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		<title>Camp Christmas Expands Across Stanley Marketplace for 2025 Return</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Dinos Alive Brings Prehistoric Fun and a Bit of Science to Denver</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:53:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Gen Z Creators Dig Into How Art Survives in How to Starve an Artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/gen-z-creators-on-how-colorado-art-survives-in-how-to-starve-an-artist-40800933/">Gen Z Creators Dig Into How Art Survives in &lt;i&gt;How to Starve an Artist&lt;/i&gt;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>A Clown Ballet Cabaret Brings Whimsical Dancing Clowns to Aurora</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:45:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/a-clown-ballet-cabaret-brings-dancing-clowns-to-aurora-40795215/">&lt;i&gt;A Clown Ballet Cabaret&lt;/i&gt; Brings Whimsical Dancing Clowns to Aurora</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>Brooke Shields Calls Out Casa Bonita and South Park Creators Over Treatment of Entertainment Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:23:30 -0600</pubDate>
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<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/brooke-shields-calls-out-casa-bonita-and-south-park-creators-over-treatment-of-entertainment-workers-40795760/">Brooke Shields Calls Out Casa Bonita and &lt;i&gt;South Park&lt;/i&gt; Creators Over Treatment of Entertainment Workers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>Ready to Go Public? Read Your Most Personal Unsent Messages on Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/denver-event-asks-you-to-read-your-most-personal-unsent-messages-on-stage-40792461/">Ready to Go Public? Read Your Most Personal Unsent Messages on Stage</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Catamounts Premiere A Town Called Harris, a Ghostly Comic Romp in a Historic Schoolhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/A-Town-Called-Harris_Shannon-Altner-Gabriel-Hannah-Smothers-Zeah-Loren_Photo-by-Michael-Ensminger-e1761067419401.jpg" alt="A woman holds a lanterns as two people hold flashlights around them." /><p>“<i>A Town Called Harris</i> is like <i>Noises Off</i> or <i>The Play That Goes Wrong</i>, but immersive," says the show's playwright, Jessica Austgen.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/a-town-called-harris-play-about-westminster-history-40795078/">The Catamounts Premiere &lt;i&gt;A Town Called Harris&lt;/i&gt;, a Ghostly Comic Romp in a Historic Schoolhouse</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>John Mulaney Is Coming to Red Rocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:31:54 -0600</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/unnamed-6.jpg" alt="John Mulaney against a brick wall with blue letters reading &quot;John Mulaney Mister Whatever&quot;" /><p>Mulaney will make history as the first comedian ever to headline the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago, but first he's coming to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. </p>
<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/john-mulaney-is-coming-to-denver-red-rocks-40795111/">John Mulaney Is Coming to Red Rocks</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>Buntport Theater Is Buying Its Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:22:26 -0600</pubDate>
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<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/buntport-theater-denver-buying-and-expanding-its-building-40791130/">Buntport Theater Is Buying Its Building</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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		<title>How Conspiracy Circus is Keeping Colorado Sideshow Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/IMG_1448.jpeg" alt="Performs stand onstage." /><p>Denver's Conspiracy Circus celebrates 44 shows of sideshow spectacle at the Learned Lemur on East Colfax on October 11.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com/arts-culture/how-conspiracy-circus-is-keeping-colorado-sideshow-alive-40788748/">How Conspiracy Circus is Keeping Colorado Sideshow Alive</a> appeared first on <a href="https://den-experimental.voicemediagroup.com">Denver Westword</a>.</p>
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