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Issue: April 23, 2009
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  1. Feature

    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...

Issue: April 23, 2009
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48 stories found - 1 through 20
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