Volume 36, Issue 30 - April 24, 2014

April 24, 2014

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4/20 daze 10 Unauthorized use The Denver City Page features lifted content, ordered to “cease and desist” • 3

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Softball caps senior day with two wins • 15

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The annual 4/20 Rally took place at Civic Center Park, April 19 and 20. Tens of thousands of people were in attendance April 20 where many of them lit up bongs, joints and blunts at 4:20 p.m.

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Hipster film makes debut, ironically

By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu “Hipster! The Musical” is a super obscure movie. You’ve probably never heard of it.

But last Wednesday, a small crowd gathered in St. Cajetan’s Center to eat free popcorn and watch this independent comedy about love, identity and skinny jeans.

The movie tells the story of Dave, a normal guy who can’t find the words to tell his best friend, Lily, that he loves her. But when a band of hip-

sters, led by the obsessively vintage Salinger, starts competing for Lily’s affections, Dave decides to don the plaid himself to win her back.

It’s all accompanied by bouncy dance numbers that won Best Original Score at the Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival in March.

Adam Blair, who wrote, directed and co-produced “Hipster,” is a University of Denver student who expects to graduate in May. This is his first feature-length fi lm.

“I was originally a creative writing major,” Blair said. “My older brother was in fi lm, and I was on his sets, and got to know some people, and that got me more and more interested in fi lm.”

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The Denver City Page asked to “cease and desist”

By Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu

The Denver City Page The Denver Post

The top image shows a screenshot from The Denver City Page published April 9.

The article uses the same photos and text from an article published April 6 from The Denver Post (bottom image). The Denver City Page article does not include any attribution or a byline.

Top: http://www.imfromdenver.com/2014/04/09/auroras-gaylord-rockies-hoteland-conference-center-clearing-the-way-for-the-1500-room-hotel-and-water-park/ Bottom: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_25079555/gaylord-rockieshotel-aurora-add-giant-water-park

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Vice President: Morgan Swaney

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Kyra DeGruy Austin Banks

The Denver City Page at www. imfromdenver.com has become a popular stop for local web-surfers interested in checking out the scene in a city with an ever-changing nightlife.

The corresponding Facebook page has received over 90,000 likes in the less than two years the page has been active.

But The Denver City Page is not what it seems.

The majority of its articles, informative lists and photographs have been taken without proper permission from a variety of area publications, among them, The Denver Post, Westword and Yelp. com Westword editor-in-chief Patricia Calhoun confirmed via email that her publication had not given anyone the rights to use their material.

“We have not given anyone permission to reprint Westword stories,” Calhoun said, citing a few of the stories that had been posted on The Denver City Page. “I’m sure if I look, I’ll find many, many more.”

In violation of the Fair Use Doctrine, the articles appear to have been copied and pasted with the bylines removed. In some cases, the articles were republished word for word and accompanied by the photographs that had appeared with them in the original publication. In other cases, dates and refrences to time had been changed to correspond with the timing of the post.

The webpage came to the attention of The Metropolitan when MSU Denver journalism senior Antonio Valenzuela promoted the website in class and offered freelance and editing opportunities.

According to Valenzuela, The Denver City Page had its beginning as a joint Facebook page run by himself and Jonathan Davis.

Senators: Aaron Futrell Ana Temu Christa Darrow David Jackson Dominick Boss Matthew Austin Mauro Villasenor

“The Facebook page got really popular really fast,” Valenzuela said. “So (Davis) decided he wanted to do a web page.”

Valenzuela said he decided he couldn’t be part of the website any longer when Davis refused to stop using stolen content.

“I wrote original content for the page,” Valenzuela said. “I was supposed to be looking for more people to write for the page, but when I found out he was stealing articles, I told (Davis) he can’t do that. He told me not to tell him how to run his page.”

At the time of publication, The Metropolitan had attempted to contact Davis several times. Davis has not returned any phone calls or emails.

Valenzuela admits that he still has access to the Facebook page, but not to the website. His content has been taken down from the page and he said he’s stepped away from it. The page has received cease and desist orders from both The Denver Post and Westword. “(Davis) accused me of turning him in,” Valenzuela said. “I told him I didn’t do it.”

Linda Shapley, director of newsroom operations at The Denver Post, said the newspaper does not give permission for entire articles to be used on unaffi liated websites.

“We allow up to three paragraphs to be quoted or paraphrased, and then a link must be provided back to the original content,” Shapley said.

Despite the cease and desist orders, new content taken from other sites continues to appear on the website, and the bylines crediting the original writers are still removed. Despite writing original content for the website, Valenzuela insists he didn’t know about the stolen articles.

“I never really looked at the website,” Valenzuela said. “Just the back end when I posted my articles.”

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Columbine not defined by tragedy, but strength

By Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu It’s been 15 years.

Fifteen years since Paige Allison sat in her science class and heard the first of several sounds that would forever change her life, community and state.

Fifteen years since Wendy SheaTamag first answered the phone to hear a teacher calling for help for her students from the basement of Columbine High School.

Fifteen years since Kevin Vaughan first got the call that something tragic had happened and he needed to go to work.

Fifteen years since April 20, 1999, when two teenagers shattered a community and took the lives of 12 students and one teacher.

Fifteen years of hurting, healing and hope.

“It changed the world, really,” said Doug Bell, a journalism professor at MSU Denver and the editor of The Columbine Courier.

At the time of the shooting, Bell was the copy desk chief at The Denver Post and the managing editor of The Capitol Reporter, a former MSU Denver publication. “When Columbine happened, there was this sense of ‘this can’t be real, this can’t be real.’ But it was very real.”

For Allison, who was a junior at Columbine High School in 1999, the situation was one of chaos and panic.

“We’re just in class, and I was in the back of the classroom sitting next to my girlfriend, and all these people started running up the stairs and past our classroom,” Allison said. “We heard some really loud noises and the floor kind of shook. What it was, those were the bombs that were going off, but it kind of sounded like fireworks.”

Allison described how she and her friend ended up running through the hallway, the sound of fire alarms blaring in their ears as they tried to get out of the building and to safety. As they approached the main hallway, a teacher stopped them and warned them to turn back.

“The reason was because Dylan (Klebold) and Eric (Harris) had come up that main hallway. If that teacher wouldn’t have been there, we would have ran through.

We would have possibly ran into them,” she said. “I don’t even know the teacher’s name to this day, actually.”

Allison said that even now, at times, the feelings of grief and fear resurface.

“There’s definitely times, now, that I completely forget that it ever happened,” she said. “Time does heal some but at the same token, especially when this time of year comes around, all of those feel-

ings can get brought up that you thought maybe were gone.”

In the years following the shooting, Allison said certain noises like police sirens and popping balloons have sometimes elicited strong emotional reactions.

“For a long time, whenever a fire alarm would go off, that was really hard to hear,” she said. “I remember when I was a freshman in the dorms at college, they had a fire drill in the middle of the night.

I woke up and jumped out of the top bunk, just started running, ran out the door and started running down the stairs. It was just an instant instinct for me, because that was the noise that was going on the entire time during the shooting.”

For Shea-Tamag, the receptionist and transportation coordinator for the City of Littleton, the day of the tragedy was the start of a floodgate of overwhelming emotion.

Since the mailing address for Columbine is in Littleton — though the school is actually on unincorporated Jefferson County land — people were calling the city for information.

In the two weeks immediately following the shooting, she took an estimated 10,000 phone calls. She said the day of the shooting was the first time her six-line phone was constantly fi lled.

The first day, she said, most of the calls came from members of the media. However, when the flooding of calls jammed the 911 dispatch lines, several rolled over to her phone.

“I got a call from somebody at Columbine who said she had some students and she was hiding somewhere, and she just wanted to talk to someone so that when it was all clear, someone (would) know her and this group of kids were in this room,” Shea-Tamag said. “I remember telling her, ‘Do not hang up. I will get you through to dispatch. Don’t hang up, just stay on the line.’”

The second day of calls, Shea-Tamag said, was even more difficult, as people from around the world called to express their condolences.

“I remember two little boys called from Texas, and they said they got BB guns for Christmas and they were going to turn them in to their local police department because of what happened,” SheaTamag said. “I cried a lot about that one.”

Vaughan, at the time of the shooting, was a reporter at The

Toby Stevens takes a moment to pay his respects at the Columbine High School memorial site April 22 in Clement Park. It’s dedicated to the 13 people who were killed during the school shooting on April 20, 1999.

Photo by Courtland Wilson • cwils104@msudenver.edu

Rocky Mountain News covering the police beat. When the violence at the school began, he received a phone call.

“I got called at home, and then I headed down there right away and spent the first day at the school and at the elementary school nearby where they were taking students after evacuating them,” Vaughan said. “I pretty much covered it going forward just about full time for a couple years and off and on for many years after that.”

Vaughan and The Rocky Mountain News covered both the impact on the community and the actions of public officials.

He said the paper was instrumental in bringing to light details of the investigation the Jefferson County Sherriff ’s office tried to keep hidden.

Vaughan also said that in the years since the tragedy, he still keeps in touch with some of his sources and that they, along with the things he encountered during his coverage, have had a lasting impact on his life.

“It was a very hard story in a lot of ways, and yet at the same time, there were times when it was a rewarding story,” Vaughan said.

“That doesn’t mean in any way that I’m thankful that it happened, I wish every time I think about it that it wouldn’t have happened.

But when you can shine a light on something the public deserves to

“I’m proud of my community and of the love that people still show to one another.”

—Paige Allison

know, when you can develop really lasting relationships with these families that are just incredible people — that’s all been positive for me. It feels like it was sort of an honor to be involved in it because it was such an important story and so important for the community to have a better understanding of what happened.”

Bell, with his current and extensive coverage of the Columbine community, said that though the tragedy will forever leave its mark, those affected don’t want it to define them.

“This is a school that has completely transcended what happened and has moved into a different era,” Bell said. “In the immediate aftermath of Columbine, one of the great things that plagued the community was they didn’t want to forever be defined by this horrible thing that happened, and even today, still, they’re very sensitive about that. Their feeling is, this community is about so much more than what happened on one day 15 years ago.”

For those who saw the tragedy firsthand, days like April 20, 2014 are markers in the lives that didn’t have the chance to continue.

“It’s kind of hard for me to believe it’s been 15 years,” Vaughan said. “Some of those kids who were killed would be 30 years old now.

It’s just sort of mind blowing to think that they’d be grown up and maybe have families of their own at this point.”

Despite the tragedy and the emotion Allison, now 32, and other Columbine graduates still face, she said their solidarity and strength

far outweighs their fear.

She said that those who were affected by the shooting still reach out just to tell each other they still think about and care for one another.

“It’s all something that we will forever share,” Allison said. “It’s something no one else will understand unless they’ve been through it. I’m proud of my community and of the love that people still show to one another.”

In Memoriam Cassie Bernall Steven Curnow Corey Depooter Kelly Fleming Matthew Kechter Daniel Mauser Daniel Rohrbough Rachel Scott Isaiah Shoels John Tomlin Lauren Townsend Kyle Valasquez William “Dave” Sanders

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4/20 sends credibility up in smoke

By Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu Congratulations, Colorado.

Not only has marijuana legislation puff-puff-passed, but it has largely surpassed its sister law in Washington and blazed a trail that the entire country is watching.

It is important to note, though, that we’ve yet to see if this green brick road will lead us to the Emerald City or if we will wake up back in that pre-legalization state West-of-Kansas to realize it was all just a dream.

Through that premature celebratory haze, those who enjoyed the benefits of Amendment 64 most highly on 4/20 failed to realize just what their vote for this law indicated — their acquiescence

to its constructs, parameters and limitations. Unless they voted “no” on the amendment or didn’t vote at all, those who gathered en masse at the capitol last weekend effectually let the significance and implication of their vote go up in smoke.

By voting “yes” on 64 two years ago, citizens agreed to pass a law they supported — one that prohibits smoking in public. It is irresponsible of pot-proponents to celebrate or even go along with the celebration of this pseudo-holiday, as it is delegitimizing the power of the law and the respectability their vote carried.

If they are willing to break a law they support, what about the laws they don’t? What else can we, as a society, caveat our way through, just because we don’t agree with a component of it?

Furthermore, one of the initial and long-lasting traditions of this state’s 4/20 rally was the protest for legalization.

Fun fact, Centennial-staters: it’s legal now. There’s nothing left to protest, except possibly why in the world you would endanger a law you fought so hard for by gathering and encouraging 9,999 of your closest friends to break it.

To be completely honest, I don’t care at all what everyone chooses to do in the comfort and air-supply of their own home. But it is naïve to think that marijuana smoke doesn’t have at least some negative effects when inhaled secondhand, and it is irresponsible to smoke it in an environment where children can readily breathe in the exhaled traces of a mind-altering drug.

Colorado has already gained

a reputation for being “The Pot State.” And if that is what we are, so be it — but I, for one, would rather my state be defined by its burgeoning creative class, or its gorgeous landscape, or its respectable athletic teams or its kind and remarkable people. Yes, I’m including the smokers in that category.

Together, we all make up a state that is pretty damn enviable for more than how high our mile is. I don’t want all of that to be lost under a skunky blanket of smoke.

And more than anything, I respect the power of our votes, and I condemn the irresponsibility of endangering their credibility by contradicting the laws we say we support.

No smoke-out is worth more than our word.

Starting over at the end Call me Ms. Bukowski

By Melanie Moccia mmoccia@msudenver.edu As the last few weeks of school approach quickly, I finish up my final papers for class, I take my last photos and write my last couple of articles for The Metropolitan, and I can’t figure out exactly how I feel about being done with school forever.

College has been the most amazing experience for me, especially here at MSU Denver. I have been taking classes here for the past three years. Before that, I went to a school in Pennsylvania for two years.

The past five years of my life have shaped me and made me who I am. It’s been a rocky road, but I don’t regret any of it and am proud of who I have become, despite the hardships and mistakes I’ve made.

I’ve moved five times, made friends, lost friends, began relationships and ended relationships.

I’ve laughed, cried and fought. I’ve been broke — let’s face it, I’m still broke — I’ve drunk too much and woken up with terrible hangovers and have failed at numerous things. All of these, though, have made me a better writer, a better friend, a better co-worker, a better sister, girlfriend and daughter.

After graduation, there’s no more structure. There’s no more getting up for class at 8 a.m. There’s no more all-nighters trying to finish a 12-page paper. There’s no

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more cramming for exams and crossing your fingers that the test is multiple choice.

After graduation, it’s time to finally grow up. It’s time to stop sleeping until noon and stop staying up all night. It’s time to move forward, establish a career path and get on a normal schedule. Late nights working on school assignments turn into assignments by your editor-in-chief, where if you don’t meet the deadline, you’re fired on the spot.

It makes me sad knowing I will be leaving MSU Denver soon. I still live a mile away, but it’s going to feel so much further. I’m going to miss the professors who critiqued my work until I almost cried, who taught me the proper way to write a feature article and who told me how to be the best interviewer I could be.

I’ll miss my late Tuesday nights putting together The Metropolitan. I’ll miss the friends I’ve made in the newsroom and miss the stories I write every week. I realize, though, all of these things I’ll miss have only helped me grow into who I have become, and how I will make an impact in this world.

So all I hope is that after graduation, I still continue to learn. I hope I still continue to fail and learn from those failures.

Most importantly, I hope that the rest of my life brings me the happiness that college has brought me, and obviously, I hope I can get a job.

By Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu Crumbled pieces of yellow notebook paper lie like land mines around the floor of my bed.

I wake every morning, tiptoeing through the creative devastation, avoiding contact with the nonsense scribbled down and thrown away.

“Again,” I tell myself over morning coffee and whatever I scrapped together for breakfast.

“Again.”

The day continues. The workload flows. The time ticks on.

But the ideas never stop. The day drags. Emails. Homework. Meetings. Class. More emails. On and on. The Earth keeps spinning and the clock keeps ticking.

My mind never takes a break.

It presses against my skull with ideas that want nothing more than to escape. Ninety-eight percent of them are complete horseshit, but the two percent that are worth a damn aren’t half bad.

A mini notepad sits in my pocket every day. I occasionally pretend I need to piss so I can scratch nonsense into its pages.

One time I even dropped it in the toilet. Someone asked to see it once — I didn’t tell them the pages had marinated in urine, and that’s why they were stiff.

Half the writing is illegible — it looks like a fantasy cursive that not even I can decipher.

Lost thoughts in translation. I honestly try to have nice handwriting, though apparently my efforts are wasted. Oh well, just keep writing.

I usually wait to drink wine until I get home later in the evening, otherwise I feel like an alcoholic. Most of the time I don’t bother using a glass. “Why dirty dishes,” I tell myself.

I often wonder when my life turned into a cheap Bukowski rip-off, minus all the naked women. I guess I can’t complain.

I own nearly all of his books and admire him more than anyone should look up to a dirty old man.

When I write, I often feel like a mad scientist frantically climaxing on a chalkboard with a good idea. There’s been a few times I actually scream out, “Eureka!” — only twice in public.

Once I thought the friction from my pen on the paper was going to start a fire. Instead I just ripped a hole through four sheets.

I decided I’d had enough wine that night.

It’s always the thoughts I write before sleep that feel the greatest. I write them down with the lights off. It feels sexier that way. Half the time I can’t make out what I wrote, but that’s OK — another land mine for the floor.

“Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”

-Charles Bukowski

MetStaff Editor-in-Chief Kayla Whitney: kwhitne2@msudenver.edu Managing Editor Nikki Work: nwork@msudenver.edu News Editor Melanie Moccia: mmoccia@msudenver.edu Assistant News Editor Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko: ktomko@msudenver. edu MetroSpective Editor Tobias Krause: tkrause3@msudenver.edu Assistant MetroSpective Editors Steve Musal: smusal@msudenver.edu Stephanie Alderton: salderto@msudenver.edu Sports Editor Mario Sanelli: msanelli@msudenver.edu Assistant Sports Editor Scott Corbridge: kcorbrid@msudenver.edu Photo Editor Philip Poston: pposton1@msudenver.edu Assistant Photo Editors Alyson McClaran: amcclara@msudenver.edu Charlie Hanson: chanso12@msudenver.edu Copy Editors Ian Gassman Kate Rigot Matthew Hofer Luke Faulkner Director of Student Media Steve Haigh: shaigh@msudenver.edu Assistant Director of Student Media Jennifer Thomé: jthome1@msudenver.edu Administrative Assistant of Student Media Elizabeth Norberg: enorbert@msudenver.edu Production Manager of Student Media Kathleen Jewby: kjewby@ msudenver.edu Web Editor Brian T. McGinn: bmcginn3@msudenver.edu Distribution Coordinator Ian Gassman: igassman@msudenver.edu

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Art and Literary Magazine

Hip-hop educating the messege

By Mariah Taylor

By Kayla Whitney

kwhitne2@msudenver.edu

In honor of National Library Week last week, I bring you a list of the best comic books the Auraria Library has to offer. (Que fireworks, orchestra and menacingly excited laughter) Comics are an expensive hobby, so it’s nice to be able to wander into a fortress of literature and walk out with a pile of books up to your nose for the whopping price of $0.

It’s safe to say the comic section — the PN 6700s area — is the best part of the library. Sure, it’s not much and is no comic shop, but it’s a relief to be able to pick up a comic or two with books you actually need for your upcoming research paper.

Back to my original point; here’s a list of the 10 best reads in the comic book section of the Auraria Library, in no particular order:

“The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 1”

by James Robinson

“Powerless”

by Matt Cherniss

“The Book of Magic: Bindings”

by John Ney Rieber

“Baker Street ‘Children of the Night’”

by Guy Davis

“Batman: The Dark Knight Returns”

by Frank Miller

“The Stuff of Legends, Book One”

by Mike Raicht

“Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?”

by Brian Michael Bendis

“Lone Wolf and Cub: The Assassin’s Road, Vol. 1”

by Kazuo Koike

“Straight outta Compton/Is a brother that’ll smother your mother/And make your sister think I love her/And if I ever get caught, I make bail/See I don’t give a fuck, that’s the problem/I see a cop, I don’t dodge him/But I’m smart, lay low, creep a while/And when I see a punk pass, I smile”

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These are the types of street smarts that came to represent the rap industry. A rapper was someone hardened by a life of low class spent in places as deadly as Compton. Unsympathetic, wise to the ways of the 4.25-4.27: Rock Of Ages streets, they were unapologetic and terrifying.

Buell Theatre But this year, I have seen a new representation of the rapper. In his Art and Literary Magazine Times and ticket prices vary. newest album, Born Sinner, J. Cole talks about the undeniable greed in the rap industry and about original sin, but most importantly, in his song 4.29: CU Symphony: “Trouble,” he talks about education, saying: “And I’m going back to school/Sat next to a bad bitch in the back of the class/She like “Don’t you know this shit already?/Nigga, ain’t you rich already?”/Yeah, but I got dumb as shit/Hanging ‘round these rappers cause they dumb as shit/But I’m back on track, jumpshot wasn’t that good/Couldn’t sell crack but I rap good/That’s one stereotype/Know a lot of niggas that’ll marry your type/Bad bitch with a degree, I let ‘em scoop ya”

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Artist quote

In an even newer track by Archie Bang titled “Hey Luv,” the importance of education is also addressed:

“When I think of art, I think of beauty.

Beauty is the This, my friends, is an utterly profound leap from the N.W.A and Slick mystery of life.

Rick lyrics I grew up on. The streets are becoming less of a place to be It is not in the endured and survived with murder and violence. Rather, they are a place eye, it is in the to be overcome and avoided with education, something that everyone but mind. In our minds, there is Artnow. andAnd Literary Magazine the hip-hop industry has understood until for that, I am proud awareness of perfection.” of my generation’s rappers.

-Agnes Martin “ (Are you a rapper? Like a million other cats?)/Actually no girl, a little more than that/As you can see, I’m here pursuing a degree/Tryna stay out of trouble not get caught up in these streets/Not to mention I’m top 5 of freshmen MC’s”

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“The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes”

by Neil Gaiman

Something really important has been happening in the rap industry lately. And it’s new, something I have only seen in the current year. Since the hip-hop genre came into existence in the ’80s and ’90s, the source of pride for any rapper has been in being irrevocably ruthless and resistant.

Rappers like Ice Cube and Easy E, of the hip-hop group N.W.A, pompously pronounced in 1988:

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Leo Tolstoy, meet my grown-up self

By Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu The older I’ve grown, the more a trip to the bookstore has become an all-encompassing excursion.

I can spend hours wandering around Barnes and Noble (RIP Borders), browsing titles, sections and leafing through the pages of someone else’s imagination. My last trip to the bookstore, however, found me in a section my high school English classes taught me to fear — the literary classics.

In their generic packaging, with varying shades of muted colors, embellished fonts, and a square in the corner assuring potential readers that they are “classic literature,” these books are more intimidating than any encyclopedia or dictionary. They are the books that have been so renowned and respected throughout history that if you enjoy good writing, you basically HAVE to drool over them.

Since I took that fake high school diploma from my principal’s hand, I haven’t cracked open a classic novel. There’s been no Jane Austen, no Charles Dickens, no J.D. Salinger in my backpack or at my bedside. I still read, however, and I still love the rush of getting lost in a good book. My decisions in reading material, though, have diversified at best and taken a step or two down the complexity ladder at worst.

It took five minutes in front of the classics shelf at Barnes and Noble to finally pick up the book: “Anna Karenina.” I debated with myself — do I have time for this? Is this worth my ever-so-precious free time? Finally, I snapped myself into logic. People aren’t still reading Leo Tolstoy because of his inability to hold their attention.

After a quick jog to the checkout counter before I could change my mind and a short drive home, I sat on my sofa with a fresh copy of “Anna Karenina.” One deep breath and some time commitment later, it had begun.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” the book begins. And just like that, I was hooked.

It’s difficult to read classics as an adult. They take time, commitment and analysis. Most times, they are far from easy reads. However, just as getting older has changed how much time I spend in the bookstore, getting older means I’ve also learned that if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly. Maybe the same goes for leisure reading. Reading about imperial Russia should answer that question for me. Hopefully.

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The padded room solution

By Jody Mier jmier2@msudenver.edu

“On Such a Full Sea”

by Chang-rae Lee Reviewed by Sonia Christensen Tattered Cover Historic LoDo On Such a Full Sea, by Chang-rae Lee, takes place in the future, in a United States reshaped by environmental and social change. It tells the story of Fan, a girl born and raised in B-Mor (formerly known as Baltimore) — a labor settlement in which workers devote their lives to cultivating produce and seafood for wealthy citizens who live elsewhere, in Charter villages. Though at first a contented worker and gifted diver, when the man she loves disappears, Fan leaves the safety of B-Mor to find him, ending up first in the lawless and terrifying counties and then in one of the Charter villages.

Simultaneously a novel about love, class and countless other things, On Such a Full Sea is an exceptional novel — beautiful, moving, dark and smart.

On Such a Full Sea is complex — it’s hard to pick an aspect to highlight. I think what I found most fascinating was the detail and plausibility of Lee’s future United States. In his re-imagined world, almost everything is different. Major facets of society have changed; there’s a completely different social structure with its own social issues and culture. The amount of imagination and skill shown in the conception of a world this detailed is amazing but what’s truly impressive is Lee’s presentation. He’s able to show complete societal overhaul in a way that makes it seem so possible it’s almost inevitable.

Apart from being stylistically and technically impressive, On Such a Full Sea is also beautiful and full of wisdom. Most of the characters are slightly insane, which I liked, and the plot is fastpaced and sometimes violent, which I also liked. I wanted to slow down and enjoy it, but instead I read it in three days because I couldn’t stop. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes post-apocalyptic novels or novels that take place in a dystopian setting like Watchmen or 1984, or to anyone who’s read “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin or any of Steven Millhauser’s short stories.

Greetings Earthlings, Did you know you can’t do that? Well, it’s true. I found this out the other day. There I was, in the fetal position, twisting my hair, muttering incoherently — to myself, I might add — when the campus police approached me. I snapped, “Ya want another goddam essay outta me? Well do ya, punk?” They gently lead

me away as prospective students on a tour watched my outburst in horror and their guide reassured them it was all just an act.

At first, I was offended. But think about it: if you had to have an end-of-semester-meltdown why not make an art form out of it? If you’re going to freak out about all the essays on your to-do list and finals to study for — why not GO ALL THE WAY?! Don’t be the boring “There was this student who flipped out in the Tivoli today.” Be bigger than that, baby. Become a legend. Become a YouTube phenomenon.

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an annual art showing. Instead of t-shirts, we could have students hanging in harnesses in various stages of end-of-semester-meltdowns. We could decorate them with streamers to represent the tears that fall during this stressful time. No one has taken me seriously. They’ve wanted nets and safety precautions.

I think that would just take away all the meaning of my art. I can’t sacrifice my art. Sorry, first year students.

But I’m alright with that.

When one door closes, another one opens. I’m thinking about getting a truck, like those food trucks. Now, this is just in the developmental stages, but I figure I could make a pretty penny selling guided end of semester spiritual journeys. Some go to Boulder or New Mexico, or maybe they’re lucky enough to visit a shaman in Brazil for a cup of the ol’ Ayahuasca tea. These people return a changed person, purged and cleansed of all negative energies and evil spirits. With this in mind, my truck would be padded wall-to-wall and soundproof. How much money do you think I could make by selling a space to scream and flip out while throwing yourself around?

How much would you pay for a private space to have yourself a good sloppy cry with the comfort of knowing no one can see all the snot streaming across your face?

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Tens of thousands of smokers were in attendance at Civic Center Park for the Denver 4/20 Rally April, 20. Photo by Courtland Wilson • cwils12@msudenver.edu

4/20 Rally a big ‘hit’ in Denver

By Melanie Moccia mmoccia@msudenver.edu

This year’s 4/20 celebration in Civic Center Park was the biggest yet, despite the apparent violation of public consumption laws.

The wait to enter the park on Sunday — the second day of the two-day festival — was a solid 15 to 20 minutes due to ampedup security at each of the four entrances. Everyone entering the festival was patted down and bags were checked.

“We should be able to smoke marijuana like we drink alcohol.

When (64) passed, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mike Pierce, a Colorado-based marijuana activist.

“When it passed, I was shocked.”

Pierce has strong feelings about the public laws prohibiting consumption, anti-pot smokers and the police force that was present at the rally. He crusaded to get Amendment 64 passed by campaigning and protesting across the state for 15 miles a day

over the course of five months. He also shares his birthday with the “holiday.”

According to the official 4/20 Rally website, the event was a “Cannabis culture music festival.”

This years event was more organized than last year, due to marijuana legalization and popularity.

Prior to the event, the website also stated, “This year’s Denver 4/20 Rally on April 19 and 20 will have a much different vibe than in the past.

The underground movement that began in the late ’70s has become a leading voice for change and promises to attract users and activists of all stripes and background.”

People of all ages — even children — took part at the rally.

Musicians performed on two different stages while food trucks and vendors filled the festival grounds.

A main stage was set up on the Bannock Street side of the rally where on Saturday SunSquabi, DJ Cavem, Zion I, DJ Whoo Kid and Wyclef Jean performed.

The crowd was lighter on Saturday due to the rain, but pot lovers still puffed down joints, lit bongs and smoked blunts throughout the park.

On Sunday, the park was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with people. The Expendables, B.o.B and Pries played while people in attendance smoked at their leisure as a cloud of smoke emerged when the clock struck 4:20 p.m.

“What I stress to a lot of people is, what do we got to lose? There’s revenue here, there’s more people doing it now than ever before. It’s not acid, it’s not heroin, it’s not cocaine, it’s safe,” Pierce said.

Over the span of the weekend, 130 arrests were made and 22 people were jailed for public consumption, according to Westword.

Cops strictly guarded entrances, sat on stage and even stood on the roof of the McNichols Civic Center Building making sure the crowd stayed in control.

“They’re so worried about crowd control they don’t understand people just want to come

here, smoke and check it out,” Pierce said.

On Saturday, the rally was cut off 40 minutes early. Organizers of the rally spoke on stage and explained that the event was going to lose its permit if it didn’t shut down early because of the smoking that was going on all day.

One organizer of the event sarcastically told the crowd that he was required by the federal government to tell everyone that “you’re not supposed to smoke pot in public,” as the crowd cheered and lit their bowls.

“4/20 was never supposed to happen,” Pierce said.

He explained that the third time after the vote for legalization of marijuana was put on the ballot, the people finally voted it in.

“Politicians, political figures, people who didn’t want it and kept it off the ballot for years,” Pierce said.

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<<continued from front page His inspiration for this movie, he said, came a few years ago while he was listening to the soundtrack for “The Producers” in his car. He saw a girl with a feather in her hair ride past on a one-speed bicycle, carrying a yoga mat under one arm and rolling a cigarette in the other hand. The combination of show tunes and a hipster girl sparked an idea in his head.

UCD graduate Sam Golden helped make that idea into musical reality. “(Blair) approached me and was like, ‘I have an idea for a musical, would you be interested?’”

Golden said. “And I was like, ‘I don’t know, I’m kind of busy,’ and then he said it was called ‘Hipster!

The Musical.’ And I was on board.”

It took Golden about eight months to compose all the songs

for the movie, including a song he performed for a teaser trailer that didn’t make it into the finished product. He said composing for a 15-piece orchestra was a challenge, but he was pleased with the results, including the Winter Film award.

“It’s been kind of unreal,” he said. “But really good for Adam and I and the fi lm.”

Blair fi lmed the entire movie at Auraria and other downtown Denver locations, like the Chamberlin Observatory and Commons Park.

This was not a big budget production, but he found ways to get around every obstacle.

His sister helped him make a rain machine from scratch, he used his own camera and editing soft ware, and a Kickstarter fund helped with advertising.

“If you own the equipment, and if you can get a good group of

people to donate a lot of time for free, you can get away with — well, still paying a lot, but not having to go through a studio,” Blair said during a question and answer session after the movie.

“Get on as many sets as you can, work for free and be as helpful as possible,” Blair advised other aspiring fi lmmakers. “’Cause that’s how you get people to like you and work on your sets for free — if you’re a go-getter. And a fi lm is only as good as its weakest crew member.”

Although he plans to get a graduate degree in philosophy after leaving UCD, Blair doesn’t want “Hipster” to be his last movie. His next project, though, is still up in the air.

“I’m really trying to experiment with some different genres now while I have the time,” he said.

“Not musical, and hopefully something a little more serious, since I’ve done the comedy already.”

Golden also wants to continue writing music for the big screen.

He’s currently working on a short fi lm, as well as playing with his band, The Query.

“Hipster!” relentlessly teases its targets about everything from their coffee addictions to their unnecessary eyewear, but Blair and Golden admitted they felt some sympathy for their anti-mainstream characters.

“When we’re fi lming, we’re making fun of hipsters, but then we’re like, ‘Wow, I really enjoy this stuff,’” said Golden, sporting his own pair of thick-rimmed glasses.

“I ride a hipster bike. My bike was in (the movie), my car was in there.”

Blair admitted that some of the

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costumes for the movie came from his closet.

“We came to terms with the fact that there’s a little hipster in all of us,” he said.

Moon Magnet Music illuminates publishing industry

By Ian Gassman igassman@msudenver.edu When Reed Fuchs’ longtime friend Matt Tanner moved to Los Angeles in June 2013, he left behind his home studio known as Snozberry.

Soon after, Fuchs took over the house and started Moon Magnet, a full service production company centered around the recording space.

Recently, Fuchs — along with his roommate Derrick Bozich and recent business partner, Neil Lyons — devised “Moon Magnet Music,” a publishing offshoot where Moon Magnet artists can license out their music for commercial use.

The Metropolitan sat down with Fuchs, Bozich and Lyons to discuss the new venture, which they plan to unveil and promote April 27 at the Root 40 Music Fest.

The Metropolitan: When did Moon Magnet studios start?

Reed Fuchs: Last January, it was still Snozberry studios and we realized we need a new name for it, because he was in L.A. and so Derrick and I were brainstorming names for months, until June we were trying to find a good name and we almost became — Derrick Bozich: Foxy Circus RF: That was such a bad name.

Then, someone said we should name it after a song I co-wrote three years ago called “Moon Magnet” and that’s what it became.

DB: I moved in April 2013 and we had no clue what this place would turn into. We knew that we wanted to do something creative, something with our friends and also something that we could potentially make a living from.

So, this house kind of started with those intentions and it’s just developed and evolved into a lot of different things, including Moon Magnet Music.

The Met: Why did you both decide to make Moon Magnet a “production house?”

RF: The old record labels — on the first floor they had the secretary that answered phone calls, on the second floor they had the recording studio, on the third floor, they would have the publishing company. That’s kind of what we’re doing. It’s an old-school throwback but, also, it’s just efficient.

Neil Lyons: Yeah, that metaphor is a good representation of how it’s all starting to come together in my mind. We help artists from the beginning to put a Kickstarter together to help them fund recording time, then they come and we help them produce their album. Once it’s recorded, it’s on the label. From there, we put it in the (licensing) library. It’s kind of a one-stop shop.

The Met: What was the impetus for starting the publishing branch of Moon Magnet?

NL: It had been an idea of mine for a long time. For four or five years I’ve been writing music specifically for licensing and trying to get placements. It was almost a year ago now, at the end of last fall, I came by the studio to meet up with Reed because I was looking for a rehearsal space. I don’t know how we got started talking about it, but we ended up bouncing around ideas off each other.

RF: I feel like it was kind of instant, that we hit it off and said, “let’s try it out.”

The Met: What does the publishing aspect include?

NL: It’s really a production music library, but I think we see it as being more than that. It’s not just a catalog of music that we want

people to search through. It’s more of an avenue for us to showcase artists that come through the Moon Magnet collective. It’s a place where we can help them disseminate their music to the world and (have consumers) potentially buy licenses to use it for whatever, whether it’s for a Facebook video, all the way up to a feature length fi lm.

The Met: So, an artist simply needs to copyright their songs to be able to license out their music?

NL: Right now, the music that’s hosted on the site is all stuff that we’ve written, so we own the copyrights to it and we have it registered with Performance Rights Organizations, ASCAP and BMI. In the future, signing artists from the Moon Magnet label, they’re going to retain copyright and have it registered with their PRO. We come to an artist agreement that says we’ll put their music on our website and they give us the right to sell licenses for their music. We split up anything that’s generated from the sales with the artists.

The Met: Have you been recording songs for the library throughout this past year?

RF: For Neil, it started a while back.

NL: Yeah, I was working as a

studio musician for this guy up in the RiNO district. He got me placements doing a couple things like, “oh, I need a country sounding track for this” and I just went crazy with it. I just put together more than 200 pieces of music in the period of three years. That was all sitting on a hard drive and I was trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with it. And when I started talking to Reed it became a real thing.

The Met: What are some of your favorite tracks in the initial bundle?

NL: There’s so much music that I’ve gone back and tweaked or remixed, it kind of depends on the week (laughs). There’s everything from bluegrass to solo piano etudes to hip-hop beats to — RF: Dubstep (laughs).

NL: Yeah, there’s a lot of electronic stuff because it’s easy to make that kind of thing. But I think the idea was to be as diverse as possible and develop myself as a producer. This (bundle) was the byproduct of that.

The Met: Why not just make your music public domain?

Wouldn’t that push the brand of Moon Magnet even further?

DB: We’re actually thinking about that for our social media licenses. At first, we just want people to use our library and get information from their experience. So, if they’re using YouTube, Facebook or whatever, we’ll make an agreement with them and give them a free track from our library to use.

That will help our brand.

NL: That’s a big part of it. We offer licenses that are free. It’s not about charging a bunch of money to use our music; it’s about getting the music out there. And, depending on how it’s used, a price gets put to it.

The Met: Lastly, what does Moon Magnet have planned for the future?

RF: We want to get a sweet studio space, a really big one with practice rooms and a coffee shop or a bar.

NL: A bar.

RF: Okay, a coffee bar. And it will have a bunch of different studio rooms.

NL: Yeah, our end goal is … to have a creative space where we can do what it is that we can’t help but do (laughs) — somewhere to put it all.

From left: Karl Rivers, Reed Fuchs, Derrick Bozich, Jenstar Brockman & Ryan Schlichtman. Photo from Moon Magnet Studios

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Coming soon Movies opening 4/25 “The Other Woman” “Brick Mansions” “The Quiet Ones”

Music releasing 4/29 Rodrigo y Gabriela — 9 Dead Alive Whitechapel — Our Endless War Damon Albarn — Everyday Robots The Chris Robinson — Phosphorescent Harvest

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Farewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina Album art by Rock The Cause

Farewell Transmission: The Music Of Jason Molina

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu When Jason Molina died at the tender age of 39 last year, the world lost one of the most passionate and genuinely talented musicians ever to pick up an instrument.

The singer/songwriter lived life on the edge — often taking his drinking and rock star lifestyle to the brink, all the while touring across the world under a number of different monikers: Magnolia Electric Co., Songs: Ohia or his own given name.

Molina was typically a solo act who featured a slew of rotating musicians and never failed to deliver when called upon. His

Pyramid Vritra Indra

By Mariah Taylor mtayl103@msudenver.edu There seems to be an attraction to a sort of “do it yourself” aspect when making hip-hop lately.

One artist on stage rapping over his or her own simply created yet powerful beats seems so much more attainable and relatable than the work produced by the hip-hop giants who dominate the music industry now.

Los Angeles-based rapper Pyramid Vritra exudes just this

Indra by Pyramid Vritra Album art by Stones Throw Records

2003 album, Magnolia Electric Co., under the Songs: Ohia name (confusing, I know), features a seven-minute bluesy version of “Farewell Transmission,” arguably Molina’s greatest song, which is a dark look into Molina’s troubled life and a scary metaphor for what was to come.

So many musicians worldwide loved Molina, so much so that his spirit and, more importantly, his music spawned the inspiration for dozens of musicians to get together and compile two separate albums chock full of Molina’s spirit.

Farewell Transmission: The Music Of Jason Molina, which came dropped April 22 on Secretly Canadian Records, is the most recent output of Molina songs done by others.

Thankfully, NPR put the double-disc collection up on its “First Listen” page last week for all the Molina-minions to bask in the glory that is Jason Molina.

Friends, former bandmates and collaborators came together to give a solid overview of Molina’s career type of accessibility in his work.

His new album, Indra, which came out late February, showcases his eccentric take on hip-hop music, with sample-free beats and moving rhymes that relate easily to us mere mortals.

Considering the style used in the album, there is no surprise that Pyramid Vritra is affi liated with the collaborative rap group Odd Future, which includes such unconventional artists as Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean: The guys who call themselves “too black for the white kids and too white for the blacks.”

But this grey area that artists like Pyramid Vritra and Tyler the Creator live in seems to be what their listeners find so attractive.

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in just under two hours spread out over two discs.

Contributors range from the moody alt-folk sounds of Sarah Jaffe, to the gypsy soul rock ‘n’ roll of My Morning Jacket and a pleasantly poetic version of “Almost Was Good Enough” by Bro Stephen and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James. Stephan and James match up perfectly on vocals for an incredible acoustic track that emulates a ’60s/ ’70s folk-rock feeling.

My Morning Jacket’s version of “Farewell Transmission” (the title track) features James’ raspy vocals a-la Molina perfectly, while the rest of the band jams hard.

Jaffe’s take on “Alone With The Owl” showcases her indie-folk roots in a soft ly spoken kind of way. The hard-hitting piano line packs a punch full of alternative bliss.

It’s albums like these that help people remember how great someone was — now, we never have to forget the delicate genius that is Jason Molina. A The purposefully low budget, simplistic aspects evoked in Indra come through in music videos for songs like “Delta,” which looks more like a fan video than anything else and features a refreshingly average-looking young lady and Vritra’s own patented bulging eyes and humble dress.

The song resembles little of the cliché hip-hop culture in the impeccably produced, lavish videos that the industry has adopted — but all of the allure seems to lie in just this simplicity.

And although the album can be called simple in comparison to what rap music has come to represent, it is in no way lacking.

In short, Pyramid Vritra makes me proud to call myself a hip-hop fan. B +

“Transcendence”

By J.R. Johnson gjohns93@msudenver.edu Technology is one of the largest growing fields in the world, constantly progressing and amazing in new ways.

It’s moving so fast, it’s almost frightening to imagine what it could become one day. If you can’t, “Transcendence” offers to fi ll the void for those who lack the vision, although it’s not the prettiest picture.

“Transcendence” follows a group of scientists headed by Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), at the forefront of artificial intelligence development. Their concepts and work are years ahead of anyone else in their field, but that’s not exactly a good thing: it leads to a terrorist organization, determined to eliminate the advancement of dangerous technology, targeting Will. They nearly kill him, forcing his colleagues — including his wife Evelyn, played by Rebecca Hall — to use Will’s AI technology to try and save his life.

The fi lm is ambitious, but because of that, the full idea has little room to develop without the plodding plot souring it.

Because of the compact story and fragmented narrative, the fi lm misses the opportunity to evolve the discussion on AI. The character development suffers as well. All that survives is the decent visuals from first-time director Wally Pfister, an Oscar-winning cinematographer.

“Transcendence” ends up biting off more than it can chew. The idea behind the story is extremely expansive, but the fi lm leaves more questions for viewers at the end of the fi lm than the muddy ending could possibly answer. D -

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Jamie Mitchell Love Songs of the Profane

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu The first thing that jumped out for me when I strapped on a pair of headphones to listen to Wisconsin native Jamie Mitchell’s debut solo album, Love Songs of The Profane, was the rich and pristine twang that echoed from ear to ear as the

Woods With Light and Love

By Cherise Scrivner cscrivn2@msudenver.edu Woods’ name may sound like a country posse, but their hippierock acoustic style proves all preconceived notions wrong.

The Brooklyn, New York, rock/folk group released With Light and Love April 15 under Woodsist, an American record label Jeremy Earl, the band’s lead artist, formed in 2006 to produce all of the band’s work.

Earl created the band as a solo recording project in 2005. His

“Metamorphoses”

By Kate Rigot krigot@msudenver.edu I’ve been waiting 11 years to see this adaptation.

Its author, Mary Zimmerman, once gave a guest lecture about it to my comparative literature class on Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and later works centered around the theme of transformations.

We didn’t actually read or watch her adaptation of the ancient Roman epic poem — nor had I seen it before, having only moved to the Chicago area the year following its 1998-99 run at the city’s Lookingglass Theatre, its original staging.

But what Zimmerman described of the play captivated this mythology geek. I was intrigued by the way she connected ancient mythic themes to modern-day tropes and to the larger human condition, and used anachronisms and other devices to do this (the play is in fact set “Anywhere” and in “All time”).

I was also struck by her choices of certain physical features and set design — in particular, her unorthodox use of water to signify a sort of malleable dream-space that

seven-track album played on.

Mitchell is known around town for his guitar work with several projects and most notably for his pedal steel guitar playing.

Love Songs of The Profane is a genuine look into Mitchell’s vast catalog of alt-country rock ‘n’ roll roots mixed with a pleasant hybrid of lo-fi folk music.

The album marks the first solo release from Mitchell, who selfproduced the record.

Mitchell’s catalog of genres is rich and easily pulls influences from the likes of Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams and a just a hint of Sonic Youth.

The album opens with “Hotel debut album, How to survive In/In the Woods, displayed his phenomenal acoustic rock style. In 2008 Jarvis Taveniere and G. Lucas Crane joined Woods, expanding the intricate musical background of the group. The band also features bassist Kevin Morby and Aaron Neveu, a truly remarkable drummer.

Next, the group joined forces and committed to expanding their sound techniques, paying close attention to the recording quality to make a longer and fuller album compared to their last productions, according to Fred Thomas on Spotify. As a result, With Light and Love has an amazingly smooth-sounding vibe.

It’s difficult for me to pick a favorite song from the album.

Every song has great lyrics that are could both symbolically and literally spawn, consume, or transform any other narrative element.

Therefore, I was excited to finally get a chance to see this play I’d thought about for so many years but never got around to reading, staged earlier this month by Metro’s theatre department.

The adaptation itself lived up to my expectations. It told these myths from a place of both illumination and gravity, and jumped collagelike from story to story, from text to text, from past to ambiguous present, from English to ancient Greek, from lighthearted comedy to anguished despair, from itself to outside itself and back in again – pleasantly disjointed and seemingly everywhere and nowhere all at once.

Pervasive throughout was a deliberate sense of meta-awareness of the stories’ significance, startlingly forthright yet never heavy-handed, such that the stories became quasicharacters unto themselves.

Despite the somewhat wooden delivery of much of the abundant narration and meta-commentary

Room,” an earnest look into the guitarist’s pedal steel talents and rich vocals that sound like a broken down version of Brian Borcherdt’s Canadian indie-rock band, Dusted.

Track five, “Demi-Gods” is a hard-hitting look into the early ‘90s grunge rock that Mitchell emulates so well.

The album ends with “When You’re Gone,” a distorted rock song with a haunting buzz of atmospheric bliss.

Mitchell pours his heart out and does a fantastic job of showcasing his many talents on Love Songs of The Profane. B +

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“Spring Awakening”

By Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu

Love Songs of the Profane by Jamie Mitchell Promotional art by Jamie Mitchell

remarkably structured. The vocals of the album also complement well with the musical techniques and inspirations of its members.

“Moving to the Left” is an amazing song. With a gentle, psychedelic feeling produced by the instrumental background mixed with smooth, well produced lyrics.

The easy listening of With Light and Love makes it a great album to listen to when on a road trip or stuck at home cleaning the dirt and grime off your white walls.

On the Woods’ band website, they said their new album “reveals an expanded sonic palette that includes singing saw, heavier emphasis on percussion and a saloon piano that sounds like it was rescued from a flooded basement.”

The up-beat, mild rock-hippie

vibe in this album made Woods a new favorite on my preferred listening list.

The album makes me feel hypnotized. I just want to lay in a field of flowers watching the clouds pass above as if the world had no problems.

There’s just something about the way the album plays and the vibes of relaxation that the music produces within my body that reminds me of the memorable harmonious productions of The Beatles.

Not by any means do I put Woods and The Beatles at the same level of iconic talent, but if Woods keeps doing their thing the way they do with music, who knows where there musical journey will lead them? A

(perhaps intentional, but I’m not sure to what end), the cast held together a difficult piece that required them not only to weave together multiple narratives and to pull off a lot of physical acting, but, at points, to submerge themselves underwater, or to play out a scene (set indoors, even) while waistdeep in the pool that occupied the center of the set.

The cast was composed of 12 actors, but the characters they played numbered almost six dozen.

However, I didn’t notice any one time that any actor failed to effortlessly and convincingly make the most sudden or the most drastic jumps between strikingly different characters – and we’re not just talking from one side to another of a given metamorphosis, but from, say, an ancient queen to a modern-day lab-coated therapist prevaricating on Phaeton’s daddy issues.

Gustavo Marquez and Austin Hill really shone (ha!) in their roles as Apollo and Phaeton — not only because of Marquez’s flawless and

eloquent delivery of an excerpt pulled from “Cosi Fan Tutti” (see what I mean about the jumping around?), but because meshing the operatic aria with Hill’s comedic performance as the sun god’s son, here portrayed as a modern angsty teen, had to have required an enormous amount of skill and precise timing so as to only convey the intended amount of incongruity and no more.

That Zimmerman chose both to use such an anachronistic effect to underscore the generational gap, and to connect the theme of this ancient myth to this particular modern-day counterpart trope is nothing short of, well, brilliant.

Additionally, Nick Marinelli and Mallory Kidd delivered a riveting portrayal of Cinyras and Myrrha, filled with all the horror and pathos one would expect from their knowledge they have engaged in an incestuous coupling following a goddess’ curse.

Finally, I have to give a special shout-out to the students who created the professional-quality design used as the flyer and the program cover, as part of Metro’s Studio M art class. If I hadn’t already had a long-standing desire to see this play, I certainly would have after seeing this stunningly on-point flyer. A

Puberty in the modern age is tough.

As explored in “Spring Awakening,” puberty in repressive 19th century Germany was nearly impossible.

Playing through May 4 at the Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton, “Spring Awakening” was shocking and moving. The musical, adapted from Frank Wedekind’s play, won eight Tony awards on Broadway after it opened in late 2006. Steven Sater wrote the book and lyrics for the show and Duncan Sheik wrote the music. The story follows the lives of several youths coming of age in a society that frowns upon expression of individuality and suppresses the realization of sexuality.

As the main characters, Melchior, Moritz, Wendla and Ilsa, struggle through finding themselves and each other while fighting the expectations of the older generation, they encounter controversial subjects like rape, suicide, abortion and disownment.

While watching the show, I found myself completely empathizing with the emotions of the characters. When they suffered losses, my tears mirrored theirs.

When they sang sarcastically funny songs like “Totally Fucked” or “The Bitch of Living,” I couldn’t help but giggle and commiserate.

More than anything, though, as they sang and danced their way past abusive parents and rude schoolteachers, I cared about their (sometimes tragic) fates.

The performances from the cast were exceptionally strong, especially Casey Andree’s Melchior and Jake Brasch’s Mortiz. Both actors played with incredible emotion while still delivering solid, moving vocals and staying in their respective characters.

The only downside was that some of the casting of the show didn’t seem to fit the voices of several of the actresses, including Lauren Cora Marsh’s portrayal of Ilsa.

The tonality of her voice seemed to clash with the instrumentals, rather than the two marrying in harmony.

However, through strong performances overall, high emotional resonance and an impressive instrumental section, “Spring Awakening” was overall an intense and beautiful production.

As with every show I have seen put on at The Town Hall Arts Center, I left impressed and with a renewed love for musical theater and for the benefits of seeing shows in a more intimate setting. A-

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Baseball 4.25: vs. Adams State Auraria Field @ 3 p.m.

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Game one — W 6-5

Harmon started the Runners off with a two-run home run to right field in the bottom of the first inning, driving in junior center fielder Dani Sandel. Sandel went 5-for-8 over the two games.

After Mines took a 3-2 lead in the top of the third inning, the Runners answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth. Sophomore shortstop Katie Deaguero connected on a pitch and sent it to

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Strong hitting and home runs by the Roadrunners led to two wins against the Colorado School of Mines Orediggers in the April 19 double header at the Auraria Field.

Game two — W 9-4

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Mines jumped to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Metro quickly drew even in the bottom of the inning with a two-run single by junior second baseman Kaylynn Harmon and an RBI single from senior pitcher Aubree Maul.

“We had senior day and there was a lot of emotion, it was really big for us to answer right away,” said Metro head coach Annie Van Wetzinga. “It settled us down and gave us the confidence. It was a tight game all the way through.”

After CSM regained the lead in the middle of the fift h, junior left fielder Mary Towner led off the bottom of the inning with a solo shot to left-center field to even the score at 4-4. Freshman outfielder Colissa Bakovich put the Runners back on top with an RBI single that scored junior first baseman Chelsea Brew.

Senior catcher Kelsey Tillery added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI double that put Metro up two, 6-4.

Maul (11-5, 3.35 ERA) had another solid perfomance on the mound.

She helped the Roadrunners out of a tight spot when the Orediggers loaded the bases in the seventh inning. Maul induced two ground outs and a pop out as only one run scored to escape the game with the win.

“We contained things,” Van Wetzinga said. “(Maul) made big pitches when we needed it and didn’t let them get a big inning.”

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Track & Field 4.26: Jack Christiansen Invitational @ Fort Collins

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Game 5 (4.26): Pepsi Center TBD Freshman Colissa Bakovich can’t beat the throw as she is called out during Metro’s double header against Colorado School of Mines April 19 at the Auraria Field. The Roadrunners (25-11) took three of four games in their series with the Orediggers.

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center field to tie the score at 3-3.

Sandel later drove in Bakovich with a triple to left-center.

“For the most part this year, getting people on base hasn’t been our problem; it’s been getting the key hit and the consistency,” Van Wetzinga said.

Metro had another three-run inning in the fift h, as Bakovich highlighted the inning with a tworun single. Harmon also collected an RBI single in sixth to finish the scoring for the Roadrunners in a 9-4 victory.

“It’s always tough games against Mines,” Van Wetzinga said. “It’s kind of a natural rivalry there between Mines and Metro.”

Freshman pitcher Cassidy Smith (12-4, 3.99 ERA) earned the win, while Maul executed three relief innings to get the save.

“What’s nice about (Maul and Smith) is that they’re really different,” Van Wetzinga said. “They compliment each other really well.”

The pitching tandem of Maul

and Smith have a complementary effect because of their pitching styles.

Smith uses her offspeed pitches to her advantage by keeping the ball low and inducing ground balls.

Maul brings the heat and has the ability to pitch inside to hitters.

“Moving forward into the postseason, that’s going to be a nice thing to have,” Van Wetzinga said.

The Lady Runners are 25-11 overall and 19-8 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

They will finish the regular season against Colorado StatePueblo April 26 and 27 before the conference tournament starts at the beginning of May. The Metro softball team is No. 1 in the RMAC standings and has a two-game lead over second place UC-Colorado Springs with four games left to play.

Additional reporting by Mario Sanelli

April 18 games

Game 6 (4.28): Xcel Energy Center. Saint Paul, Minn.

TBD Game 7 (4.30): Pepsi Center TBD

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Game one — W 12-4

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Junior second baseman Kaylynn Harmon collected six runs batted in, going 2-for-3 with three runs scored.

Senior pitcher Aubree Maul threw 108 pitches over six innings for her 10th win of the season.

4.25-4.27: @ LA Dodgers 4.25 @ 8:10 p.m. 4.26 @ 7:10 p.m. 4.27 @ 2:10 p.m.

Game two — L 9-1 Down 1-0 after three innings, the Orediggers scored three runs in the top of the fourth inning and another five runs the following inning.

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Track & field wrap-up

Game three — L 3-2

Metro evened the score in the fifth inning at 2-2 on an RBI single

by Walker.

“We manufactured some runs during that game which was really nice to see,” Oates said.

Senior starting pitcher Kevin Hand worked six full innings but was tagged with the loss in the one run game.

“It’s been so much fun to watch (Hand’s) year, being a senior and ultimately laying it all out there,” Oates said of his pitcher.

Hand started in the bullpen and worked his way into the rotation this season. He leads the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in earned run average at 1.66.

Game four — L 6-0

Sophomore starting pitcher Derek Stimpson delivers a pitch during a snowy home game earlier this season. Stimpson is 1-5 with a 6.56 earned run average.

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By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu Colorado State UniversityPueblo took four games from the Roadrunners but didn’t steal the series by much.

Game one — L 7-4

Sophomore outfielder Alex Walker, a transfer from Mesa (Ariz.) Community College, broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the fifth inning with a two-run home run, his first as a Roadrunner. “(The pitcher) gave me a fastball outside, a curveball in the dirt and then a fastball up and in,” Walker said. “I tagged it.”

The ThunderWolves tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the inning, but Walker’s long ball was the spark the Roadrunners needed.

“His home run was a big home run, it gave us the lead,” said head coach Jerrid Oates. “That’s what you’re looking for, the big time

home runs and multi-run home runs.”

Metro carried a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning, where things unraveled. CSUPueblo scored four runs in the inning and Metro went scoreless over the next two frames for the loss.

Game two — L 4-3

The two teams combined for 10 hits, a rather low total.

Junior starting pitcher Patrick Gojan worked six innings for the Roadrunners, giving up four runs (three earned) on six hits.

Mike Fabrizio got the start for the ThunderWolves and surrendered one earned run and four hits for the win.

“It was a true pitching duel, which is kind of what we thought we would get when we went into that game,” Oates said.

Metro trailed 4-0 after three innings but answered with a threerun fourth inning, led by a tworun double from senior shortstop Zac Baldini.

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The ThunderWolves jumped to an early 6-0 lead by the third inning, but Metro held the deficit to six runs for the duration of the game.

“We gave up a few unearned runs, which hurts you in the process. But they also got some big hits,” Oates said.

Despite the Roadrunners’ offensive woes in the series finale, the defense kept the run disparity manageable.

Derek Stimpson was charged with four earned runs over his five innings on the mound and took the loss, but held the ThunderWolves scoreless after the third inning.

“Once Derek settled in, he did a good job and our bullpen did a good job to keep (the deficit) there,” Oates said.

The Roadrunners’ pitching staff worked out of a couple basesloaded jams later in the game to keep the deficit at 6-0, but the team couldn’t build an offensive rally.

Metro concludes its home season with a four-game series against Adams State University. Game one is April 25 at 3 p.m.

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Compiled by Mackenzie Masson mmasson@msudenver.edu

Tennis wrap-up As the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament began April 18, the men’s team won 5-0 over Colorado Christian University before falling in the semifinals to Colorado Mesa, 4-5.

The Runners handled CCU in the doubles to get three wins.

Metro entered the singles matches with a 2-1 lead over the Mavericks.

On the women’s side, the first match against Colorado State-Pueblo ended in a 2-5 loss before their season came to an end against Montana StateBillings, losing 2-5.

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Kadlec’s time also broke a 31-year-old school record set in 1983 by 5.51 seconds. Junior distance runner Evonna Ramirez also broke a school record for the women in the 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 11:23:77.

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F: There are 11 bananas and you take 4, how many do you have?

G: What has holes on each side, but can still can hold water?

Answers: A: A palm. B: A telephone. C: A coat of paint. D: Russian (Russian dolls). E: Add the letter ‘G’ and it’s ‘Gone’. F: 4.G: A sponge.

Horoscopes Capricorn

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November 22 -December 21 Chris Christie is encouraging people to move to Colorado if they want to smoke weed. We say “Welcome!”

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