Arts & Culture

And now for something completely different

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Unlike the 20-something I overheard on Pearl Street the other day exclaiming to her friends that she was “literally shitting bricks” as she awaited a call or text from some unnamed hottie she met at a recent party/rave/ bash/hoedown/Burning Man, I know the ...

Gears of War 3 ends trilogy with great story, action

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It’s been about three years since Gears of War 2...

Transforming oneself… and the world

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Until a decade ago, Rich Forer was a fervent supporter of Israel. Raised in a reformed synagogue in New Jersey with orthodox family living...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 says this is World War...

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The drama surrounding Modern Warfare development studio Infinity...

Georgia O’Keeffe at the Denver Art Museum: Far from flowers

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On a wintry afternoon in New York state, far from her beloved New Mexico and its ochre, umber and rust palette, the color and line that had drawn her in and kept her coming back, Georgia O’Keeffe sat painting the piece of that landscape she could bring with her when ...

GROW

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Secret Garden Spring Opening and Mother’s Day Extravaganza...

A data-driven machine

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Art has an uncanny ability to cut clear through to who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed. That we’ve become so mired in technology as to make the relationship between humans and their data impossible to separate is the message poignantly posted on the ...

Mafia II: Great story, but limited gameplay

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The original Mafia game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, was a story that took place in the 1930s, when the bootlegging of alcohol ruled the streets. In Mafia II, we move up to the 1940s in the midst of World War II and the mob still looking for ways to make money ...

Something doesn’t add up

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With a little bastardization, Einstein’s most famous equation, E=mc2, sums up the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company’s latest, Smart People, with...

Same language, new story

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Among the anachronisms likely to linger in former Communist-bloc countries, where borders were closed and travel limited for half a century, one might not expect to find figurative painting. But for a handful of rising artists from a generation who have forgotten ...

A&E at CWA

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After this many years covering it, there’s not a lot of new things BW can say about the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs in a global sense. Since it was founded in 1948, it’s kept on keeping on with its half-spontaneous intellectual...

A hundred pounds lighter

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Everytime 27-year-old Reydesel Salvidrez-Rodriguez shares his story, he’s filled with a sense of relief. “No more secrets, no more lies,” says Salvidrez-Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant...