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Review: Moving Paint II Gives Ania Gola-Kumor Her Due

Ania Gola-Kumor is one of Colorado’s best abstract painters, but she is inexplicably also one of the most underappreciated. Her latest efforts are on view in Moving Paint II: Ania Gola-Kumor, a handsome and tight solo now at the Sandra Phillips Gallery.
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The Foreigner Creates Gales of Laughter — and Some Insights

The Foreigner, currently showing in the Arvada Center's Black Box Theater, is a farce. Written in 1984, it has new power in Trump's America, and shows how language can both divide and unite, while sometimes silence has even more power. And like all good farces, it's very, very funny.
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Two Denver High Schools, Two Sh*tstorms

Friday, September 22, was a rough day for Denver Public Schools. First, a number of East High School students joined assorted parents at a protest prompted by the de facto ouster of principal Andy Mendelsberg and assistant principal/athletic director Lisa Porter in regard to their handling of videos showing cheer team members being forced into splits. Then, that evening, claims about a Confederate flag at a football game between the Weld Central High School Rebels and the Manual High School Thunderbolts resulted in charges of racism and alleged in-game injuries to three Manual players that may have been related to bad blood stirred by the controversy.
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The Surprising Reason Boobies Rock! Cancer Scammer Is Going Back to Jail

Back in 2013, we told you about Boobies Rock!, which sent hot girls into bars to sell merchandise emblazoned with the company's name that supposedly raised money to fight cancer — although many if not most of the proceeds allegedly went into the pocket of the organization's founder, Adam Shryock. Over the years that followed, Shryock went to jail several times for reasons related to this and other scams, and now, he's headed back again, for failing to file a tax return in regard to his ill-gotten gains.
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Adam Lee’s Widow Launches Web Attack on Ski Area Where He Died

Late last year, as we've reported, Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee was killed while working on the Magic Carpet, a conveyor belt-type lift for beginning skiers. A report about the accident issued by the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board revealed that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the lift, which didn't stop until its mechanism crushed Lee to death, but leaves unanswered questions about why he was working beneath it for more than an hour. Now, Erika Lee, Adam's widow, has created a website that castigates the resort even as it reveals the pain she's feeling after losing her husband in such a tragic way.
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Staff at Denver Post‘s Pot-Centric Cannabist to Be Replaced by Bots

The Cannabist, the Denver Post's marijuana site, is the latest victim of downsizing at the the newspaper. According a tweet by Jake Browne, who reviewed marijuana for the section and hosted its signature video program, The Cannabist Show, the Post "has cut all editorial staff and will replace them with bots."
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Bros Don’t Care About Making Denver USA’s Worst Dating City, Host Says

Last month, The Great Love Debate, which describes itself as "a nationally touring series of live Town Hall-style forums on love, dating and relationships," declared Denver to be the worst city in America for dating. On December 13, the Debate returned to Denver for the first time since the news broke, and host Brian Howie says most bros at the sold-out Denver Improv show didn't seem ashamed of this dubious achievement. According to him, their typical reaction was "Yeah, so?"
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CBD Breath Spray Freshens More Than Mouths

Infused with 160 milligrams of hemp extract and CBD, the spray isn’t just targeted toward the dating community. H. Hemp believes it's a pocket-sized remedy that helps lessen daily stressors when you need a quick, accessible fix without any mind-altering effects.
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Steffan Tubbs: No KOA Return Despite Domestic-Violence Charge Dismissal

Steffan Tubbs will not be rehired by KOA radio, which fired the longtime Colorado Morning News host  in August after he was arrested and accused of domestic violence by telephone. This decision was made even though the charge against Tubbs was subsequently dismissed and his accuser was herself busted on November 17 for allegedly stalking him and violating a protection order that forbade her from making contact.
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Caroline Boyle’s Guilty Plea Is Her Ticket to the Cancer Faker Hall of Fame

Yesterday, August 22, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Highlands Ranch resident Caroline Zarate Boyle after she pleaded guilty to ripping off her former employer, the U.S. Postal Service, by pretending to have cancer. This admission and the punishment she'll receive as a result, outlined below, have earned her a place in the Colorado Cancer Faker Hall of Fame, which has inducted seven members in the past eight years.
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Neo-Nazi Clash at CSU: University Calls Collusion Claims “Ridiculous”

The Denver General Defense Committee, a progressive group affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies, has published a fiery account of the clash between members of a white supremacist group and Antifa protesters outside a controversial event on the Colorado State University campus earlier this month. In it, the authors explicitly state that members of the CSU Police Department stood "on the side of the neo-Nazis and fascists" during the confrontation and argue that a video shared here provides evidence to that effect by way of an officer telling a protester afterward, "If you guys need something, let us know."