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2007 Stories by Erin Vanderberg

• Get On the Bus

  published December 27, 2007

  “Bus trips beat the shit out of a bake sale,” says Dustin Huth, founder of the Basics Fund, a non-profit organization that raises funds... More >>

• Noir, Blanc et Rouge

  published December 20, 2007

  It takes rare ability to tell a children's story that conveys the grace and significance of childhood without straying into the affectedly... More >>

• Bang Your Drum

  published December 20, 2007

  Just when you thought you had a week off from the festivities, Kwanzaa is here! Now, you might be one of those who puts this holiday in the... More >>

• Confessions of a SADist

  published December 20, 2007

  'Tis the season for Seasonal Affective Disorder, and I am SAD. Perhaps we all are, at least a little bit. I'm not saying I start writing my will... More >>

• Jitterbug Jingles

  published December 6, 2007

  Although he never set out to be the sentinel of the season, Brian Setzer has long had a knack for revitalizing forgotten genres: Beginning in the... More >>

• Bluegrass Bells

  published December 6, 2007

  Longtime Colorado entertainer Timothy P. Irvin is a talented musician and, as one of this region's early importers of the Appalachian string music... More >>

• Striking Gold

  published October 25, 2007

  It's Halloween, and there was a time when hanging out in the same space as Allen Iverson would have given you the evening's requisite fright. But... More >>

• Denver Biodiesel Co-op Finds Sustainable Housing

  published September 27, 2007

  Fuel is pumping again at the Denver Biodiesel Cooperative after six members pooled their money in an effort to save the organization, which... More >>

• Nothing Doing

  published September 27, 2007

  Have you ever looked up "nothing" on Wikipedia? It's a six-part entry. Similarly, the enormously popular Seinfeld was a sitcom about... More >>

• La Vida Local

  published September 27, 2007

  There are certain books that you run to acquire the day they hit the shelves. This summer, that book for me was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,... More >>

• Secret Agents

  published September 27, 2007

  The Colorado Avalanche is thirsty, and only a really big cup can quench that thirst. After an all-time low end to their 2006-2007 season... More >>

• The Bulb Botanic

  published September 20, 2007

  "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns," wrote George... More >>

• Veni, Vidi, Vinotok

  published September 20, 2007

  Summer marks its end this weekend with the autumnal equinox — when the sun lies directly above the equator and, for all practical purposes,... More >>

• Solid Sisterhood

  published September 13, 2007

  World War III has not yet happened. But a war rages in the heart of Africa that's killed as many civilians as World War II. Dubbed the African... More >>

• Support Your Local Hooker

  published September 13, 2007

  I played college rugby for Humboldt State in northern California. When this comes up in conversation, people are taken aback. I watch their... More >>

• Mencia's Thunder

  published August 30, 2007

  As the seventeenth of eighteen children from a Honduran-based Mexican mama and German papa, it's no wonder that Carlos Mencia has race on... More >>

• Palate Perfect

  published August 23, 2007

  If we used the same title for chefs as we do for poets, then Sheila Lukins would be America's chef laureate. Without knowing it, you've... More >>

• Kind of Brew

  published August 9, 2007

  The historic shopping districts sprinkled throughout this city are precious hubs where arts, gastronomy and community can come together on an... More >>

• Green Thumb

  published August 2, 2007

  I was so fortunate to grow up with a mother who had the yard everyone wanted. Women would walk by, then stop and swoon, blathering litanies of... More >>

• Shakespearing It Up

  published July 26, 2007

  We all want our kids to appreciate the greatest writer in the English language, but sometimes the play’s not the thing, especially for the... More >>

• For Kids' Sake

  published July 12, 2007

  When Urban Peak first opened its doors in 1988 to shelter homeless youth, those doors were to a church and revealed a harbor of cots. Since... More >>

• Crankworx Call

  published July 5, 2007

  I still endure family taunts almost twenty years after the day I ran my bike into a parked car and took it upon myself to splint my two "broken"... More >>

• A Little Night Music

  published July 5, 2007

  This year, the Central City Opera House — built from the proceeds of the Gold Rush, restored during the Great Depression and now the... More >>

• A Family Affair

  published June 21, 2007

  Denver’s PrideFest kicks off its weekend celebration of community, heritage and family today at Civic Center Park. Because our... More >>

• Night Light

  published February 22, 2007

  I was always the kid at the slumber party who dreaded the witching hour, when the flashlight would inevitably come up to someone's chin. But I... More >>