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   Justice High Puts Students in the Courtroom

   Magistrate T.J. Cole holds court in the classroom.

   By Adam Cayton-Holland

   Published: March 6, 2008

   T.J. Cole refers to them as To Sir, With Love moments, a reference to the 1967 Sidney Poitier film in which the actor plays a rookie teacher facing a rowdy class of street...

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   Seeing Green

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: March 6, 2008

   The award-winning play The Lieutenant of Inishmore -- written by Martin McDonough of In Bruges fame -- is the perfect way to kick of St. Patrick's Day celebrations if you're...

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   Audio Illusions

   Boogie down at part two of a music and art festival.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Thomas Steed, owner and financier of Polygamy Productions, has simple things to say about the first installment of his two-part music and sound festival, Illusions in Sound:...

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   Adding Up

   By Adam Gildar

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Although he doesn't like to favor one show over another, Plus Gallery owner and curator Ivar Zeile expects jaws to drop at this month's exhibition. Zeile deems it an array of...

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   Ride, Zombie, Ride

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Two very different artists with a common talent for evoking the fantastic and otherworldly in familiar subjects come together in I've Got the Zombies If You've Got the...

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   Talking Tassels

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: March 6, 2008

   It might not seem as though burlesque and feminism have much in common, but Michelle Baldwin, Westword contributor and founder of Burlesque As It Was, has several compelling...

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   Ex-User Friendly

   Stories on Stage examines the hell of addiction.

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: March 6, 2008

   The Stories on Stage Out-of-the-Box Series is called that for a reason: Like its SOS parent series, it's a cycle of dramatic readings melding literature and theater arts on a...

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   Building Blocks

   East Colfax hosts a blowout Super Block Party.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: March 6, 2008

   East Colfax's quiet renaissance of cool is about to get a lot louder as the Super Block Party, tonight from 7 to 11 p.m., announces the arrival of the newest of Denver's groovy...

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   Starry Night

   The Wrath of Grapes spills into Denver's MCA.

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: March 6, 2008

   As the international splash of grand-opening shows fades at the new (and still sparkling) Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, director/curator Cydney Payton is getting down to...

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    Room for Errors

    José Mercado reworks a classic Shakespearean tale.

    By Sean Cronin

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Twin brothers from different classes, one set enslaved to the other, are shipwrecked and separated. A chance reunion years later is the catalyst for a comedic romp in which...

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    Say You Want a Revolution

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: March 6, 2008

    The non-profit sector in this country is a $1.3 trillion industry, and the world's seventh-largest economy. It encompasses more than 1.5 million organizations — everything...

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    Cinephilia

    Neighborhood Flix's Classic Arthouse Series takes film back to the streets.

    By Joel Warner

    Published: March 6, 2008

    "It's sort of a cliche: They don't make independent films like they used to," says local film curator extraordinaire Christopher May. Unfortunately, that cliche is true. That's...

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    Short But Sweet

    By Michelle Baldwin

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Much like a preview trailer, Central City Opera's OPERA Shorts! provides a fun little teaser of a full opera production. It's sure to be a hit with opera lovers, but it's also...

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    Down to Business

    By Adam Gildar

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Are you the next Van Gogh, Robert Johnson, Karl Marx or Versace — but you'd like to cash in on your creative genius before your untimely demise? If so, make your way over...

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    A Bitter Taste

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: March 6, 2008

    For director Amy Serrano, The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic, which is at the center of two...

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    Wise Up

    A new film laughs at the U.S. war machine.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Military Intelligence and You!, which opens tonight, would have seemed smarter had it been shorter. Writer-director Dale Kutzera uses stock footage and old movie clips...

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    DAM Magnets

    By Adam Gildar

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Every time I amble through the Denver Art Museum, I have the sudden urge to reach out and fondle one of the many masterpieces adorning its angular walls. If you're like me, and...

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    Power to the People

    The audience is part of the performance.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Brazilian performance artist Augusto Boal believes that standard theater divides people into a few who do and the many who watch. To Boal, this represents a model of the...

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    Born in the Flood

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: March 6, 2008

    "Brilliant" is a term that gets thrown around far too casually and liberally, but when used to describe If This Thing Should Spill, it's indisputably applicable. Over the...

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    Back in the USSR

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Although he shot thousands of documentary images of Soviet workers, students and wartime battlefields during his long career (and later served as photo editor of the U.S.S.R.'s...