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Eight Arty Things to Do and See This Weekend in Denver

January gallery openings continue to go full-bore as venues wake up after the holiday season. This month is swarming with new shows on every level in Denver, but you can also welcome — and play with — a new interactive public-art sculpture in the heart of the city.
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Unite Colorado’s Plan to Snuff Out Partisan Political Bullsh*t

Although politically engaged folks seem to be at odds over just about everything these days, there's one thing on which they agree: The current system, in which Republicans and Democrats spend a lot more time arguing than getting things done, is a mess. But Unite Colorado aims to change that, at least here, by way of an ambitious plan to back independent legislators who pledge to put the people's business in front of endless bickering that accomplishes nothing.
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Why a Jury Acquitted a Sex Offender of Killing His Baby

In July 2015, Matthew Burry, a sex offender who spent more than a decade in prison, was arrested and charged with child abuse resulting in death after the passing of his four-and-a-half-month-old son, Dominic. But an Adams County jury has now found Burry not guilty of the crime after his legal team presented evidence that the child actually died as a result of meningitis that had afflicted him since birth.
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Lies, Punishment and the Case of the Pencil “Attack” at Denver’s Main Jail

The tension between the Office of the Independent Monitor and the Denver Department of Public Safety at the center of a recent special report about the in-custody death of Michael Marshall is vividly illustrated by an incident captured on jailhouse video seen here. The former considers the clip evidence that a deputy blatantly lied on a report in which he accused an inmate who wanted to issue a complaint against him of taking part in an attack with a pencil. The latter thinks it's possible the deputy innocently misperceived what happened and therefore didn't deserve punishment as harsh as the monitor believes justified.
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Corrida, Now Open in Boulder, Pays Homage to Spain and the Steer

In the fourteen months since Bryan Dayton, owner of Oak at Fourteenth, Acorn and Brider, first announced that he was planning a restaurant for the top floor of the Pearl West development in downtown Boulder, he and chef Amos Watts have been on a journey to define exactly what that...
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Here’s What Can Happen When You Mess With a Super-Smart Teen Atheist

The folks at Delta County High School, on Colorado's Western Slope, are learning what can happen when you mess with Cidney Fisk. The teen is suing the public school and a slew of other related individuals and entities in United States District Court, alleging that her identity as an atheist and criticism of activities such as allowing a Christian group to hand out Bibles on campus resulted in a wide range of discriminatory acts, including the arbitrary lowering of her marks in a student government class.
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DIY Takeout: How to Make Kung Pao Chicken at Home

There are many popular Chinese stir-fry style dishes, but Kung Pao chicken may just be the most popular. Almost every Chinese place has its own version of the dish, but most are pretty similar. Recently, I went to  Imperial Chinese Restaurant to try the Kung Pao lunch special, which comes...
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Thirty Years of Bouncing Souls

Back in the mid-1990s, there was a punk scene driven by labels such as Epitaph that was widely-ridiculed by the old guard at the time. In hindsight, that was one of the most exciting and vibrant periods of punk.
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Ambli Global

Experience, romance, theatricality: You get these in spades at Ambli. Hospitality, too, which starts with a warm tableside welcome from co-owner Pariza Mehta’s father, a longtime restaurateur who was born in Tanzania, then came to Denver via London and Dallas. But it doesn’t end with him: Servers and runners are equally eager to please, as […]
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Dave Krieger Details His Daily Camera Firing for Hedge Fund Attack

Last week, Boulder Daily Camera editorial page editor Dave Krieger was fired after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, his paper's Machiavellian hedge fund owner, that his publisher spiked. Now, he's written an unvarnished account of his pink slipping even though he knows that pulling back the curtain on the episode could hurt his chances for a new gig in journalism.