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Ultrarunning Gets Younger – and Faster
Tony Krupicka takes his sport to new extremes.
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Boys Will Be Wetboys
It was fun while it lasted — but now MTV wants to mainstream Colorado's weirdest skateboarders.
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GB Fish & Chips
If at first you don’t succeed, fry, fry again.
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Rent-a-Cop
Denver's finest protect and serve, whether they're being paid by the city or the corner bar.
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Neighborhood Flix Café & Cinema
There will be grub!
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Rush to Riot (8)
How seriously should we take Rush Limbaugh's fantasies of a disturbance in Denver?
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Hideous Houses of Highland (7)
More is not merrier for Highland homeowners who want to stop construction in their neighborhoods.
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Vonnegut (6)
Fall Into Place
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Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game (6)
Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.
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Boys Will Be Wetboys (4)
It was fun while it lasted — but now MTV wants to mainstream Colorado's weirdest skateboarders.
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Wind Song
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Apple A Day
Green is in at this Earth Day celebration.
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Big Kahane
Jeffrey Kahane joins the discussion on the NPAC.
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Buried Treasure
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Star Power
An epic science-fiction convention prepares for landing.
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Scenes from Cinco de Mayo
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DeVotchKa on NPR's All Songs Considered and Conan
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The Best Damn Crackhead Pickle Shop in Denver
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Crocs Fills the Bill
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Delegating Denver #42 of 56: Pennsylvania
11:35AM 05/05/08
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Recent Articles By Michael Roberts
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Rush to Riot
How seriously should we take Rush Limbaugh's fantasies of a disturbance in Denver?
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The Night Marchers Walk On
John Reis drops his other efforts to march to one drum.
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Andrea Ball
Beat Beat Pound
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Black Kids
Saturday, May 3, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.
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Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts I-IV
Halo Twenty Six
National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Last Step to Redemption
Drug counselor Richard Entrekin swam a little too easily in a sea of sharks.
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Village Voice
The Cro-Mag Diaries
Remembering the brutal life and times of John "Bloodclot" Joseph, New York hardcore icon.
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Miami New Times
Class Warfare
At a Florida school, kids threaten teachers, whose bosses look the other way.
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SF Weekly
Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
By John Geluardi
Andrea Leigh believes the treatments offered at A New Spirit Wellness Center & Spa, which she owns and manages, can help alleviate the minor tension and strain most of us suffer. But she also likes a challenge, which is why she's currently staging a contest to find Denver's Most Stressed-Out Person. In her words, "It's fun for me to prove how well what we're doing works."
A New Spirit's techniques revolve around float tanks — shallow pools filled with a saltwater solution that mimic some effects of zero gravity. Leigh notes that people from all walks of life have discovered the tanks' therapeutic benefits, including the winner of the spa's first search for the city's stress champ, staged a few years back. The woman's co-workers entered her in the competition, which currently calls for participants to write a 100-words-or-less personal essay describing why they're under pressure. Since then, Leigh reports that the woman has changed her life for the better. "This can really have an impact on people," she says. "It's a very powerful tool."
Given all the stresses of modern life, it had better be.
A New Spirit, at 4907 West 29th Avenue, is open today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Essays can be e-mailed to andrea.anew-spirit@gmail.com through midnight on April 14, and results will be announced on April 15 — a stress-inducing date if ever there was one. The winner will receive six months of monthly unlimited flotation sessions, as well as one massage per month during that period. To learn more, surf to www.anewspirit.com or phone 303-477-1652.
March 20-April 14, 2008
