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Sure, the taming of the West was filled with bloody shootouts, senseless massacres and tragic mass exoduses. But as illustrated in Western Style: A Convergence of Cultures, an exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, 987½ Lookout Mountain Road in Golden, it also entailed a fascinating intermingling of Indian,…

Leslie, aka Pussie S’More, refuses to divulge too much about the Funky Pink Snowflake Ball. “We don’t want to send out too much information, because we like to keep it somewhat underground,” the Pink Pussie wrote in a reply to a recent e-mail inquiring what FunkMasters, an inflatable pink cat…

Colorado Pregnancy and Newborn Loss Services provides assistance in dealing with feelings that often languish behind closed doors, in the private worlds of women who’ve miscarried or lost a child at, or soon after, birth. So Colorado writer and genealogy buff Robert L. Root — whose book, Recovering Ruth: A…

I only got to attend one prom in high school, and it was lame. My date was drunk at 3 p.m. when I picked him up, and he brought a flask of whiskey for himself and his friends (I declined). I was terrified the entire night that he was going…

Via e-mail, redoubtable anti-critic Joe Bob Briggs, who’s hosting today’s Oscar Bash, describes this year’s Best Picture nominees as “the most bizarre collection of losers since The English Patient.” Granted, he sorta liked The Departed — but his thumb is down for Babel (“the movie that asks the question, ‘How…

“Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know. Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know.” Stop that immediately. This is not a week for indecision. No hesitation. No wishy-washy bullshit. Denver Restaurant Week starts today and runs through March 2, and you’d better get your ass in…

Westword’s eleventh annual Artopia party promises to be one wild ride this year. It’s bigger, better and, well, badder than ever before. There are now four fashion shows instead of one, featuring the confections of Betsey Johnson, the Fabric Lab, Equillibrium and Lynne Bruning; next up is art by the…

In terms of jazz in the Five Points neighborhood these days, James VanBuren “is…well, he just is.” That’s according to Denise Sealover of Hope Communities, a Five Points-based nonprofit that is hosting its Harlem of the West fundraiser tonight. VanBuren and the Group, his backup quintet, have been a staple…

As the Denver Art Museum’s founding curator for modern and contemporary art, Dianne Perry Vanderlip built a world-class collection. The non-profit PlatteForum gives underserved youth the opportunity to learn from renowned artists. And for thirty years, Fiesta Colorado has preserved Spanish and Mexican cultural traditions through dance. “It’s a validation…

Don’t be frightened by the name of this lecture series: Notes on How Not to Use “Postmodernism” in a Sentence. Betsy Ermarth promises it will not be another series of talks aimed at the academic elite — despite the fact that the speaker, author and professor is a former chair…

It’s a little bit Vegas, a little bit Jet Li blockbuster, but Dr. Dennis Law’s Heartbeat — the latest in his growing franchise of highly visual “action musicals” that hit the stage fully ablaze with dazzling choreography, tethered to earth only by a flowing timeline of Chinese history — is…

The French language is fraught with vowels, with multiples of “i,” “e” and “o” all packed together like sardines in one word. “There are certainly lots more than in the English language,” concedes Jeremy Sortore. This may seem like a minor detail to you and me, but it’s crucial for…

I was always the kid at the slumber party who dreaded the witching hour, when the flashlight would inevitably come up to someone’s chin. But I would endure it, even though the creeps lasted for years. (To this day, the one about the China doll that came alive makes me…

Some headway could be made in an age-old domestic battle tonight when the Colorado Ballet opens its 47th season with Le Corsaire, a story about pirates. Let’s face it, fellas: When will you have another opportunity to take the wife to a ballet you might actually enjoy? Artistic director Gil…