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A multimillion-dollar weed ring goes down -- and threatens to take a prominent restaurant owner with it
The bust was almost blown after an internal leak, and Dan Tang -- his Heaven Dragon Chinese food beloved local politicians -- was implicated.
By Joel Warner
Published: June 25, 2009
On the evening of February 16, 2008, more than a hundred law-enforcement officers along the northern Front Range prepared for Operation Fortune Cookie, which would go down as...
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Flower Power
By Michael Paglia
Published: June 25, 2009
This year’s spring rains have brought with them masses of flowers, sprouting up seemingly everywhere, even in sidewalk cracks. It’s quite a change from our normally...
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Flick Pick
By Michael Roberts
Published: June 25, 2009
Revanche defied both the odds and the standard formula in earning Austria a richly deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Director Götz Spielmann’s latest...
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Prints Charming
These artists are poster children for concert promos.
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 25, 2009
The music industry may be ailing, but concert posters remain a healthy art form, with exciting, diverse artists working to create beautiful and eye-catching promotional...
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Raging Hormones
Four Bitchin’ Babes marry music and comedy.
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 25, 2009
Some performers can keep an audience in stitches but can’t keep a tune. It’s tough to find a balance between comedic and musical talent; a singer with a beautiful...
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What's Cooking?
These chefs aren’t kidding around when they go to bat for kids.
By Tyler Nemkov
Published: June 25, 2009
The town’s recent Top Chef contestants have been very in demand in this celebrity-starved city, and tonight, Melissa Harrison (formerly of Centro, now of Happy Noodle...
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Girls Rock!
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 25, 2009
As the father of a musically inclined young woman, I can say there just aren’t enough role models and opportunities to help encourage her to seize the day, rock-and-roll...
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Road Show
Davy Rothbart brings his lost and FOUND department to Denver.
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 25, 2009
Explaining FOUND Magazine’s Denim and Diamonds Tour is kind of like describing a flea market to someone who’s never been shopping before. It all starts with Davy...
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Kindred Spirits
Three local artists cross paths…and celebrate a birthday.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 25, 2009
The repercussions of obsessive collector Andrew Novick’s exhibition at the now-defunct Lab in Belmar still reverberate. One unexpected upshot of the whole fantabulous show...
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All-Inclusive
Ami Dayan explores fear and forbidden love in Conviction.
By Juliet Wittman
Published: June 25, 2009
Actor/director Ami Dayan was born in Israel, lives and works in Boulder, and has taken some of his theater pieces to New York, where they’ve received serious attention and...
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Play Dates
Try something new with Modern Muse.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 25, 2009
Every year, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit receives hundreds of submissions from playwrights across the nation. Stephen Lavezza and Gabriella...
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Blog, Blog, Blog
Creating a self-portrait in cyberspace.
By Cory Casciato
Published: June 25, 2009
While searching for a program on self-portraiture to complement the Mizel Museum’s current exhibit My Self: Original Self Portraits, curator Georgina Kolber turned to that...
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Loud and Proud
Denver goes over to the dyke side.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 25, 2009
When Denver’s annual PrideFest, “Worldwide Pride...Connect the Dots,” gets under way this weekend in Civic Center Park, it will continue to provide programming...
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Guys and Wise Guys
Get a taste of Denver history when Dick Kreck discusses his book on the Smaldone family.
By Patricia Calhoun
Published: June 25, 2009
Dick Kreck is sitting beside the shrine to Frank Sinatra in Gaetano’s, the restaurant at 3760 Tejon Street that the Smaldone family ran for almost sixty years, from 1947...
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Comix Relief
Consider the alternatives today at the Tattered Cover.
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 25, 2009
Denver’s alternative comic artists — including such longtime scenesters as John Porcellino, who’s been turning out his King-Cat Comics for twenty years, and Stan...
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T and Sympathy
Megan Nicolay knows how to re-fashion boring shirts
By Susan Froyd
Published: June 25, 2009
I have a few old T-shirts in my closet. They hang there, proverbial skeletons, so boring that I can’t imagine ever removing one from its hanger and actually putting it on....
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Wilde, Wilde West
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 25, 2009
Oscar Wilde is one of those rare writers whose work transcends time. “I would say that he remains as pertinent today as he really ever was; his comments were so...
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Shakes Alive
The play, if not the playwright, is the thing.
By Amber Taufen
Published: June 25, 2009
Since the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is one of the top Shakespeare festivals in the country -- and one of only seven that has staged every last one of Shakespeare’s 37...
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Letters
From the week of June 25, 200
Published: June 25, 2009
"Invasion of the Bike Monsters," Kenny Be, June 18 A Vicious Cycle I thoroughly enjoyed Kenny Be's spread identifying the different types of bicyclists. He nailed it. In...
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Ask A Mexican
Por que do you deny your Mexican heritage, Senor Disney?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 25, 2009
Dear Mexican: You once asked why Mexican bands don't hit it big in the good old U.S. of A. I think the simple answer is that there are no Mexican Mouseketeers. You don't get to...
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