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   This Guardian Angel Bleeds Red

   Sebastian Metz's heart is in the right place. If only his brain and body could follow.

   By Luke Turf

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Four Guardian Angels meet in the 1400 block of Ogden Street at dusk for their weekly march up and around Colfax Avenue, where they patrol the streets and alleys, looking to...

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   Rik's Trip

   Rik Reppe takes listeners to New Orleans before and after Katrina.

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Rik Reppe's Glorious Noise, which bows tonight at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, deals in large part with New Orleans's struggle to recover in the wake of Hurricane...

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   With a Flourish

   A new exhibit looks at nature from an abstract angle.

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Flourish "focuses on nature's full spectrum," says Debra Demosthenes, gallerist at Robischon Gallery, where the exhibition of paintings, prints and sculptures is being unveiled...

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   Street Dreams

   Sowing creative seeds at the Botanic Gardens.

   By Patricia Calhoun

   Published: May 8, 2008

   When the golden day is done, Through the closing portal, Child and garden, flower and sun, Vanish all things mortal. — From Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of...

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   Googie Nights

   Pop culture meets architecture at the

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Call it what you like: Populuxe, Doo-Wop, Coffee Shop Modern, Jet Age, Space Age. The mid-century Southern California architectural style, with its ski-jump roofs, starbursts...

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   Perfect Revenge

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: May 8, 2008

   I'm far from being the perfect mom. I work full-time, I no longer love to cook, and my house looks like Ground Zero, only worse. Clearly, a new book called The Woman Who Is...

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   Brain Food

   Chef Charlie Ayers discusses Food 2.0.

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: May 8, 2008

   "What the hell is a search engine?" might seem like a funny question today, but in late 1998, Charlie Ayers had no idea what he was getting into when he applied for the chef...

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   This Old House

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Why would anyone want to live in a dwelling that looks exactly like every other structure within spitting distance? Old homes have so much more character than the cookie-cutter...

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   Sexy Mama

   Take your mom to this pin-up party.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Tonight's Naughty Mambo Pin-Up Party is a celebration of mothers — albeit an unusual, racy celebration. Paper Dolls and Westword contributing photographer Jim J. Narcy...

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    Funeral Righteous

    Enjoy the last rides at Hearse Con 2008.

    By Jared Jacang Maher

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Are you in the market for an automobile with plenty of room for kids as well as cadavers? Need a comfortable sedan that will strike terror in the hearts of elderly neighbors?...

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    The Duchess of Langeais

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Having returned from Africa, "held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing," the Marquis de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu) is the talk of Paris society. "How very...

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    Shelter

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Shelter bides its time with innocuous snapshots of local SoCal color — crashing waves, crystal blue skies, natives who pronounce the "r" in Louvre — before...

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    Death by Chocolate

    Dana Cain's festival celebrates the sweetest thing.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Reaction to the first-ever Colorado Chocolate Festival has been so over-the-top that event organizer Dana Cain has already booked the Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 East 58th...

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    Silence Is Deadly

    Victims speak out at Break the Silence, Stop the Violence.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Tonight the Daydreamz Project's performance, gallery and candlelight vigil known as Break the Silence, Stop the Violence turns five. "The whole event was birthed from...

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    Genre Benders

    Jewlia Eisenberg's Charming Hostess experiments.

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Babylonian magic bowls and contemporary music come together to illuminate the parallels in home life between the ancient and modern worlds at a special performance by Jewlia...

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    Lost in Translations

    Translations Gallery changes its spots.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Judy Hagler's Translations Gallery is turning a corner — literally — by swapping locations within the ArtDistrict on Santa Fe. Troubled by the lackluster exterior of...

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    Scrum of the Earth

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Rugby, that grandfather of American football and a great way to lose a few teeth, is enjoying something of a local renaissance, in part because of the construction of the...

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    Curiouser and Curiouser

    The Denver Project captures the rhythms of the street.

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Curious Theatre Company is aptly named: It keeps exploring new ways to tell stories. And the production that opens tonight in previews could be the most curious yet: Bronx...

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    Mile After Mile

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Four Mile Historic Park is a twelve-acre piece of the Old West left intact in the middle of the city. And tonight you can experience its rustic grounds under the moonlight,...

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    Can We Talk?

    The latest from the Colorado Tourism Office leaves us speechless.

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Last month, the Colorado Tourism Office offered a taste of this state to New Yorkers in the form of "Colorado High Altitude Concrete," made by the distinctly un-Coloradan Danny...