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Feature
Inside one of the nation's top carnivore sanctuaries
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 23, 2008
Pat Craig walks along a fenceline of his 240-acre spread outside Keenesburg, visiting with some of his latest arrivals. He calls to them in a falsetto, much higher than his...
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Talking Shop
ArtsMyths Gallery contains masks fit for royalty.
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 23, 2008
Tiffany Smyth hangs with belly dancers, fire performers, the Ren Fest crowd and the tribal psychedelic rock band Kan’nal, but first and foremost, she’s a mask-maker...
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The Captain & the Red Hot Flames
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 23, 2008
Once upon a time, indefatigable self-promoter David Booker fronted The Captain and the Red Hot Flames, one of the most popular Colorado acts of the '80s -- and he's about to go...
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Wok This Way
Jennifer 8. Lee explores the connection between Jews and Chinese food.
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 23, 2008
One of the many centerpieces of New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee’s celebrated and fascinating literary foodie fling, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in...
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Vehicular Candycide
Trick-or-treating door to door? Not anymore.
By Drew Bixby
Published: October 23, 2008
A six-foot-tall Venus flytrap. An elaborate scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Maybe just some spider webs and a jack-o-lantern. There’s no telling how volunteers...
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The Wonder of Wine
Eat, drink and be merry at the Denver International Wine Festival.
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 23, 2008
When the movers and shakers behind Wine Country International magazine — which has been based in Colorado for the past five years — were in Chile, they were asked by...
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Belief System
By Jessica Centers
Published: October 23, 2008
Eight years ago, a group of transgendered Christians at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in San Francisco created the world’s first transgender gospel choir to...
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Funny Girl
Paula Poundstone stands up for KBDI-TV at the Newman Center.
By Erin Vanderberg
Published: October 23, 2008
Paula Poundstone is lucky. If she wasn’t so funny, she’d be that crazy lady at the end of the street who plays board games with her cats (which would number in the...
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Swap Happy
All things bicycle-related can be found at the VeloSwap.
By Sean Cronin
Published: October 23, 2008
I searched for years, scouring police auctions and websites, for the bike I coveted as a kid: a Bridgestone RB-1 road bike. I found the elusive frame within twenty minutes at...
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Pet Cemetery
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 23, 2008
It’s becoming increasingly acceptable to dress your pets up for Halloween, but with the plethora of dog-friendly parties popping up in the area, however will you choose...
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Kick Out the JAAMMS
The Leah Cohen Festival of Jewish Books and Authors gets a new look.
By Susan Froyd
Published: October 23, 2008
How is this year different from all other years at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture? The former Leah Cohen Festival of Jewish Books and Authors, the organi-zation’s...
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Well Red
A soapbox race beyond compare finally hits the city.
By Janet Choi
Published: October 23, 2008
You may have seen the banners on lampposts around town. Or maybe you’re on one of the forty-odd teams competing — perhaps the eloquently monikered Off Like a Prom...
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Dead Center
CHAC hosts a Día de los Muertos fiesta.
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 23, 2008
Centuries ago, the Aztecs celebrated their dead for an entire month during the summer; the festivities were overseen by their goddess of the dead, Mictlantecutli, who was often...
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From Geek to Chic
By Mark Dragotta
Published: October 23, 2008
What, exactly, would you wear to a prom on Mars or to change a bad energy pod as you cruise through the galaxy? Most sane people don’t put much thought into questions like...
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Ghosts in the Palace
Learn about history and hauntings on a special happy-hour tour.
By Amber Taufen
Published: October 23, 2008
Once upon a time, a woman named Louise Crawford Hill lived in Room 904 of the Brown Palace Hotel. She kept her room in the hotel from 1940 to 1955, ruling over Denver society....
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Yelle
By Chris Toenes
Published: October 23, 2008
In the video for "Ce Jeu," a recent song by the French trio Yelle, singer Julie Budet shifts through hyper-color wardrobe changes like a snake shedding skin. One minute she's...
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Gorillas in the Mist
Catch one of the city’s most spectator-friendly races.
By Cory Casciato
Published: October 23, 2008
There are very few opportunities in life to see 500 people dressed in gorilla suits, so make sure you don’t miss one today when the fifth annual Denver Gorilla Run takes...
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Running Scared
Costumed competitors race through Washington Park.
By Jessica Centers
Published: October 23, 2008
Running through Washington Park at dusk with ghouls and vampires on your coattails might constitute a bad dream most nights, but tonight it’s just the Scream Scram, a...
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Kicking It
By Adam Cayton-Holland
Published: October 23, 2008
Although “Kick or Treat” sounds more like a really sweet option for rogue Halloweeners — wherein costumed delinquents are either given candy or allowed to kick...
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Letters
From the week of October 23, 2008
Published: October 23, 2008
"Open Secrets," Lisa Rab, October 9 Shelter Skelter The story you published about asylum-seekers sucks. Write an article about the number of veterans returning from the...
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