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2011 Stories by Jenny An

• 17 hours in 22 degree weather... for a $10 H&M gift certificater

  published Nov 10, 2011

  What would you do for a $10 H&M gift certificater Would you 127 Hours itr Give away a Klondike barr Wait in the cold for seventeen hoursr With pink eyer By midnight last night, over thirty people wer... More >>

• Review: Mastodon at the Ogden Theatre, with the Dillinger Escape Plan, 11/9/11

  published Nov 10, 2011

  MASTODON at OGDEN THEATRE | 11/9/11The Dillinger Escape Plan stole the show a bit last night. The band started off with a driving drum beat introduction that shook sternums. After leaping on stage, le... More >>

• How to survive the H&M opening at Denver Pavilions (with bonus photos of the interior)!

  published Nov 10, 2011

  If affordably priced Scandinavian designs are your heart's desire, join the crowds who'll be packing the new H&M store that opens in the Denver Pavilions at noon today. The 20,000 square feet of reta... More >>

• Sesame Street's five best musical cameos

  published Nov 02, 2011

  Elvis Costello finally made his Sesame Street appearance last week with a number-orientated rendition of "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes." The show is a well-tread, 42-year-old road that has inc... More >>

• Review: Paper Bird at Hi-Dive, 10/31/11

  published Nov 01, 2011

  PAPER BIRD at HI-DIVE | 10/31/11Paper Bird stomped and harmonized its way through a raucous set last night at the hi-dive. The opening song started slowly, but Paper Bird quickly announced that this w... More >>

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  A ninety-piece marching band takes to the streets announcing "We're Not Going to Take It"

  published Oct 31, 2011

  The melody of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Going to Take It" floated in and out of downtown for thirty minutes Saturday. While the cries and tub-thumping of Occupy Denver protesters were louder, and th... More >>

• Photos: Playing Apart, a performance art piece featuring a ninety-piece marching band from Bear Creek playing individually downtown

  published Oct 31, 2011

  This past Saturday, we were on hand to witness Playing Apart, the performance art piece featuring ninety students from Bear Creek High School's marching band playing Twisted Sister's "We're Not Going ... More >>

• The history of candy -- very short and sweet

  published Oct 28, 2011

  There's something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it, and were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren't covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many ... More >>

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  A ninety-piece marching band will play apart together tomorrow in downtown Denver

  published Oct 28, 2011

  Tomorrow afternoon, all ninety members of the Bear Creek High School marching band will be strutting around downtown playing their instruments, individually. Each high schooler in Playing Apart (First... More >>

• Emad Hussain survived a gunshot, escaped Iraq and wishes the U.S. would stay in the country

  published Oct 28, 2011

  President Barack Obama announced last Friday that the vast majority of U.S. troops -- about 39,000 of them -- would be out of Iraq by December 31. But not everyone is happy about the imminent end of t... More >>

• First look inside Crimson Canary, open for dinner tonight

  published Oct 27, 2011

  Crimson Canary, the second restaurant from the owners of Interstate Kitchen & Bar, opened at 6 p.m. today in the former home of Mona's at 141 South Broadway. The Italian-American restaurant is named ... More >>

• Before you trick-or-treat, consider: Is sugar a gateway drugr

  published Oct 27, 2011

  Trick-or-treating always seemed so harmless. Sure, candy isn't great for your teeth -- but are those little morsels of sugary-goodness more sinister than we ever imaginedr A common argument against ma... More >>

• Day of the Living Dead

  published October 20, 2011

  You'll recognize it by the fake-blood-covered masses walking down the 16th Street Mall. Last year's Zombie Crawl in Denver broke the world... More >>

• Daniel Salazar: Colorado artist needs help to film a mystery with 400 year old roots

  published Oct 26, 2011

  In 1998, near Espanola, New Mexico, someone severed the foot from a bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Onate with a saw. The statue honored the man who had served as New Mexico's first ... More >>

• Ritz-Carlton introduces the newest way to consume beer: poured on your body!

  published Oct 26, 2011

  You've drunk beer. Maybe you've made bread out of it, or even cooked up some beer-battered onion rings. Now the Ritz-Carlton is offering a higher-brow -- and way more expensive -- way to get your hops... More >>

• Great White North

  published October 13, 2011

  This is not Sarah Palin’s version of Alaska. Primarily set in her home town of Wasilla, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! reveals a wintery... More >>

• Remembering Our Fallen at Aurora Municipal Center

  published Oct 22, 2011

  In the cavernous central hall of the Aurora Municipal Center are portraits of the 85 men and women from Colorado who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the corner of each of their service portraits... More >>

• The latest Colorado company to jump into winemakingr Colorado State University.

  published Oct 21, 2011

  Way to support drinking, Colorado State University! Look for wines made by CSU starting next spring. Blended at Stoney Mesa Winery because CSU is still in the process of applying for the necessary lic... More >>

• Tired of highwaysr Adopt a musician! Denver Musicians Association has created the CSO Musicians Assistance Fund

  published Oct 18, 2011

  The 79 full-time musicians of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra have been taking steep cuts. They collectively agreed to give up $530,000 in September, and they took another hit when fall programming wa... More >>

• The Colorado Symphony Orchestra struggles on

  published Oct 18, 2011

  The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is struggling: it's over $1 million short on cash; its musicians are seeing massive pay cuts; and twenty of its board members (read: big donors) have left. The CSO cut ... More >>

• Topo Designs creates bags for the realistic, nostalgic outdoorsman

  published Oct 18, 2011

  It starts with photographs. They're set in a storybook West -- mostly in the back country of Colorado and Wyoming, but Mount Rushmore pops up as well. They're populated by little girls in pigtails who... More >>

• Denver Musicians Association head Tom Blomster is optimistic about recent CSO changes

  published Oct 17, 2011

  The Colorado Symphony Orchestra has made a lot of changes over the past few weeks, including hacking almost half of its performances in October and November. In September, more than twenty members of ... More >>

• Q&A with Andrew Haigh, writer/director/editor of Weekend opening today at Denver Film Center

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Andrew Haigh's IMDB filmography includes editing credits for Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Hannibal Rising. He's also written and directed two films, the latest being Weekend, a movie about two gay m... More >>

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  Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga: Battle of the attention-grabbing sideshows

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, Brit filmmaker Nick Broomfield's documentary-slash-hatchet job, opens today at the Denver Film Center. In the film, Palin is seen as a polarizing, sideshow personality in t... More >>

• Bowling for Dollars

  published October 6, 2011

  “We like to call it ‘not your mama’s annual fundraiser,’” says Jami Duffy, executive director of Flobots.org, the... More >>