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   Wheels of Fortune

   Steve Meyer wants to sell pedicabs to the world — but is the world willing to go along for the ride?

   By Joel Warner

   Published: April 24, 2008

   The sales pitches are assorted and relentless, shouted to an endless flood of pedestrians bedecked in Colorado Rockies attire streaming down the 16th Street Mall. "How about a...

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   Big Kahane

   Jeffrey Kahane joins the discussion on the NPAC.

   By Patricia Calhoun

   Published: April 24, 2008

   In June, performing-arts professionals from across the country will land in Denver for the National Performing Arts Convention, a first-ever venture organized by nearly thirty...

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   Wind Song

   By John Kuebler

   Published: April 24, 2008

   For a play that peaks with a rape and double murder, El Centro Su Teatro's Little Hands Hold the Wind is a surprisingly gentle story. In their second collaboration in two...

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   Buried Treasure

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: April 24, 2008

   The great responsibility of the photographer to record life is more than evident in the work left behind by Holocaust survivor Henryk Ross, whose Lodz Ghetto Album: Clandestine...

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   Roller Derby

   Test your speed and endurance with a new bar game.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Prepare yourself for the next generation of bar sports with RollerBall, a game that inventor Bob Lyons calls "a cross between air hockey and foosball, laced with the essence of...

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   Feast Fantastic

   Arts and culture rule the Black Is…CultureFeast.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 24, 2008

   The ninth annual Black Is…CultureFeast arts and culture extravaganza, presented by the Pan African Arts Society, is aptly named. The Feast is five days of film screenings,...

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   Hello, Dolls

   The Mile High Club takes on Duke City.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: April 24, 2008

   The Denver Roller Dolls will take a page from the history books tonight when they face off against Albuquerque's Duke City at the Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson Street. The...

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   Wonder Women

   By Aubrey Shoe

   Published: April 24, 2008

   In our topsy-turvy world of shrinking bank accounts and quickly changing trends, it can be both empowering and cost-effective to embrace a DIY outlook. Whether you want to...

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   Wine and Dine

   By Jonathan Shikes

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Dean Martin loved the charms of the grape, and he laid them out in his lyrics: "I can hear a mandolino/Softly entice/While I raise a glass of vino/Praising your eyes." And...

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    On the Road

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Kelly Shortandqueer and his friend Jamez Terry had a dream: the Tranny Roadshow. "My good friend Jamez called me back in December 2004 and pitched the idea to me,"...

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    Black and Blues

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: April 24, 2008

    As Barack Obama bids for a room in the White House, it's hard to imagine that less than fifty years ago, blacks couldn't even stay in the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. Legendary...

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    Shredding the News

    Lizz Winstead remakes headlines on deadline.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 24, 2008

    As the co-creator of The Daily Show, Lizz Winstead, who cracks wise today and tomorrow at the Comedy Works, has had plenty of experience needling the nightly news. But until...

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    Go, Cat, Go!

    Mike Olafson's new film rocks this town.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Denver filmmaker Mike Olafson, enamored of the simpler sounds of '50s and '60s rock, set out in 2006 to make a short film about the local retro/rockabilly scene. "But then...

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    Flobots

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Stephen Brackett's intuition was unbelievably strong — when it came to Jamie Laurie, anyway. On his first day at Bradley Elementary, the wide-eyed fourth-grader took one...

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    Get a Grip

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Marianne Faithfull is the best reason to see 2007's Irina Palm, hands down. The premise of the movie, which opens today, sounds comic: The story revolves around Maggie...

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    Buck Wild West

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: April 24, 2008

    How a cultural series held together by a slender string of part-mythology — Oscar Wilde's visit to Colorado to deliver a lecture on the aesthetics movement in 1862 —...

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    Winding Down

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Tonight marks the closing of the ninth annual Black Is...Culturefeast, which featured enough film, literature, arts and cultural filling to stuff even the most discerning...

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    Think Globally, Drink Locally

    Save the planet, drink some beer.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Some folks drive hybrids for the environment, while others sleep in trees, canvass neighborhoods and annoy you on your walk to work. Many tie newspapers in bundles and separate...

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    Garden Fresh

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: April 24, 2008

    This is my first spring in a new home with a big yard, and I find the task at hand overwhelming. Please don't ask me if my garden is xeric, native or alpine. I can hardly tell...

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    N.E.R.D.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Pharrell Williams is so in-demand as a producer that every time he tours with N.E.R.D., his most consistently weird project, he probably costs himself money. But in the days...