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   Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game

   Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.

   By Jared Jacang Maher

   Published: April 3, 2008

   At 2:10 a.m. on December 19, Denver police officer Timothy Campbell was standing in the middle of the street in a west Denver neighborhood, his gun pointed at a man. The...

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   Kingdom of Magic

   By Eryc Eyl

   Published: April 3, 2008

   For Kingdom of Magic's debut, Luke Fairchild and his White Dynamite cohort, Joe Ramirez, team up with drummer Devon Rogers for a relentlessly heavy bong-burner. Unlike their...

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   Gregory Alan Isakov

   By Dave Herrera

   Published: April 3, 2008

   Gregory Alan Isakov isn't a big talker. Live, he rolls through his sets with graceful efficiency and a minimum of banter. When he does speak, it's at such low levels that...

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   Voice of the City

   Kevin Larson puts on a Vaudeville show.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 3, 2008

   Kevin Larson has something very different planned for his upcoming bash, Theatre Du Vaudeville. "It's a kick-off party for his new non-profit company," notes Jodi Johnson of...

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   Getting Hot in Here

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: April 3, 2008

   There's so much doom and gloom inherent in global warming. That's why the second annual Global Warming Expo at the Boulder Theater is such a refreshing change of pace. "We're...

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   Wild Child

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 3, 2008

   If you were stranded in the wilderness with only the clothes on your back, a harmonica and a Leatherman multi-tool, could you survive? Les Stroud could. The star of Survivorman...

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   Chants Meeting

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: April 3, 2008

   Ars Nova Singers artistic director Tom Morgan calls tonight's innerVoice: Chant event "a concert that's fairly eclectic in terms of music from around the world." Talk about an...

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   Poems for the People

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: April 3, 2008

   Denver's poet laureate, Chris Ransick, intends to live up to his title. Under Ransick's reign, National Poetry Month will no longer lie limply on the local plane; instead, he's...

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   Fashion with Passion

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 3, 2008

   The fashion at tonight's Aveda Institute Denver hair and makeup show, "Shampoo, Rinse, Recycle," is going to be as green as it gets. "Our green team is a group of students and...

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    Monster Mash

    The top tier of hip-hop dance is here to help.

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: April 3, 2008

    So you think you can dance…or maybe you just wish you could. Either way, Monsters of HipHop is here to help. The organization brings top choreographers who have worked...

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    Kickin' It

    By Michelle Baldwin

    Published: April 3, 2008

    Kickball may have an ironic hipster sheen in today's adult leagues, but at heart it's still the schoolyard game we all remember — even if the traditional after-game juice...

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    Feeling Haggard

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: April 3, 2008

    Dale Katechis, founder of Oskar Blues Cajun Grill and Brewery in Lyons, is a big fan of Merle Haggard. A couple of years ago, he asked beerman Marty Jones how much it might...

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    Snow Boat

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: April 3, 2008

    Why create a "boatercross" that sends kayakers barreling down a snow-covered mountain course with banked corners, berms, rollers and jumps? Why not? In its third year at...

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    Paint the Town Brown

    Yoko Ono helps celebrate Denver arts.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: April 3, 2008

    That Denver's Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is celebrating thirty years on the local arts scene is no surprise. Few grassroots non-profit arts organizations have as much...

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    Summer Heats Up

    The Human Rights Torch Relay takes Beijing to task.

    By Erin Vanderberg

    Published: April 3, 2008

    "China was awarded the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics — with the condition that it improve its human-rights record ahead of the Games," says Susan Prager, outreach...

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    Going Local

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: April 3, 2008

    Plain dumb fearlessness. That's exactly what you'd expect from a guy who's spent a good part of his young life globe-trotting between war zones in places like Burma and Rwanda....

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    Nut House

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: April 3, 2008

    If you took a bunch of Gary Buseys and locked them in a room with an equal number of typewriters, a buffet of psychedelics and an infinite amount of time, they probably...

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    Smokin' Hot

    Help pick the 2009 Colorado Firefighter Calendar cover boy.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: April 3, 2008

    I'll let you in on a little secret: Firefighters are super-hot. Maybe it's the aura of heroism about them in all their pulling-small-children-and-pets-from-burning-buildings...

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    Freeze Frame

    By Mark Schiff

    Published: April 3, 2008

    It may not inspire widespread, degenerate gambling like its basketball counterpart, but the NCAA Frozen Four Hockey Tournament still boasts one of the most exciting...

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    Open Season

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: April 3, 2008

    Last year, Tony Shawcross won a Westword MasterMinds award for the amazing work being done at Deproduction/Denver Open Media — and it just gets more amazing, as tonight's...