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How good fortune graced the namesake of the "Dan Tang Drug Trafficking Organization"
By Joel Warner
Published: October 15, 2009
The anonymous letter arrived at Heaven Dragon, a prominent Chinese restaurant in Thornton, on February 14, 2008. "To addressee only," it read, the message scrawled erratically,...
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Flick Pick
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 15, 2009
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine narrative that is still...
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Secret Garden
By Drew Bixby
Published: October 15, 2009
Probably best known for her Jane Austen mystery series, local author Stephanie Barron (who also publishes under the pen name Francine Matthews, though her birth name is...
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Locker Partners
By Drew Bixby
Published: October 15, 2009
How many reasons do you need to attend the Monday Night Football Locker Room Bash — the inaugural event benefiting the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) that...
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Science of Fiction
By Jason Heller
Published: October 15, 2009
When Michael Chabon won the 2008 Locus and Hugo Awards — two of science fiction's highest honors — for his novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, it caused quite a few...
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Shine a Light
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 15, 2009
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an ancient text designed to provide guidance for the next life. “You whisper it into the ear of an unconscious or dying person; it’s...
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Golden Boy
By Mark Dragotta
Published: October 15, 2009
Gustafer Yellowgold is a friendly, flame-like creature who came from the sun and lives in a cottage in the Minnesota woods with his pet eel, Slim, a dragon named Asparagus (who...
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Cross Over
By Jason Heller
Published: October 15, 2009
The world grows stranger every day — not that that's a shock to fans of The Twilight Zone. The seminal television drama not only injected existential angst into the age of...
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Miller on Miller
By Michael Paglia
Published: October 15, 2009
R. Craig Miller came to the Denver Art Museum in 1990 to establish the Architecture, Design and Graphics Department, and he hit the ground running by putting together a...
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Southwest Redux
By Michael Paglia
Published: October 15, 2009
Not long ago, husband-and-wife Lakewood artists Haze and Jana Diedrich made a pilgrimage to Santa Fe, where they began to appreciate those small objects of Hispanic-Catholic...
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Mongol Society
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 15, 2009
When you first think of Genghis Khan, you invariably picture a fierce-looking barbarian Mongol in a flashy helmet with awesome facial hair of the Fu Manchu persuasion. And then...
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Pure Energy
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 15, 2009
Don’t even try to understand how Thaddeus Phillips puts together a performance. He plucks seemingly random things from the air and somehow creates relationships from a...
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After the Ghoul Rush
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 15, 2009
From its notorious gunfights and shady ladies to its gold-mining glory days to the “Face on the Barroom Floor,” Central City has more than its share of legends for...
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Family Follies
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 15, 2009
Some people have skeletons in the closet, but we pretty much all have home movies packed away on a shelf — although modern technology has actually changed the way we store...
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Scream and Scream Again
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 15, 2009
You know, you just can’t walk out on the street these days without bumping into a zombie or two. With half the city getting zombie makeup tips from professionals or...
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Fright Nights
By Olivia Ruiz
Published: October 15, 2009
Halloween is sneaking up on us, but don’t let that scare you too much. Instead, enjoy the dark side every Tuesday night from now through November 17 during the...
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Party Arty
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 15, 2009
The Larimer Sidewalk Arts Festival is a work in progress — the hosts learned a little something last year about seasonal scheduling — and it’s still growing,...
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On the Road Again
By Rob Fisher
Published: October 15, 2009
With the air turning crisp and the leaves changing colors, fall is a great time to run. So why not a marathon? The starting gun will signal the fourth annual Denver Marathon on...
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Gimme a Mike
By Cory Casciato
Published: October 15, 2009
The cult-classic sketch-comedy show The State introduced the peculiar comic stylings of Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter to the world. They followed that with projects...
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Reach for the Stars
By Mark Dragotta
Published: October 15, 2009
Far more than a tired, kitschy recycling of the Star Wars brand, Star Wars: A Musical Journey is a reimagining of the six-part science-fiction saga into a ninety-minute,...
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