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Struggling to meet demand

The ship was supposed to come in the day after the earthquake. Because the port was destroyed, the medical supplies the ship would have delivered to Port-au-Prince were rerouted to the Bahamas. Full story

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Celebrate black history

Doesn't matter if you're black or white: Here are ways to celebrate black history this month without putting on a dashiki-pattern T-shirt and walking around with your fist high in the air. Full story

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Step up to the mic

Karaoke’s all about letting loose and having fun. You don’t have to be the next Idol; you just have to believe in the power of music, and get smashed enough to gather the courage to share in the fun. Full story

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Farewell, Air America

The feeling I had was oddly similar to what I felt when my parents told me they had put their feeble old terrier to sleep; Indifferent. And then guilty about it. That's how I felt when Air America went off the air. Full story

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The mic is open

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Cafe Nuba providing a voice

Café Nuba started 11 years ago to fill a void in Denver. It grew from the Pan African Arts Society, and it also birthed Slam Nuba, a competitive team of slam poets reputed to be one of the most political slam poetry teams in the country and a frontrunner for uncensored open microphones. Full story

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Traveling Vietnam Memorial

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The rapture is coming, but only to Kansas

An interview with satirist Rob Stennett's new novel The End is Now, it's about the rapture coming, but only to Goodland, Kansas. Full story

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Honoring Black History

The Advocate celebrates Black History Month.

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Headlines instead of handouts

You can hardly step around a street corner in Denver without running into one of the Denver VOICE newspaper vendors. They’re everywhere—holding stacks of brightly colored issues, satchels strung around their torsos, calling out for donations.

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UC Denver professor wins prestigious award

This year, the University of Colorado awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award to three UC Denver faculty members: Gillian Siverman, assistant professor of English; Andrés Lema-Hincapié, assistant professor and advisor for Spanish majors; and Stephen Hartnett, associate professor and chair of the communication department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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UC-Personality: Jeff Merkel

Jeff Merkel is an instructor in both the recording arts and physics departments at UC Denver, but before he settled down on teaching, he was in a band, worked in a chemistry lab, and ran a recording studio full-time.

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Pink Stuff: So gross it's good

For whatever reason, sometimes you need a recipe that will fake-gross-out your friends. If you want to know what that means, read on.

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Theater experiments

Don’t be afraid to walk into a random warehouse in Denver. Well, that is if the windowless garage-style building is on the corner of 22nd and Stout. Because, thanks to The LIDA Project, there’s a lot of acting going on inside.

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Modest but far from mundane

Many Denver restaurants can boast a good meal, and many do, but there are few that have the brilliant humility of The Squeaky Bean.

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Word Beat: A grammar guide to getting that 'A'

You’re in college now, so it’s time to learn the difference between your and you’re as well as all of the other silly nuances of the English language. So, for your writing betterment, here is a crash course in what not to do when it comes to grammar. 

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Grammy Schmammy

Everyone knows the Grammys are irrelevant. Right? Well, in case you didn’t, the tedious awards show proved it this Sunday in a staggeringly out-of-touch three and a half hours worth of nonsense.

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Platte River Killers

Growing up next to the Platte River must have been a hard time in the lives of the members of the Platte River Killers. At least, that’s what it sounds like. Every Stone, the group’s latest release, is a repetitive screaming mess that really gets you wanting to kill something.

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Clipse

Generally when the hip-hop duo Clipse puts out an album, the single is the only track worth listening to. However, Til The Casket Drops is a consistently satisfying listen.

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Hometown Pride: Laser Palace Tape Release

In the world of digital downloads, it’s refreshing that some people are keeping things analog and completely handmade. Enter, Laser Palace.

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Everybody is a little bit racist

You are all a lousy bunch of racists, and to imply otherwise would make you racist liars.