Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Theater review: Powerful "Mockingbird" gets under America's skin color
Review: Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs. The Denver Center Theatre Company's powerful new staging accomplishes that with an understated clarity of purpose and without relying on easy sentiment. Rating: ***1/2  

• Theater review: Paragon's explosive "Parlour Song" could use bang-up finish
• Top-notch jazz CDs out for fall
• Home should be where the artists' art hangs
• Denver's progressive architecture captures Modern Home Tours' attention
• "Ghost Walk Ghost Talk" a spirited tour of Boulder homes

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: William and Kate's daughter could be the next queen
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Ashton's new worries

Chris Tucker losing house

 

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Gossip - Bill Husted

Parker: Cherry Creek card shop property sold
The Cherry Creek Card and Party Shop, a Denver fixture since 1964, has been sold to Larimer Associates, the owner of Larimer Square.  

• Husted: Author Obmascik ecstatic as buzz grows over "The Big Year"

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Moms - Parenting

Deaths of foster father, five kids in highway crash devastate eastern Colorado town
Howard Mitchell loaded 12 children into his van Thursday morning, preparing for the drive he made twice each weekday — three times during football season — from Kit Carson to the children’s school in Eads. The 20-mile trip each way was just one of the sacrifices Mitchell and his wife, Melody, made over the years after  

• What parents need to know to help their picky eaters

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Today's Movies

Movie review: "The Big Year"
"The Big Year" is about frequent fliers. And we don't mean the many feathered species that passionate, peripatetic birders race to add to their tallies in an annual birding contest.  

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Reverb

I Might Be Wrong: Jimmy Buffett sells out
Jimmy Buffett hits the Pepsi Center on Tuesday. Has the live music legend finally "sold out"?

 

• The Reverb Interview: Johnny Hickman of the Hickman-Dalton Gang
• Mile Marker: Gauntlet Hair

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

ABC cancels "Charlie's Angels"
Goodbye, Angels. Until the next reboot. ABC today cancelled "Charlie's Angels," one of its most hyped fall series, acknowledging the hour has failed to gain traction against heavy Thursday  

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Theater - John Moore

"To Kill a Mockingbird" ***1/2
Review: Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs. The Denver Center Theatre Company's powerful new staging accomplishes that with an understated clarity of purpose and without relying on easy sentiment. Rating: ***1/2  

• Paragon's explosive "Parlour Song" could use bang-up finish
• "American Night": Our shameful history, Monty Python style
• Every night is Date Night at the Denver Center
• Complete rundown of auditions