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   Phil Van Cise: Scourge of Denver's Underworld

   Fearless DA Phil Van Cise cleaned up Denver — and it cost him his career. Can a new justice center right an old wrong?

   By Alan Prendergast

   Published: February 7, 2008

   You can learn a lot about a crook, the Colonel knew, if you discover who his friends are. By his friends you shall know him. But in the case of an honest man like the Colonel,...

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   Talking Shop

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: February 7, 2008

   To Chef William Poole and Loren Penton, his partner in business and crime at their LoHi shop, Wen Chocolates, chocolate is life. Or at least the true meaning of existence:...

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   Breaking Out

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Don't be fooled by the title: Space Invaders, the new show opening today at the Museo de las Américas, isn't about little green men or Roswell minutiae. Rather, it...

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   Photo Finished

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Tucson artist Kate Breakey found her calling one day in 1995 when a bird she tried to rescue died in her hand, leaving her moved and fascinated by her closeness to the...

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   Forget Vegas

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: February 7, 2008

   From a stomping by the Hells Angels to dodging "bats" on a desert road outside Barstow, California, Hunter S. Thompson is the counterculture icon of American letters....

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   Hearts of Ice

   By Michelle Baldwin

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Just as Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund all pass through the wardrobe into Narnia to find a world they can be part of, the goal of tonight's Frozen Balls: A Carnival in Narnia at...

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   Carnal-val

   By Joel Warner

   Published: February 7, 2008

   BDSM 101. Female ejaculation. Anal play for beginners. These aren't your typical convention-floor seminar topics. But then again, The Sex Show — an erotic trade and...

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   Reap Show

   Clay Kirkland cheats death with the Beat the Reaper Celebration.

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Last year, harmonicat Clay Kirkland hit the big 6-0 — an achievement that surprised him. "I never expected to live until sixty, and actually took steps to prevent it," he...

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   Under the Influence

   Urban Allyance takes hip-hop on an eco-friendly trip.

   By Adam Gildar

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Connections between hip-hop and the "green" lifestyle generally refer to, well, reefer. In the rare instance when "eco" does get hype, it's usually during a streetside purchase...

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    Gimme More

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: February 7, 2008

    For their Asian pop-culture boutique, Andrew Novick and his wife, Janene Hurst, wanted a name that was too long and translated funny — like the nonsensical English phrases...

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    Wax On

    Outdoor DIVAS hosts a ski-wax seminar.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: February 7, 2008

    As far as anyone can tell, ski-waxing began in the 1860s in California, when gold-rush miners held impromptu downhill races. They discovered that smearing compounds on the...

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    Disco's Not Dead

    Celebrate with DJ Rockstar Aaron at Distortion Disko.

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Banish the hump-day blues at Distortion Disko, a weekly excursion into the groove at the hi-dive, 7 South Broadway. The night features an eclectic, electric mix of...

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    The Pit and the Pendulum

    By Luke Turf

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Last time the non-profit organization Human Rights Watch counted, there were 2,270 juveniles serving life without the possibility of parole in prison in the United States, 45...

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    Gloom With a View

    Live it up with the Victorians.

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Mourning becomes eccentric at In the Dead of Winter: Victorian Mourning, an event at Four Mile House showcasing the customs of Victorian sickness, death and grieving. "The...

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    Centuries in the Making

    The Peking Acrobats put on an age-old show.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Along with the number zero, the compass, the kite and the seismograph, China apparently cornered the market on Barnum and Bailey-style acrobatics thousands of years before kids...

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    Igniting the Senses

    Art of Passion has something to pique everyone's interest.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Each year, CultureHaus — a social and educational support group of the Denver Art Museum — hosts its signature party and fundraiser. For this year's bash, the theme...

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    Ukes and You

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: February 7, 2008

    The Boulder Acoustic Society's Aaron Keim, one of the organizers of today's first Colorado Ukulele Festival, loves the uke for reasons that have everything to do with...

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    A Ton of Fun

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: February 7, 2008

    "Colorado has such a rich tradition of strong ceramic artists," says Michael Chavez, curator of the Foothills Art Center. "The Colorado Clay exhibition is important because it...

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    Green Thumbs Up

    Catch Jamaica Kincaid at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

    By Erin Vanderberg

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Jamaica Kincaid's writing career got started because of New Yorker columnist George W. S. Trow, who would take her with him while he conducted research for the magazine's Talk...

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    Glen Phillips

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: February 7, 2008

    The relaxed, warm vocal style of Glen Phillips can be deceptive. It allows him to tell stories of human depravity, evoking the darkest depths of human emotions, all while being...