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Five Points Jazz Festival

Five Points Jazz Festival

The 16th annual Five Points Jazz Festival promises a diverse menu of music, from New Orleans band Dinosaurchestra to headliner Jakarta, a Denver favorite led by City Park South resident Isaac Points.

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Pentathletes, Fencers Go for the Gold

Pentathletes, Fencers Go for the Gold

“The pentathlon is the only sport that was created for the Olympic games,” says Elaine Cheris, a former Olympic fencer who trains pentathletes. “It’s a crazy combination of sports that couldn’t be more different from each other.”

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Cups and Conversations Served Here

Cups and Conversations Served Here

Noting the rapid growth in Northfield, Rick Humbert and Winifred Harris set their sights on opening Intersections, a family-friendly breakfast and lunch spot filling a previously unavailable niche in the area.

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Newspapers Matter

Newspapers Matter

The “vulture capital owners” gave the Denver Post a crushing blow on March 14 when they announced that 30 people were being cut. In 2003 the Post had over 300 people. Now the staff is in the 60s.

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Parents Threatened with Jail for Their “Free Range” Philosophy

Parents Threatened with Jail for Their “Free Range” Philosophy

Parents in Stapleton do it all the time. They let their kids play in the pocket parks, walk down the street to a neighbor’s house, bike to school. The community was intentionally designed with small back yards and lots of common spaces, inviting children to roam the neighborhoods on their own.

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Storm Clouds Over East High School

Storm Clouds Over East High School

Northeast Denver residents, with many East students and alumni as neighbors, were shocked to learn that four East High School administrators and a counselor had been charged with a misdemeanor and served with a summons to appear in court. Our coverage tells the disturbing story revealed in the police investigation and explains the legal process that has occurred and that lies ahead.

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Remembering Greg Diggs

Remembering Greg Diggs

Gregory Diggs, one of Stapleton’s earliest residents, died suddenly and unexpectedly on February 24 at age 55.

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Letters to the Editor

Global warming is a gradual increase in Earth’s temperature that can and will have serious effects on our future. It occurs when pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are released into the atmosphere from things like cars and factories.

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A Special Teacher for Special Kids

A Special Teacher for Special Kids

Five days a week at 5:45am, Kelly Mitchell boards an Access-a-Ride van at her house in Superior for the ride to the Anchor Center for Blind Children. Like her fellow staff members, Mitchell is passionate about her work and devoted to helping visually impaired children. And she can relate to them uniquely, because Mitchell is blind.

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Degas at the DAM

Degas at the DAM

Degas is best known for his paintings of ballet dancers, but his palette of subjects was much broader, as was his range of artistic mediums.

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