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2013 Stories by Susan Froyd

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  Denver PrideFest 2013 announces headliners Taylor Dayne and Martha Wash

  published Apr 03, 2013

  The middle of June isn't that far away, so it's not too early to begin planning for Denver PrideFest 2013, scheduled for June 15 and 16 this year in Civic Center Park. Sexy `80s pop star Taylor Dayne ... More >>

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  Denver Craft Ninjas will have you in stitches at Mutiny Information Cafe

  published Apr 02, 2013

  Jack Jensen's Mutiny Now bookstore, now under new ownership, morphed into Mutiny Information Cafe just one month ago. But the changing of the guard at the South Broadway is already making itself evide... More >>

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  The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will tear up the Newman Center on Thursday. Really!

  published Apr 01, 2013

  The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doesn't have a flashy name or even a flashy look. But don't let that fool you. While the ensemble takes its collective picking skills quite seriously and its vo... More >>

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  Designer toy shop Plastic Chapel closes its doors, but not its spirit

  published Mar 29, 2013

  When Dea Webb and Dave Wendt opened Plastic Chapel eight years ago in a literal hole in the wall in Baker, the designer toy emporium was not only a pioneer business in the neighborhood, but it also ow... More >>

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  Sit for Navajo artist Will Wilson in his tintype studio at the Denver Art Museum

  published Mar 27, 2013

  When we think of photography and American Indians today, the first images that come to mind -- ironically and invariably -- are the famous, early twentieth-century photogravure portraits by ethnologis... More >>

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  100 Colorado Creatives: Terri Bell, artist/gallerist at tbellphotographic

  published Mar 26, 2013

  #81: Terri Bell Terri Bell has been busy in 2013, changing hats constantly as an artist, photographer, curator and gallerist. But that's all part of being Terri Bell, whose middle name could easily b... More >>

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  Space in Your Face spotlights Planet Earth at Deer Pile tonight

  published Mar 26, 2013

  Space might be the place, but earth is home, sweet, home. And for that reason, tonight's installment of Deer Pile's monthly space-nerd evening, Space in Your Face, will turn its telescope on the plac... More >>

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  Fifteen citizen dancers selected to perform in artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits at the DAM

  published Mar 25, 2013

  Late last week, the Denver Art Museum let the crazy dancers out of the bag: The DAM announced that fifteen out of 120 hopefuls who auditioned for artist Nick Cave last month will perform in Cave's fan... More >>

• East Meets West

  published March 14, 2013

  The daughter of Chinese immigrants, fiction writer Gish Jen has mined the bi-cultural experience over the past several years — with solid... More >>

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  MoP 2013 continues: In Camera Abstractions explores the alchemy of photography

  published Mar 22, 2013

  Month of Photography 2013 is far from over. A reception from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the McNichols Building in Civic Center, will celebrate an unusual city-curated exhibit, In Camera Abstractions, whic... More >>

• Playwrights at Work

  published March 14, 2013

  Boulder’s women-run LOCAL Theater Company focuses on the playwright experience by presenting plays to the public that are still in... More >>

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  Billie McBride channels Dorothy Parker in And Toto too's Pardon My Dust

  published Mar 21, 2013

  Writer, critic and colorful Algonquin Round Table yakker Dorothy Parker was really born to be a character in a play; known in her heyday for her caustic tongue and running witticisms, she left behind ... More >>

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  Gears, Grease and Guitars revs up again at the Oriental Theater after five years

  published Mar 20, 2013

  Five years ago, Denver filmmaker M Van Michaels (then working as Mike Olafson), released a documentary, Gears, Grease and Guitars, that traced the intertwined cultures of hot-rodders, rockabillies and... More >>

• All in a Day’s Work

  published March 14, 2013

  Once upon a time in Chicago, Chris Buske attended a benefit that featured a caged artist creating a work in a single day. “At the end of the... More >>

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  100 Colorado Creatives: Anthony Garcia

  published Mar 19, 2013

  #83: Anthony Garcia Anthony Garcia, who turns sixty this spring, has spent his entire adult life with Su Teatro, the region's primary Chicano theater group, which itself just celebrated forty years. ... More >>

• Life Is a Cabaret

  published March 7, 2013

  About ten years ago, this sort of thing — a little bit vaudeville-ish, a little bit carnivalesque — started to happen, and bands of... More >>

• Street Corner Crooners

  published March 7, 2013

  What were the chances that a musical like Jersey Boys, inspired by the ’60s-era street-corner crooners the Four Seasons, would be a... More >>

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  Going to the dogs: Wazee Union's Lucky Dog Art Show tomorrow night

  published Mar 14, 2013

  The studio community at Wazee Union, peopled by artists and creatives of all kinds, shows off its diversity to the rest of the world on Second Saturdays -- often with fundraisers that showcase the bui... More >>

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  100 Colorado Creatives: Garrett Ammon of Wonderbound

  published Mar 12, 2013

  #84: Garrett Ammon Ballet Nouveau Colorado's transformation into Wonderbound is nearly complete. The forward-thinking troupe that has been dancing under the direction of visionary choreographer Garre... More >>

• Author, Author!

  published February 28, 2013

  Love books and contemporary fiction? If you happen to be in the vicinity of Aspen this winter evening, there’s a book lover’s paradise... More >>

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  Andrew Novick remembers five desserts featured in Sweet Tooth

  published Mar 08, 2013

  Crazed collector Andrew Novick even collects food memories with his camera, and sometimes he shares them with the world, as he does with Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate), an exhi... More >>

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  100 Colorado Creatives: Judy Anderson

  published Mar 07, 2013

  #85: Judy Anderson When Judy Anderson founded PlatteForum a decade ago, it was a good idea. Over the years, with the help of an enthusiastic team, it's morphed into a great idea -- a well-oiled machi... More >>

• Robot Dreams

  published February 28, 2013

  The LIDA Project will be in typical form, brewing a maelstrom of dark humor, technology and human hopes and dreams in a black-box pot, when the... More >>

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  100 Colorado Creatives: Marie EvB Gibbons

  published Mar 05, 2013

  #86: Marie EvB Gibbons Clay artist Marie Gibbons is all about community, and it shows in nearly every move she makes as an artist. Her dedication is not confined to the artist community with which sh... More >>

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  Pay what you can tonight for Dangerous Theatre's kinky Lysistrata

  published Mar 04, 2013

  In Denver, we have theater for all tastes -- and if yours runs to the risque, we've got that, too. Denver's Dangerous Theatre fills that niche with, er, cheek and, often, laugh-out-loud panache. See ... More >>