September 29, 2011
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High heels streak through Denver 7
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Metro sports score trifecta
Metro senior outside hitter Bri Morley blocks a ball against Black Hills State College Sept. 26 at the Auraria Events Center. Metro swept the series 3-0. Photo by Steve Anderson • sande104@mscd.edu
Metro senior midfielder Scott Crawford jumps for the ball in a game against the Colorado School of Mines Sept. 25 at Auraria Field. Metro won 2-1 in overtime. Photo by Rachel Fuenzalida • rfuenzal@mscd.edu
Hayley Marsh kicks the ball downfield in a game against Regis Sept. 21 Regis University. Photo by Carla Ferreira • cferreir@mscd.edu
Dominant play has placed Men’s and Women’s Soccer, and Women’s Volleyball teams into the top 25 of their respective polls this week.
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Taking on debt for new fields Development to begin on newly-acquired land next year Wesley Reyna wreyna1@mscd.edu
the campus’ electrical utilities, Metro will acquire CCD’s 8 percent and UCD’s 17 percent stake of the fields, bringing Metro’s ownership to 50 percent. The Auraria Higher Education Center financed the other 50 percent. According to a memorandum from the Sept. 8 meeting of Metro’s Board of Trustees, the utilities project is expected to cost $3 million. In exchange for financing the utilities project upfront, Metro will benefit from the
Metro sports teams will soon have a new home, and the proposed fields are set to change the shape of Auraria’s footprint when development begins next year. The 13.54-acre plot for the athletic fields was purchased for $16.5 million in 2008, and is located south of Colfax Avenue near Rio Court. As part of a deal to fund upgrades to
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proposed athletic fields. As the memorandum explains: “Metro State gets first priority use of the land. Additionally, Metro State has all naming rights to facilities developed and constructed by Metro State on the Land. Metro State will also charge for use of the Land by the other parties.” “The college is really excited for it to begin– it’s a great way to better highlight our athletic programs, it gives us presence,” said Cathy Lucas, Associate Vice President for Communications and Advancement at Metro. “We have our Student Success Center and the hotel on the Auraria parkway but it also gives us presence on these athletic fields over on Colfax so it could really expand the Metro State brand.” The proposed athletic fields would feature tennis courts to replace those torn down when construction began on the Hospitality Learning Center along Speer Boulevard and Auraria Parkway, as well as two soccer fields and a baseball field. Students could be playing tennis on the proposed fields as early as next year. “The only timeline I know is we really want to try and get the tennis courts done by the beginning of next fall semester, so by fall of 2012,” said Joan McDermott, Director of Athletics for Metro. Other sports would be moved over to the new fields shortly thereafter. “It’s gonna be phased in, the first phase is tennis, the second phase would be
baseball and the third phase I guess would be the soccer/recreation field,” McDermott said. Facilities for the land are still in the developmental stage and will be financed in addition to the cost of the land. “Metro State is going to take the lead on the development of it, and I know they are moving fairly aggressively but obviously it takes quite a bit of planning to make sure they can maximize the space,” said Barbara Weiske, AHEC Executive Vice President for Administration/CEO. In addition to providing space for Metro’s varsity sports, club and core sports like lacrosse and football will be able to use the fields as well. “It will be a huge impact because our core club sports have no place to practice on campus,” McDermott said. “They are off renting fields all over the place. So this will be really a huge benefit for them.” The land deal was originally proposed for all three of the major institutions on campus, but the schools came together to see how they could best continue the development of Auraria. “I think the whole project, the collaboration on this from the three institutions really was very successful and it’s what made it happen,” Weiske said. “They all had the vision to see what would be best for the campus and how to move things to the future.”
SGA raises parking ticket fee issue Brad Roudebush wroudebu@mscd.edu On Sept. 16, Metro Student Government Assembly Sens. Jeffery Washington and Paul Benevides proposed a resolution to the senate which recommends that Auraria Higher Education Center caps parkingwithout-paying citations in campus lots at $20. The SGA hopes to address complaints from students by reducing fees. According to the resolution, setting a cap would benefit students affected by increases in parking fees but would not have a significant effect financially on the AHEC bond fee. On Aug. 13, AHEC raised the price of “failure to pay” parking fines by $5. Not paying the posted lot rate currently costs students $25. “Right now there are automatic fines,” said Dave Berry, Interim Manager of Parking and Transportation. “Students are able to appeal the fines to the Parking and Transportation Center, but after 30 days, the
fine doubles.” With fines coming to more than five times the parking rates of most lots, a malfunctioning credit card machine or late arrival could be expensive. Washington’s proposed solution would allow students 72 hours to pay the original fine. If left unpaid, it would cost students no more than the cap. “If we can get that for our students, it’s a win,” Washington said. SGA Parliamentarian Reid Palmer also agreed with the resolution. “I don’t think AHEC should operate like a private company, because they work on a campus full of not-for-profit institutions,” Palmer said. “Making sure they are not able to generate an endless supply of money off somebody for a parking fee makes them behave less like a private company and more like a not-for-profit like every other institution on this campus.” “They won’t be spending additional costs on parking tickets. It’s enough that we have $4.50 or $5.50 [for parking]—even though [AHEC] aren’t nickel-and-diming
An AHEC parking and transportation employee assists people in gaining access to lot R. Metro SGA hopes to address student complaints by reducing “failure to pay” parking citation fees. Photo by Thomas Stipe • bstipe@mscd.edu. us, it feels like they are.” The SGA unanimously approved the
resolution, and talks have begun with AHEC.
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Metro fliers no longer running on fumes Aviation program fills its tanks with $25,000 in funding Heather Carnes hcarnes@mscd.edu
Flight team members Shaun Lee, left, Angie Pollard, center, and Josh Falgoust at the 2010 NIFA Regional Competition. Metro’s precision flight team received $25,000 from the academic affairs divisions. Photo courtesy of Joshua Falgoust currently a one-time deal. The chance of it occurring again depends on the state of the economy, leaving no room for promises at the moment. “Out of all of the 81 schools that participate in NIFA [the National Intercollegiate Flight Team],” said team member Emily Applegate, “Metro was one of three that didn’t get funding.” The new funds might be due to the recent success of the flight team. “The flight team recently won the Loening Trophy which established us as the most
outstanding collegiate program overall,” Forrest said. The Loening Trophy is the most prestigious of collegiate aviation awards and the hardest to win. The team agrees that this is the sole reason why they’ve finally received funding and a stronger recognition from the school. The competition the team participates in is SAFECON (Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference), which will be hosted by Colorado Northwestern Community College in Rangely this fall.
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For roughly 40 years Metro fliers have seen practically little or no funding. That all changed Sept. 19, when the Aviation and Aerospace Science Department received $25,000 from Metro’s Academic Affairs division, which is charged with helping improve all departments on campus, according to its website. This is the first significant amount of funding the program has seen from the school since it began. The program was created about four or five years after the school’s opening in 1966. The department receives a stipend that ranges from $3,000 to $5,000 a year from the School of Professional Studies, said Dr. Jeffrey Forrest, professor and chair of the aviation and aerospace program. “But that’s nothing,” said Forrest. “Most of the other 60 or so aviation flight team collegiate programs will be funded with hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to support aircraft in training.” Forrest said he believes that due to the current economy, this boost of funding from the school highlights the importance of the program to the college. “We’ve heard rumors that the 25 [thousand] will be a consistent annual thing,” said Anthony DeFranco, a flight team member. According to Forrest, the funding is
“May is nationals, regionals is in October,” said Zach Pegg, alumnus and team coach. “If we place in the top three in regionals then we go to nationals. So we’re focusing on that right now.” The goal of the team is to place first in this coming year’s nationals. “Overall first place is what we really work for,” Forrest said. “We also work for top pilot and first in safety. There are lots of categories, but pilot and safety are two really big areas that the students try to win.” Although the unexpected funding is very exciting for the team, there is still a large need for more if the team wishes to reach nationals. “I’d say we need a good fifty [thousand] to seventy [thousand] per year to compete,” said team captain Shaun Lee. The team is currently working on multiple proposals, which they will send out to local companies in hopes of possible funding. According to Lee, collegiate teams that get funding have the ability to practice their flying about five to six times a week. Due to Metro’s previous lack of funding, the Precision Flight Team has typically practiced once a week. “We’re trying to use this as a starting point,” Lee said. “We built ourselves to the point where we can somewhat compete at nationals and now we want to start competing for the top team in the nation.”
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Women hardly “empowered” in “Jiggle-TV” lineup As part of a plan to save $3 trillion over the next decade, President Barack Obama last week challenged Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a $447 billion bill designed to give middle-class Americans a tax break and to create new jobs while saving old ones. But since Obama’s plan called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes – some aimed at millionaires – the Republican response suggested that the President should have carnal relations with himself. The GOP was also saying the same to the American middle class, because tax breaks for anyone but the rich aren’t in the GOP playbook. Worse, creating new jobs for Americans might improve the economy with the bleak prospect of making Obama look good for a change. Fuhgeddaboudit. Republican leaders screamed “class warfare,” as if proletarian masses were going to attack, with torches and pikes, the gated communities guarding hedge fund managers. Obama’s plan ran on page one of the Sept. 20 issue of the Denver Post in a laudable show of priorities where, the day before, the Broncos and TV’s Emmy awards commanded the first two pages. Which brings us to the cultural bellwether of our time: TV. Seen some of the new shows? In uncertain times, TV geniuses have decided that what audiences need is a return to a lesstroubled, less-complex and happier time. Like the pre-feminist early 1960s, when civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protests, along with campus uprisings and the “counterculture,” were also a few years away. TV nostalgia for the early 1960s fea-
tured advertising men in the more-cerebralthan-most “Mad Men” series. Building on its appeal, what’s being presented now is an alleged golden age when men were men and women were playthings. Women as toys took different forms – as sexy secretaries (“Mad Men”) or – in this season’s throwback dramas – as also-sexy airline hostesses (ABC’s “Pan Am”) or cotton-tailed fantasies in NBC’s “The Playboy Club”. Television critics have dubbed the genre “jiggle TV,” for the jiggling breasts seen in the 1970s “Charlie’s Angels” series. This season, ABC offers an updated version that critics agree is inferior to the original. The premise behind “The Playboy Club” seems silly today, when you can see more cleavage while walking across campus in warmer weather than in the most risqué bunny outfits. No matter. That era is safely beyond the recall of the 18-to-39 demographic darlings that TV advertisers aim for. Some of us can recall that golden age, which wasn’t always golden. As a young man writing for a business magazine in a spiff y office on Manhattan’s East Side, I caught that era’s tail end, so to speak. Everybody smoked their asses off. Advertising salesmen and management types were borderline alcoholics; sometimes not even borderline. The editor-in-chief was sleeping with his secretary who, as I recall, had great legs. Food was barely touched at lunches that sometimes ran till 3 p.m. Guys would stagger back to the office to line up an expense-account lunch for tomorrow before fleeing to catch the 5:15 at Grand Central to Westchester. Compared with today’s age of
One day, two executions. In Georgia, Troy Davis was executed for the 1991 murder of an off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis’s execution drew international criticism due to the lack of physical evidence and several eyewitnesses recanting their testimony. Liberals and conservatives both came to the support of Davis, all for naught. In Texas, Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed for the 1998 murder of James Byrd. Brewer’s execution drew little attention. No one, save the victim’s son, asked for a stay of execution for the man who helped chain his late father to a truck and drag him three miles all because Byrd was black.
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J. SEBASTIAN SINISI sinisi2@msn.com “productivity” gleaned from unpaid overtime, productivity then, in that firm, was a joke. So was the pay. I also fled – to businesslike Fairchild News, which later moved me to Denver. Fairchild was akin to playing Triple-A baseball, and the Denver Post, in 1979, meant I’d made it to the media “majors” after a roundabout odyssey. The world changed. With feminism, rubber girdles – students can ask their mothers or maybe grandmothers about those – were phased out first, followed, for a while, by bras. Today, pantyhose may be following the same route. But in a critique of this fall’s TV lineup that spinmeisters swear are “empowering “ for women, Denver Post TV critic Joanne Ostrow said maybe “America needs a girdle,” and “that’s the message of the flood of retro-programs [with] … pointy bras, skinny ties and vintage cars.” Is TV trying to take us back to the future? We’ve seen worse – on and off TV. And what could be worse than watching the bad theater, with bad actors, now unfolding in the U.S. Congress?
A stay on executions For a man whose crime helped inspire a national hate-crime law, Brewer’s death was of little note to this nation. Two executions; one flawed, one justified. These cases shine a light on both sides of the capital punishment debate. On one hand, a heinous act of barbarity was set right by the taking of a life. Brewer admitted to taking part in the murder of Byrd, even if Brewer claimed that he was ultimately not responsible for Byrd’s death. On the other, a man’s life was taken away while doubt still existed. Davis maintained his innocence to the end and multiple witnesses said that a friend of Davis’s claimed to have killed MacPhail. I do not oppose the death penalty. I believe some crimes deserve to be punished by death. Yet I am not blind to the fact that
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our judicial system is not fair. We have executed innocent people in this country. Since 1973, 138 death row inmates have been exonerated of their crimes. It is naïve to think that our judicial system has sparred every innocent person wrongly accused of murder. Statistically speaking, there is no reason to have capital punishment. The murder rate in states that allow capital punishment is almost double the murder rate for states that don’t have the death penalty. It doesn’t prevent crime but sets up the stark possibility that we are allowing the state-sanctioned killing of innocent people. Until we can address the inequities of our judicial system, until we can guarantee that every man and woman sentenced to die is truly guilty, we must cease executing prisoners.
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Not your father’s charity race ‘Running of the Gays’ raises money for Art From Ashes Kathleen Romero kcohoon@mscd.edu The day was hot, but the high heels were hotter. Colorful costumes and funky heels could be seen by the spectators that watched from the sidewalk and the surrounding restaurants as the runners sprinted down 17th Street to the finish line. Denver straight and gay communities joined together for the second Running of the Gays marathon Sept. 25. The race featured participants running three blocks in heels and full costumes to support Denver’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth community. The marathon benefited Art from Ashes, a Colorado nonprofit that focuses its work on providing struggling youth with support through different programs that promote mental and physical health. “I was trying to figure out [a good way]
to raise money [for the LGBTQ programs],” said Catherine O’Neill Thorn, executive director of Art from Ashes. “For us to put together a fundraiser, it takes a lot of work because we have hardly any staff [to help out].” The race’s goal was not only to raise money for LGBTQ programs but also to help raise awareness about issues facing the LGBTQ community. Cory Portman, a runner in sleek, high heeled black boots and shot shorts with a black zip up top, talked about how tough the decision to come out to his parents was, and the support he received from the LGBTQ community. “It’s always getting passed that first moment and engaging that response,” Portman said. “[Realizing that there is] a large community that welcomes you and helps you with issues [you may have] is very comforting.” Portman’s parents were supportive of him when he came out of the closet. As the runners crossed the finish line,
cheer and music greeted them. Everyone gathered at JR’s to celebrate, followed by a silent auction and prizes. A man named Alf won the title of most money raised, which was $260. Best dressed went to Michael Clymer and Karin Hoskin, who wore matching black spaghetti dresses and red bow hairpieces with short black heels with red lipstick. Best in “shoe” went Cory Portman for his very tall and sexy black leather heels boots. “I have been an adviser for LGBT youth for a couple years,” said Alf. “I thought [the marathon] would be a fun way to support the youth.” The race took place at Steuben’s on 17th and Pennsylvania and ended at JR’s on 17th and Clarkson. Catherine O’Neill-Thorn, Executive Director of
Art to Ashes jogs down 17th St. Sept. 25. Photo by Brian McGinn • bmcginn3@mscd.edu
Denver’s 2nd ‘Running of the Gays’ race took place Sept. 25 at 17th and Pennsylvania St. The event was a 3-bock jog in high heels to raise money for LGBTQ youth and was sponsored by Art from Ashes, a nonprofit that provides struggling kids with support by encouraging physical and mental health. Photo by Kathleen Romero • kcohoon@ mscd.edu
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Capturing a passion for photos J. Sebastian Sinisi sinisi2@msn.com Nobody sleeps through Kenn Bisio’s classes. Some of Bisio’s classes have been so lively, in fact, that instructors in adjoining rooms have complained about “noise” that wasn’t excessive at all, but only noisy to the ears of the tightest anal-retentives. “How far away were you and where’d you shoot this picture from? Cleveland?” “Move closer and use your feet. It’s the best telephoto lens you have.” Students in Bisio’s photojournalism classes have heard these Bisio-isms. What Bisio brings to his classes and students – aside from more than 40 years of photo experience for publications and websites from California to New York City and Denver and a boatload of photo awards – is a passion for photography. Passion for an instructor is like speed for an athlete. You either have it or you don’t. In an arena where some instructors couldn’t come up with passion if their lives depended on it, Kenn doesn’t have that problem, either. It might be a lot easier to compile a Bisio story with the question-and-answer “Journalism Lite” format that’s all the rage right now. But Bisio demands more work. And old-school complete sentences. In class, Bisio goes beyond the camera settings to explain not simply the “how,” but the “why” to students who sometimes seem to know all the settings, but are missing some of the “why” of the bigger picture. One teaching aim, he says, is to give students a way of seeing that makes them “visually literate” and to avoid the “visual inbreeding” that can occur when many students work on the same assignments — with similar results. “When shooting a project, you should always have the ‘why’ in mind,” he said. “And if you don’t know the ‘why,’ you prob-
ably shouldn’t be doing it at all.” Bisio, who just turned 60, remains in touch with students and a pop-culture world that changes daily, in part, by his additional passion for music. Aside from being a master photographer, Bisio — who lives in Evergreen — is an accomplished guitarist. Looking at photography as more of a calling than merely a job, Bisio tells students “you can work in this field for self-aggrandizement, or to illuminate the human condition. If you don’t choose the latter, you will default to the former.” He also advises students not to tell your parents what you’re doing in this field. Because they probably won’t understand and will want to know how much you can initially earn.” But, he adds, “if you choose, in your professional life, to illuminate the human condition, the rewards will eventually follow.” He cites Denver Post photographer Craig Walker, who last year won a Pulitzer prize for his social documentary “American Soldier,” that traced the ups and downs of a young Denver-area soldier deployed to Iraq. “Walker wasn’t looking for a Pulitzer,” Bisio said, “but that’s a story of our time that needed to be told.” The “illumination” involves what master French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called “the decisive moment.” Bisio calls it “capturing the critical moment.” To accomplish that, he said, “we have to recognize our biases.” He recalled having only a few minutes – photographers are lucky to have even a few minutes and have to be ready – to photograph then-President Ronald Reagan in the White House for Time magazine. “I couldn’t let my own biases, or those of my editors, get in the way,” he said. “My responsibility, to millions of Time readers, was to do the best I could to capture the critical moment that showed who Ronald Reagan was. My allegiance couldn’t be to my editors, but to the readers.”
Bisio grew up in California’s central valley, near Merced and was essentially raised by an aunt and uncle who introduced him to photography at an early age. During “idyllic summers,” he said, “I first got the visual ‘bug’”. At age 16, he took a 10-day photo workshop at Yosemite National Park. Instructors included world-class photographers Ansel Adams, Brett Weston and Ruth Bernard. “It cost $150 for room, board and instruction,” Bisio recalled, “and I got to rub shoulders with the masters.” It was those masters, and others, who helped photography — that dates to 1839 daguerrotypes — gain recognition as a legitimate art form after decades of debate and critical denial. Bisio worked under another master, W. Eugene Smith, at UC-Berkely while still a student at San Jose State. He “shot” for the Associated Press before going to the Denver Post in 1974, for a six-year stint before
spending four years with Time magazine and another four at U.S. News & World Report. He has taught at Metro State for 18 years and chaired the Journalism and Mass Communications department for eight of them. Along the way, he collected photo awards too numerous to list and has been shown in galleries and museums from Denver, California and Vermont to Ireland and Russia. More than a dozen of his students have made their marks shooting for newspapers, magazines and digital media. To young “shooters,” Bisio advises “master the machine” (the camera) and learn to tell a photo story. Media changes, but story-telling is never obsolete.” His fondest moments come when “I see that lightbulb coming on in a student. Then I’ve done my job. I’m not the guy who’s going to change tomorrow’s newsrooms. But my students will.”
Neither rain nor snow shall make him slow: Kenn Bisio leads a field trip to Alma, Colorado, in an unexpected snow storm in April 2011. Photo by Ryan Borthic • rborthic@mscd.edu
Beauty Bar nails happy hour
Local retro salon-themed saloon offers party and polish Christin Mitchell
cmitch39@mscd.edu Glitter paint glistens on walls lined with antique hair dryers, hundreds of nail files buried under Plexiglas comprise the countertops and the smell of nail polish fills the air of this Capitol Hill bar. Beauty Bar Denver, BBDEN, offers Martinis & Manicures Tuesdays through Fridays from 5 to 7 p.m., and Saturdays from 7 to 10 p.m. Patrons can enjoy an extended Happy Hour for just $10. “We do express manicures — buff, shine and polish — it’s basically a free manicure with a martini,” BBDEN co-owner Mike Barnhart said. While you can’t get acrylic nails or pedicures done, you won’t experience anything like Beauty Bar at any regular salon. “[Beauty Bar] is a retro salon-themed saloon,” Barnhart said. “The original Beauty Bar opened in 1995 in Manhattan … It
opened in an actual old salon, they just put the bar in front of the hair cutting mirrors.” BBDEN is one of nearly 10 other Beauty Bars throughout the U.S., spanning from New York to Texas and Oregon. It is also the biggest Beauty Bar, which enables the bar to hold concerts and host events unlike the others. “It’s the coolest place in town,” said Chris Irvin, who attends the bar regularly. “I don’t know of any bar around that has glittered walls … I lived in Manhattan, and every person that came to Manhattan I took to Beauty Bar because it was just a unique place.” Martinis & Manicures wasn’t originally part of the bar’s purpose.
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“The lady who owned the salon in New York didn’t want to run it anymore but she didn’t want to retire — she was like 75 — so she would sit there, smoke cigarettes and give manicures,” Barnhart said. For continuity, all the bars share the same salon theme, but each set up different. “The owner goes around looking for salons that have gone out of business that were built in that era,” Barnhart said. “He buys them and stores the furniture and when a new bar opens he uses that to decorate. So they all have glitter paint, they all have the hair dryers and they all have the ’40s and ’50s look, but they all have a different color scheme and everything. The logo is the only thing that is in every bar.” The bar’s co-owners, Noah McMahon, Justin Martinez and Mike Barnhart, are all Colorado natives. They’d enjoyed other Beauty Bars and wanted to bring one back to Colorado, so they opened BBDEN in June of 2010.
Co-owner McMahon says Martinis & Manicures has turned into a “full-fledged business” for the Denver branch while it is just a feature of other bars. It brings in a lot of women, but with a German-engineered KS audio sound system, a variety of band appearances and themed nights, BBDEN attracts all kinds of crowds. “I was surprised by the diversity,” McMahon said. “There are different age ranges — it’s for everyone. Even people’s grandmothers can relate.”
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Coloring the community for a cause
Metro class paints, sculpts cultural designs for landmark Megan Mitchell mmitch46@mscd.edu The once barren, color-stripped walls of Su Teatro and the Center for Visual Art are gone. Now, the half-covered buildings radiate with bright colors and hypnotic line designs, stopping people along Santa Fe Drive who linger to watch students scale ladders with paintbrush handles in their mouths. Metro Associate Professor and Painting Coordinator Carlos Fresquez’s Community Painting Class: The Mural wasted no time outlining and gridding their designs the minute their initial proposals were accepted through each company’s respective Board of Directors. “It’s easier to do group work at this stage because we’re getting to do what we want as opposed to being in a group,” said Metro senior Sarah Buchanan. “When you’re forced in the group, you have to work within those confines, but now we can be at either location whenever we want.” Now that the planning and proposal stage and more than half of the 8-week condensed class is over, the students have broken from their original three groups and melded into one large free-working mob of muralists. Every Tuesday and Thursday — and some out-of-class days — they go back and forth to contribute to both murals in an effort to finish them by Oct. 15. Buchanan took a break from painting and stood across the parking lot from the CVA with fellow students Lolly DuRand and Najia Habbal to watch their classmates, Tim Arndt, Greg Whitaker, Fritz James and Jason Clark layer the wall in an abstract swirl of purple, orange, blue and green, the logo colors of CVA. The rest of the class was a few blocks down at Su Teatro, painting an enormous Aztec serpent across the bottom of the building. Initially, both designs were slated for further work and collaboration, but because of time constraints, they reached a compromise to only cover the bottom of the east wall on Su Teatro, and moved forward with most of the CVA design as it was. “We don’t want to start something and then overextend ourselves and not be able
Metro art student Daniel Wilson adds mosaic tiles to a skull made out of hydostone which will be added to the wall of Su Teatro.
A student in the wall mural art class helps paint the east wall of Su Teatro Sept. 28. When finished, it will display a serpent with ancient Aztec designs including small relief sculptures. Photos by Steve Anderson • sande104@mscd.edu to finish,” Fresquez said. “The rest of the design can be saved for a future mural class.” Other than the challenge of having two separate mural projects, the class is also incorporating sculpture into their design for Su Teatro. “I’ve never done sculpture before,” said Metro senior Kelsey Daddow-Sletto. “I was really interested to see how you can make something out of Styrofoam™ and wood and build it up and make it durable enough to be put it on the outside of a wall.” In the formal plan, the idea is to surround the door of the east entrance with wooden relief sculptures that have abstract Aztec designs engrained in them. There are also individual, head-sized Mexican skulls carved out of Styrofoam™, as well as a much larger, Styrofoam™-based design that will adorn the top of the doorway. Denver artist and muralist, Jerry Jaramillo was brought in by Fresquez to guide the students through the sculpting process. The layering technique used to enforce the Styrofoam™ design is elaborate. After creating the desired carving from the lightweight material, the class covers it in cheesecloth (a loose woven gauze-like cotton cloth) and hydrostone plaster, to dry. Once it dries, they cover that in clay, sand, paint primer and pieces of sapphire mosaic glass. “It will totally be strong and sealed and ready to go,” Daddow-Sletto said. “Jerry’s the boss, if he says it’s good, than it’s good.” Fully immersed in painting now, the class is making good time considering the challenges of the semester. “The CVA mural should be done next,” Fresquez said. “They already have two coats on it, they just need to do the detail and line work on it. And then we’ll only have one more week, so everyone will be over at Su Teatro.”
Metro student Timothy Arndt helps paint the south wall of the Center for Visual Arts building in Denver Sept 27. The wall mural class is currently working on two murals. One at CVA and the other at Su Teatro. They are scheduled to finish both projects Oct. 15.
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AudioFiles
Sounding Off
The growth of Growler Records On Sep. 3, Molly Zackary opened her very own record store under the name “Growler Records” in the back of Yellow Feather Coffee at 742 Sante Fe Dr. And, just like her store, Zackary is welcoming on the outside, but very punk at heart. As a teenager, she sought out all the punk music she could. Later on, she discovered Double Entendre Records. Then, after its closure in 2005, Zackary tried to fill the musical void by setting up a “distro,” which consisted of a table and a handful of records. With the store, Zackary will be selling some of her favorite zines, books and records to any interested audiophiles. The Metropolitan caught up with Zackary about her first few weeks of business, her partnership with Yellow Feather and why buying from record stores is so much better than buying online. Molly Zackary is the music-loving punk behind Growler Records. Photo by Mike Fabricius • mfabrici@mscd.edu
Interview by Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu IG: How has Growler been doing since its grand opening on Sep. 3? Have people been pretty receptive? MZ: Yeah, a lot of people have come by really excited about it [and] a lot of people have been trickling through. I think they’re kind of curious about it. My goal is to make it — you know when you have a day off and you have your places that you go on your day off? Maybe you’ll go to Tattered Cover downtown, drink coffee and flip through all their books. Or, you’ll hit up Wax Trax and see what they have in that’s new. So, I kind of want to be one of those destinations. Like, “I’ll go down to Growler, listen to some records and shoot the shit with Molly.” I think it will be a little while to build that up. IG: What type of music does Growler specialize in selling? MZ: Well, it’s a lot of underground, DIY [music]. I think you could call it punk but, really, there’s a lot of everything within that. There’s folk music, there’s metal music, and there is pop punk. I have a shipment coming in this week and I have this weird solo aritst from Syria and I have some psychedelic rock from the ’70s. But they’re all pretty unheard-of.
IG: Are you trying to reach a certain demographic? MZ: I think that this is an excellent store for audiophiles. I definitely get a lot of people who come in here and they pick up the most random 7-inch and [say], “I’ve been looking for this.” And that’s really exciting and fun. It’s, like, a fellow music geek. But there are people who come in here who [say], “I like this band, do you have anything like that?” They just want to be turned on to something really new and fresh. I think people want to find those little musical secrets. IG: How do you go about sustaining your inventory? MZ: Well, I did a record distro for six years and through the course of that, there were a lot of labels that I learned about. So, I keep tabs on those labels. I’m on a lot of email lists. I really like a lot of zines, I follow a ton of blogs and I obsessively email my friends in other cities. [Then,] there’s kind of three ways I can get records. One — which is the easiest — is when a band tours through I can sometimes get vinyl from them right on tour. Then I don’t have to pay postage, the band gets to walk away with 40 bucks. It’s kind of good for everybody. Two, I can order direct from labels. And, the third way is
[buying from] distributors, and some record labels will deal only with distributors. For example, Kill Rock Stars only deals through this one distributor and I have an account with them and I deal with them often. IG: Do you sell a lot of albums from local bands? MZ: Trying to. There’s an open consignment policy for all local music; just bring it down and we’ll talk about the split [of profit]. My goal is to have a really big local selection, because I think people want that, I think it’s special and unique. There’s having a business because you have this whole business model or, “I don’t have to work my shit job anymore,” but I also have a record store because I believe in it. I believe that something like this is really cool. It’s the kind of thing that I really wanted when I was growing up. When I stumbled upon Double Entendre [records], it was really meaningful to me. I made tons of friends and saw tons of bands I would have never seen. So, having a space for local bands to put their music is really important. IG: Every year, it seems like more independent record stores are going out of business. So why open a new store when you could just as easily sell records online?
MZ: Well, yeah. A lot of people sell records right now online and it’s been a really viable business. But my specialty is not used records. I don’t go to estate sales and dig through them to find the original pressing or whatever Bob Dylan album. In that sense it makes it hard and all of [my stock] you could order on the Internet from the record label. I just think that people don’t always want to do that. Sometimes they want to go to a place and actually have the interface with a person. [Then] look at the record, put it on the record player and then put four other records on the record player. Also, the collaboration with Yellow Feather is really exciting because it’s really huge and they’ve been having some all-ages shows. Hopefully, through this fall and winter we’ll be able to make a really nice calendar of events; it’s a really great space for shows. And you can’t do that when you just have your online business.
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Three local record stores that you need to know Compiled by Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu
Wax Trax Out of the five major record stores in Denver, Wax Trax (located at 638 E. 13th Ave.) has the longest history. According to Wax Trax’s website, the store was purchased by Dave Stidman and Duane Davis in 1978 after Wax Trax’s original founders relocated to Chicago and opened a new location. Unfortunately, those founders, Dannie Flesher and Jim Nash, filed for bankruptcy in 1992 and TVT Records purchased the Chicago store. Since then, the Denver location has been carrying on the record store’s true, independent legacy by selling plenty of used vinyl, local music and even holding some in-store performances.
Twist & Shout Back in 1988, Paul Epstein left Boulder to open up Twist & Shout records in Denver. Throughout the years, and a few different locations, his little shop built up its reputation as a quintessential music store. Then, it settled into its permanent storefront at 2508 E. Colfax Ave. Now, Twist & Shout is known for its vast selection of local music, shelf after shelf of DVDs, as well as some of the best in-store performances that Denver has to offer. Artists like Blues Traveler, Elvis Costello, and Trey Anastasio have perused Twist & Shout’s shelves and played its humble stage.
Black & Read Although Black & Read’s main store is located at 7821 Wadsworth Blvd. in Arvada, just outside of Denver, it is worth the trip for any obsessive bibliophile, music collector or board game enthusiast. This is because Black & Read has been specializing in rare books and re-issues of various LPs since 1994. Unlike Twist & Shout, they don’t just have a few shelves dotted with trinkets. Instead, they have a full section dedicated to used games and toys. They even carry one of history’s long-lost formats: laserdiscs. But it isn’t quirky; it’s just Black & Read.
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Getting wild with Gogol Bordello’s Gypsy Punks By Anne Gumina • anne.gumina@mscd.edu If you put together an accordion, a violin, a thicker version of Tom Selleck’s moustache and some wine, you’ll get Gogol Bordello. Their drunken debauchery and morphed cultural sounds make Americans and Romani alike want to yell Ukranian expletives and dance like they’re at a Sex Pistols show. Gogol Bordello’s album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike reminds me of some of the best times I’ve shared with friends. I first heard Gogol at Coachella 2008, when my music knowledge and Coachella experience was limited. My 17-year-old angst sought out something rebellious and outlandish. Cut to me and my friends, clad in speedos (not me), jumping around to Gogol’s “Start Wearing Purple.” The rambunctious, nine-person band even had drummers walking through the crowd, playing wild rhythms. At one point, the crowd members were holding up a bass drum with someone on top of it, pounding away. My friends and I were in awe. Their music was rich in sounds we had never heard at a concert before. An old Eastern European man played an electronic violin like he was a Boy Scout feverishly trying to make fire from scratch. The performance itself lit a
fire inside of me. Any time I start playing their album Gypsy Punks — in solitude or with friends — all formalities and niceties leave the scene. For instance, at my friend’s birthday extravaganza last year we threw on Gypsy Punks and the moment it started playing everyone gathered around and started dancing like buffoons. We didn’t know what we were doing, but someone started yelling “Opa!” Then, another partier decided to start a Russian Cossack dance. By the end of the night, none of us was looking like the prettiest girl at the ball, but we were making the best of it, and that is what matters. This year, when I saw Gogol again, my friend and I fought about the lead singer’s appearance. A skinny Ukranian man, with his thick moustache and body lathered in wine, doesn’t sound appealing to most, but I challenge anyone to watch him perform and tell me afterward, “Eh, he’s so-so.” Beyond each Coachella performance and that memorable birthday party, Gogol’s Gypsy Punks has helped me let go of conceptions about what type of person I should be or how other people should act. I found, through Gogol, that people with different backgrounds, opposite ideals and outlandish personalities do mesh. Presumably, mix-
With eight members and some attitude, Gogol Bordello defines the term “Gypsy Punks.” Photo courtesy of Gogol Bordello ing punk and Romani music shouldn’t work together, but it does. And when spontaneity and nonsense are the motivation, even the
most conflicting of ideas become unexpectedly sane.
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Volleyball ties for division lead Roadrunners dodge Cougars, swat away Yellow Jackets Matt Hollinshead mhollin5@mscd.edu The five-set loss at Western New Mexico University Sept. 17 left the Metro volleyball team in disbelief, but the Roadrunners put that match behind them as if it were a bad dream. They won at Colorado Christian University 3-1 Sept. 24 and swept South Dakota’s Black Hills State University 3-0 at the Auraria Event Center Sept. 26. Metro is now 12-2 overall and 4-1 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play. “We weren’t happy with the way that we left Western New Mexico,” said sophomore right-side hitter Alysa Heath after the match at CCU. “All week long, we worked hard on responding and being ready to have anyone come at us hard.” Metro at Colorado Christian The Cougars came out firing right away against the Roadrunners and dug the ball effectively. “I wasn’t really impressed with our effort at the beginning of the match,” head coach Debbie Hendricks said. The Roadrunners showed determination and that they weren’t going down easily. They cut the deficit to two, trailing 23-21, but the Cougars took the next two points and the set. In the second set, Metro started finding their rhythm and started playing aggressive defense. Down 17-15, they fought back and mercilessly pounded the ball, especially on the right side. Granted, some of their points were close calls, but they won the second set 25-20 by showing tremendous poise. “Once we served tougher, we had them out of system more,” Hendricks said.
Freshman right-side hitter Lauren Quijano and Heath came through in what was a make-or-break set with eight combined kills in the second set alone. “I was tired of the way the game was going,” Heath said. “Our defense was doing awesome, our passing was awesome. Everything was just clicking.” Going forward, Metro didn’t look back. Already fired up from the second set, they displayed true team unity by passing the ball well, receiving multiple offensive contributions and coordinating with one another defensively. After the Runners took the third set 2516, they’d secured the match. CCU started playing sloppy defense in the fourth set. Cougar fans grew quiet by then and looked like they were contemplating whether to stay for support. Metro padded a 6-0 lead early in the fourth set, which turned into an 18-8 lead. Metro took that final set 25-15. Senior outside hitter Bri Morley had 22 kills and hit .541, a career high. “We had to get ourselves prepared,” Morley said. “We always know that coming into CCU, they play really well. Their fans are always into the game, and we had to come in thinking, ‘Hey, they’re going to come and play their hardest against us. We need to shut them down.’ ” Colorado Christian seemed frustrated in trying to score points. They committed 26 attack errors. In the end, it came down to executing plays. Despite their rough start, Metro capitalized on their opportunities in the latter phases of the match. “By the last two games, we were executing at a very high level,” Hendricks said. “We’ve just got to learn that serving passively lets teams do what they do.”
Volleyball senior libero Ngoc Phan digs one of her 19 balls at Colorado Christian University Sept. 24. Photo by Matt Hollinshead • mhollin5@mscd.edu
Volleyball senior outside hitter Emily Greenhalgh spikes the ball against Black Hills State University at the Auraria Event Center Sept. 26. She had 15 kills on the night. Photo by Steve Anderson • sande104@mscd.edu
Metro vs. Black Hills State Metro returned to the Auraria Event Center to face BHSU. Despite starting off sluggishly in the first set, trailing 12-8, the Roadrunners caught fire offensively and found their groove defensively. They pounded the ball efficiently, going on a 17-3 surge to win the set 25-15. “We did start off a little slow. That’s been our trend for the last couple games,” senior libero Ngoc Phan said. “After that, we sort of knew that we had to just relax and play our game.” From the second set onward, it was all Metro. They shut Black Hills State down defensively and continued their offensive efficiency. BHSU couldn’t inflict significant damage over the course of the final two sets, hitting -4 percent and 4.2 percent in the second and third sets. Metro won those sets 25-12 and 25-16, even though the Yellow Jackets put up more of a fight late in the third set.
“We fall into this pattern of sluggish starts,” Hendricks said. “We talked about it before the match, [but] it didn’t really change anything. We’ve got to get that changed. The quicker we get this changed, the more confidently we’ll be playing. I think it’s definitely a fixable thing.” The Roadrunners are still ranked ninth in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division II top-25 poll. They will travel to University of Nebraska at Kearney Sept. 30, followed by Chadron State College (Neb.) Oct. 1. Metro is tied with UNK for the top spot in the RMAC East Division, and that match could theoretically determine who will host the conference tournament. “It’s always a big match,” Hendricks said. “Playing at Kearney is always an additional challenge. [Colorado School of] Mines proved they’re beatable [back on Sept. 23], but playing at Kearney is a big challenge.”
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Men’s soccer breaks into top-25; tied for 2nd in RMAC Daniel Laverty dlaverty@mscd.edu
defender Dele Johnson, limited the Cougars to just two shots on goal in the match. Bissau earned his third straight shutout.
Beating two ranked teams and posting two shutouts would be a decent season for many teams, but the Metro men’s soccer team accomplished these feats in merely one week. The Roadrunners crushed No. 16 Regis University 4-0 Sept. 21, shut out Colorado Christian University 2-0 Sept. 23 and shocked No. 11 Colorado School of Mines 2-1 in overtime Sept. 25. “It’s a confidence builder,” junior forward Marc Herschberger said. “To play the competition that we had, and to come out on top, is huge for us.” Because of their success, Metro broke into the Division II NSCAA top-25 poll ranking at No. 17. Metro had not been ranked this season. Senior forward Scott Grode was also named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Week. The Roadrunners have won four straight matches and improved to 6-2-1 overall and 4-1-0 in the RMAC.
Metro vs. No. 11 Colorado Mines The weekend concluded with Metro hosting defending RMAC champion Colorado School of Mines. The Orediggers looked caught off guard as the Roadrunners controlled the ball and pace of the game. “We knew we wanted to come out strong early and set the tempo,” Herschberger said. Freshman forward T.J. Thiebaut scored his first collegiate goal off a pass from Grode to put the Roadrunners up 1-0 before halftime. “I’ve had a chip on my shoulder,” Thiebaut said. “It felt good today, especially against a ranked opponent.” The Orediggers, who entered the game outscoring opponents 20-8, were stymied by an effective defensive effort from the Roadrunners. The Roadrunners could taste victory before CSM’s Sean Helster headed in the tying goal with just over a minute left. “It’s real easy to hang your head after a goal like that,” head coach Ken Parsons said. “I think we willed ourselves on to victory in that overtime.” Three minutes into overtime, Herschberger scored the golden goal off a pass from Hughes. “It’s huge,” Thiebaut said. “You have a lot confidence going forward. (We) can play against these ranked opponents.” Metro will head to Adams State College Sept. 30.
Metro at No. 16 Regis Metro’s offense exploded at Regis, handing the Rangers their first loss of the season. Grode got the scoring started for the Roadrunners when he put the ball in the left corner of the net, just out of the reach of Ranger goalkeeper Chris Couperus. Sophomore midfielder Brenden Hughes assisted on the goal. Grode would find the back of the net again, this time using his head. Marc Hershcberger crossed the ball to Grode, who
Freshman defender Cody Melphy, left, fights for possesion against Colorado School of Mines forward Baski Baker Sept. 25 at Auraria Field. Photo by Rachel Fuenzalida • rfuenzal@mscd.edu
headed it in for his second goal of the game. “I need to be the person to step up,” Grode said. “I’ve taken the time to focus on the shooting aspect of the game.” Metro held Regis to only three shots on goal. Junior goalkeeper Issa Bissau recorded his second consecutive shutout. Sophomore midfielder Kevin Pocalyko came off the bench and added two goals in the second half. Metro won convincingly 4-0. It concluded a five-game road trip for the Roadrunners. Metro vs. Colorado Christian Metro returned home to face Colorado Christian. The Cougars entered the match without a win on the season.
“We came out pretty slow today,” Grode said. “It was tough for us to gain momentum. As the game progressed, we got better and were able to hold the ball longer.” Grode continued his offensive streak by scoring on a pass from sophomore defender Andrew Mejia. With the Roadrunners leading 1-0, Metro goalie Bissau made a penalty-kick save in the second half. “If we didn’t have that save, it would’ve been a different game,” Grode said. Mejia got his second assist in the game, sending a free-kick ball to Hughes in the box to put Metro up by two goals. Metro settled down and controlled the pace. The Roadrunner defense, led by senior
Thriller in overtime for Metro
Women’s soccer lose at Regis, win at Mines/Colorado Christian Paul Meyer pmeyer8@mscd.edu After playing their first six games at Auraria Field, the Metro women’s soccer team, ranked sixth nationally going in, had to travel. They lost at Regis University 2-1 Sept. 21, but rebounded at No. 10 Colorado School of Mines 1-0 in double overtime Sept. 23 and then Sept. 25 at Colorado Christian University 2-1. The Roadrunners are now 8-1 overall and 4-1 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play. Metro also dropped to No. 13 in the NSCAA Division II top-25 poll. “I [would have] loved to have been 3-0, but I’ll take 2-1,” head coach Adrianne Almaraz said. “We did what we needed to do.” Metro at Regis Metro started the week at Regis University, a team they haven’t beaten since 2009. Regis took the lead on a shot by defender Taylor White that went past junior goalkeeper Danielle Quigley and into the net. The Runners would get on the board in the second half when freshman forward Abby Rolph scored the equalizer on a penalty kick.
The Rangers would get the lead back in the 75th minute when midfielder Marissa Davis found forward Meghan Stuart for the score. Regis held on to win 2-1 and handed the Roadrunners their first loss of the season. “It was tough. I don’t think we actually came out and played our best soccer,” Almaraz said. Metro at Colorado Mines Metro traveled to Golden to take on Colorado School of Mines, ranked 10th nationally going into the game. Both teams had scoring opportunities, but couldn’t capitalize. The Roadrunners kept the Orediggers in check defensively throughout the second half. The game ended up going into double overtime. In the 105th minute, junior defender Hayley Marsh’s corner kick found freshman forward Karisa Price, and she found the net with a shot off her chest for the game-winner. “It just was so amazing to get the result and to be the one who contributed to the win,” Price said. “We just kept fighting and fighting from the start to the finish.” Metro secured its first-ever win at Mines. Before, the Runners were 0-4-1
against the Orediggers in Golden. “It felt good. After Wednesday’s game, we were a little bit more confident. We knew that we needed to get the result, and that’s going to be big for (the) NCAA Tournament,” Almaraz said. Metro at Colorado Christian Metro finished their road trip at Colorado Christian University. The Runners came out attacking and pressured the Cougars. “We came out pretty well. It was a tough week. It was definitely hard to come out and play maybe as hard as we did against the other teams, but we got the results, and that’s all that matters,” Price said. Metro had great composure early in this game, making great passes and holding their own against CCU. Rolph took a penalty shot for the Runners and found the back of the net for the first goal of the game. “(Penalty kicks) make you nervous, but you [have] got to let the nerves go and keep your composure,” Rolph said. The Runners scored again when Price found junior forward Aubrey Fondy. The Cougars found the back of the net, when CCU freshman forward Danielle Gershon scored right past Quigley.
However, that was all Colorado Christian could squeeze out offensively. Metro held on to win 2-1, despite some lapses in their composure. Metro will take on University of Nebraska at Kearney at Auraria Field Oct. 2.
Metro midfielder Erica Harrison runs for the ball against Regis defender Alison Cahill Sept 21. Photo by Carla Ferreira • cferreir@mscd.edu
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11 a.m.– 1 p.m. Tivoli Atrium
The bi-monthly music series showcases local, national and student musicians. Free
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Across 1- Slender freshwater fish 6- Capital of Shaanxi province, China 10- Airport abbr. 13- Clothe; 14- Dull pain 15- Agitate 16- Low point 17- Tide type 18- Cloak 19- Has a bug 20- Bearded 22- Checked 24- Legume 28- Small node 31- Grocery, e.g. 32- Annoy 34- Actress Thurman 36- Lost traction 37- Mend 38- Plant of the buttercup family 41- Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen 42- Permits
44- Hawaiian acacia 45- Angry 47- Heart chambers 49- Alloy of copper and zinc 51- Monetary unit of Tonga 53- Playground retort 56- Rummage 59- Zhivago’s love 61- Legal rights org. 64- Baseball family name 65- Unit of volume 66- Redding’s genre 67- Drag 68- ___ a time 69- And so on 70- ___ boy! 71- Dispatches
Down 1- Actress Olin 2- Broadcasting 3- Confuse 4- Style of cooking 5- That girl 6- Place of contentment 7- Bakery worker 8- Pequod captain 9- Sherpa’s home 10- 7th letter of the Greek alphabet 11- Apex 12- Dr. of rap 15- Perfumes 20- Adorn 21- French possessive 23- Bright star 25- Apartment sign 26- Whiskey type 27- Moon of Jupiter 29- Pertaining to the moon 30- U.K. record label 32- Michelangelo
work 33- More 35- On the job 37- Flutter 39- “Hollywood Squares” win 40- Della’s creator 43- Wicked 46- Silhouette 48- “…and seven years _____” 50- Spot on the skin 52- Japanese beer brand 54- Like Cheerios 55- Mountain nymph 57- Bed support 58- Markers 60- Collective word for intellectual pursuits 61- Enzyme ending 62- Portable bed 63- Director Jean___ Godard 65- Acapulco article
Texts From Last Night Get this. Chipped my front tooth taking a sip of a gay mans beer out of my cleavage. FML! I actually pissed myself from laughing when I saw the old man in lingerie carrying a spiderman purse. I dont know if he was real or if it was the tequila, but my head hurts. There is no way that a naked man in your kitchen can be explained-away as a “misunderstanding.”
10.2 Lakewood’s Cider Days 10 a.m. Lakewood Heritage Center
Enjoy arts and crafts as well as a muledrawn wagon, petting zoo and food. $7/Adults, $4/Children
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Exploring Alternative and Mass Transportation 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Tivoli Turnhalle
A panel of speakers from RTD, BikeShare, National Association of Rail Passengers, eGo Car Share, Optibike and more will speak about the values of alternative trasnsportation. Free
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Robot Pursuit 12 p.m. Downtown Denver
Dress up as robots and solve puzzles and riddles by using geocaching and scavenger-hunt skills. Points are gained by arriving at the locations and embracing social media, including Flickr and Foursquare. For registration and more information, go to: www.megarobota.com Free
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Three Secrets to Having it All: Confidence, Beauty and Professional Power 2 –3:15 p.m. Tivoli Sigi’s Cabaret
Lori Hason, award winning author and stress and eating disorder coach, will speak about the tools you need to have the life of your dreams. Sponsored by the Institue of Women’s Studies and Services. Free
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Today, my dad was telling me and all of my siblings what our first words were. My brother and sister’s first words were mommy and daddy just like most of the population. He then told me that my first word, when I was 2, was Yoda. I have never been happier in my life. MLIA
Next time you dig into a bag of Doritos™, pour out a couple for Arch West, their inventor, who died Sept. 26 at age 97. His family plans to bury him on Oct. 1, and his daughter, Jana Hacker, told The Dallas Morning News the family will be showering Allen’s urn with Doritos™ before they cover it with dirt. Thinking about that won’t have you saying, “Hmm, cheese!” the next time you open a bag, but without West they might not have existed. West, the marketing vice president for Frito-Lay™ in 1961, discovered fried corn chips during a San Diego vacation. His company was not so excited about them but with some market research, Doritos™ were born. Source: Huffingtonpost.com
Today my 5 year old sister asked my mom for Hannah Montana socks because she wanted to step on Hannah Montanas face everyday. I knew I was related to her somehow. MLIA Today a little black kitten ran out from under the chair I was sitting on. I don’t have a little black kitten. MLIA.