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Spirit of Guadalupe reins in community support
As the story goes, she appeared miraculously centuries ago offering hope to a campesino named Juan Diego. And now hundreds of years later her essence continues to extend strength, love, hope, and compassion. She is La Virgen de Guadalupe.
She is looked upon as the go-to entity for everything from.... |
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Veterans: Surviving war, but not the peace
In the six years after Reuben Paul Santos returned to Daly City from a combat tour in Iraq, he battled depression with poetry, violent video games and, finally, psychiatric treatment. His struggle ended last October, when he hung himself from a stairwell. He was 27.
The high suicide rate among ve.... |
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Akwid tour benefits Denver Inner City Parish
Akwids Clasificado R Tour has begun. The group is touring across the U.S and México promoting their newly released album Clasificado R being their first album under Machete Music.
Latenite Entertainment brings the tour to Denver, for a good cause. Guests are encouraged to bring a canned food don.... |
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Straight From My Heart ~ My Halloween ghost
In my younger days, I loved parties and was good at planning and getting people excited about going to these parties. I was an active member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and a group of friends from the parish decided to have a once-a-month birthday party. The monthly celebrations went over real.... |
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Family fun at Elitch’s Boo Gardens
Elitch Gardens will present Boo Gardens this weekend, Oct. 23-24, from Noon-5pm, in Elitch Gardens’ Startoon Studios. Children are encouraged to dress up in costume for safe, fun trick-or-treating. $15 admission tickets are available for children and adults at all Denver-area Arc Thrift Stores.
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Open enrollment for head start preschool
Jefferson County Head Start Preschool Program is open for enrollment. Head Start is a no cost child-focused and family-centered preschool program. The program provides a range of individualized services in the areas of education, early childhood development, medical, dental, mental health, nutri.... |
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El Louie and Other Post Pachuco Dreams
Denver’s famed El Centro Su Teatro recently announced their schedule for the 2010- 2011 theatrical season. This onth, Su Teatro takes the stage in their first complete season at their new home; the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center @ the Denver Civic Theatre. Returning to the roots of .... |
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Annual pumpkin fest inspires family fun
Thousands of pumpkins will be ripe for the picking in the 10-acre pumpkin patch at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Saturday, Oct. 9, and Sunday, Oct. 10, from 9am-5pm.
Many activities will surround the search for that perfect jack o’ lantern or pumpkin pie gourd, including free amusement r.... |
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New generation artist blends culture, ingenuity
Somewhere between post-bop, Latin jazz, free jazz and the continuation of the Denver Chicano Movement from the 60’s is Denver native Asia Fajardo-Wright. The 26-year-old Latina composer/saxophonist and Aztec dancer, composed and directed an avant-garde tribute to the divine feminine Omecihuatl Ri.... |
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Exhibit honors the Spirit of Perú
In partnership with the Consulate of Perú, The Spirit of Perú (through October 27) exhibit will feature the work of Peruvian guest artist Carlos Palma, whose newest paintings focus on issues of immigration; a Peruvian-American painter and Art Students League member, Maria Elena Kaplan; Hover Monte.... |
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A touch of Mexico highlights Colorado Symphony
The Colorado Symphony celebrates the 2010 Biennial of the Américas with a concert featuring guest conductor Enrique Barrios on July 24, 7:30pm at the Boettcher Concert Hall (14th St. and Curtis). This concert is free to the public and presented in partnership by the Colorado Symphony, the Mexican .... |
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Filmmakers pursue justice in new documentary
It’s no wonder the Mexican police detectives in the explosive new documentary Presumed Guilty stare at the camera during the dramatic retrial for murder of Antonio Zúñiga and accuse the filmmakers of threatening them by the mere act of filming. The cameras are there as part of an unprecedented eff.... |
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Gómez-Peña: Strange Democracy
In partnership with El Centro Su Teatro, the Museo de las Américas presented internationally renowned performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña this week as part of the Bienniel of the Américas program.
In his new solo-performance, post-Mexican writer and performance artist Gómez-Peña deals with th.... |
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Ry Cooder music sales support MALDEF
In response to the immigration battle currently raging in the United States, six-time Grammy winner Ry Cooder wrote Quicksand, a slow-burning rocker that tells the story of six would-be immigrants making their way from México to the Arizona border. The track, available exclusively on iTunes, featu.... |
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Almada film highlights El General
The past and the present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings about her great-grandfather Plutarco Elias Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924.
In the documentary El General, premieres on PBS on July 20, and online July 21 through S.... |
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