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Rockabilly Model Linh England on Her New Pinup Charity

Linh England is currently in the running to win the Miss Viva Las Vegas Pin-Up Contest, part of a rockabilly celebration this April. Voting ended over the weekend, and now the Colorado native is waiting to hear the results. England has been involved in the local pinup-model world for the...
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Best Use of Weed in an Album Design

Paper gatefold CD packaging is hardly a new thing. And given the current era of weed culture in Colorado, it’s only natural that someone would use hemp rather than wood fiber to make cardboard for a CD sleeve — which is exactly what promoter Morris Beegle proposed to Kathryn Ellinger of Sleepers for Drive, the […]
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New Solitary Confinement Report Cites Colorado Reforms

A new report on the use of solitary confinement in America's prisons and jails, highly critical of the practice and challenging many common myths about who's in lockdown and why, looks closely at recent reform efforts in the Colorado prison system and concludes that many inmates can be removed from...
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Best Hair on a TV Personality — Male

Unlike those stations that make their personalities conform to rigid hairstyle standards — to the degree that all of them look as if they’re wearing identical helmets — Fox31 allows staffers to express themselves by way of their follicles, and sports reporter Raul Martinez takes full advantage. His coiffure is bracingly youthful, proudly peaking on […]
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Ten Colorado Counties With the Highest Obesity Rates

Colorado is typically listed among the least obese states in the country. But not all Colorado counties are created equal when it comes to this category. The folks at FindTheBest.com crunched the obesity numbers for counties across the country, including Colorado, using 2012 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control. The...
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Best Gallery Show — Group

The swanky new neo-modernist building that houses Michael Burnett’s Space Gallery provides the ideal setting for the kind of neo-modernist abstraction that is the venue’s mainstay. For the ambitious Natural Surroundings, Burnett invited ten artists from Colorado and elsewhere, most of whom did paintings that employed encaustic, a paint made by mixing pigments with wax, […]
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Lucas Hinch After Gunning Down His Computer: “It Was Glorious”

Colorado Springs' Lucas Hinch committed murder on Monday. He admits it. As for the victim, it's been identified as Hinch's Dell computer, which he dispatched with eight gunshots. And even though Hinch was cited in the assassination, he clearly doesn't feel bad about the slaying. The item about Hinch on...
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In Gay Rodeo, Women Can Compete With the Big Boys — and Big Bulls

When the chute opens, all 1,700 pounds of brindle bull burst out. The animal spins, rears and kicks violently, as though his hindquarters are spring-loaded: He can’t dump his passenger fast enough. And within three seconds, the rider is flying to the ground, helmet-clad head hitting hard against the dirt,...
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David Gaines, 17, Killed by Cop After Violent 12-Minute Crime Spree

At this writing, photos of seventeen-year-old Grand Junction resident David Gaines have yet to surface. However, the other images shared her offer an indication of the damage he left behind before being shot and killed by police in Grand Junction yesterday. The situation allegedly began with a fight between Gaines...
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Best Page-to-Stage Adaptation

Author Kent Haruf, author of luminous novels about life on Colorado’s eastern plains, died last fall, and this year, the Denver Center presented Benediction, dramatized by Eric Schmiedl, the third of Haruf’s novels the company has staged. Set in the fictional town of Holt, it tells the story of Dad Lewis, an old man dying […]
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Playbill: Three New Plays in Denver for the Weekend of May 8-10

This week on Denver-area stages, secrets come out of the woodwork as a dynasty of Chinese classical musicians gathers in a villa, California’s Proposition 8 trial is re-examined and local improv actors get down to come serious clowning in pirate suits. Ahoy, matey! Here are the details. Theatre Esprit Asia,...
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Kurt Cobain Is Honored in the Stunning Montage of Heck

A post-Wikipedia biographical documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck finds Brett Morgen constructing a feature-length collage of notebook entries, demo tapes, rehearsal footage, home movies, archival photos, and drawings and artwork by the late Nirvana frontman. It's an impressive, comprehensive assemblage, designed to impart not a point-by-point historical account but,...