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1. Feature

   The Good, The Bad & The Mad

   What happens to the mentally ill in the justice system is just crazy.

   By Alan Prendergast

   Published: May 29, 2008

   On a bitter winter morning four years ago, Heather Gooch stood in her apartment on South Bannock Street and listened to the awful thumping. The noise was coming from the floor...

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   Thrones

   By Tom Murphy

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Though Joe Preston is better known for his tenures in the Melvins, Earth and High on Fire, his most musically interesting venture is perhaps his solo project, Thrones. With...

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   Seeing Red

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 29, 2008

   The Red Balloon was the art-house E.T. of 1956. Flight of the Red Balloon is something far more baffling — a literal-minded movie with an amiably free-floating metaphor....

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   Traveling Zoo

   A Night With the Zoo is entrepreneurial spirit at its best.

   By Susan Froyd

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Suppose you, living in Denver, had the opportunity to put on a play, a really good play — not here, but in the picturesque and remote town of Baltimore, West County Cork,...

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   Murphy's Law

   Lauri Lynnxe Murphy returns with Unnatural.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Witness a surreal, layered landscape and alien hybrid animal forms at Unnatural, an exhibition of the works of Lauri Lynnxe Murphy opening tonight at Plus Gallery, 2350...

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   They Called It Murder

   Find out whodunit on a Broadway bar crawl.

   By Aubrey Shoe

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Sleuths, grab your magnifying glass and a beer and get ready to solve Denver’s latest murder mystery. At today’s Murder on Broadway: Mystery & Scavenger Hunt, you can...

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   Toot Your Own Horndribble

   The cuddly creatures return for a new show at the Thin Man.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: May 29, 2008

   The Horndribbles are the cutest cryptozoological creations you’ll ever see. Looking like the cuddly, mutant offspring of a sock monkey and Cthulu, these monsters are a...

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   Mile With Style

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Everybody can run a mile. The goal for the inaugural Mile High Mile is that participants will actually run -- as fast as they can. No jogging, no pacing yourself, no dogs or...

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   Seven-Day Renaissance

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Even with the Judeo-Christian precedent of Creation in seven days, isn’t it arrogant to expect to “solve many of the world’s problems” in the same time...

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    Dance Dance Revolution

    Stand Up and DANCE! takes body language to a new level.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 29, 2008

    “I’m really fascinated with body language and a basic level of movement,” explains Chris Harris, the artistic director and choreographer for Louder Than Words...

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    In Like Lyons

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Leave it to a town like Lyons to come up with the Lyons Outdoor Games, a multi-sport event that just keeps getting bigger and better each year. “This year, the bike events...

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    Picture Show

    African Americans of Denver brings black history to life.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 29, 2008

    From early settlements along the banks of Cherry Creek to present-day enclaves, Denver’s African-American community has grown right alongside the Mile High City, sharing...

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    The Zine Scene

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: May 29, 2008

    I remember piecing together a “newspaper” of family goings-on to distribute to my parents and my brother when I was about nine years old. Maybe it was just the...

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    A Live One

    Lincoln Hall’s death on Mount Everest was greatly exaggerated.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 29, 2008

    “There are mountains you can climb that are basically just snowy walks, and they can be fine,” concedes Australian climber Lincoln Hall. “But when you get into...

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    Erykah Badu

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 29, 2008

    In today’s digital age, albums, as opposed to singles, are seen as veritable anachronisms in many quarters. But Erykah Badu isn’t going to give up on the format...

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    Jamie Lidell

    By Eyrc Eyl

    Published: May 29, 2008

    In these days of brand-conscious music marketing, it’s no mean feat for an artist to take a left turn and completely reinvent himself. Jamie Lidell, in one of the oddest...

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    Colorado Connection

    A powerhouse of a woman speaks for Unique Lives.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Before being elected the first female president of Liberia, or serving as a World Bank economist, or getting exiled from her home country, or spending time in prison, or having...

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    Blocks Party

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Colfax Avenue may be the longest main street in the world, but the most important stretch today is just a couple of miles long, from east of the State Capitol to Colorado...

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    Iron Wills

    The Western Cast Iron Art Conference takes over the town.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: May 29, 2008

    There is no fair description of what goes on at an iron pour. Sure, there are flames and sparks and glowing molten metal, seen through an aura of smoldering heat and acrid...

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    Quaking Aspen

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 29, 2008

    The cover of Dizzying Heights, “the Aspen novel” by Denver attorney/author Bruce Ducker, shows a lovely chocolate cake — an apt illustration, because this book...