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2008 Stories by Susan Froyd

• Bear Market

  published May 1, 2008

  A lot of women need to be kicked out of their houses this time of year, like mama bears from their dens, and forced to put on makeup, buy new... More >>

• Talkin' Trailer Trash

  published May 1, 2008

  Artist Sherri Lynn Wood likes to say that her Mantra Trailer is "parked at the intersection of imagination, evangelism and... More >>

• Give 'em the Boots

  published May 1, 2008

  A visitation of things both "wild" and "Western" couldn't possibly be complete without a style element, so the concept of the Fresh City Life... More >>

• Children of the Corn

  published May 1, 2008

  In Pueblo mythology, the Corn Mother is the ultimate earth mother: Like the corn she emulates, this deity dies and is renewed again and again,... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published May 1, 2008

  The fruits of the regional retail union known as the Original Shopping Districts are finally beginning to ripen, as evidenced by tonight's... More >>

• Never Forget

  published April 24, 2008

  The annual Governor's Holocaust Remembrance Program, hosted each April by the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, always couches... More >>

• Buck Wild West

  published April 24, 2008

  How a cultural series held together by a slender string of part-mythology — Oscar Wilde's visit to Colorado to deliver a lecture on the... More >>

• Go, Cat, Go!

  published April 24, 2008

  Denver filmmaker Mike Olafson, enamored of the simpler sounds of '50s and '60s rock, set out in 2006 to make a short film about the local... More >>

• Buried Treasure

  published April 24, 2008

  The great responsibility of the photographer to record life is more than evident in the work left behind by Holocaust survivor Henryk Ross, whose... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published April 17, 2008

  Urban hipsters Brian and Melissa Ball don't have kids of their own yet, but they've seen enough to know that parents simply go nuts when it comes... More >>

• Smart Art

  published April 17, 2008

  There'll be more art — way more art — than you can shake a mint Louis XIV walking stick at when you stop by the Gilmore Art Center, 2119... More >>

• 'Tween Spirit

  published April 17, 2008

  Ten-year-old 'tweens seem to leap and claw their way through life. Too old for the Build-A-Bears they dress up and cling to, yet not old enough to... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published April 3, 2008

  In a gift economy, you contribute out of the goodness of your heart, and in return you get, maybe, a usable dose of positive karma or perhaps a... More >>

• Up in the Air

  published April 3, 2008

  It's the nature of aerial dance to be different in the first place, but Nancy Smith of Boulder's Frequent Flyers Productions has never had a... More >>

• Open Wide

  published April 3, 2008

  Believe it or not, our dusty little burg's been flourishing here on the plains for 150 years now, all the while supporting the rise of new... More >>

• Gee's Whizzes

  published April 3, 2008

  It’s been a Gee’s Bend spring here in Denver: The Denver Center Theatre Company toasted the multi-generational Alabama quilt-making... More >>

• Belly Up With the Bard

  published April 3, 2008

  Every poet has a secret life: Denver Poet Laureate Chris Ransick's is stored in a keg. Aside from fostering his deep love of verse, Ransick has... More >>

• Paint the Town Brown

  published April 3, 2008

  That Denver's Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is celebrating thirty years on the local arts scene is no surprise. Few grassroots non-profit... More >>

• Going Local

  published April 3, 2008

  Plain dumb fearlessness. That's exactly what you'd expect from a guy who's spent a good part of his young life globe-trotting between war zones in... More >>

• Paint the Town Brown

  published April 3, 2008

  That Denver's Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is celebrating thirty years on the local arts scene is no surprise. Few grassroots non-profit... More >>

• Poems for the People

  published April 3, 2008

  Denver's poet laureate, Chris Ransick, intends to live up to his title. Under Ransick's reign, National Poetry Month will no longer lie limply on... More >>

• Little Flowers

  published March 27, 2008

  The at-risk and special-needs children at Centro Integración de Tapalpa A.C. in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, are nurtured to bloom in many... More >>

• In the Picture

  published March 27, 2008

  If you've ever wanted to walk in an icon's shoes, a new show at Spark Gallery is certain to have your number. Myselfportraits: ode to icons... More >>

• Down Pat

  published March 20, 2008

  Even the most accomplished guitarists do a double take when they hear Pat Donohue on A Prairie Home Companion, where the versatile... More >>

• Back in the USSR

  published March 6, 2008

  Although he shot thousands of documentary images of Soviet workers, students and wartime battlefields during his long career (and later served as... More >>