Nadia Pflaum

Abigail needs all ten fingers to count the drugs she's done in her seventeen years. "So I went from pot to alcohol...but then in the course of like two years, I started going into crystal meth, cocaine, ecstasy, GHB...What else have I done?" "Special K?" Her boyfriend, Reid, prompts her...

It's 11:37 a.m., and students pour out of East High School, making lunch connections and peeling off in bass-thumping station wagons. But in room 222, a different crowd gathers. In Tammy Rhome's classroom, students pile their school-bought pan pizzas and Mountain Dew bottles on their notebooks as Ms. Rhome enters,...

"Sex, Lies, and Snow!" "Jingle Bells--Santa Goes All The Way!" So exclaim the posters touting the Theatre Group's seasonally smutty production The Eight Reindeer Monologues. The play promises to be a surprise for audiences expecting a traditional representation of Rudolph and friends. This bawdy black comedy doubles as political satire--sans...

In a season when people might as well carve reindeer into their Halloween pumpkins, beleaguered shoppers looking for unique gifts should head to places where they'll never see a mall Santa. At the Denver Art Museum shop, posters and reproductions neatly coat the walls, and minimalistic household items such as...