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1. Feature

   Rent-a-Cop

   Denver's finest protect and serve, whether they're being paid by the city or the corner bar.

   By Luke Turf

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Marty Vanover has been part of Denver's music scene for a dozen years, greeting crowds at the Ogden Theatre and listening to the bands on stage, whether they be hip-hop or...

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   'Tween Spirit

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Ten-year-old 'tweens seem to leap and claw their way through life. Too old for the Build-A-Bears they dress up and cling to, yet not old enough to rightly embrace their spew of...

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   Hip-Hop Nation

   The Chicano oral tradition is alive and flourishing.

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: April 17, 2008

   The Annual Neruda Poetry Festival celebrates Chicano oral tradition and flor y canto (flower and song) — meaning a flowery, rhythmic style of reciting poetry. Each year,...

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   Glover Story

   Crispin Glover hosts a film that will make viewers ask, What Is It?

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Movie-goers familiar with actor Crispin Glover's eccentric oeuvre won't be surprised to learn that his directorial debut, 2005's What Is It?, which he'll host as part of a...

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   For the Record

   By Patricia Calhoun

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Join the party at the Lowenstein complex this weekend, when Twist & Shout marks its twentieth birthday. "And we started almost as a lark," muses Paul Epstein, who, like his...

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   Smart Art

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: April 17, 2008

   There'll be more art — way more art — than you can shake a mint Louis XIV walking stick at when you stop by the Gilmore Art Center, 2119 Curtis Street, where the Mile...

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   Get Cookin'

   Indulge in the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: April 17, 2008

   If you're tired of the fact that there's nothing on television, try going out tonight and getting your nothing from the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night. "You know how you get...

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   Open Your Eyes

   A dance production sheds light on the Iraq war.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Colorado Ballet dancer Andrew Skeels's independent dance-theater performance, Palimpsest, was inspired by the American Friends Service Committee's Eyes Wide Open exhibit, for...

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   Elevate, Good Times, Come On!

   The fourth annual Elevation tribal belly-dance festival shimmies back.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 17, 2008

   The annual tribal-style belly-dance festival known as Elevation is "electric," according to host and promoter Elizabeth Ostteen (who also owns the Marrakech and Paprika...

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    Talking Shop

    Baby wares get hip at Rock the Cradle.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Urban hipsters Brian and Melissa Ball don't have kids of their own yet, but they've seen enough to know that parents simply go nuts when it comes to buying stuff for babies,...

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    Fashion Forward

    By Aubrey Shoe

    Published: April 17, 2008

    If you've been searching for a way to fulfill your European fashion craving that doesn't involve crossing the pond and plunging into debt or secretly thumbing through the...

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    Apple A Day

    Green is in at this Earth Day celebration.

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Not only is the Green Apple Festival a free outdoor concert with the Neville Brothers, Rose Hill Drive and the Benevento/Russo Duo, but it's also going to be the largest Earth...

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    For God's Sake

    In her new book, the Adventure Rabbi makes the outdoor life kosher.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 17, 2008

    "There are no perfect people in the Bible," declares Boulder-based Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold, aka the Adventure Rabbi, who introduces her new book, God in the Wilderness:...

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    Day of Our Lives

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Sandra Day O'Connor is a true inspiration. Not only did she serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 24 years, but she was also the first woman to ever serve...

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    Road Trip

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: April 17, 2008

    We drove an old faux-wood-paneled station wagon packed with six of us plus backpacks, tents and coolers. All for a music festival at the tip-top of Maine. Ironically, the...

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    Green Scene

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: April 17, 2008

    This year, Denver is bringing Earth Day to the people. Its Earth Day Fair — which for the past few years was a small exhibition in the Webb Building for city employees...

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    Minus the Bear

    By Micheal Roberts

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Anyone who thinks of progressive music as either willfully difficult or excessively airy-fairy will be disabused of that notion by this Seattle outfit's take on the approach...

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    Dimmu Borgir

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 17, 2008

    When it comes to organized religion, Erkekjetter Silenoz, the guitarist/ songwriter for Norway's Dimmu Borgir, considers himself to be an equal-opportunity hater. "I think most...

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    Ghostland Observatory

    By Eryc Eyl

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Austin’s Ghostland Observatory is more than just another pair of sweaty dudes making party music. Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner crank up the heat on this formula by...

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    Star Power

    An epic science-fiction convention prepares for landing.

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: April 17, 2008

    "So Jayne Cobb and Spock walk into a Denver hotel…" sounds like the start of a particularly geeky joke, but it's the truth today as Starfest 2008 brings the actors behind...