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Going, Going, Gone
Will the first new American bird discovered in a hundred years be the next to go extinct?
By Adam Cayton-Holland
Published: May 22, 2008
Jessica Young can remember the exact moment when politics infiltrated what was until then her exclusively biological viewpoint regarding the Gunnison sage grouse. "I was out...
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Bygone Days
Crossroads Theater resurrects the Rossonian.
By Mark Dragotta
Published: May 22, 2008
Listen closely on the corner of 27th and Welton in Five Points: With a little imagination and the right kind of crazy, you might hear the ghostly improvisation of jazz legends...
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Pop Symphony
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra covers Abbey Road.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 22, 2008
When the Beatles album Abbey Road was released on CD in 1987, it spent 92 weeks on the U.K. Top 75 list. Quite a feat for an album more than sixteen years old at the time; it...
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The Thief of Always
By Cory Casciato
Published: May 22, 2008
Hold on to your hat — and your purse, wallet, keys and jewelry — because Gregory Wilson's Thief: A Criminal Act will leave you awed and possibly missing a few...
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Stitches in Time
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 22, 2008
Dawn Williams Boyd is one powerhouse of an artist. Even articulate PlatteForum director Judy Anderson, whose enthusiasm for the gallery's changing menu of resident artists...
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Vibrant Vinyasa
Enhance your vitality and imbibe some vino in Cherry Creek.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 22, 2008
Everyone's favorite wine-and-yoga night, Vino and Vinyasa, returns tonight to lululemon athletica, 3000 East Third Avenue. "It's one of the best-received events that we do...
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Video Virtuosos
Experimental moving images descend upon Plus Gallery.
By Cory Casciato
Published: May 22, 2008
Even the most banal moving images have a powerful, almost irresistible pull on the human eye. When artists focus on this quality, the results can be mesmerizing. Experience it...
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Winsome Losers
A documentary captures the creation of a genre.
By Jared Jacang Maher
Published: May 22, 2008
The term "urban contemporary art" has gone from vague title to official category over the past five years. But when Aaron Rose first opened Alleged Gallery in New York City in...
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Prom Night
The Bad Girls of Bad Art for Bad People get psychedelic.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 22, 2008
About two years ago, Bad Art for Bad People put together a show in Tampa, Florida. "We didn't really have a theme for it," Bad Art's Bob White remembers, "and at the last...
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Golf Going Green
FORE! The Planet marries mini-golf and environmentalism.
By Amber Taufen
Published: May 22, 2008
I come from a family of avid golfers who could happily sit down and discuss courses, pars, irons and woods all day long. Me, I never got into golf. I like taking the walk or...
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Carry On
Baggage takes on higher meaning at a new art show.
By Susan Froyd
Published: May 22, 2008
As a nomadic single mother who worked in theater when she could, Breckenridge actor Murphy Funkhouser knows a thing or two about baggage: She's been on the road, lived out of a...
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Classic Amusement
Celebrate a century of fun at Lakeside Amusement Park.
By Aubrey Shoe
Published: May 22, 2008
A lot can change in 100 years, but the greatest thing about Lakeside Amusement Park is how much everything has stayed the same. You can still take a spin around the lake in...
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Feel-Good Fun
By Mark Dragotta
Published: May 22, 2008
Ever wanted to donate to one of those really feel-good causes — but you spent all your money at the bar instead? Is rafting higher on your priorities list than helping...
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Make Tracks
The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad makes it dome.
By Patricia Calhoun
Published: May 22, 2008
All aboard for the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, dubbed the "scenic line of the world" in the 1870s, about eighty years before the route took a fifty-year hiatus. But the line...
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Jerk-Off at the Gang Bang
Clean, wholesome fun with the Cycle Jerks.
By Erin Vanderberg
Published: May 22, 2008
"This isn't your spandex-clad, Ride the Rockies kind of event," says Jennifer Nordhem of the Cycle Jerks' Memorial Day Weekend double blowouts, Foreplay and Gang Bang. The...
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Greatest Hits
Take a chance on MAMMA MIA!
By Erin Vanderberg
Published: May 22, 2008
Given the opportunity to see a Broadway musical inspired by ABBA's hits, you may ask yourself, "Should I Laugh or Should I Cry?" But Denver said, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme More!,"...
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Up Chuck
Author Chuck Palahniuk looks for the comedy and tragedy in pornography.
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 22, 2008
To write Snuff, a book about a porn queen at the center of a record-setting gang bang, novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who's in town tonight, had to immerse himself in the medium, so...
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O'Day in the Life
Discover jazz singer Anita O'Day in an entertaining documentary.
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 22, 2008
Near the beginning of Anita O'Day: The Life of a Music Legend, a 2007 documentary that begins its local run today, then-Today host Bryant Gumbel is heard interviewing the...
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Missy Higgins
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 22, 2008
Although singer-songwriter Missy Higgins is a star in her native Australia, she’s little known in these United States. So prior to the U.S. release of On a Clear Night, a...
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Danny Tenaglia
By Cory Casciato
Published: May 22, 2008
Danny Tenaglia is the ultimate DJ, the Platonic DJ form of which other DJs are but pale shadows. His roots can be traced back all the way to the legendary Paradise Garage in...
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