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   Delayed Emergency Response

   Minutes can make the difference between life and death — but does Denver Health know how to tell time?

   By Jared Jacang Maher

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Michael Hancock got the call at 6:30 a.m.: His sister had been shot. Hancock lived less than five minutes away, and when he screeched to a halt on a quiet neighborhood street...

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   Urban Acrobatics

   Take a class at the Colorado Parkour Academy.

   By Joel Warner

   Published: June 5, 2008

   You’ve seen them bounding up walls and hurtling across rooftops in the latest action film, maybe even streaking across town. The ordinary rules of physics don’t seem...

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   Ale Watch

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: June 5, 2008

   “Our ability to drink liberally is in danger of being attacked by terrorists,” notes Drinking Liberally’s John Erhardt. If you consider global warming a...

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   Scooter City

   By Cory Casciato

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Now that $4-a-gallon gasoline has graduated from a worst-case what-if to a daily reality, scooters are looking less like an affectation for the terminally hip and more like the...

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   Got It Made

   Fancy Tiger offers a different kind of trunk show.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Tonight’s inaugural Denver Made trunk show was birthed from a desire to create an unconventional venue for how-tos, demonstrations and artwork. “We felt like there...

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   Cure by Donation

   Get a massage and donate to help fight breast cancer.

   By Jessica Centers

   Published: June 5, 2008

   I’ve never had a massage. I’ve always thought of spa services as a luxury for the rich, which I am not. I’d feel too guilty spending that much money on something...

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   Good Morning, Vietnam!

   By Erin Vanderberg

   Published: June 5, 2008

   “Life has changed over the last fifty years for Vietnamese women, gaining more rights and freedoms — but with the pressures of family duties, work and the persistent...

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   Imaginative Art

   By Juliet Wittman

   Published: June 5, 2008

   A single actor relays the entire plot of Moby-Dick using a goldfish in a bowl. A group of actors gives us Franz Kafka’s life story, cleverly interwoven with the plot of...

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   A Million in One

   Take your shot at a million dollars.

   By Amber Taufen

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Chance being the fickle thing it is, everyone could get a hole in one on a golf course at some point in life. Maybe you only get one shot at glory, but still, everyone has that...

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    Singing Dick

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The stereotypical Richard Nixon isn’t part of Nixon in China, a 1987 opera by composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman that Opera Colorado is reviving for four...

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    Bartlett Pair

    Richard Brenne and Al Bartlett discuss sustainability.

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Richard Brenne, author of the upcoming book The Truth About Everything, calls Al Bartlett a prophet of what should be common sense, but too often isn’t. Bartlett, a...

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    Kid and Play

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The joys of childhood meet experimental art — and cake will be enjoyed by all — at Cinema Jou Jou III, a fundraiser for TIE, The International Experimental Cinema...

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    Sein of the Times

    Jerry Seinfeld needs your laughter.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t have to appear in concert tonight. Thanks to ubiquitous reruns of his signature sitcom, not to mention dough from DVD sales and that bee-movie...

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    Listener Supported

    KGNU celebrates thirty years with familiar folk.

    By Erin Vanderberg

    Published: June 5, 2008

    In 1978, a small radio station in the people’s republic of Boulder was born. Inspired in part by a handbook on community radio called Sex and Broadcasting, and fostered by...

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    Teva Tastic

    By Jessica Centers

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Joel Heath founded the Teva Mountain Games seven years ago as a way to fuse athletics, art, music and mountains into one event. Today, the festival in Vail is the biggest...

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    White Riot

    Pachuco examines a 65-year-old injustice.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: June 5, 2008

    One of the darker points in the history of cultural relations in America, the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943 — an altercation between uniformed sailors and...

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    Cycle of Seasons

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Two-wheeled vehicles are so hot right now. There just seems to be something about summertime that brings out the bipedalist in all of us. And the Arvada Center for the Arts and...

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    Let's Put On a Show!

    The National Performing Arts Convention acts up.

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: June 5, 2008

    City boosters suffering performance anxiety over the upcoming Democratic National Convention should take heart in the major gathering that hits town today: the National...

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    Crown Jewel

    Concerts for Kids makes it easy to do the right thing.

    By Erin Vanderberg

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Hifalutin’ do-gooder hotelier Walter Isenberg (the Oxford et al.) and his wife, Christie, know how to raise cash. They employ a little trick called putting the...

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    Cinema Paradiso

    Infinity Park takes up the outdoor-movie banner.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: June 5, 2008

    There’s something ever so glorious about watching a movie from a lawn chair under the stars, caressed by the breeze and lit by moonshine while the little kids giggle and...