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Blanket Statements

Snuggle up with the Denver National Quilt Festival.

By Karen Bowers
May 4, 2006

There was a time when quilts were merely humble patchwork blankets, with the sole purpose of keeping pioneers from freezing their muskets off. Eventually, the utilitarian coverlets evolved into intricate works of art. Today through Sunday, decorative quilts, clothing and other forms of textile craft are on display at the...
Grape Expectations

Swill with the swells at the Denver wine fest.

By Laura Bond, Karen Bowers and Susan Froyd
Nov 3, 2005

SAT, 11/5 Finding a great bottle of wine can be an adventure or a crapshoot. You can spend years educating yourself about grapes, vintages and vineyards, or you can simply trust the little info tags ("A facetious little wine, with hints of birch and guava") that punctuate the shelves of...
All Balled Up

The shootout between CU and CSU erupts again this Saturday.

By Karen Bowers
Sep 1, 2005

Are you ready for some football? In-state rivals the University of Colorado and Colorado State University will meet up at CU-Boulder's Folsom Field on Saturday, September 3, to renew their traditional season-opener rivalry. The emotionally charged affair promises to be full of smash-mouth, trash-talkin' action -- and that's just from...
Land of the Free Spirits

Americana explores the currents in our culture

By Karen Bowers, Susan Froyd and Kity Ironton
May 13, 2004

THURS, 5/13 Americans have no single governing persona, and that's as it should be: The Land of the Free has no room for a goose-stepping, nationalistic identity. We're mongrels. We believe in and are motivated by thousands of unique, different things, all sprouted from hundreds of intermingling and divergent cultures...
Small World

Artist's vision has a global spectrum

By Karen Bowers, Adam Cayton-Holland, Julie Dunn and Susan Froyd
Apr 8, 2004

MON, 4/12 Siona Benjamin's background is beyond exotic, a story no journalist could resist repeating. A Sephardic Jew who grew up in the Bollywood district of Bombay, India, she hails from a milieu that has been defined by a swirl of multiculturalism, including Western and Eastern philosophies and Jewish, Catholic,...

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