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The Prius can take owners on a wild ride
By Paul Knight
Published: April 23, 2009
Before the Prius, 10 compact cult cars to remember: at westword.com/slideshow. Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a...
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Direct to Japan
The International Film Series ends in Tokyo.
By Cory Casciato
Published: April 23, 2009
The work of three acclaimed international directors comes together in the anthology film Tokyo!, showing tonight as part of the International Film Series. In Boulder Michel...
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Unspoken Words
Musician and writer Adam Perry lays out Three Seasons of Poetry.
By Jessica Centers
Published: April 23, 2009
Adam Perry used to feel doomed by a speech impediment that left him unable to talk on the phone or even in person — until he discovered writing as a way to communicate....
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Homeless Is Where The Heart Is
StandUp for Kids aims to reach out and touch someone.
Published: April 23, 2009
Denver takes to the streets at 7 a.m. today as StandUp For Kids kicks off its fourteenth annual 48 Hours on the Streets event. The national nonprofit has a network of more than...
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Fruita Your Labors
The 14th annual Fruita Fat Tire Festival kicks off mountain-bike season.
By Jessica Centers
Published: April 23, 2009
Troy Rarick was on his way to Moab to manage the Poison Spider bike shop when he passed through the town of Fruita, just outside Grand Junction. There he saw a 100-year-old...
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Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 23, 2009
The sophistication and cynicism of the typical film-goer these days means that cinematic simplicity is damnably hard to pull off — but Iranian director Majid Majidi...
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Untitled Energy
The Denver Art Museum will jump again on Friday night.
By Susan Froyd
Published: April 23, 2009
Untitled, oh, how we’ve missed you. When the Denver Art Museum put you to bed for the winter, a spark went out of our lives. Though we continued to visit the DAM, it just...
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Channel your inner fairy or elf at this annual springtime parade.
By Amber Taufen
Published: April 23, 2009
Every fall for dozens of years, the City of Boulder has planted 15,000 tulip bulbs that begin to peep their heads above the ground each spring, heralding the end of winter. And...
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Final Farewell
Parting is such sweet sorrow at the Denver Community Museum.
By Susan Froyd
Published: April 23, 2009
From the start, the totally temporary Denver Community Museum has been a one-woman operation, and nobody knows it better the woman herself. Jaime Kopke invented, opened and...
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Just Say Neigh!
Worse comes to verse at the Denver Public Library tonight.
By Patricia Calhoun
Published: April 23, 2009
Denver art takes off As devil horse inspires us to write Mile Haiku The first time Rachel Hultin saw "Mustang," Luis Jiménez’s gigantic blue horse sculpture...
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Swing Time
The Cirque is back in town.
By Susan Froyd
Published: April 23, 2009
It’s getting hard these days to tell one cirque from another, but the French Canadian circus Cirque Éloize has a pedigree that’s taken it all the way to...
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First Impressions
Morisot and Manet step out of their paintings in a new play.
By Susan Froyd
Published: April 23, 2009
Art history is full of compelling side trips, including the story of the complex relationship between transitional painter Edouard Manet and impressionist Berthe Morisot, a...
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A Lotta Lenya
The story of Lotte Lenya gets physical at the Dairy Center.
By Susan Froyd
Published: April 23, 2009
Actress and singer Lotte Lenya has long been an object of fascination for physical theater artist Sondra Blanchard, whose mentor lent her a biography of Lenya ten years ago....
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Topsy Turvy
Photographer Tom Parsons breaks the laws of gravity.
By Amber Taufen
Published: April 23, 2009
When photographer Tom Parsons began conceptualizing portraits to shoot of his friends and family, he decided to play with gravity: He placed large frames on the floor, mounted...
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Sax Appeal
Two musicians with unusual backgrounds jazz things up at Dazzle.
By Jon Solomon
Published: April 23, 2009
It has been said that music is the universal language. It goes beyond borders, and there’s been quite a lot of cross-pollination of cultures within genres over the...
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Not So Heavy
Spinal Tap returns in Unwigged and Unplugged.
By Cory Casciato
Published: April 23, 2009
The men of Spinal Tap — Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer — have been walking the fine line between clever and stupid for 25 years. Now, in the...
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Partin g Glances
Jean Arnold rushes back to Plus Gallery.
By Michael Paglia
Published: April 23, 2009
Ivar and Karen Zeile hail from Salt Lake City, but in 2001 they opened a gallery in Denver that was originally called Cordell Taylor and is now known as Plus. Despite leaving...
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McCoy Tyner
By Jon Solomon
Published: April 23, 2009
Strangely enough, throughout McCoy Tyner’s storied career, which spans more than five decades, the jazz pianist has rarely performed with a guitar player — something...
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Get Cosí at the Opera
Mozart’s work takes a 1950s twist in this version of Così fan tutte.
By Juliet Wittman
Published: April 23, 2009
There couldn’t be a better way to celebrate spring than by attending Opera Colorado’s perfectly timed Così fan tutte — roughly translated, “women are...
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To Be Continued
Say goodbye to Belmar's Lab and Andrew Novick’s 8,000 objects.
By Susan Froyd
Published: April 23, 2009
The end of the Lab, as we know it, is nigh. And nothing could make that more apparent than a garage sale, where, yes, everything must go! But count on Adam Lerner to take his...
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