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   A Cold Case Frozen in Time

   Until this cold case heats up, Sharon Skiba is lost in limbo.

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: February 14, 2008

   For more than eight years, Sharon Skiba waited behind locked doors. Her life had stopped on February 7, 1999 — the day her son and nine-year-old granddaughter...

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   Moon Madness

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Don't freak when the moon turns blood-red tonight. It's not the end of the world, just a routine alignment of celestial bodies known as a total lunar eclipse. Over the course...

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   Print Perfect

   A new exhibit at the Mizel Center features master prints.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Simon Zalkind, director of exhibitions at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center at the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center, is excited about Good Impressions, a collection of...

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   Climb Every Mountain

   By Joel Warner

   Published: February 14, 2008

   If there's one thing we Coloradans love, it's our mountains. We hike up them, climb up them, ride trains up them. We have guys named after our state capital sing songs about...

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   Movie Music

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 epic Alexander Nevsky was made as "a propaganda film for Stalin," notes Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra executive director Sue Levine. However, its...

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   Words Up

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Pan African Arts Society founder Ashara Ekundayo, who also curated and produced tonight's "Urban Poetics" Poetry Slam at the Denver Art Museum, describes the event as "a...

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   Fairly Contrived

   A new play examines life in a movie theater.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Josh Hartwell worked in two movie theaters growing up, so you can bet that his new play, Contrived Ending, will channel the ups and downs of cleaning candy wrappers and more in...

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   It's a Small World After All

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: February 14, 2008

   If you've never thought of frog embryos as a thing of art and beauty, then you've yet to check out the image captured by University of Colorado biology professor Mike...

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   The Golden Touch

   There's gold in that there museum.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: February 14, 2008

   My father was a modern-day gold seeker; he pioneered a method by which seekers can find lodes of ore using water instead of soil. I used to tease him incessantly about his...

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    Beautiful Failures

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: February 14, 2008

    "Valentine's Day is really the pinnacle of loserness for the beautiful loser," notes Adam Lerner, executive director of the Laboratory of Art and Ideas in Lakewood's Belmar...

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    Have a Heart

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Okay, unsentimental slackers, if you didn't book a romantic table three years ago, you're probably out of luck tonight, but here's one you can at least attempt: Culinary...

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    Moral Fiber

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Fiber artist, single mother and business owner Deborah Kruger is all those things and more: She's also Jewish, a feminist and profoundly inspired by the indigenous artists of...

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    Rated PG-13

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Between Mexico City and Denver's El Centro Su Teatro, 4725 High Street, a funny thing happened to the dark comedy Las Chicas del 3.5" Floppies. "I noticed the script was...

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    Flock Together

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: February 14, 2008

    What's the common thread among cello-slinging singer-songwriter Ian Cooke, goofball Casio-pop wunderkind Magic Cyclops, burlesque dancers and a whole slew of painters,...

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    African Delight

    Culture abounds at the fifth annual African Extravaganza.

    By Erin Vanderberg

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Tonight the African Community Center of Denver kicks off its fifth annual African Extravaganza at the University of Denver with a two-part program dedicated to refugee...

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    Out of the Blue

    By Adam Cayton-Holland

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Waiting for a plane in Seattle, sounding hurried and harried as a final boarding call echoes in the near distance, Josh Blue has this to say about his upcoming Denver show:...

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    Divahn Calling

    Learn What Jewish Culture Sounds Like at the Oriental Theater.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: February 14, 2008

    The University of Denver's Center for Judaic Studies continues its year-long series, Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, this week with a full platter of events, concerts...

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    Eggers On

    By Aubrey Shoe

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Years ago, I walked into the McSweeney's store in Brooklyn and fell instantly in love with the irreverent way the independent publisher's quarterly journal and books were...

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    Film First

    The Boulder International Film Festival unwinds.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: February 14, 2008

    The Boulder International Film Festival is in full swing, and if you haven't caught any of the innovative, controversial and just plain good movies being offered, now's your...

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    Vlogged to Death

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. "If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off," says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film...