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2012 Stories by Susan Froyd

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  Tonight at the Proof: A Colorado Christmas Book Festival to benefit Sense of Security

  published Nov 27, 2012

  When worldwide walker and Coloradan Polly Letofsky decided to take a hike, she covered 14,000 or so miles, with the goal of spreading awareness about breast cancer. Sometimes the challenges and hardsh... More >>

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  Terry Dodd unveils a future holiday classic at the Aurora Fox tonight

  published Nov 26, 2012

  Denver playwright and director Terry Dodd, who made a strong showing last spring at the Aurora Fox with his Amateur Night at the Big Heart, knows his way around a script -- as well as the stage in gen... More >>

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  Small Business Saturday: In Boulder, they shop local, too!

  published Nov 23, 2012

  Denver's not the only buy-local shopper's Valhalla to have big plans for tomorrow's national AMEX-sponsored Small Business Saturday. Downtown Boulder is spreading the love to loyal gift-hunters, and m... More >>

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  Shop local on Small Business Saturday, and feel good about where you spend your money

  published Nov 21, 2012

  We're not going to reiterate the horrors of Black Friday here.There's a reason why it's called "black," and that is because it sucks, for all the wrong, fucked-up, uncheerful reasons. So we'll just s... More >>

• Get In The Spirit

  published November 15, 2012

  Every generation of artists has its hangout, and from 1984 until 1999, that place in Denver was the topsy-turvy City Spirit Cafe, on Blake Street... More >>

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  Catch him while you can: David Sedaris tickets for January shows are on sale now

  published Nov 20, 2012

  Charming author, cultural philosopher, satirist and NPR commentator David Sedaris talks pretty to sellout audiences year after year in Denver, filling auditoriums with unabashed cultists who simply lo... More >>

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  Skate into the holiday season at the Rink at Belmar

  published Nov 19, 2012

  Even though it's not that nippy, the skate must go on at Belmar today, where the shopping center rink will open for the season with a toy drive for Cops Fighting Cancer. Bring a new toy to donate, and... More >>

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  Soft materials take shape in Stuff(ed), tonight at Laundry on Lawrence

  published Nov 16, 2012

  It's a busy Third Friday in D-town, particularly at the Laundry on Lawrence, where eleven artists came together in "an exploration of soft materials." Not surprisingly, the concept takes many directio... More >>

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  Revolution Circus invites you to "join the circus and run the fuck away from home!"

  published Nov 15, 2012

  Has the calm before the edible storm that is Thanksgiving got you down in the dumpsr Revolution Circus, a huge compendium of bands, freaks, sideshow acts, burlesque girls, body painters, acrobats, tat... More >>

• Arts for All

  published November 8, 2012

  Denver Arts Week unlocks one of the city’s most precious secrets: Almost all of the events and places falling under its diverse... More >>

• Author! Author!

  published November 8, 2012

  If Lighthouse Writers had tried to snag smoking-hot author Junot Díaz for a Denver appearance in the last year, it probably wouldn’t... More >>

• The Light Fantastic

  published November 8, 2012

  The RiNo art-studio community Wazee Union is a little like the proverbial beehive of activity all the time, with art being made in its studio... More >>

• Paris Calling

  published November 8, 2012

  It’s never too early to start holiday shopping, and for those seeking handmade or unusual gifts, the first wave of sales begins this... More >>

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  Toy Stories II: Playful art jumps out of the toy box at Havu Gallery

  published Nov 14, 2012

  In this age of designer toys and Hello Kitty decor, art and playtime have already crossed over into shared territory. And Havu Gallery's Toy Stories exhibit in the summer of 2011 took the concept to a... More >>

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  PechaKucha bites into All Things Edible tonight at Buntport

  published Nov 13, 2012

  PechaKucha, the grownup show-and-tell series revived in Denver earlier this year, tonight will focus on a subject to which everyone can relate. All Things Edible will bring together an eclectic -- wit... More >>

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  Let Polly Letofsky take you for a walk around the world tonight at Chautauqua

  published Nov 12, 2012

  GlobalWalker Polly Letofsky started dreaming about walking around the world when she was twelve years old. Remarkably, the young girl's dream became the grown woman's reality in 1999, when Letofsky em... More >>

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  Holiday Gift Markets: Shop local all weekend...and beyond!

  published Nov 09, 2012

  It started a few years ago with a slight buzz, but the concept of buying local has become a resonant holiday-season mantra for urban forward-thinkers. In its wake, handmade holiday markets are thrivin... More >>

• Simple Pleasures

  published November 1, 2012

  In anticipation of unveiling an expanded Japanese garden and neighboring Bill Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion and Tea Garden this spring, it made perfect... More >>

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  The Dikeou Collection pops up for a Denver Arts Week party

  published Nov 08, 2012

  Denver's private Dikeou Collection has a permanent gallery space in a downtown Denver office building that's a little hard to find, unless you know your way around the corporate world. As a remedy, t... More >>

• Children of the Corn Mothers

  published October 25, 2012

  As its title implies, the Colorado-born traveling exhibit Return of the Corn Mothers has been around the mesa. And the result of... More >>

• Office Party

  published November 1, 2012

  In Adam Bock’s Obie Award-winning black comedy The Thugs, everyone works in a cubicle (in this case, at a law firm) and lives... More >>

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  Denver Arts Week: Dixie Longate packs plastic and bullpucky in Dixie's Tupperware Party

  published Nov 07, 2012

  The Tupperware will be real, all real, when the participatory tour-de-force Dixie's Tupperware Party returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre tonight for another hi-larious repeat run, just in time for ... More >>

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  Denver Arts Week: Get ready for the holidays at the Ink Lounge's Sweet T Tuesday

  published Nov 06, 2012

  In the midst of a modern DIY craft revolution, more people are resolving to make their holiday gifts, rather than dropping big bucks on impersonal gifts from the mall. And besides, it's fun to really ... More >>

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  I Heart Denver's first webisode peddles bike safety and T-shirts, too

  published Nov 05, 2012

  When Samuel Schimek of the all-local I Heart Denver store in the Denver Pavilions sets out to do something, it more often than not seems to have a built-in public-service component. That's definitely... More >>

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  Denver Arts Week: a free performance by Denver's Dangerous Theatre tonight

  published Nov 05, 2012

  Denver's Dangerous Theatre lives up to its name, staging edgy and sometimes kinky theater of the sort we don't often see in this town. And the current show, Jonathan Vick's murky psychodrama Comfort i... More >>