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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Historian: On race, Denver is no Chicago

White flight. Gentrification. Integration. Why does the idea of difference strike such perpetual and predictable fear among those already living on the block? Curious Theatre's season-opener "Clybourne Park" revisits issues first raised in "A Raisin in the Sun."

 

• Husted: "Dancing With the Denver Stars" taps metro VIPs
• 'DWTS' producer: Give Chaz Bono a chance to dance
• "The Guys" more necessary, more cathartic a decade ago
• "Faithful" ***
• "Love! Valour! Compassion!" a rich stew of comedy and complexity

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Clooney for president? "I have a very nice life"
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Michael Bay selling digs

Chris Brown's thank-you

 

• People: Rapper T.I.'s "time to shine" as he leaves prison

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Gossip - Bill Husted

Husted: "Dancing With the Denver Stars" taps metro VIPs
The same week we learn who is on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," we get the roster from Cleo Parker Robinson's celebration, "Dancing With the Denver Stars." The locals start rehearsals with Robinson's pros immediately; the production is skedded for Oct. 29 at the Renaissance Hotel.  

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Moms - Parenting

Free days & activities!
I hate to say it, but summer is saying goodbye and snowy season is just around the corner. So what can you do to keep you kids busy when the temperature starts to fall? Check out these awesome FREE DAYS at places like the Denver Art Museum and the Children's Museum! September 2 – First Friday Art  

• 5 Things You Need to Know for a Successful Juice Cleanse (JuiceCleansingHealtyChick Update)

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Today's Movies

Review: "Old Fashioned Orgy" is party guys' swan song
Comedy. R. 1 hour 35 minutes. At selected area theaters. "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy" feels more like a "Meatballs"-era summer romp, the kind we're generally either too cynical for now or we've  

• Review: "Littlerock" astonishes as it quietly takes on big questions
• Review: "Bellflower" an artful dystopian romance yearning for the apocalypse
• Family Films on DVD: Heat's on in "Running the Sahara"
• Review: "The Tree" a quiet meditation on loss
• Review: Watered-down golf film, "Seven Days in Utopia," is par for the course

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Reverb

Don't Push Play: What's worse than "Black and Yellow"?
Wiz Khalifa "Black and Yellow" spoof on Reverb's viral video feature

 

• These go to 11: Phish, and 11 other bands that inspire super fandom
• Obits of the rock 'n' roll kind: Saying goodbye to the Magic Cyclops

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Top TV
Here are Nielsen ratings for the top 10 prime-time shows nationally. 1. America's Got Talent (Tuesday), NBC, 11.99 million.  

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Theater - John Moore

Historian: On race, Denver is no Chicago

White flight. Gentrification. Integration. Why does the idea of difference strike such perpetual and predictable fear among those already living on the block? Curious Theatre's season-opener "Clybourne Park" revisits issues first raised in "A Raisin in the Sun."

 

• "The Guys" more necessary, more cathartic a decade ago
• "Faithful" ***
• "Love! Valour! Compassion!" a rich stew of comedy and complexity
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