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Joel Swanson engages in wordplay at MCA Denver

Joel Swanson: Left to Right, Top to Bottom is currently occupying the main level at MCA Denver. The smart, elegant solo features work by Swanson, a Denver artist and director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It represents a career high point...
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Petal Power

Once, when artist Kristen Hatgi Sink was photographing a friend, she was struck by the idea of putting flowers on her model’s face. But she needed a way to do it. The answer? False-eyelash glue. “Gluing flowers to people’s faces was actually pretty hard for me to do,” says Hatgi...
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Gayle Crites and Andrew Beckham. As she usually does, Tina Goodwin has paired a couple of solos at her namesake gallery, with one in the larger front space and the other in the smaller corridor in back. At first glance, Gayle Crites: The Cloth That Binds appears to be an...
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The Great American Beer Festival Week 2014 Calendar of Events

The Great American Beer Festival will welcome nearly 50,000 people to the Colorado Convention Center October 2 through October 4, along with an astounding 3,500 beers from 726 breweries, making it the biggest and best sudstravaganza in the world. Tickets sold out months ago (although you can find them online...
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Mo’Print presses on with Printmakers 4 at Niza Knoll Gallery

The Month of Printmaking, aka Mo'Print 2014, continues this weekend with a variety of events, including tonight's opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at Niza Knoll Gallery for Printmakers 4. The exhibit features works representing the diversity of printmaking techniques -- from woodcut and monoprint to intaglio and even...
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VSA Colorado’s Artworks puts kids to work on commercial commissions

VSA Colorado /Access Gallery is bringing something very special indeed to Santa Fe Drive this month. From 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, February 21, the gallery will open a show featuring original pieces by youth with disabilities, created through the Artworks Corporate Art Venture, a program benefiting kids who...
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Dear Stoner: Who has access to patient information?

Dear Stoner: What's up with this German study claiming that two people have died from marijuana? What's the call here?Def J. Dear Def J.: That study is based on some pretty circumstantial evidence: Researchers cite a couple of reports about two men in their twenties whose blood pressure increased slightly...
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Critical Focus: Ian Fisher. This show, located in the informal Whole Room at MCA Denver, is made up of a group of mostly monumental paintings of the sky. It's the type of thing that has become the artist's signature. Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the...
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Under the Gunn recap: Pompeii team challenge

Last week we celebrated as Team Mondo, with Denver designer Mondo Guerroa as mentor, won its third challenge with Asha's glam, grunge-winning design for Disney superstar Zendaya. Meanwhile, the remaining members of Team Nick were questioning his mentoring skills after watching Isabelle getting thrown under the bus and send home...
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Denver duplex explosion just the latest hash-oil disaster in Colorado

There was a whole lot of shaking going on in northwest Denver last Sunday, when an attempt to make hash oil exploded in a rental duplex in the 2900 block of Julian Street. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey formally charged 40-year-old Jeff Garbarek, 39-year-old Steve Donnel and and 43-year-old Scott...
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How Bob Marley was sold to the suburbs

At the time of his death, in May 1981, Bob Marley was 36 years old, reggae's biggest star, and the father of at least eleven children. He was not, however, a big seller. For Dave Robinson, this presented an opportunity. Two years after Marley's passing, Chris Blackwell, the founder of...