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Mark Twain

  • News

    May 10, 2012
  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    History Colorado Center: Are Coors bottles really part of the recycled floor?

    "In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that." So said Mark Twain, and after the first historic week of the History Colorado Center, we have a quick correction: You may not be walking on Coors bottles.

  • Culture

    December 15, 2011

    Now Playing

    "In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that." So said Mark Twain, and after the first historic week of the History Colorado Center, we have a quick correction: You may not be walking on Coors bottles.

  • Culture

    December 8, 2011

    Playwright Laura Eason does a terrific job with Tom Sawyer at the Denver Center

    "In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that." So said Mark Twain, and after the first historic week of the History Colorado Center, we have a quick correction: You may not be walking on Coors bottles.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Closing the book on the next One Book, One Denver

    ​Today is the deadline to vote for the next pick in the One Book, One Denver program. Your options: Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Jef Otte wasn't thrilled by the choices, following in a long tradition of Westw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel tops our new-release picks for April 12, 2011

    ​If most authors leave an unfinished novel lying around, it doesn't really mean anything. It's usually unfinished because at best it's crap and at worst, unreadable. There have been exceptions: Kafka left behind The Castle, Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished, and Mark Twain's Mysteri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Huckleberry Finn without the slurs: Excerpts from the censored text

    ​Mark Twain's classic Huckleberry Finn will be scrubbed of its 219 uses of the word "nigger" in a new edition to be published by NewSouth. They say the edit is an attempt to return the book to classroom literature requirements, where its use of the slur (as well as the less frequently used, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary for One Book, One Denver

    ​For a city that embraces reading, Denver has never really embraced the One Book, One Denver program -- not even after last year's votingpalooza for the fifth edition, tied to a secret National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Big Read program, which resulted in the pick of To Kill a Moc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    New I am the Dot EP Minimal Love available today

    ​The latest release from Zachary Tipton's I am the Dot project has arrived and, in case you're keeping track, this makes the fourth release since his first Dot EP last November. The latest release is a three-song called Minimal Love and it may be the best thing he's released yet. The EP sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Freeloader: "Mark Twain" new from I Am the Dot

    ​It's a been a while since we've heard any new material from Zachary Tipton's I Am the Dot project. The last release was January's Winter EP, and although it wasn't that long ago, it seems a long time after we got used to his once-a-month schedule of releases. In any case, the wait for new mat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2010

    The Twain Shall Meet

    ​It's a been a while since we've heard any new material from Zachary Tipton's I Am the Dot project. The last release was January's Winter EP, and although it wasn't that long ago, it seems a long time after we got used to his once-a-month schedule of releases. In any case, the wait for new mat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Twain Tracks

    Think Big with Huck and Jim at the Arvada Center.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    The Denver Wax Museum lives on (sort of)

    Alfred Packer, enjoying a finger-lickin' good meal Good news for all those people hankering for unrealistic facsimiles of dead people: The Denver Wax Museum, which officially closed its doors circa 1981, lives on in an even stranger manner than the one displayed the grotesque operation's original 9 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Throwing the book

    Here's the great thing about a book. Once you have it in your hands, it never goes offline. The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs hasn't been so lucky with the web site where the city's residents are invited to help choose the next One Book, One Denver selection. Voting allegedly started on June 1 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Meet in the Middle

    American and Iranian artists explore each other’s cultures.

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    The Final Frontier

    American and Iranian artists explore each other’s cultures.

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    Hearing Voices

    Howard Zinn and company bring history to the stage.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Read all about it: Hickenlooper to unveil 2008 One Book, One Denver

    Howard Zinn and company bring history to the stage.

  • Calendar

    July 31, 2008

    Dream On

    Greeley celebrates the American Spirit.

  • News

    July 17, 2008

    Lake Woebegone

    The bloom is on this putrid pond.

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2008

    Mile High Makeout: Moving Units

    The bloom is on this putrid pond.

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    Wesleyan Comedy

    Five years after graduation, our comic gets the last laugh.

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2007

    The Twain Shall Meet

    Five years after graduation, our comic gets the last laugh.

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    Brownie to the Rescue

    You look marvelous!

  • Home Entertainment

    October 27, 2005

    Cameron Crowing

    You look marvelous!

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2005

    Dangerous Sounds

    The Experimental Playground blasts classical-music cliches.

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The Experimental Playground blasts classical-music cliches.

  • Music

    August 26, 2004

    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain... (Polyvinyl)

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2004

    Pole Cats

    Venice on the Creek lets you punt the Platte.

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2004

    Read On

    One Book, One Denver gets stoked

  • Calendar

    September 18, 2003

    Pony Up

    American tall tale gallops across these pages

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best Riverfront

    Central Platte Valley

  • Film

    November 22, 2001

    Knight Falls

    Everything old is mold again when a brother from another 'hood lands in medieval times.

  • Calendar

    September 27, 2001

    Buell Be Happy

    The Colorado Performing Arts Festival is fun and free.

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    The Platte Thickens

    A river of controversy runs through it.

  • Culture

    September 21, 2000

    Hot off the Presses

    Printed matter papers the walls at the William Havu Gallery.

  • Film

    October 28, 1999

    A Crying Shame

    First-time director Kimberly Peirce distinguishes herself and her real-life subject with Boys Don't Cry.

  • Film

    October 7, 1999

    Less Than Zero

    The Minus Man doesn't equal the sum of its parts.

  • Calendar

    August 19, 1999

    Down by the River

    Denver's madams duke it out.

  • Calendar

    December 3, 1998

    NIGHT & DAY1998 DECEMBER 3-9

    Denver's madams duke it out.

  • Calendar

    November 5, 1998

    Night & Day

    November 5 - 11, 1998

  • Calendar

    August 27, 1998

    Night & Day

    August 27 - September 2, 1998

  • Calendar

    January 29, 1998

    Calendar

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • Culture

    November 27, 1997

    Lone Rangers

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • News

    September 26, 1996

    A River of Money Runs Through It

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • Calendar

    February 29, 1996

    Thrills for the week

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • News

    August 2, 1995

    OFF LIMITS

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • Dining

    April 26, 1995

    STEAKING A CLAIM

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • Culture

    January 25, 1995

    OLD MEN'S RIVER

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

  • Film

    March 2, 1994

    A JUICY SMALL TOWN

    Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

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