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Feature
Storm clouds are gathering over the city's use of the Wastewater Enterprise Fund
By Jared Jacang Maher
Published: June 11, 2009
Some people decorate their yards with garden gnomes, others use happy frog sculptures. Gertrude Cox has gargoyles. Four of the winged statues have the faces of cats; two...
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Cheapo Dish
Find Front Range bargains at Mile High on the Cheap.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
Claire Walter and Laura Daily are lifers when it comes to reporting, a dangerous prospect these days. So was laid-off Atlanta journalist Jennifer Maciejewski, who struck...
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Dress Up for Less
You’ll have a ball at this costume clearance sale.
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 11, 2009
It’s never too early to start thinking about Halloween — or your next fetish ball, for that matter — and the Disguises Community Flea Market and Clearance Sale...
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The Artifacts of Life
Find your spot with the Denver Community Museum.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
This is it. Absolutely, completely it. Local brainstormer and design guru Jaime Kopke is heading off to grad school, and after this month, her hands-on Denver Community Museum...
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Room to Grow
A Garden Grapes & Hops party sprouts at the Botanic Gardens.
By Jonathan Shikes
Published: June 11, 2009
What better place to enjoy two of the greatest fruits of our earth — grapes and hops — than in a garden? And while you won’t find either crop growing at the...
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Three's Company
The Arvada Center hosts three fantastic artists for its summer shows.
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 11, 2009
Every year, I get excited for the Arvada Center’s summer art exhibits, which are typically complementary yet distinct shows with enough diversity to satisfy wide-ranging...
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Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: June 11, 2009
Like Hancock, the Will Smith flick from last year, 2007’s Big Man Japan tweaks the superhero myth by focusing on a shaggy, thoroughly unconventional guardian of society...
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Sale Away
Riverfront neighbors pitch in for PlatteForum.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
Talk about the kindness of strangers. You’ve got to hand it to the folks in the Riverfront Park neighborhood who went to Judy Anderson at PlatteForum — the Central...
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Going Native
A new show sparks a cross-cultural dialogue.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
Metropolitan State College of Denver’s Center for Visual Art has a mission to emphasize diversity and present modern works by artists not commonly seen in this city —...
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Film School
Fresh City Life explores the worlds of documentarian Warner Herzog.
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 11, 2009
Get inside the head of one of the most celebrated filmmakers in history when the Curious Mind of Werner Herzog kicks off tonight with the famed director’s documentary...
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Free to Be
Stretch yourself in Highlands Ranch’s Civic Green Park.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
In Dharmic culture, there’s a concept called seva: Like Judaism’s tzedakah or Catholic charity, it’s the spirit of giving back to the community. For Nancy...
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Blast from the Past
Get your swing on at the 1940s WWII Era Ball.
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 11, 2009
Have you ever gotten up-close and personal with a World War II-era B-25 bomber? “It’s an amazing piece of American history,” says bomber pilot Jim Terry....
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A Doggone Good Contest
By Tyler Nemkov
Published: June 11, 2009
Some say summer is about getting into the gym and fitting into last year’s bathing suit. I say it’s about eating a ton of hot dogs. I’m talking fifty or so...
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Swish Splash
Trade something old for something new at Dazzle’s Swishing Party.
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 11, 2009
What exactly is the Swishing Party that the Denver Library’s Fresh City Life and Dazzle are putting together this evening? “It’s a fashion swap meet,”...
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Strange Days
Wonderful, weird Wyoming is a mystery in the making.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
Author Craig Johnson wasn’t born in Wyoming. Rather, while moving a herd of horses through the state on a cowpoking mission, he fell in love with Ucross, population 25, a...
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Factory West
Warhol & Friends vacations in downtown Pueblo.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 11, 2009
The Sangre de Cristo Arts Center has the neatest way of pulling things together for an exhibition: Blessed with a surfeit of exhibit spaces both intimate and grand, the venue...
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Party Arty
Mix and match your mediums at a mash-up in Boulder.
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 11, 2009
What happens when diverse artistic mediums collide? Find out at the Mash-Up Party at BMoCA, a cultural extravaganza fueled by libations from a cash bar. “I was thinking it...
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The Million-Dollar Shot
By Tyler Nemkov
Published: June 11, 2009
Bring your rabbit-foot keychain, four-leaf clover and any other lucky charm you own to the Rotary Club of Denver Mile High Foundation’s Million Dollar Hole-in-One Shootout...
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Letters
From the week of June 11, 2009
Published: June 11, 2009
"Catch Them If You Can," Joel Warner, June 4 No Walk in the Parkour I wasn't able to read the parkour article, because those no-talent assholes make me sick to my...
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Off Limits
Even the recession can't rain on the Denver Parade of Homes
Published: June 11, 2009
Like the rest of us, Colorado's luxury-home builders have had to tighten their hand-stitched, imported leather belts in order to make ends meet. And so the Parade of Homes, an...
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