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1. Feature

   Ray Ruybal Made His Mark

   The longtime head of Denver's graffiti unit fought to clean up the city -- until he felt he was beating his head against the wall.

   By Jared Jacang Maher

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Ray Ruybal can picture the tagger's face: shallow eyes, cocky sneer, mouth that would run almost as quickly as his legs. He refers to the tagger as a "kid," but the guy was 35...

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   Patriot Bowl

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Whether or not you think war is the answer, most people would agree that those individuals who join the military -- many in search of a better education and future for...

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   Cast Off in City Park

   Don your best sea-salt outfit and wave goodbye to dry land.

   By Joel Warner

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Denver’s a pretty nifty place, full of killer views and happy people and slightly-lower-than-the-national-average gas prices, but it’s missing one thing: nautical...

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   Sweet Belief

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: July 17, 2008

   What do you believe about yourself? Jesse Jackson’s call-and-response poem “I Am — Somebody” has inspired the folks at Fresh City Life to ask Denverites...

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   Walden Revisited

   A graphic novel version of Thoreau’s classic doesn’t dumb it down.

   By Tom Murphy

   Published: July 17, 2008

   When Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” he knew those words spoke a truth about the human condition across the ages....

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   Hotel Stories

   Watch The Hot L Baltimore in the Barth lobby.

   By James Anthofer

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Tonight’s premiere of The Hot L Baltimore was timed perfectly. “We’re all homeless now with the housing crisis,” says director Terry Dodd. “This is...

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   Newton's Numbers

   Eleven short plays about Wayne Newton make up 10,000 Wayniacs.

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: July 17, 2008

   No one embodies the glitz, the glamour or the glib insanity of Las Vegas like Wayne Newton. “I just think, whether you like him or not, he’s a cultural icon,”...

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   Round Table

   Activism meets art meets food at the Welcome Table.

   By James Anthofer

   Published: July 17, 2008

   This weekend’s Welcome Table symposium at the Iliff School of Theology should prove that activism can lead to delicious food and honest creative expression just as easily...

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   Art In Bloom

   Eric Matelski brings the gallery outside.

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: July 17, 2008

   As an artist, Eric Matelski is always looking for new ways to promote his work. After attending classes through Denver Urban Gardens, he came up with the idea to merge two of...

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    The Hollyfelds

    By Eryc Eyl

    Published: July 17, 2008

    “Eating before practice helps a lot.” With a mouthful of homemade pizza, drummer Sam Spitzer is explaining the secret of the Hollyfelds’ camaraderie. Before...

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    Art Attack

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: July 17, 2008

    One of the outstanding educational programs at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200, www.arvadacenter.org) is in the field of...

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    Hot Shots

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Some rock photographers have it, others don’t, but Lynn Goldsmith is the pinnacle to which they all should aspire. A photographer since childhood and, perhaps more...

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    Garden of Eatin'

    Fresh, local food lines the Longmont Museum’s walls.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 17, 2008

    We’re all embracing it these days, yet there’s more to the local food movement than meets the eye. After all, it’s nice to know that your food has a shortened...

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    Character Study

    William McKeen signs his latest biography of a legend.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Few writers reach the notoriety of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. He was a character and a legend, the founder of gonzo journalism and a living, breathing contradiction — a...

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    Dream Weavers

    TACtile Textile Arts Center celebrates with an open house.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Although textile maven Dianne Denholm’s TACtile Textile Arts Center has been developing for several months, she’s just now beginning to truly flesh out the center as...

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    From Dusk Till Dawn

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Thanks to eighteenth-century astronomer Charles Messier, amateur stargazing can be a marathon experience. Over the course of his life, Messier catalogued 110 deep-sky objects...

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    Perfect Strangers

    We’ll Be Seeing You features portraits of unlikely subjects.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Beginning in June, Colorado artist Jack Balas took up residence in the Project Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, at the front end of a long string of artistic...

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    Soft Wear

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: July 17, 2008

    If you’ve ever felt like a stranger in a strange land, you’ll completely grok Frolics and Frippery, a new exhibit of “intimate objects for the body” created...

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    Better than Grease

    By Crow Jonah Norlander

    Published: July 17, 2008

    You would’ve had to have made a very conscientious, hermetic effort for the past few years in order to avoid having any notion of the popularity of a particular...

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    Mastodon

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Metal bands that transition from the underground to the overground can suffer painful backlashes. Thus far, though, Mastodon – part of a massive Rockstar Energy Mayhem...