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1. Feature

   Hope for the Colorado Rockies Springs Eternal

   A What's So Funny special report from spring training in Tucson.

   By Adam Cayton-Holland

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Matt Holliday is sick to death of being asked if he was really safe. "I get tired of hearing people talk about whether I touched the plate or not," the Colorado Rockies...

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   Urban Oasis

   By Matt Scheidler

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Craig Conner, proprietor of Pablo's on 6th, has a theory regarding the meaning of life: "Each consecutive moment represents a much smaller part of your life. If each moment...

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   Forget the Oscars

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: March 13, 2008

   The red carpet, paparazzi, an art show, funny awards, clever advertisements and really great wrap-it-up music: These are things you won't find anywhere near a typical student...

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   Cartoon Network

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Calling all otaku! Anime, manga and other Japanese pop-culture pursuits are the order of the weekend at Anime Wasabi, starting tonight and continuing through Sunday at the...

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   Howling with Laughter

   Animals get funny at the Pet Comedy Challenge.

   By Mark Dragotta

   Published: March 13, 2008

   I once had a stupid dog that almost drowned every morning trying to get at those swimming kibbles in his water bowl. He used to tilt his head, crouch down and then plunge his...

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   Get Small

   Comedy Central re-elects Lil' Bush.

   By Michael Roberts

   Published: March 13, 2008

   No matter how hard they tried, for a good seven years or so, plenty of Americans couldn't forget that George W. Bush was president of the United States. But with all the...

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   Funny Business

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: March 13, 2008

   It's St. Patrick's Day, and you're bored. You already had your fill of green beer over the weekend, when everyone else seemed to be celebrating, but now that the day of green...

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   White On

   Bob White's photography gets dark.

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Bob White got into art by accident. He started a vinyl and CD business in 1998. In the process, he taught himself graphic design, and soon he'd replaced his original concept...

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   Who Gives a Dam?

   By Erin Vanderberg

   Published: March 13, 2008

   The waters of Chile's Patagonia region are under threat from hydroelectric dam projects that would mar the pristine beauty of the earth's most beloved land's end. Tonight,...

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    The Sound of Ireland

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: March 13, 2008

    There's something unbelievably catchy about Irish music, whether you're listening to a sad ballad about a young man never to return from battle or a rowdy, rabble-rousing...

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    Classic Lines

    Tricia Hayworth reconstructs vintage clothes.

    By Aubrey Shoe

    Published: March 13, 2008

    I fell in love with vintage fashion at a young age. Growing up in the '80s (full of neon) and '90s (flannel), it was easy to see the beauty of a bias-cut '30s gown or a...

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    Feeling Blu

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Cassettes defeated eight-tracks. VHS trumped Beta. And Blu-ray recently overtook HD-DVD — which makes the timing of Disney's Magical Blu-Ray Tour mighty fortuitous....

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    Democracy in Action

    Cinemocracy brings the filmmaking to the people.

    By Jared Jacang Maher

    Published: March 13, 2008

    While there are plenty of Democrats in Hollywood, there's nothing democratic about the film industry. The silver screen begins to look more like an iron curtain when one...

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    Quilts of Isolation

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: March 13, 2008

    The isolated community of Gee's Bend is tucked away in a U-shaped curve of the Alabama River. Its inhabitants descend from slaves, many of whose relatives literally walked from...

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    Let's Get Physical

    Learn how a baseball performs at a mile above sea level.

    By Mark Schiff

    Published: March 13, 2008

    As part of the ongoing effort to build a lasting peace between the jocks and the nerds, the University of Colorado at Boulder presents the latest in its series of weekend...

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    Double Team

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Storyteller Peninnah Schram and musician Gerard Edery are the two main players in The Minstrel and the Storyteller, An Exotic Journey. "Each of them has their own proficiency,...

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    Giddy Up!

    Art for the Animals raises bucks for The Urban Farm.

    By Erin Vanderberg

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Comprising 23 acres of farmland along Sand Creek in Stapleton, the Urban Farm is many a young Denverite's first exposure to cultivation, animal husbandry and riding horses....

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    Crane Gang

    Big birds take flight at Eckert Crane Days.

    By Jonathan Shikes

    Published: March 13, 2008

    It's one of the most spectacular wildlife migrations left in our ever more industrialized world, and one of the biggest in the Continental United States. If you've never seen...

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    Eyes Caught Fire

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Eyes Caught Fire percussionist Joel Brown’s bass drum head reads, “Keep Hope Alive.” For any other band, that might come off as a cheap slogan. But from this...

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    Thinking Green

    Snowmass does St. Patrick's Day right.

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Even though I don't like beer (and especially not green beer), St. Patrick's Day is my favorite holiday. First, because I actually am Irish. Second, because green is my...