parking director for AHEC. “People who currently park in Lot K will need to find other parking,” Gallagher said.

While there is no plan to recover the spaces lost from Lot L, AHEC hopes to re-establish lots lost due to other construction projects, Gallagher said.

“For the long term, we hope to re-establish lots B and F. The light rail has to finish construction, before we could start building other lots,” Gallagher said.

The loss of more parking will affect peak hours in the afternoon, Gallagher said.

Faculty and staff will have less of a strain if they arrive at campus in the morning, he said.

“Professors that come in later will have a hard time parking,” Gallagher said. “There are peak hours between noon and 1 p.m., which makes it very difficult for people coming in at that time,” Gallagher said.

By Ramsey Scott rscott42@mscd.edu Metro’s 2011 homecoming is billed as one of the most ambitious events the college has ever put on.

Yet, in trying to break the mold of previous years, the planning committees have learned exactly what efforts organizing an event like this entails: a lot.

“We’ve found ourselves over the last two months or so really scrambling to pull all the pieces together,” Interim Assistant Director of Student Activities Matt Brinton said.

Traditionally, the Alumni Association and the Athletic Department have largely handled the homecoming events. It was not until early

November that Metro’s Student Government Assembly and the Alumni Association started working together.

Student Activities also joined in the planning.

Each group had been planning events on its own which led to confusion and double-booking of rooms through Auraria Higher Education Center.

SGA President Sammantha O’Brien believes combining resources with the other organizations, the school has an opportunity to create a community of Metro students.

“There is a lot of potential that has not been tapped into in the past,” O’Brien said.

Many issues stemmed from the ambitious nature of this year’s homecoming events and a lack of deadlines within the Campus Homecoming Planning Committee, said Brinton.

“The committee lacked one clear voice to speak for the group,” Brinton

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CCD student Erin Jankowski walks past Lot L Feb. 8. Lot L, at the corner of 7th and Curtis Streets, will be the future home of CCD’s first neighborhood building. CCD will break ground for The Student Learning and Engagement Building in spring 2012.

Photo by Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.edu

Headaches a plenty from homecoming Metro’s celebrations go on, despite some organizational glitches

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Homecoming happenings

For a complete list of events visit www.mscd. edu/homecoming said.

O’Brien said it was hard coming up with firm budgets since many of the events, like the Feb. 17 bonfire, have never been done on campus.

O’Brien also pointed to issues with red tape when trying to procure help from different college organizations.

“There is an extreme bureaucracy on campus,” O’Brien said.

Each organization was quick to praise the others for their efforts in planning homecoming and believed any issues with this year’s homecoming could easily be remedied by next year.

“The idea was to synergize a number of different events,” said Stacey Gooddard, manager of budgeting and procurement for the President’s Office. The goal was to raise awareness among students and the community about everything Metro has to offer by combining the homecoming event with Metro’s 45th anniversary.

Goddard believes another problem surrounding homecoming stems from so many events being planned in one week.

“Whenever you get a committee planning things, there is always the hard part of where the rubber meets the road,” Goddard said.

Part of making the events’ impact on campus last is by mending the ways in which homecoming is planned. Brinton said that the planning committee would be meeting the Monday after homecoming week to analyze what worked and what could be improved for next year.

Continuing coverage of Metro’s homecoming celebration all week: photos, stories and updated schedules.

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African American conference looks to past, future Black history should be discussed year round, speaker says

By Ryen Robnett rrobnet1@mscd.edu African American history does not have to stop at the Civil Rights Movement, students from Auraria, East and Montbello high schools were told at the African American Leadership Conference.

The Feb. 4 conference was hosted

by Tamara Johnson, interim director of Student Life at CCD, Ryan Ross, director of the Educational Opportunity Center at CCD, and Brother Jeff ’s Community Health Initiative.

“The African American Leadership Conference is an annual conference that is held in February that is designed to encourage students to think about their past as well as their future,” Johnson said. “The goal is to help students become activists. It’s a great way to get high school students on a college campus and to help them understand that college is possible.”

The conference focused on issues impacting African American youth.

Jeff Fard, better known as Brother Jeff, discussed everything from slavery to obscenity in hip-hop lyrics.

“Black history is not only slavery, George Washington Carver and

Jeff Fard, or Brother Jeff, speaks Feb. 4 in the Tivoli Turnhalle. He said black history does not end with Martin Luther King Jr. and includes a variety of issues. Photo by Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.edu Martin Luther King Jr.; Black history is also Tupac,” Brother Jeff said.

Brother Jeff is a writer and a community organizer from Northeast Denver who speaks to students, professionals and social organizations about activism and the importance of recognizing issues that affect the African American community.

Teenagers not graduating from high school or not enrolling in college is another problem the community is dealing with, Brother Jeff said.

He asked the room full of students to stand up, then he asked half of them to sit down. He said the percentage standing represents those who will graduate high school. Then

he asked half of those standing to sit down. The half remaining represented how many would go on to college.

“We must cultivate the future and high school students will be the ones to help shape it,” Brother Jeff said. “It is very important for students to be activists, but first and foremost, they must graduate high

school and consider the importance of higher education. You get out of life what you put in to it.”

He reflected on his own adolescence and how different society has become.

“When I was your age, there was no such thing as a drive-by shooting,” Brother Jeff said.

Nearly half the students attending the conference said they knew someone who had been murdered.

“The overall experience was tight,” said Seddik Coleman, 18, from Montbello High School. “Black history is interesting and I liked Brother Jeff ’s presentation.”

Some students said they left with a new sense of self, which is the goal of the conference.

Teenagers weren’t the only ones moved by Brother Jeff ’s presentation.

Renee Bryant, a 57-year-old CCD student, attended the conference because she said she feels “[Auraria Campus] needs conferences like this more often, not just in February. Brother Jeff brought a powerful presentation, teaching young people about advocacy,” she said.

“We shouldn’t have to study black history only one month out of the year in schools. We can easily talk to our mothers and grandmothers about what they experienced when they were younger. That, too, is black history,” Brother Jeff said.

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Health insurance changes to meet 2014 mandates Metro updates policy ahead of deadlines, other institutions

By Ali Rodgers arodger6@mscd.edu Metro students will no longer be automatically enrolled and charged for health insurance starting in fall 2011.

Previously, students enrolled in more than 10 credit hours were automatically charged a premium for coverage. Students with private coverage were eligible to opt out.

In the fall, students who fail to enroll in the health insurance program provided by Metro — or provide proof of independent coverage — will have a hold placed on their account.

If a hold is placed on a student’s account, he or she will not be able to register for classes.

Steve Monaco, director of Student Health at Auraria, proposed the changes to the health insurance program and Metro’s Board of Trustees approved them Feb. 2.

According to Monaco, there has been talk about changing the current system to an “opt in” for the

past eight months.

Because of the recent federal mandates changing certain requirements for health insurance, Monaco decided to take action sooner rather than later.

“I saw a window of opportunity to make all the changes at once instead of yearly,” Monaco said.

Under the federal health care reform of 2010, changes to health insurance coverage will be implemented every year until 2014.

Monaco believes this will give Metro a competitive edge to other insurance providers that will only make the required changes when it’s time.

The biggest change for students is how they will “opt in” to purchase the college offered health insurance.

Students enrolled in the fall semester with more than nine credit hours are eligible for coverage from August through December. They will need to pay a third party insurance company, Evans Consulting Incorporated, directly. Previously, students were automatically billed through student accounts.

Students who already have an insurance provider will need to provide proof to ECI on its website.

Those taking classes in the spring have to pay a second premium covering an additional seven months from January through July.

This will bring Metro’s insurance program into accordance with the 2014 mandate requiring yearround coverage.

There will be no changes to Metro’s health insurance program until July 1. Students who purchased summer coverage under the old system, will continue to be covered.

Other higher learning institutions in Colorado are aware of the new federal requirements but two colleges said changes won’t happen on their campuses until 2012.

Regis University plans to male the required changes but nothing will be in effect for this year.

“As for fall [2011], everything is the same. We’re not making changes until 2012,” said Celina Clymer, administrative coordinator for Regis.

Colorado State University’s student insurance will also remain the same for the fall semester.

“We haven’t even discussed [making changes] yet,” said Rachel MacIntyre, a spokeswoman for CSU’s Student Insurance Office.

GOOD QUESTION: What’s the relationship between Metro and the Auraria Higher Education Center?

College runs academics while AHEC handles campus grounds, classrooms facilities

By James Sienkiewicz jsieukie@mscd.edu Auraria is a rather unique place in Colorado. There are three independent schools all sharing one common ground, managed by the Auraria Higher Education Center.

AHEC provides and coordinates the central services for all three of the schools at Auraria. It manages facility services and maintains all the buildings that Metro shares with CCD and UCD, and coordinates with each school to make classroom assignments.

“We provide the facilities where Metro does athletic events and campus recreation type of things,” said Blaine Nickeson, director of communications for AHEC. Nickeson said AHEC is the force behind the scenes that takes care of many of the maintenance services the schools would otherwise have to each take care of individually. These range from snow removal and parking, to the Auraria book store and the Tivoli.

“With the book store, we want

people to feel like it’s Metro’s store when they come in, so we make sure we have Metro gear that you guys are looking for and all the books that are required for all the classes.”

Nickeson said.

There are also many tri-institutional governance committees that work on policy and procedures for AHEC. Each of the schools pay AHEC out of their operating funds, from the state government.

“Its not that different than if the schools did it, but the benefit is that because of the shared campus, the efficiency is higher,” Nickeson said.

This system has led Auraria to utilize all of it’s classrooms at a higher rate then any other campus in the region.

AHEC is headed by it’s executive vice president, Barbra Weiske. She meets weekly with Metro President Stephen Jordan and his counterparts at CCD and UCD. There is also a board consisting of nine voting and two non-voting members. This board works with the Metro planning department on any projects the school undertakes.

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NSIGHT

“Everybody in the league plays better at home.

We got back on our heels.”

—DERRICK CLARK, MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH • SPORTS • 15

Name change not all that bad STAFF EDITORIAL In response to offering graduate-level programs, Metro is contemplating whether to work “university” into its vocabulary. We think the upside of rebranding outweighs the downside.

Metro is considering at least three name alternatives: Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Central Colorado and Denver State University. This step marks the second of a two-phase and — so far — $50,000 rebranding assessment.

Over the years, Metro has garnered the reputation of an urban, relatively cheap, four-year commuter college anyone could get into.

Not so much anymore.

Metro is fast gaining credibility as a true undergraduate college. Swapping college for university will only bolster the school’s perceived legitimacy.

According to a report by Sector Brands LLC — the company running the name assessment — some 87 percent of alumni view Metro as a 4-year college, but 12 percent believe it is still viewed as a community college.

That said, the majority of alumni might favor the added prestige of the university designa-

tion.

Surprisingly, 15 percent of employers with a direct tie to the school still perceive Metro as a community college, though it is anything but. Sure, it’s non-traditional, but we’re earning Bachelor’s degrees here, not Associate’s degrees. Four-year schools are not community colleges.

The biggest downside of rebranding Metro’s name will be a probable tuition increase. A university name implies higher tuition and, with it, a higher quality education.

Tuition rates rose 9 percent in 2010, sans a name change. The increase was due to declining state support for higher education. And this year, the state will again be doling out fewer dollars. Metro has a placeholder request with the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to increase tuition up to 31 percent.

If you are reaching for a paper bag to calm your hyperventilating, relax.

It is not a foregone conclusion tuition will increase by 31 percent. It is more of an absolute worst case-scenario.

The actual increase will not be decided until after the governor approves the state budget, and the Metro Board of Trustees decide on an

increase in June.

Deciding on a new name will not be over and done with until June 2012, at the earliest.

What we are concerned about though, is, an already-certain increase might even higher if university is on the bill.

Even then, investing an uncertain amount of more dollars will pay off in the long run for both the students and the institution.

That higher priced, higher quality education should translate into better jobs for students.

The name change is sure to give students’ diplomas and résumés a boost. Think about it.

Employers would probably prefer to see university on a diploma or résumé, as opposed to college because it sounds more legitimate.

With additional money in the school’s account, hiring additional and more highlyqualified faculty becomes a real possibility. This is not to discredit the professors already on payroll. Having university on their résumé’s too is a benefit.

At the bare minimum, transitioning Metro from college to university status will only benefit the institution.

Ads,ego,billionaire bling eclipse game Nothing succeeds like excess in America and nobody does excess better than Texas, where monuments to money and ego — taste is optional — litter the landscape.

Few folks will remember the score of Super Bowl XLV, played Feb 6. But they will talk about the TV ads that — at $3 million per 30 seconds — might have delivered more than the celebration of stupidity, with very few exceptions, we saw.

Despite an average ticket price now at $4,000 — hardly geared to average fans — the Super Bowl long ago became less about the game and more about the ads, halftime show, egos and the game’s setting. The game — what game?

There was a game — that saw the Green Bay Packers triumph over the Pittsburgh Steelers, was played in the Dallas Cowboys’ over-the-top $1.15 billion monument to owner Jerry Jones’ ego, disguised as a stadium. The cost is important because that’s how we measure things in America, where anything that costs less than a billion isn’t even in the game. The late and hardly-great George Steinbrenner set the pace with a $1.2 billion new Yankee Stadium, and Jones wasn’t about to be outdone in the “ego bidness.”

To his credit, Jones put lots of his own money where his ego is — to the tune of $875 million, or an amazing 73 percent of the total tab.

In Denver, not in the game in more ways than one, Broncos’ owner Pat Bowlen ponied up only $150 million of his own funds, or less than 38 percent, of the $400 million the new Mile High Stadium (that I will never call Invesco) cost a decade ago. Then again, Mile High is only about half the total size of Jones’ 80,000-seat playpen in Dallas and has fewer bells and whistles, as in only a third the number of luxury suites at Cowboys Stadium. And luxury suites are what

today’s stadiums are all about — as a huge source of corporate revenue, whose eating, drinking and schmoozing clients likely aren’t even watching the game while enjoying a great host write-off.

In and around some of his luxury suites, Jones has placed 18 pieces of high-priced contemporary art, because art — especially in Texas — is supposed to lend a touch of class.

Even in the bling-iest of settings. We don’t know what the art is, only that it’s costly. To recall an observation F. Scott Fitzgerald made about Americans in Paris in the 1920s: “They know the price of everything. And the value of nothing.”

Denver lags far behind — and fans actually benefit, for a change — in the ego game with average Broncos ticket prices at $77, or less than half the $160 tariff per Cowboys game.

Tom Wolfe, writing about early-1960s Las Vegas long before IT exploded, called it the only Western world locale, excepting Versailles, built to commemorate a lifestyle. That style, said Wolfe, was something on the order of “gangster modern.” So what term — architecturally or not — might suit Cowboy Stadium? Billionaire bling?

During the media-blitz Holy Week prior to Super Bowl, sports reporters don’t have much that’s new. You can only get so far with guarded comments from coaches who aren’t saying anything and semi-literate pronouncements from free safeties. So, this year, writers armed with packets fat with figures, rhapsodized about the stadium. And we learned that a “display board” between the 23-yard lines is 71 feet high and cost $40 million. Again, that’s how we measure the worth of things. We also found out that the Statue of Liberty, complete with its pedestal,

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would fit inside the place.

That the beacon for “your poor and huddle masses … yearning to breathe free” should be linked with the diamond-studded showcase for the NFL’s biggest spectacle is freighted with unintended irony. You hardly heard it first here, but there may be an NFL owners’ lockout if owners and players can’t agree on a new labor contract when the old one expires March 3. Alongside the metaphysics of salary caps, revenue-sharing and rookie minimums, the details are too convoluted — and boring — to go into here. But what it ultimately comes down to is two sets of millionaires, owners and players, unable to agree on how to divide a multi-billiondollar NFL pie.

Some of the owners look like grown versions of the dweeby kids who got bullied in high school and never made any team. Maybe that’s why they’re owners.

We know what the players look like. But, beneath the trappings of different-taste-level bling, they’re both millionaires. And who will pick up the tab in the end? The fans. And in the end is exactly where fans will get it.

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ETROSPECTIVE

Opposite artists attract, unite

Metro student launches first art exhibit at local coffee shop Story by Ashley Moreland amorela1@mscd.edu Photos by Sean Mullins smullin5@mscd.edu

The small room is filled with the rich aroma of coffee, conversation and the musical stylings of local country/blues artist Heather Guerin.

Brightly colored paintings next to tattoo-style art line the wall.

Metro sophomore Kelsey McMaster stands at an easel, using delicate strokes to paint red roses on her Grateful Dead piece, only breaking concentration to talk to those admiring her art.

The Hooked on Colfax coffee shop hosted an art opening Feb. 5 for McMaster and Garrett Pawuk. Each month, the shop holds open calls for artists to display their work. Owner Malissa Spero said McMaster’s and Pawuk’s art will be up for at least two weeks, maybe even the entire month.

Spero said the opening went well and she enjoyed the mixture of the art styles.

“I think it’s fun to have Garrett‘s tattoo influence with Kelsey’s vibrant art,” Spero said.

“It’s the first-time showing for both of them, so that’s exciting, too.”

McMaster said she met Garrett, a tattoo artist at Freaky’s on Colfax, when she got a tattoo. It was then that they learned of each other’s mutual passion — art.

“After spending hours in pain getting ink done you get to know the person working on you,” McMaster said. “We talked about various things, one being artists in different contexts — his canvas being skin and mine being different tangible materials.”

McMaster was offered an apprenticeship at Freaky’s and the two got to know each other better. After she showed Pawuk pictures of her art, he got the idea to do a joint showing.

While the two have completely different styles, McMaster said she thinks their pieces go well together.

“Our styles are completely different,” Mc-

Master said. “It’s hard to articulate but mine is somewhat surrealist and brightly colored, while his is more traditional, sepia-toned, 'Sailor Jerry style.'”

McMaster is a psychology major and biology minor with a concentration in cognitive neuroscience. One thing that sets her art apart from Pawuk’s and makes it different than anything else is her science background, which she brings to her work. Most of her paintings have molecular structures incorporated or hidden in them.

She is currently working on a series of musicians, and her portraits of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley are on display at Hooked on Colfax. Morrison’s portrait features the molecular structure of LSD, and Hendrix’s and Marley’s have THC molecules.

“It interests me and has a lot of symbolic meaning,” McMaster said. “So I like to use different ones depending on the subject I’m focusing on; it elaborates on their life and personality.”

Her first large canvas painting, “Untitled” and it’s follow-up, “Persimmon Prison Cell,” both incorporate science with a microscopic slide of persimmon cells, DNA strands, molecular structures and chemical formulas, but they both have significant, personal symbolism, McMaster said.

She started the first in May 2009 right before she and her son left her ex-husband and an abusive situation. The second was completed shortly after she returned to Denver.

“Art at that time was the only outlet I had,” McMaster said. “It is an interesting marking in my life, and it’s fun to look back on [it] after overcoming the adversity we experienced.”

Sarah Wilson, who said she just happened to stop by the coffee shop, picked up on the emotion in McMaster’s art. “[The art is] wonderful,” Wilson said. “[Pawuk’s] is so detailed and dark. And [McMaster’s] is so bright, but you can tell there’s a lot of symbolism. It’s just a really good display.”

Artist, Kelsey McMaster shows a painting of Jimi Hendrix during an art show Feb. 5, at the Hooked on Colfax coffee shop and bar.

McMaster paints a Greatful Dead concert poster during an art show Feb. 5, at the Hooked on Colfax coffee shop and bar.

"NEW WORKS BY KELSEY MCMASTER AND GARRETT PAWUK" Hooked on Colfax 3213 E. Colfax Ave. 7 a.m.–10 p.m.

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Neal Cassady remembered at Mercury Café

By J. Sebastian Sinisi sinisi2@msn.com

Denver’s own “Beat generation” icon Neal Cassady, who grew up in Larimer Street flophouses and downtown pool halls, was remembered on his birthday Feb. 4 amid a packed house at the Mercury Café.

Cassady appeared as “Dean Moriarty,” “Cody Pomeroy” and other aliases in Jack Kerouac’s books. He was Jack’s driver and a literary muse to both Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg, for which he received little credit.

Cassady died in 1968, at age 42, after going into a coma on railroad tracks outside San Miguel Allende, Mexico. Earlier, he’d mixed amphetamines with cactus pulque wine at a wedding. Jack died a year later, 12 years and 15 books after his 1957 classic “On the Road” made him a literary legend. “‘On the Road’ changed my life by showing me I could do so much more with it,” said Addie Levinsky, a UCD freshman at the Mercury Café.

Organized by Denver “Beat generation” fan Mark Bleisener, the soiree at the Mercury Café drew a crowd that was more than a third under 30.

Cassady’s son and daughter, John Allen and Jamie Cassady — born to Carolyn Robinson, Cassady’s second wife — captivated the crowd. Cassady spanned the generations of “Beats” and early hippies as the driver of Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus trip in 1964 immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 “Electric Kool-Aid

Jamie, left and John Allen Cassady hold a “Neal Cassady Day in Denver” proclamation from Denver Mayor Guillermo (Bill) V. Vidal at the Mercury Cafe Feb 4.

Photo by Gregory Daurer, Special to The Metropolitan.

Acid Test.” Through Kesey, Cassady Jr. got to meet Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead while in middle school.

Last year, Cassady Jr. was asked to fly from California to Montreal at the behest of Walter Salles, director of a film version of “On the Road.” The $25 million budget film is slated for release this year and stars Sam Riley as Kerouac and Garrett Hedlund as Neal, with Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst as two of Cassady’s other loves.

Salles, said Cassady Jr., “wanted me to hang

with the cast and immerse them in ‘all things Beat.’ So I figured, first-class on Air France, 5-star hotel in Montreal … yeah, I can handle that.” He added, “I still say, ‘Thank you, father.’

He opened lots of doors, but I’d trade them all to have him back.”

Cassady was hardly a family man and never met a tryst he didn’t like. Robinson finally divorced him after years of an on-again/off-again marriage in the San Francisco Bay area. Carolyn, still living in England at age 87, published her own memoir, “Off the Road,” in 1990. Ja-

mie read a passage from it at the Mercury Café.

It contained a letter from Cassady to Robinson; describing one of his spur-of-the-moment drives from San Francisco to Denver, through a blizzard in the Sierras, that took 33 hours.

Robinson didn’t make it to Cassady’s soirée, but she was in Denver three years ago when Kerouac fans and the Denver Public Library held a weekend series of sessions built around the showing of Kerouac’s original scroll manuscript of “On the Road.” Fueled by Benzedrine, Jack typed it — without commas or paragraphs — on rolls of Teletype paper in a three-week burst of “spontaneous” writing in 1951.

At one of those sessions, Robinson debunked a tale in “On the Road” that Neal seduced her in Denver’s Colburn Hotel on Grant Street in 1947, when she was a drama student at the University of Denver. “Fiction,” said Robinson. “He even has me in black negligee. Yeah, that’ll be the day.”

At the Mercury Café, master musician and composer David Amram — who knew Kerouac and Cassady — performed a musical tribute to Neal, on the piano and French horn in “scat” or freestyle form, accompanied by Denver Jazz trumpeter Hugh Ragen, drawing a standing ovation.

“Without Neal, Jack wouldn’t have been the same,” said Amram. “With his non-stop long letters, Neal showed Jack what he could do with what Jack later called ‘spontaneous prose.’

And look at the crowd here tonight: older people, but lots of young kids.”

Local man demonstrates the versatile power of poetry

By Antonio Valenzuela avalen10@mscd.edu

On any given Wednesday night, the Déjà Vu Poetry Lounge inside Twisted Olive at Northfield will be packed. They will sit at their dark tables, anxiously waiting to hear the inner most feelings and perceptions of the world from Gregg “Reality” Delaney, the Deadly Pens or any of the other artists that frequent the show.

The Man Delaney, a Denver resident, has been holding weekly poetry events for 10 years, and recently used his experience and knowledge to segue into the Internet era of poetic expression.

Delaney fell into the poetry scene in 1994 after legal troubles pushed him away from the streets.

“People at the time were very into the Afrocentric, eclectic, empowerment poetry,” Delaney said, referring to the local poetry scene in the ’90s.

“I came in talking about my life, baby momma’s drama and other stuff I had already been writing. I just didn’t know it was poetry,” Delaney said.

Away from the scene, Delaney connected with All Access Live. Since Delaney had already built a name for himself nationally and was comfortable hosting events, All Access had him hosting all types of productions.

“When I quit the poetry scene, I promised myself I would only come back to it if everything was right,” Delaney said. “When I met All Access and started to be involved in what they were doing, I knew something was calling me back … I just told myself this time I am going to do it on my terms, with all the technology behind me.”

An opportunity materialized and Delaney

brought his show back to the Denver audience — this time around with a whole team of professionals. Delaney hopes his team will help to reach the level of success he has previously reached.

“How can a dude (Delaney) with a lisp become the best host for poetry in the nation?”

Delaney asked a packed house, “Because it’s real.”

The Show By adding a DJ and an after party, he was able to successfully combine both the nightlife and the poetry scene, though it didn’t immediately take to Delaney’s merging of events.

“They kind of looked at us different because we were at bars and night clubs instead of the coffee shops and hipster joints,” he said.

From 2002–07, Delaney’s weekly poetry event at the Kasbah in Aurora, known as “The Lounge,” was the largest by attendance in the country and began to draw in poets from all over the nation, he said.

“It really drew the crowds out, and poets coming to Denver were pleasantly shocked at the quality of the venue we were at,” Delaney said.

“Many of these places in the East Coast have poetry in their nightly music shows …

[Delaney] has influenced the scene to bring that flavor to Denver,” said local poet Lee Williams.

Williams was a great success from 1989– 92 throughout the East Coast and helped to bring the “Def Comedy Jam vs. Comic View” battle out to Denver in 2008.

The show had poets and comics from both highly successful TV shows competing against each other for the love of the audience.

After a successful run from 2005–08, amidst financial and creative differences, Del-

aney left the Kasbah.

The Website “The poetry scene is a huge tool that literary students can use to show their skills and meet great people,” said Williams. Delaney found this out first hand through his own experiences in the scene.

The website www.thewriternetwork.com is a tool utilizing the latest social-networking model that aims to speed up the networking process for writers. Delany, who is the host and founder of the Déjà vu Poetry Lounge, is eager to get students plugged into the useful networking tool for writers and poets.

This digital platform is the product of years of experience from Delaney, who has worked

tirelessly to build the poetry scene in Denver.

The website allows writers, poets and others who are interested to access a system that can help them with the difficult task of networking. This allows writers of all types to maximize opportunities and build relationships that can propel them in to their careers.

Delaney visualizes connecting the writer network with local colleges like Metro, and hopes to find a way to have students integrated into the system as part of an English or communications curriculum soon.

He brought the event to Twisted Olive back in early 2010. Since then, his dream of making a networking site in the poetry scene has also become a reality.

Gregg “Reality” Delaney gives his opinion about what other poets had to say before him Oct. 20 at the Twisted Olive martini bar in Stapleton. Photo by Sean Mullins •

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Artzy Fartzy Nite takes away the Monday blues

Dazzle jazz lounge holds weekly craft workshops for Denver residents

By Megan Mitchell mmitch46@mscd.edu

The soft blue lights inside Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge rolled off the purple walls and melted harmoniously into the rich jazz music that wafted from the stage at the back of the room. People shuffled from the low-lit tables, asking others for scissors or Sharpies during Artzy Fartzy Nite, a crafts and cocktails party held in the bar room every Monday night.

Couples sitting in the cozy booths along the walls and the high-set center tables chatted over large bowls of bottomless homemade chili, cluttered piles of paper scraps and dripping bottles of messy glue.

They twisted red construction paper around knives to curl them into the shape of a rose and stuck pipe cleaners through the center to produce delightful paper bouquets.

Artzy Fartzy Nite is built around the concept of easy-going activities. Eric Matelski, the event’s host, drew his inspiration from his background teaching children’s summer camp crafts classes.

“When alcohol is involved, some people who are intoxicated are much like children,” said Matelski. “So creating simple crafts that people can do on a slow night in the week that gets people out of the house was the way to go.”

Matelski has worked as a business art curator in Denver for seven years. Through his

production company, Art Pimp, he finds artists whose work fits a given restaurant’s image and helps sell it for décor. He also books art-related shows and interactive entertainment for restaurants and galleries, depending on the type of event they are sponsoring.

Once a month, Matelski shows clips and other media art based on themes for the month (February’s themes are love and black history month), and demonstrates the night’s project to individual tables. He also provides all of the materials himself, using mainly recycled resources like toilet paper rolls which are transformed into tiki sculptures.

Denver resident Denis Casey heard about Artzy Fartzy online and thought of his friend and Metro student Dianna Damack, who was teaching a class in collage making through a vision board workshop. He figured that she would enjoy it too.

“Where can you have this much fun for $10,” said Casey. “[You get] beer or tea, beautiful, homemade chili, entertainment, and something to do with your hands and talk about,” Damack said. “This type of leisure and adult recreation is fabulous.”

For four years at Dazzle, a talk show called the First Monday Art Talk brought in an artist who displayed their work in Dazzle.

Matelski organized entertainment based on the artists’ influences and allowed the audience

Ethel string quartet visits Metro for concert series

By Daniel Laverty dlaverty@mscd.edu

The crowd piling into the King Center Concert Hall Feb. 3 braved snowy conditions for the first event in the “Music at Metro State” concert series, and was warmed by the powerful music of the Ethel string quartet.

Ethel usually plays a mix of original material and covers for their shows, adding a modern flavor to classic songs and arrangements while staying true to the beauty of string music.

“It was awesome,” said Mercedes Chavez, a music education major at Metro. “It’s nice to get a different perspective of contemporary music. It highlights all the unique things you can do with your instrument.”

The quartet is made up of Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Mary Rowell (violin) and Dorothy Lawson (cello).

The name Ethel was inspired by the movie “Shakespeare in Love,” Lawson said. In the film, William Shakespeare has to write an ending to a play called “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter.”

“You can’t call a quartet ‘Ethel’, but then we thought, ‘why not?’” Lawson said. “It was that ‘why not’ moment that really solidified it for us.”

“We were not going to give it an institutional name like ‘The Julliard string quartet,’” she said. “We noticed a few bands that were just giving themselves (actual) names. That sounded fun and relaxed.”

Lawson also said that this was the first

time they had toured without playing original songs.

Ethel’s performance culminated during their rendition of songs by Phillip Glass, which were originally featured in the film “The Hours.” The “beauty” of Glass’s score inspired Ethel — five pieces from their 10-song set were tributes to Glass’s soundtrack.

During their second song, each member’s playing was so intense that their bows started to peel and fray. It seemed the strings could snap at any moment. Rowell said the song was, “like climbing a mountain.”

“I’m happy that our music program is able to reach out and get a hold of great performing artists like this,” said Dominik Von Pich, a piano performance and music education major at Metro. “It’s great to see people playing intensely and so emotionally. It’s just really inspirational.”

The original song “String Quartet No. 2: The Flag Project,” by Huang Ruo was inspired

by Tibetan prayer ceremonies. So Ethel rang special Tibetan prayer bells during its adaptation. They also used their bows and slid them across bells to produce a unique high-pitched ringing effect.

Ethel saved the best for last when they played a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” The audience was roaring as they exited the stage.

“They’re really the kind of group that I’d like to bring (to Metro) more frequently,” said Mark Harris, a saxophone instructor at Metro.

“They just play so beautifully together.”

Dianna Damack curls constuction paper to form a flower at Artzy Fartzy, Feb. 7, which takes place at Dazzle jazz lounge every Monday night. Photo by Luke Powell •

lpowel18@mscd.edu

to put questions to the artist afterward.

The talk show moved to Crossroads Theater in Denver when the managers at Dazzle wanted a more intimate event for the jazz bar, and thus Artzy Fartzy was created.

“It’s a great way to get out of the house and have an intimate, simple craft to distract yourself with,” Matelski said. “I’ve actually

gotten booed on some of the crafts because the crafts are too easy and people expect more of a challenge, but this isn’t really the environment where people come to be engaged and listen to someone show you a craft on stage.”

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Tuesday February 22, 2011 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

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Sounding off

Murder By Death: Still alive after 10 years Murder By Death has been making dark, spaghetti-western-tinged music for 10 long years and have recently decided to compile their entire catalogue into a huge box set for their fans. They’ve embarked on a nationwide tour to celebrate the anniversary and will be hitting Denver Feb. 19 at the Bluebird Theater.

The Metroplitan talked to lead singer Adam Turla about the past, present and future of Murder By Death.

Interview by Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu MP: You recently released a box set of all your material. Why? AT: This fall marks our 10th anniversary of our first show, and we [have always] put out all our own vinyl. I realized that we had tons and tons of releases on vinyl. It started with a simple idea. I have tons of CDs and recordings that have just been collecting in a stack in my closet that I have either listened to once or never listened to. So it started with the idea of just designing a box, so people who buy our vinyl all the time could have something to store it in … Then I started going through the stuff in the closet and I realized that there was just so many unreleased rarities, lo-fi live recordings and B-sides that just never got released.

I thought it would be kind of cool to … include it [all] in a box set.

It ended up being this much bigger project than I was expecting and it’s just a fun retrospective for us.

MP: On your early albums you sang higher than on your more recent releases. How did that voice change come about?

AT: That’s a question I get asked a lot. The thing is, when [we] recorded those first albums — we were really young when this band started. I think we were 18 or 19, so we were not sure what kind of band we were gonna be. I didn’t know how to sing yet; I was just giving it a whirl. Later I took voice lessons and they told me I should be singing lower, closer to my speaking voice. It was just one of those things. Over time I became more comfortable singing, and it just happened to be a lower voice.

MP: Are you working on any new material right now?

AT: We’re on a pretty long tour right now and I don’t like to do too much writing on tour. But I came up with a song actually yesterday (Feb. 3) morning. I’ve just been writing down ideas so when I have the time off I can actually begin to start writing

FROM LEFT: Adam Turla, Sarah Balliet, Dagan Thogerson and Matt Armstrong are Murder By Death. Photo courtesy of Murder By Death

about [them].

MP: Where do you draw inspiration for your songwriting?

AT: Usually whenever I’m reading or watching a film or something, I just look for things that I find interesting. Things that I think fit into the lyrical world of Murder By Death … They could come from anywhere. Usually just the oddities of life.

MP: What’s your favorite part of playing live?

AT: Originally, at one point it was definitely the travel. I love to travel, but my favorite part is just the nights when people are really rowdy. They’re just ready to go, chomping at the bit, ready to sing along, ready to be wild. I love those shows where people are just going crazy.

MP: The Builders and the Butchers have opened for you before.

Why did you decide to hit the road with them again?

AT: We just like the band. They’re doing, like, 16 shows with us on this tour. We’re friends and they’re a great band.

MP: With a name like Murder By Death, how often do people mistake you for a metal band?

AT: More often than I’d like. We actually like metal. We listen to it. There are certain bands that we’re into, but I don’t think

we realized how many people would be turned off and just not give us a listen because of the name. Truth be told, we’re very happy with how we’re doing. We can’t complain with our level of success. We’ve lost a few people to [the name], and it’s a shame, but what can you do?

MP: Where do you see the band 10 years from now?

AT: That is a very difficult question. We’d be like 40 that far down the line. I’d love to say that we’d still be able to play shows and have people continue to listen to us, and continue to grow in our popularity and our ability to write. I’d love to say that, but that’s a long time to be in a band. I’m very curious about the answer to that question too.

Murder By Death

9 p.m., Feb. 12 @ Bluebird Theater, $13.25

Five Songs for a good “Night Out”

The Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice” A night out is like a building. No matter how high you are going to make it, you have to start with the right foundation. To assure yourself that your night was worth waiting for all week, The Metropolitan has selected five songs, which will be highlighted during the next month, to help put you in the right frame of mind.

Because it’s been a long week. You deserve a night off. In the first week, we gave a shout out to Janelle Monae, this week, get “stoned” with The Rolling Stones.

By Ramsey Scott • rscott42@mscd.edu So your night out has begun, and now you’re in the mood to party. You hit your favorite watering hole to start your evening and you want to find the perfect song to listen to as you pound cocktails. The jukebox is open. The barroom gods are smiling on you. Yet, what to pick?

If you throw on something like Journey, you might get everyone in the bar singing all together, but they would be singing Journey and that would be terrible.

The key is to go for a track that both belongs in a bar (so no club jams) and makes you feel like pumping your fist (while not being a jock-rock song). To fill these qualifications, I offer for your consideration The Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice.”

While The Rolling Stones do have more popular songs than “Tumbling Dice,” there are none so tailor made for a night of drinking. From the first whiskey soaked twang of Keith Richards’ guitar and Mick Taylor’s slide to Mick Jagger’s signature growl crooning about cheating women who, “think I’m tasty,

but they always tryin’ to waste me,” this song is the embodiment of the roadhouse. With a blues shuffle that never lets up and a chorus that is easy to sing along with, it has all the elements of a great barroom ballad. Jagger is a broken hearted protagonist that knows he is the “rank outsider,” yet, there is no trace of sadness or resignation in his voice. He seems happy with being just a pair of “tumbling dice.”

The song is one of the standout tracks on Exile on Main Street, the 1972 classic from the band. The entire album, named

by Rolling Stone Magazine in 2003 as No. 7 on the top 500 albums of all time, is wall to wall honkey-tonk, blues and rock, and “Tumbling Dice” is the epitome of all three.

So order a whiskey on the rocks. Slide a dollar into the jukebox. Grab a seat and watch as every one in the bar is hit in the face by Richard and Taylor’s guitars. They will thank you for it.

As an added bonus, make a bet with your friends on who will spot the first person rocking the air guitar — it will not take long.

Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones

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Met’s Music Picks out of 5

Man Cub

Goldenboy

8 Bit Crush

Out of their respective backgrounds in hardcore, punk and math-rock, both Danny Stillman and Alex Anderson have come together to start Man Cub. And — with a shitload of guitar pedals, some perfect analog synth sounds and the driving pulse of a drum machine at their disposal — this innovative duo has created a debut EP that will most likely define a new breed of dance music for Denver. Anderson and Stillman have simply identified Man Cub’s 8 Bit Crush EP as “Ghettotech Rock.” Granted, this association fits, but the EP’s five tracks offer finer lyrical hooks and grittier beats than other Detroit-based dance music ever could.

“Sound,” for instance, has a strong emotional resolve with its celebratory mix of synthesized, detuned melodies and arching

grooves. The intro track, “Made in Japan,” uses pitch-altered vocals, rough filtering and polyphony to straddle the line between sexuality and art. Fortunately, Anderson and Stillman are good at contrasting the sexiness of dance music with the artistic expression of technical compositions.

The two officially dropped 8 Bit Crush Feb. 5 at their debut show by handing out free download cards. A physical copy of the EP should be out in March, and the five tracks can also be found for download on bandcamp. com. While there are many options, we just recommend listening any way you can — especially if you want to shake off the doldrums of winter.

Sleepwalker

Goldenboy’s music isn’t overly happy, nor is it depressingly sad. Perhaps this is because the leader, Shon Sullivan, wasn’t as downhearted as the late songwriter he once worked with, Elliott Smith.

Instead, Sullivan has taken the “poppybut-uncertain” cue of Smith’s later work and created something uniquely bittersweet called Sleepwalker. As Goldenboy’s newest release, after five years of silence, Sleepwalker has a lot to live up to for fans. And, unlike the quintet’s sophomore release, Underneath the Radio, these songs are more refined, memorable and affectionately antiquated.

Throughout most of the 12-track album, synthesized textures, light-drumming and

plucky acoustic guitars roam freely. At other times, songs like “Different Moon” and “Body and Soul” provide some contrast to the agreeable compositions with their sharp guitars and energetic rhythms.

If Goldenboy’s live show runs as smoothly as their album, any listener will be satisfied.

No matter the long wait on releases, Goldenboy is a tried and true touring act, opening for bands like Grandaddy and Bright Eyes. So, at 8 p.m., Feb. 14, see Goldenboy at the local dive, Bender’s Tavern, and hopefully they will bring some melancholy love your way on Valentine’s Day.

By Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu

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HEART BEATS

A Valentine’s Day concert calendar Everyone has an opinion on the only widely celebrated holiday of February, and whether it be disgust or rapture, everyone needs somewhere to go, or at least, something to listen to. So in the spirit of Saint Valentine, we present here our favorite shows for the red-heart week.

Best Coast and Wavves By Kelly Clements • kclemen4@mscd.edu Best Coast is set to perform with Wavves at the Fox Theater this Valentine’s Day. The dreamy California trio is well known for their raw and melodic pop tunes set to fuzzy, yet sleek guitars. They continuously reward their audience with sing-along worthy songs like “Boyfriend,” “When I’m With You” and others that further attest to their pop brilliance. But it is the rumor of Best Coast’s sound cover of Loretta Lynn’s “Fist City” — which they decided to perform very selectively — that has promoted even more excitement. The garage-punk style and ecstatic performances consistently delivered by Wavves provides the perfect compliment to the beachy and tranquil rock from Best Coast. Start with a drink and crowd-surfing session during Wavves, then wind down with misty melodies from Best Coast. Whether you are alone or with 9 p.m., Feb. 14 a plus one, Valentine’s Day at the Fox Theater promises to @ Fox Theater, $18 be one of dreamy, beer-flinging excellence.

Devotchka By Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu

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By Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu

“Experimenting on a Friday night,” can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people but when it comes to music, everything should be a trip.

Around 8 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Larimer Lounge, the Woodsman will be debuting their new album, Rare Forms. Of course, it is safe to say this quartet’s expansive, echoing, drum-driven experiments in sound will be well showcased. And, for a mere $8, it is a hard debut to miss. What’s even more enticing is the fact that Vitamins will be supporting the release. Yes, this Denver band’s complex and atypical songwriting — as fronted by the love8 p.m., Feb. 11 ly vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Lizzy Allen — just @ Larimer Lounge, $8 can’t disappoint.

Martin Sexton By Kelly Clements • kclemen4@mscd.edu Inspired by the sounds of classic rock, and endowed with perfect pitch and a nearly inhuman vocal range, it does not need to be explained that Martin Sexton’s live show is incredible. But what make these awe-inspiring shows so dependable is a bit confounding. Sexton has the kind of charisma and respect for his audience that allows him to create an incredibly intimate atmosphere, no matter how large the crowd. Recent additions of electric effects and reverb put a new spin on his stripped-down show and the new tactic of running his voice through a synthesizer allows him to turn his voice into a different instrument. His loyal fan base has been enjoying his chatty banter and invitations to participate by clapping or singing for years, and his audience has grown even larger, selling out shows wherever he plays. Despite 7 p.m., Feb. 14 this growing following, he remains happily and passion@ Boulder Theater, $21.25 ately independent. Don’t miss him at the Boulder Theater this Valentine’s. Day.

Open Mic

By Stephanie DeCamp • sdecamp@mscd.edu

If you’re alone on Valentine’s — and either a.) don’t give a flying fuck or b.) feel like singing it all out — then we suggest you head over to local alternative mainstay Bender’s Tavern for their open mic night. This venue bleeds punk rock, from the cocaine finely ground into its bathroom floors to the sweaty, fantastically-wasted patrons that devotedly pack the place for this weekly event. And, when you combine all those elements with our favorite Hallmark holiday, what could possibly go wrong? It’s either going to be a shit-show or a blast and it’s sure to be entertaining. Although the venue is 21 and over, there is no cover charge, so 9 p.m., Feb. 14 grab your poor soul and a friend and go drink beer until you @ Bender’s Tavern, Free a.) don’t give a fuck or b.) sing your heart out.

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Opening the show are punk rockers The Bronx’s mariachi side project, Mariachi El Bronx, which is a spectacle that shouldn’t be missed. Rounding out the bill is another local heavyweight, singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov.

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15 • FEBRUARY 10, 2011 • THE METROPOLITAN

PORTS

Orediggers bury ’Runners Metro tied for No. 1 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

This Week

2.11

Women’s Basketball 6 p.m. @ Chadron State

By Daniel Laverty dlaverty@mscd.edu Colorado School of Mines defeated the Metro men’s baskettball team Feb. 5 in Golden, 65-48.

Metro was looking to build off of a big win the previous night against Colorado Christian, and avoid a tie for the top spot in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference standings.

The 17-point defeat is the worst Metro has suffered in RMAC play this year, eclipsing a 13-point, 9178 loss at New Mexico Highlands in early December.

Metro Head Coach Derrick Clark said the Orediggers got the momentum first.

“Everybody in the league plays better at home,” Clark said. “We got back on our heels.”

Early foul trouble for the Roadrunners allowed the Orediggers to control the tempo of the game from the start. Metro never stopped playing catch-up.

Junior guard Chris Goutama hit back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Orediggers a seven-point lead midway through the first half. Mines never looked back.

The Orediggers mixed in clutch 3-point shooting, a nasty zone defense and a breakout performance

by Mines’ senior guard Sean Armstrong to defeat the Roadrunners.

Armstrong led the game with 28 points, including 8-11 shooting from the field and 12-15 at the foul line.

“We were just trying to pressure ([Armstrong]. He had a great game,” Metro’s A.J. Flournoy said. “He played bad when we played them at home so he knew he had to redeem himself.”

Metro opened the second-half scoring five straight points and cut the deficit to four.

Sophomore center Jonathan Morse fouled out with 14 minutes left in the second half.

Metro lost its presence in the paint and had no real rebound force for the rest of the game. After the Morse foul-out, Mines pushed the lead to as much as 19 points.

“Morse is a big force for us,” Flournoy said. “When things like that happen you just have to try to play through.”

Metro was led by freshman guard Brandon Jefferson, scoring 10 points on the night.

The team struggled all night

SIDELINE

Men’s Basketball

8 p.m. @ Chadron State

Men’s Track and Field

@ Flotrack Husky Invitational @ Air Force Invitational

Women’s Track and Field @ Air Force Invitational

2.12

Women’s Basketball

6 p.m. @ Nebraska-Kearney

Men’s Basketball

8 p.m. @ Nebraska-Kearney

Men’s Track and Field @ Flotrack Invitational @ Air Force Invitational

Women’s Track and Field @ Air Force Invitational

Baseball 12 p.m. vs Dickinson State

2.13 Baseball

12 p.m. vs Dickinson State

Softball

12 p.m. vs Fort Hays State

Track and Field Men’s Feb. 5

Shawn Lindbom automatically qualified for the 800-meter National Championships after posting the country’s fastest time so far this season in the 800-meter with 1 minute, 51.49 seconds. Also, three men’s runners qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships.

Women’s Feb. 5 Mines’ Gordon Galloway dives for the ball Feb. 5 at Lockridge Arena in Golden as Metro guard Reggie Evans, left rear, and Mines’ Drew Hoffman, right rear, look on. Metro lost 48-65. Photo by

Floyd Brandt • fbrandt@mscd.edu

long from the field, shooting just more than 33 percent in the loss.

The loss marked Metro’s fourth of the season; only their third in conference play.

Feb. 4, Metro beat Colorado Christian 65-52.

Since the Cougars broke Metro’s 27 game winning streak in 2008, Metro has gone 5-2 against them including losing last year at CCU. The Cougars came out and took the lead, thanks to junior guard Josh McBeth.

The men pulled away late in the first half using a 16-4 run to take control of the game and go into half time, up by 10 points.

Metro cruised to the easy victory as the Cougars could not cut the deficit to less than 10 points the rest of the game.

They were lead by junior guard Abram Ziemer’s 14 points and nine rebounds. The loss dropped CCU to 6-12 overall and 5-10 in the RMAC. The upcoming RMAC tournament gets a little more interesting

after the weekend of games.

Both Mines (14-3 RMAC; 18-3 overall) and Metro State (14-3; 17-4 overall) enter the week tied for first place.

Metro looks to rebound from this loss with road stops to both Nebraska-Kearney Feb. 11 and Chadron State Feb. 12.

Carissa Sinda broke Metro’s women’s fastest mile record running a 5:24.89 set by teammate Xenia Flores last season.

They said it: “WE ARE ALL LIKE A BAND OF BROTHERS OUT THERE.”

- METRO BASEBALL OUTFIELDER AND PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR DAVID FOX •16

FYI: If a team finishes in the bottom three spots in the English Premier League; they are sent down to the lower league.

16• SPORTS • FEBRUARY 10, 2011 • THE METROPOLITAN

Praying to the football gods Dear lord of pigskin, help me decide who to root for during the Super Bowl As a Denver Broncos fan, I didn’t have much invested in Super Bowl XVL. So, I did some research to help me decide which team I was going to cheer for.

One team was led by a stoic coach and a devastating defense. The other team was still attempting to crawl out from under the shadow of its past. Both teams had to overcome adversity on their way to the big game.

The Pittsburgh Steelers had to deal with the suspension of their starting quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, for the first four games of the season. The Green Bay Packers had to deal with numerous season-ending injuries, as well as the Brett Favre story, which just would not go away.

This is where my decision became easy. As co-founder of Fathers of Daughters Against Roethlisberger (FDAR), I did not want to see this young man have any more success. It’s not that I don’t believe in second chances. After all, I did cheer for Michael Vick this year.

I do believe Roethlisberger has become a changed man after dealing with the off-season sexual assault allegations. He carries himself differently and appears to have been humbled by his misstep.

However, I just did not want to see him win in the same year all of this went down. So, I asked the football gods to continue this life les-

son and not allow Big Ben to win his third Super Bowl ring before the age of 27.

Praying to the football gods is always a slippery slope. But for this Super Bowl, it only seemed appropriate. Call me old school, but I believe the game is bigger than the coaches, players and fans.

This new generation seems to think differently. Maybe it’s all the money. Trust me, millions of dollars would change me too. I believe all the early success distorted Roethlisberger’s view on football as well as life.

“Praying to the football gods is always a slippery slope. But for this Super Bowl, it only seemed appropriate” The two Vince Lombardi trophies before he turned 25 made him feel invincible and, in essence, bigger than the game. With the steps he’s taken to straighten out his life, add the disappointment of a Super Bowl loss to the equation and this year could be regarded as a very important point in his maturation.

The Packers had to rise above a much different type of quarterback drama.

It’s been three seasons since the Packers parted ways with the legendary Favre and

passed the torch to Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers has steadily become one of the best quarterbacks in the league, while Favre has moved on to two other teams and struggled with off-thefield issues.

We’ve all heard about Favre’s unwillingness to walk away from the game. The man has retired more times than a middle-age boxer. Many people believe the media has built Favre into such an icon that he has become bigger than the game. While this appears to be Favre’s last season, the future Hall-of-Famer is not getting the storybook ending he kept searching for.

What a perfect time for the football gods to step in and do the right thing. The perfect ending to the ultimate look-at-me career would be to have Favre sit back and watch his original franchise return to glory without him.

For a player who continually put himself in front of the game, this would be one last slap in the face. Favre tried to tempt fate with Minnesota two seasons ago, but the football gods took care of that ending, proving no one, including future Hall-of-Famers, are bigger than the game.

The most important position in sports is the quarterback. The most important game in football is the Super Bowl. Two great ones were taken down a peg during Super Bowl XVL. In their place, Rodgers took full advantage.

Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood was honored with the MVP award. Rodgers has handled himself with class through the entire Favre saga and

PRESTON HARDY phardy1@mscd.edu now is reaping the benefits.

He’s a team-first guy who gives the game of football the respect it deserves. He feels he owes the game that has blessed his life, not the other way around.

Think about it, Broncos fans. A me-first guy who puts his own talents and needs in front of the team or a humble nose-to-thegrindstone workhorse who puts personal gain aside for the betterment of the team. You tell me: Jay Cutler or Tim Tebow?

Cutler has been called the next Favre and off the field has been known to make Roethlisberger-type decisions. Tebow was a late-firstround pick who had to wait his turn to start — just like Rodgers.

After this season, as a fan, all I can hope for is that my QB can hang in Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood. But hey, that’s just my humble opinion.

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Baseball ready to open 2011 season

By Ryan Ward rward19@mscd.edu Metro State’s baseball team will open their season at home Feb. 12 against Dickinson State in hopes of building off a subpar season last year.

Senior outfielder David Fox was named the preseason Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year, after one of the best offensive seasons in Metro history. Last season, Fox led the Roadrunners in batting average (.431), slugging percentage (.771), hits (66), doubles (20) and runs scored (48). If everything goes as planned, Fox should improve his numbers this year and get the Roadrunners back in the mix.

“Everybody out there will be playing hard and giving people something to watch,” Fox said.

The squad returns 16 players, including senior first baseman Jordan Stouffer, who broke the school record for home runs with 17 last season. Outfielder and designated hitter Brennan Brown, along with pitcher Bradshaw Perry were both choosen to the RMAC preseason team. In the RMAC preseason Metro was picked to finish second in the RMAC. The Roadrunners are looking to make a strong push for postseason play. After finishing 21-23 last season, second-year Head Coach Tom Carcione is very optimistic about this season.

“Compared to last [season], we have pitching depth this [season]. Hopefully we will] be able to pitch well and we got the majority of our hitters back in the lineup,” Carcione said.

“We have 16 seniors so we have a lot of expectations for these guys.”

The biggest weakness of last year’s team was undoubtedly pitching depth. The Roadrunners held an 18-12 conference record but an abysmal 3-11 record in non-conference games last season. Carcione attributed this to the fact that you have your best players play in the conference games and, by the time you are playing out of conference, you don’t use the whole arsenal. This is why depth is so crucial.

“We brought in two transfers from Division I (starting pitchers Corey Collins and Zach Cleveland). We have some depth this year. It’s pretty exciting,” Carcione said.

Fox shared the same enthusiasm with his coach and is looking for this season to be one that will be remembered.

“There is a certain feeling when you get to the ballpark this year,” Fox said. “We are going to come out and play hard baseball. We have a lot of talent and a lot of new additions.”

Chemistry is crucial on any team on any level. This year, the Metro baseball team has a feel to them felt last season with the men’s soccer team. They are built as a team with several talents.

“We are all like a band of brothers out there,” Fox said.

THE METROPOLITAN • FEBRUARY 10, 2011 • SPORTS • 17

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WEEK {PREVIEW} Thursday/ 2.10

Global Cities Lecture Series Part 1 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Jeff Zimbalist, a documentary filmmaker and director of the film, “Favela Rising” is the featured speaker. Food and refreshments are provided.

Tivoli Turnhalle

Friday/ 2.11

Introduction to COS Funding: Opportunities Database training session 3:30–5 p.m.

Central Classroom 220 The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web. Students will learn how to use COS to find scholarships, funding for travel, artistic pursuits, research and more.

Saturday/ 2.12

SUDOKU

Samadhi Center Grand Opening Love and Healing Festival 2–5 p.m.

639 East 19th Avenue To celebrate their 9-year anniversary, all services will be done by donation. $5 donation appreciated

Sunday/ 2.13

In the Dead of Winter: Victorian Mourning 2–4 p.m.

715 South Forest Street The Four Mile House Historic Park celebrates its sixth annual interactive look at death and dying in the nineteenth-century West. $4-7

Monday/ 2.14

Metro State Homecoming Week Begins Various times and locations on campus Free

Tuesday/ 2.15

Texas Hold’em Wash Park Underground 6 p.m–12 a.m.

266B South Downing St. Free

Wednesday/ 2.16

28th Annual Black World Conference Tivoli Turnhalle A day of education and inspiration centered around the ideals of Sankofic Learning. Cleo Parker Robinson will be speaking.

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