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All the World's Her Stage

So why doesn't Denver applaud Lucy Walker?

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

The voting line in Highland is already big -- and growing by the minute

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

High on my Highland polling place

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Mouthing Off

Beauty and the bistro

Best Way to Make Your Patriotic Mark

Dark Millennia Studios

Red, Red Wine

Dark Millennia Studios

For Heaven's Sake!

This was the year many Coloradans decided to play God -- and I'm not happy about it.

Home and Away

This was the year many Coloradans decided to play God -- and I'm not happy about it.

Shirt Happens

John Hickenlooper would give you the flag off his back.

Get Your 'Jam On

John Hickenlooper would give you the flag off his back.

Cool As Ice

John Hickenlooper would give you the flag off his back.

Goodbye, Cruel Real World

Denver says goodbye to the worst cast ever.

All Grown Up

At eighteen, these foster kids aged out of a system that denied them a childhood.

Day-by-Day Picks

For the week of November 24

We're Not Worthy

Charity began at home. This home.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Charity began at home. This home.

Off Limits

Captive audience

Pitching Tents

A camp for the homeless works in Portland. Can it work here, too?

Cable Guy

Bill Daniels made a fortune bringing cable to the West. But would he agree with how his legacy is being spent?

The Message

Vision Quest

Bug Love

A car show to exhaust VW fans

Pop Quiz

A small tell-all

Money Market

United Way will no longer manage charitable donations from city and state employees.

Give Thanks

Are we having funds yet?

The Wide World of Grief

Colorado has become one of the country's hubs for teaching, and learning, how to feel bad.

Man With a Plan

A Boulder women's center survives governor's attempts to abort funding.

Feedback

A Boulder women's center survives governor's attempts to abort funding.

No Lease on Life

Tenants say that Triton Properties is playing dirty in its efforts to clean up Colfax.

This New House

A "philanthropic organization" from Littleton wants to give away a home for charity--and for profit.

War of the Heavy Weights

Prop up your coffee tables: Two big Denver books are coming.

Fete Unknown

If Denver's Black Arts Festival keeps growing, why is it facing financial ruin?

Off Limits

If Denver's Black Arts Festival keeps growing, why is it facing financial ruin?

Off Limits

If Denver's Black Arts Festival keeps growing, why is it facing financial ruin?

CHARITY STOPS AT HOME

HOW A WELL-INTENTIONED FIVE POINTS PROJECT FOR TEEN MOMS COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF BITTERNESS.

OFF LIMITS

HOW A WELL-INTENTIONED FIVE POINTS PROJECT FOR TEEN MOMS COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF BITTERNESS.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER

THE NEW AIDS OFFICIAL FOR THE URBAN LEAGUE SUDDENLY QUITS.

THRILLS

THE NEW AIDS OFFICIAL FOR THE URBAN LEAGUE SUDDENLY QUITS.

GIVE AND TAKE

THE DENVER FOUNDATION GETS AN UNCHARITABLE REVIEW.

THE PARTY'S OVER

THE DENVER FOUNDATION GETS AN UNCHARITABLE REVIEW.

Culinary calendar for the week ahead

Mile High United Way wants to help stock your wine cellar.​Our online Food & Drink listings feature dozens of culinary events around Colorado this week, including Anthony Bourdain's local appearance, the Mile High United Way Emerging Leaders Wine Event, the Celebrity Chef Tour and Opus's Cele- ... More >>

Homeless coalition weighs service cuts, defends "lean" salaries

The $180,000 man: CCFH president John Parvensky.​Grappling with a shortfall in government funding and a rising tide of people displaced by a wretched economy, officers and senior staff of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless will make some tough decisions this evening about what they and th ... More >>

Tonight's MTV Hope for Haiti Telethon has roots here at home with mGive

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, tonight the biggest names in entertainment are coming together for MTV's Hope for Haiti Telethon, a unified relief effort to raise much needed funds for the disaster torn country, devastated by the recent earthquake. The relief effort is wide reaching and beyond m ... More >>

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, November 24-28

Come out this weekend.​It's a four-day weekend, and that means we get to kick off 10 for $10 early this week, with tons of awesome bonus stuff for you to do when you're not stuck in a turkey coma listening to your aunt ramble on about her new kitten. We've got plenty of events to take your tim ... More >>

Better Run, Turkey

Come out this weekend.​It's a four-day weekend, and that means we get to kick off 10 for $10 early this week, with tons of awesome bonus stuff for you to do when you're not stuck in a turkey coma listening to your aunt ramble on about her new kitten. We've got plenty of events to take your tim ... More >>

Review: Dispatch at Red Rocks, 6/3/11

Photo by Britt ChesterDISPATCH at RED ROCKS | 6/3/11"Dispatch fans came for a good time -- the first they've shared with this band in a while -- and let's just say they got what they came for."

Never Shout Never's Christofer Drew on his new band and helping out his hometown

​Never Shout Never used to be a band of one -- as the moniker of Christofer Drew, the teenage singer-songwriter who began relaying fantastic love songs to his Myspace masses in 2007. Now, at 20 years old, the Joplin, Missouri native has given his music a new life and brought in a full band of ... More >>

Michael Hancock launches Denver Education Compact to help improve public schools

Michael Hancock.​ After spending the morning with W., Mayor Michael Hancock (who the former president said was classy), launched his Denver Education Compact, a committee of big brains set to tackle the city's school system, which graduated just 51.8 percent of students on time last year. Hanc ... More >>