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Best of the Fest

"You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy our festival," says Ely Hemnes, coordinator of the eighteenth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival, which opens tonight in the Elaine Wolf Theatre at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center, 350 South Dahlia Street. Curated over the course of a year, this multi-day...
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Hold Your Horses

Celebrate the Year of the Horse for two hours today, at the 2014 Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration, which has had “hundreds of volunteers working year-round,” according to Huiliang Liu, president of the Chinese American Foundation of Colorado and the Denver Chinese School. But they had a lot to accomplish:...
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Melinda Laz shows that those who teach art can also create it

You can find art all over town -- not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. McMean Elementary School art teacher Melinda Laz is breaking back into the...
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Local filmmakers unleash zombie doc Doc of the Dead at SXSW

The past ten years have made it apparent that there is no more room in hell, because everywhere you look, the dead are walking the earth. Zombies are a genuine pop-cultural phenomenon, starring in cable TV's most popular show, sitting at the center of tentpole film franchises and appearing in...
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The best EDM shows in Denver in December

DECADENCE NYE at COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER | 12/30-12/31 Just to tease a few of the artists: Bassnectar, Beats Antique, Keys and Krates, Tiesto, Dada Life, Pretty Lights, Odesza, Above & Beyond, Paul Basic and 12th Planet. Need we say more? Decadence landed in Denver as a result of Triad Dragons'...
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Endless Love Earns Its Title the Bad Way

The endless love in question unfolds in that universe where shy, bookish teenage girls are always catalog-model beautiful, not a pimple in sight or a pound overweight, not a garment from Hot Topic darkening their closets. The movie tells us that 17-year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) is “awkward” and has...
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Officer-involved shootings up in monitor’s report on Denver law enforcers

Earlier today, we highlighted one section from the Office of the Independent Monitor's annual report -- a recommendation for discipline against an officer who bloodied a handcuffed Patricia Lucero that wasn't accepted by the Manager of Safety's Office. But there's plenty of other interesting information in the seventy-page document, including...
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Skillful editing brings clarity to The Square

Two words uttered in the dark — "What happened?" — open The Square, Jehane Noujaim's powerful, exacting depiction of Egypt's struggle for meaningful change. Several documentaries on the country's 2011 uprising, including Uprising and Tahrir: Liberation Square, rushed to answer that question, and suffered from a certain shortsightedness as a...
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The 10 best punk and DIY shows in Denver this March

Sat | Propagandhi at Summit Music Hall | 3/8/14 In an era where many punk bands form and release their first album less than a year after starting, Propagandhi's development seems remarkably long. Formed in 1986, playing its first live shows in 1989, the band released its early demos a...
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Dear Stoner: What’s the safest way to indulge around babies?

Dear Stoner: I know the Stoner is on paternity leave. So I wonder, as a parent of a newborn, what precautions do you take when smoking marijuana?Baby Buds Dear Sugar Babe: This is Hazel Kush, guest Stoner — and also a new mom. There isn't a whole lot of scientific...