I closed my eyes and was whisked away. At my feet, a pile of embers crackled, and the pale face of a full moon watched over me from the south. In the silver light, I recognized the looming plateau of the Grand Mesa jutting from the high desert. I was alone, yet the music was louder than before; emanating from every aspect of the terrain, the melody carr…

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Now at the Denver Art Museum, get ready for the ultimate red carpet event! Denver is the exclusive US venue for DIVA, a highly anticipated exhibition organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. DIVA celebrates the radical power, creativity, and cultural impact of nearly 100 iconic performers, from 19th and 20th century divas like Josephine Baker, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maria Callas to modern-day powerhouses like Cher, Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga, Dolly Parton, Prince, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and more. Visit https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en to learn more and get tickets.

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Wax Trax Records has bought and sold new and used vinyl, cassettes and all recorded music since 1978, longer than any other shop in Colorado. Since the beginning, it has deeply explored every genre from every corner of the world. In addition to its well-preserved Capitol Hill location, customers can now find Wax Trax on the Northside, on South Broadway, and in north Aurora. Or you can access every new item at their Cap Hill location online at waxtraxrecords.com, including gift cards and upcoming pre-orders! Shop local, shop Wax Trax.

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Art from Ashes empowers struggling youth by providing creative programs that facilitate health and hope through expression, connection, and transformation. Since 2003, Art from Ashes has partnered with more than 250 youth serving organizations to empower 20,000 young people through poetry, spoken word, and art. On October 15th at 6:30pm, join us at The Three Leeches Theater for a stand-up comedy and poetry event, hosted by nationally-touring, festival-headlining Ren Q. Dawe. Tickets are available at artfromashes.org/events/standup. All proceeds from the event and silent auction help keep AfA’s life-changing programs free for youth! For more information, visit artfromashes.org.

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The Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton strives to elevate and inspire, working to build meaningful relationships across all cultures and communities. Season 44 includes a production of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, the PAWS Benefit Night, Big: The Musical, and so much more. Attendees can support local performers and be part of the fun! Learn more at https://townhallartscenter.org

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This Week’s Featured Song: “Jig’s Up” by The Dead Yetis

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Wax Trax Records has bought and sold new and used vinyl, cassettes and all recorded music since 1978, longer than any other shop in Colorado. Since the beginning, it has deeply explored every genre from every corner of the world. In addition to its well-preserved Capitol Hill location, customers can now find Wax Trax on the Northside, on South Broadway, and in north Aurora. Or you can access every new item at their Cap Hill location online at waxtraxrecords.com, including gift cards and upcoming pre-orders! Shop local, shop Wax Trax.

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Art from Ashes empowers struggling youth by providing creative programs that facilitate health and hope through expression, connection, and transformation. Since 2003, Art from Ashes has partnered with more than 250 youth serving organizations to empower 20,000 young people through poetry, spoken word, and art. On October 15th at 6:30pm, join us at The Three Leeches Theater for a stand-up comedy and poetry event, hosted by nationally-touring, festival-headlining Ren Q. Dawe. Tickets are available at artfromashes.org/events/standup. All proceeds from the event and silent auction help keep AfA’s life-changing programs free for youth! For more information, visit artfromashes.org.

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The Trailhead Comedy Festival is Colorado’s autumn celebration of laughter and community. As the landscape ignites in fall color, comedians gather in intimate venues to discover comedy’s brightest explorers and share the warmth of a collective, side-splitting journey. More than a festival, it’s a welcoming trailhead—where world-class talent meets our local spirit, and every laugh feels like coming home.​ From Oct. 8-10. Learn more at https://www.trailheadcomedyfest.com/

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The Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton strives to elevate and inspire, working to build meaningful relationships across all cultures and communities. Season 44 includes a production of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, the PAWS Benefit Night, Big: The Musical, and so much more. Attendees can support local performers and be part of the fun! Learn more at https://townhallartscenter.org

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This Week’s Featured Song: “Blazer” by The Photo Atlas

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Art from Ashes empowers struggling youth by providing creative programs that facilitate health and hope through expression, connection, and transformation. Since 2003, Art from Ashes has partnered with more than 250 youth serving organizations to empower 20,000 young people through poetry, spoken word, and art. On October 15th at 6:30pm, join us at The Three Leeches Theater for a stand-up comedy and poetry event, hosted by nationally-touring, festival-headlining Ren Q. Dawe. Tickets are available at artfromashes.org/events/standup. All proceeds from the event and silent auction help keep AfA’s life-changing programs free for youth! For more information, visit artfromashes.org.

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You’re invited to a VIP Eyewear Event! Join Central Denver Eyecare on Friday, Sept. 25th, for an exclusive look at two of their hottest eyewear collections: Tom Ford and Oliver Peoples. Stop in to shop the latest styles, enjoy refreshments and giveaways, and enter their raffle for a chance to win a FREE frame! Visit https://www.centraldenvereyecare.com/ to learn more.

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The Trailhead Comedy Festival is Colorado’s autumn celebration of laughter and community. As the landscape ignites in fall color, comedians gather in intimate venues to discover comedy’s brightest explorers and share the warmth of a collective, side-splitting journey. More than a festival, it’s a welcoming trailhead—where world-class talent meets our local spirit, and every laugh feels like coming home.​ From Oct. 8-10. Learn more at https://www.trailheadcomedyfest.com/

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The Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton strives to elevate and inspire, working to build meaningful relationships across all cultures and communities. Season 44 includes a production of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, the PAWS Benefit Night, Big: The Musical, and so much more. Attendees can support local performers and be part of the fun! Learn more at https://townhallartscenter.org

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This Week’s Featured Song: “Wyoming Truck” by 5-Foot Betty

Our fall issue releases this Friday, and, as usual, we’re throwing a free party for our subscribers, including a concert from The UNSOLVED, standup comedy from Nick Ellis, free stickers, t-shirt giveaways, and so much more! Are you coming?

We’ll also be having free beverages for our subscribers, courtesy of Red Rocks Spirits and Ratio Beerworks! Please support people who support local!

If you haven’t subscribed yet, now’s the perfect time to get started and join our community! It’s only $24.99 per year if you subscribe through us directly! And you’ll get access to all of our shows year-round, along with delivered print issues, discounts to local businesses.

Current subscribers can RSVP with a +1 using the link below (only they can see the link). If you sign up now, you can join them! Hope to see you Friday!

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It’s time for our fall issue release party! We’ve got an amazing evening planned for our subscribers, including a free concert from The UNSOLVED, standup comedy from Nick Ellis, free stickers, t-shirt giveaways, and so much more!

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The winner will receive a custom engraved plaque, along with a permanent spot on our website. See last seasons’s winner here.

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Hands, a collection of short stories by Pardeep Toor, is a compact little book well suited for vacations and leisurely reading in the park. Neither breezy nor stodgy, it should satisfy enough of the serious literary sort without putting off the casual reader looking for a few good yarns.``

Much of what makes these stories so digestible is the format. Not quite a novel, but not a set of wholly distinct stories either, Hands follows a hybrid pattern that’s begun popping up lately, in which each story can be both read in isolation and fit into a broader narrative whole. It’s very forgiving to the distracted reader and well-suited for our era.

“Gatsby,” “Dinner Party,” and “Tony & Jims” are the best of the bunch, mostly because they let the characters breathe and build out a world you can see with your eyes closed. “Taxi” is a little undercooked, and “Stranded in the Dunes” feels more like connective tissue—a prelude to “Dinner Party.”

“The Astrologer” ends the set with a sort of downbeat cymbal crash. When you finish the final line, Toor’s sense of the absurd rings clear as a bell, even if “Astrologer” also wants for development.

So a few of the stories aren’t perfect; that’s life. And Toor seems to be a good student of life. He’s delivering a perspective here, and the reader should take notice. Hands, with its working class Indian perspective, plays with the model minority albatross that flies over so many first and second-generation writers’ heads. Toor is intersectional without being smug or holy about it. His writing has a grit to it that’s been scrubbed away from many more recent works that get deemed “literary.”

Hans, the protagonist of Toor’s stories, is a squirrely fella whose bald, unselfconscious selfishness is almost beatnik, and may seem alien to modern readers conditioned to expect characters to stay within Manichean moral lanes. In this sense, Toor’s sensibilities are refreshingly old-fashioned. His choice to situate things in an unspecified pre-smartphone era does not read as some shying away from the realities of our current moment. Rather, by exploring the immigrant experience one generation back, warts and all, Toor gives the reader a living story that is not deadened and enshittified by endless layers of contemporary culture war nonsense.

Hands can feel like a dry run at times though. The closer the stories get to Hans’s erstwhile girlfriend Neelam, the more you sense there’s a novel hiding beneath blueprint gridwork. This connected-story format seems forgiving to the writer as much as the reader, with each new story acting as a hatch that lets the author escape the obligations of the novel, with its demands of continuity and extended thematic focus.

Just pick up a copy and see it all for yourself. With Hands, Toor has turned in a good book he can be proud of. Perhaps if enough people buy it, he’ll give us a great novel.

It’s time for our fall issue release party! We’ve got an amazing evening planned for our subscribers, including a free concert from The UNSOLVED, standup comedy from Nick Ellis, t-shirt giveaways, and so much more!

We’ll also be having free beverages for our subscribers, courtesy of Red Rocks Spirits and Ratio Beerworks! Please support peo…

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The Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton has some incredible shows lined up this season. Every season, the theater strives to elevate and inspire, working to build meaningful relationships across all cultures and communities. Season 44 includes a production of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, the PAWS Benefit Night, Big: The Musical, and so much more. Support local performers and be part of the fun! Check out https://townhallartscenter.org to get tickets and learn more.

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You’re invited to a VIP Eyewear Event! Join Central Denver Eyecare on Friday, Sept. 25th, for an exclusive look at two of their hottest eyewear collections: Tom Ford and Oliver Peoples. Stop in to shop the latest styles, enjoy refreshments and giveaways, and enter their raffle for a chance to win a FREE frame! Visit https://www.centraldenvereyecare.com/ to learn more.

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Vanilla Kink is Denver’s community powered erotic boutique and fetish emporium, dedicated to serving the diverse needs of the Colorado kink community. Find your favorite flavor, from Vanilla to Kinky, in our curated collection of unique, local and handcrafted adult items. Shop without shame in their comfortable, upscale location nestled in the heart of the Golden Triangle--just steps away from The Denver Art Museum and The Art Hotel. Learn more at https://www.vanillakinkdenver.com/

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Art from Ashes empowers struggling youth by providing creative programs that facilitate health and hope through expression, connection, and transformation. Since 2003, Art from Ashes has partnered with more than 250 youth serving organizations to empower 20,000 young people through poetry, spoken word, and art. On October 15th at 6:30pm, join us at The Three Leeches Theater for a stand-up comedy and poetry event, hosted by nationally-touring, festival-headlining Ren Q. Dawe. Tickets are available at artfromashes.org/events/standup. All proceeds from the event and silent auction help keep AfA’s life-changing programs free for youth! For more information, visit artfromashes.org.

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This Week’s Song: “Planted into the Earth” by Altaphonic

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Art from Ashes empowers struggling youth by providing creative programs that facilitate health and hope through expression, connection, and transformation. Since 2003, Art from Ashes has partnered with more than 250 youth serving organizations to empower 20,000 young people through poetry, spoken word, and art. On October 15th at 6:30pm, join us at The Three Leeches Theater for a stand-up comedy and poetry event, hosted by nationally-touring, festival-headlining Ren Q. Dawe. Tickets are available at artfromashes.org/events/standup. All proceeds from the event and silent auction help keep AfA’s life-changing programs free for youth! For more information, visit artfromashes.org.

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The Colorado Springs Conservatory presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical thriller filled with suspense, unforgettable music and unexpected twists. Set in nineteenth-century London, Sweeney Todd follows a barber consumed by a desire for revenge and the pie shop owner whose fortunes change in the most shocking of ways. What unfolds is a gripping tale that has captivated audiences around the world for decades. Performed by an extraordinary cast of young artists from across the Pikes Peak region, this production is the culmination of the Colorado Springs Conservatory’s annual Musical Theatre Intensive, where students work alongside professional mentors to bring one of musical theatre’s most celebrated works to life. Get your tickets at https://tickets.entcenterforthearts.org

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Vanilla Kink is Denver’s community powered erotic boutique and fetish emporium, dedicated to serving the diverse needs of the Colorado kink community. Find your favorite flavor, from Vanilla to Kinky, in our curated collection of unique, local and handcrafted adult items. Shop without shame in their comfortable, upscale location nestled in the heart of the Golden Triangle--just steps away from The Denver Art Museum and The Art Hotel. Learn more at https://www.vanillakinkdenver.com/

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The Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton has some incredible shows lined up this season. Every season, the theater strives to elevate and inspire, working to build meaningful relationships across all cultures and communities. Season 44 includes a production of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, the PAWS Benefit Night, Big: The Musical, and so much more. Support local performers and be part of the fun! Check out https://townhallartscenter.org/ to get tickets and learn more.

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Featured Song: “Daffodil Daydreams” by Candy Chic

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The Colorado Springs Conservatory presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical thriller filled with suspense, unforgettable music and unexpected twists. Set in nineteenth-century London, Sweeney Todd follows a barber consumed by a desire for revenge and the pie shop owner whose fortunes change in the most shocking of ways. What unfolds is a gripping tale that has captivated audiences around the world for decades. Performed by an extraordinary cast of young artists from across the Pikes Peak region, this production is the culmination of the Colorado Springs Conservatory’s annual Musical Theatre Intensive, where students work alongside professional mentors to bring one of musical theatre’s most celebrated works to life. Get your tickets at https://tickets.entcenterforthearts.org

Vanilla Kink is Denver’s community powered erotic boutique and fetish emporium, dedicated to serving the diverse needs of the Colorado kink community. Find your favorite flavor, from Vanilla to Kinky, in our curated collection of unique, local and handcrafted adult items. Shop without shame in their comfortable, upscale location nestled in the heart of the Golden Triangle--just steps away from The Denver Art Museum and The Art Hotel. Learn more at https://www.vanillakinkdenver.com/

The Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton has some incredible shows lined up this season. Every season, the theater strives to elevate and inspire, working to build meaningful relationships across all cultures and communities. Season 44 includes a production of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver, the PAWS Benefit Night, Big: The Musical, and so much more. Support local performers and be part of the fun! Check out https://townhallartscenter.org/ to get tickets and learn more.

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This Week’s Song: “Western Slope” by Safekeeper

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DeeDee’s Burlesque Book Club presents Alice In Wonderland: A Burlesque Revue “We’re all mad here...” The Clocktower Clockettes are ready to bring that madness to the stage! This seductive, high-energy reimagining of Alice in Wonderland spins Lewis Carroll’s curious tale into a glittering, grown-up fever dream. Follow Alice, the White Rabbit, and a cast of deliciously twisted characters as they tease and twirl in a world where nothing is quite what it seems. It will be ”…entirely bonkers. But I will tell you a secret. All the best people are.” Learn more at https://www.clocktowercabaret.com/

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The Colfax Carousal returns Saturday, September 19, for its second year celebrating Denver’s punk community across six independent venues on Colfax Avenue. More than 30 acts, including Jon Snodgrass, Church Fire, MF Ruckus, Rubber Goddess, Night Fishing, The Frickashinas, White Rose Motor Oil, and many more will take the stage at Tight End, Lion’s Lair, Squire Lounge, DNVR Bar, Good Bones, and Illegal Pete’s. After years of BRT construction impacts along Colfax, the Carousal is rooted in a simple punk principle: show up for your people and support the places that give the community a home. One hundred percent of show proceeds support participating artists and businesses. Learn more at colfaxcarousal.org.

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The Denver Zine Library is excited to announce Denver Zine Fest 2026! Since 2007, Denver Zine Fest has been a vibrant platform for Colorado zine creators to collaborate, share their work, and build community. This year’s event will feature over 90 independent creators from Denver, across Colorado, and beyond. Join us for a day filled with zine-y goodness and some fantastic collaborations with Colorado’s finest creatives! Mark your calendar for September 13th, from 11am-5pm, and head to the Denver Public Library, Central Library for this free event.

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This Week’s Song: “elliot” by Dead Boyfriend

The couple with the dog had to be tourists, I thought–both dressed like pro shop mannequins. Oakley sunglasses, collared shirts, and tanned show muscles. Frigidly attractive, forty-five-ish. Legal eagles at play. They looked extremely out of place there on the Skylark patio, packed that day with attendees of the DIY underground music festival, the now legendary Blucifer’s First Rodeo.

The air was rank with beer, sweat, and sunscreen. The temperature had risen to 101 degrees, breaking a record from 1963, but the heat only seemed to embolden the crowds. At every spot Anthony and I visited there was a mob of scenesters, bright-eyed with the promise of a virgin festival, untouched by the customary greed. Later that night, organizer Mike Young would take the stage of HQ and scream into the microphone, “Money will not save you from death! Money will not save this evil American empire from death!” to the roar of an audience who proceeded to mosh in a sauna of B.O. and black shirts for over an hour to the passionate rock of Horsebitch.

After the show, Anthony and I, joined by writer Lindsay Temple, fresh off her first crowdsurf, would watch as a man removed his shirt and wrung out a solid stream of sweat onto the Broadway sidewalk, while onlookers who hadn’t been part of the bacchanalia inside HQ gaped in wonder.

All of this to say that the festival probably wasn’t the best place for an ankle-high critter covered in hair and endowed with an elevated sense of hearing and smell. As Anthony and I chatted a few tables away, there was a sudden clatter of patio chairs while the angry little dog attacked the woman passing by.

The woman staggered and caught herself. Everyone turned and looked.

“Your dog just bit me!” she said, more shocked than angry.

One of the dog’s owners, the woman, hesitated for a moment and then softly patted the dog’s head while whispering a reprimand.

Then there was silence. The dogbitten woman lifted her dress, examining her wound but also showing the couple that she wasn’t kidding. It was a real bite.

I, along with everyone else on the patio, I imagine, undertook an examination of the two parties. The statuesque couple and their little dog vs. the larger woman in her plain black dress. “There will be no justice here,” I muttered.

Sure enough, the couple felt no need to address the woman. Beyond the brief acknowledgment of their dog’s misbehavior, their expression remained stony, and, again, they were looking away, trying to wait out the moment, allowing a strange tableau to settle on the patio as everyone gawked. The woman with the dogbite kept her injured leg held out, waiting for a better response. She waited, and waited.

I narrated the scene to Anthony as he sat with his back politely turned to the stalemate. My cynicism was at full froth.

Yes, this is what it is, isn’t it? I thought. They made an assessment. They know the woman isn’t one of them. She’s not real. She can’t touch them. They just spilled their drink on the waiter. That’s all. Yes, this is what it is. There will be no–

“Ya’ll can’t just sit there! What the hell is wrong with you? Are ya’ll seriously not gonna do anything?” a woman cried from the table next to the couple.

The couple started. They took one look at the table filled with young women next to them and went pale.

“What are you doing?! Be a gentleman and get the lady a damn ice pack or something!” the woman said, addressing the man, whose veiny neck grew veinier.

Soon, many others on the patio, including yours truly, joined in, chiding the couple. “Yeah! Not cool, not cool!”

At last, the man stood up with a look of begrudging surrender and, if I wasn’t mistaken, a slight sporting grin as he made his way inside to fetch some ice. Perhaps the grin was to mask his embarrassment, or perhaps it was a more sociopathic nod to the cosmic chess game he’d just lost (for the moment), a kind of touché.

Meanwhile, his counterpart finally began to address the aggrieved. I couldn’t hear what she said, as the audience on the patio was murmuring now, digesting this dramatic turn. I watched the woman with the dog nod and speak with the mechanical warmth of a realtor. Negotiations were underway, and, here and there, one of the women at the adjacent table would consult the dogbitten lady–her advocates!

You never know how much you’re projecting your feelings onto a scene like this, but I did feel a kind of catharsis had alighted there at Skylark. The tension had been released, and it was revolution! Justice after all. More than that, we’d all witnessed something righteous, a heroic smackdown. Well done, ladies! It was like the universe had put them there specifically–the perfect opposition to the dog couple, their kryptonite.

However, for the rest of the day (and week really), I did feel guilty that I’d only been a witness. I kept stewing on the moment, weighing the moral equation’s variables to see if they resulted in cowardice: my distance from the incident, the time elapsed, and my responsibility to intervene. Would I have eventually come through if enough time had passed? Or would the couple have gotten away with their callous response if the ladies hadn’t been there to speak up?

Eventually, a friend told me that it was better that a woman had intervened because a man’s intervention in such a scene would have been too confrontational. I liked that excuse and will quote it here to help save face. But it bothered me that one of life’s rare moments of truth had come and gone while I sat ensconced in my cynical musings.

After the dust settled, the bitten woman–a Denverse reader, it turned out–walked over and chatted with me and Anthony. The bite mark on her leg had grown swollen and purple. She told us how the couple never really apologized until pressured by the group of ladies. She’d gotten the woman’s phone number at the behest of her spontaneous advocates. But all she’d really wanted was a genuine acknowledgment from them, a mea culpa and so forth.

I can’t remember what she said here verbatim. But it was something like, “That poor dog. It’s no wonder it was angry. It’s so hot and crowded out here. I’d be irritated too.”

By then, the couple was gone.

Till Next Time,

Yours,
Paul M. French, Editor

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[NOTE ON MAGAZINE THEFT INCIDENT: As many of you are aware, earlier this year someone made off with roughly 4,000 copies of our spring 2026 issue in one of the most bizarre cases of grand larceny imaginable. I wanted to provide an update on the case, since a lot of people have been asking.

The storage facility’s management responded and told me that there was no footage of the crime or of any suspicious activity related to the area, which is absurd since there’s no way to haul 4,000 magazines without being caught on camera at some point in the process, if you have any coverage at all. They also had the fob entry data of who’d entered the storage area, which you think would make this an infinitely solvable case. However, they wouldn’t share this or any of the footage they possessed with the detective assigned to the case.

When I talked to the detective about this, he said that if they didn’t want to share the footage or the fob data, there wasn’t much he could do, which is sort of baffling, since I thought the police had some, you know, authority when it comes to investigating crimes, especially when there’s over $5k worth of inventory gone. I pressed the facility about this, but they simply stressed again that there was no footage and that they wouldn’t be sharing anything with the police.

It became clear to me that I would have to make this a part-time job if I wanted to get any kind of justice—pestering the police and the storage facility. By that point, we were well into developing our summer issue. Articles needed assigning and editing, the flatplan needed organizing, artwork needed vetting, ads needed to be sold, etc. So I decided to give up and put my effort back into the magazine. Naturally, I still hold out hope that something will turn up and the culprits will be caught—if, for nothing else, to satisfy curiosity. But that’s where things stand as of right now. I don’t want to stew on the negative though, since so many things are going right for Denverse right now. Thank you for your readership and support! I’ll let you know if anything new comes up.].

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DeeDee’s Burlesque Book Club presents Alice In Wonderland: A Burlesque Revue “We’re all mad here...” The Clocktower Clockettes are ready to bring that madness to the stage! This seductive, high-energy reimagining of Alice in Wonderland spins Lewis Carroll’s curious tale into a glittering, grown-up fever dream. Follow Alice, the White Rabbit, and a cast of deliciously twisted characters as they tease and twirl in a world where nothing is quite what it seems. It will be ”…entirely bonkers. But I will tell you a secret. All the best people are.” Learn more at https://www.clocktowercabaret.com/

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The Colfax Carousal returns Saturday, September 19, for its second year celebrating Denver’s punk community across six independent venues on Colfax Avenue. More than 30 acts, including Jon Snodgrass, Church Fire, MF Ruckus, Rubber Goddess, Night Fishing, The Frickashinas, White Rose Motor Oil, and many more will take the stage at Tight End, Lion’s Lair, Squire Lounge, DNVR Bar, Good Bones, and Illegal Pete’s. After years of BRT construction impacts along Colfax, the Carousal is rooted in a simple punk principle: show up for your people and support the places that give the community a home. One hundred percent of show proceeds support participating artists and businesses. Learn more at colfaxcarousal.org.

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The Denver Zine Library is excited to announce Denver Zine Fest 2026! Since 2007, Denver Zine Fest has been a vibrant platform for Colorado zine creators to collaborate, share their work, and build community. This year’s event will feature over 90 independent creators from Denver, across Colorado, and beyond. Join us for a day filled with zine-y goodness and some fantastic collaborations with Colorado’s finest creatives! Mark your calendar for September 13th, from 11am-5pm, and head to the Denver Public Library, Central Library for this free event.

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This Week’s Song: “Blankets of Starlight” (feat. Carolyn Hunter) by Mark Crawford and Andrew Frank

His favorite story about his dad, an old hippie, was that he had attended Woodstock but had to leave a day early because he needed to be back in …

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