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Cafe
Is Bazi a miracle drink that can make people both healthy and wealthy -- or is it just the latest scheme from Denver's penny-stock prince?
By Jared Jacang Maher
Published: May 21, 2009
Battle of the super drinks! Read a comparison of miracle juice supplements on the Latest Word blog. Sandy Greenberg likes to call his sales force a "volunteer army." He steps...
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Kafka Captured
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
Anyone who’s followed the theatrical footprints of Brian Freeland, founder of the LIDA Project and Countdown to Zero troupes (and one of Westword’s most recent crop...
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Ghost World
A spirit photography class teaches you how to uncover fakes.
By Cory Casciato
Published: May 21, 2009
Do you believe in ghosts? Maybe, like me, you find the idea fascinating, but there’s that whole science thing and the need for evidence bringing you down. If so, you might...
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Up a Creek
Paddlefest is the best way to kick off the river season.
By Jessica Centers
Published: May 21, 2009
What started as a simple pre-kayak-season sale eight years ago has since become a massive river festival that marks the official start of paddle weather. “Paddlefest is a...
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Altared States
A new production features the world’s top Christian boy band.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 21, 2009
If you could put together the perfect boy band, what would the elements be? You’d need a leader (Matthew); a sweet, sensitive singer (Mark); and since no boy band would be...
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X Marks the Spot
A new play examines nurture versus nature in relationships.
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
Imagine the same story, relived in four similar yet incredibly different cultural situations. That’s more or less what happens in The X, a five-act character study by Phil...
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Ticket to Ride
Go around the world in 30,000 square feet.
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
The Wildlife Experience Museum proved it knows how to keep up with the Joneses this year, with the May opening of Globeology, a new 30,000-square-foot permanent interactive...
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Knit Knacks
Knitters get noisy at Fresh City Life.
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
In A Tale of Two Cities, woe came to all those whom the villainess, Madame Defarge, encoded into her ubiquitous knitting, which never left her side. Click, click. Creepy. But...
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Bad to the Bone
Rockabilly and Ribs rolls back to Tambien.
By Cory Casciato
Published: May 21, 2009
Can it be summer already? I don’t know about anyone else, but for me this winter was both brutal and interminable, and spring has been too wet and cold to offer much...
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Myth America
An animated film follows two epic tales of lost love.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 21, 2009
Sita Sings the Blues, an animated full-length feature, made its Denver debut at the Starz Denver International Film Festival last year, “and it was just one of the runaway...
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LoDo Reverie
Photographer Kim Allen brings back a local blast from the past.
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
I remember lower downtown before it was LoDo, dressed in red brick and laced together by crumbling viaducts that rose up between building faces to leave the sidewalks in...
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Here Today
Catch this exhibit before it goes away forever!
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
The Denver Botanic Gardens is living in the past this summer, beginning with the installation of dinosaurs, or at least a bevy of life-sized sculptures of same, which are...
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Borferline Personalities
Luis Urrea makes more magic.
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 21, 2009
One of my favorite books of 2005 was the epic bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea, a poet-turned-documentarian-turned-novelist whose first,...
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Film on the Mountain
Telluride’s Mountainfilm weds social justice and entertainment in the high country.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 21, 2009
Despite the plethora of film festivals open to the public in the metro area and beyond, there’s no festival quite like Telluride’s annual Mountainfilm extravaganza....
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Death Vessel
By Tom Murphy
Published: May 21, 2009
Death Vessel is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based experimental folk artist Joel Thibodeau, the likes of whom we’ve heard from before. With a penchant for hushed electronic...
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Letters
From the week of May 21, 2009
Published: May 21, 2009
"School Daze," Patricia Calhoun, May 14 Pomp and Circumstances After reading Patricia Calhoun's column regarding the principal of North High School and his attendance...
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Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails
Tuesday, May 26, Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 21, 2009
The NIN/JA tour isn't supposed to be an exercise in nostalgia, despite the presence of two '90s icons (joined by Street Sweeper Social Club, buzzsaw king Tom Morello's latest...
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Calhoun
Denver is ready for its close-up in Hick Town
By Patricia Calhoun
Published: May 21, 2009
John Hickenlooper didn't even know he had a cousin named George until one day in 1991, when a fellow in town for the Denver International Film Festival went over to the Wynkoop...
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Calhoun
Ladies Night foe Steve Horner doesn't even live here. So how can we discriminate against him?
By Patricia Calhoun
Published: May 21, 2009
Steve Horner, please go back to your corner. Or at least give the besieged Colorado Civil Rights Commission a break and concentrate on alleged injustices in Minnesota, where...
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Off Limits
Pretty in pink turns coyote ugly in Greenwood Village
Published: May 21, 2009
Denver's public-art program has attracted plenty of attention over the last year, first with "Mustang" and then "National Velvet" capturing the public's eye — and ire....
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