Morning headlines from DenverPost.com

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Today's Front Page News

600,000 downtown Denver lights illuminate the holiday season
Nearly 600,000 multicolored bulbs lit up the night sky Friday as downtown Denver celebrated its "grand illumination."  

• Colorado voter turnout shows high interest in education reform
• On Sunday, Catholic service undergoes biggest change since Vatican II of 1960s
• Once-peaceful Occupy L.A. protest turns up volume after orders to decamp
• Polls, dispensary bans show Coloradans are split over possibly legalizing marijuana
• Black Friday in Denver far from bleak but no blockbuster

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Today's Local Politics

Colorado voter turnout shows high interest in education reform
Near-record campaign contributions, national media attention and large voter turnouts revealed deeper public interest in education in Colorado this year.  

• Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper wrongly excludes Republican applicants for university board seat

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Today's Business

Shoppers embrace casual Black Friday
Not everybody with a desire to find door-buster deals felt compelled to venture out before the clock struck midnight Thursday.  

• Black Friday in Denver far from bleak but no blockbuster
• Dow loses nearly 5 percent in worst week since September
• Colorado consumer advocate reviewing Xcel rate hike request
• Proposed limited disclosure of drillers' fracking fluids comes under fire from Colorado counties
• AT&T to propose bigger asset sale to save T-Mobile merger, source says

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Today's Sports Headlines

Q&A: Explosiveness of Miller and Dumervil bodes well for the Broncos
Today's question about the Broncos comes from Wade P. in Nevada: How good is the Broncos (pass) rush going to be as (Von) Miller gets more experience?  

• Woody Paige: Colorado overjoyed by overcoming road woes
• Broncos defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley is making his presence felt
• Putting pressure on Rivers is the Broncos' best chance for success against the Chargers
• Olkinuora makes 38 saves as Pioneers stop Princeton 3-0
• Nelson's goal lifts Sioux past Tigers

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Today's Entertainment

"Collapse" needs a bit of scaffolding
Review: The premise could not be more earth-shaking — or anachronistic: A wild, comic romp set against the horror of the 2007 Minneapolis bridge disaster that killed 13 and injured 145. Rating: ***  

• A more human, tender "Phantom"
• Movie review: Kid's passion finds furry outlet in "Being Elmo" documentary
• "Escanaba 1922": Of fate and flatulence

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Today's Style

Family Fun, 11/26/11
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science will host live coverage and interactive programming from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in honor of the launch of the Curiosity rover to Mars today (Nov. 26).  

• Hey, readers, we want your holiday photos!
• Out & About, 11/26/11
• In House, 11/26/11
• Sale Insider, 11/26/11
• Colorado's year-round Christmas workshop

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: In Egypt, power to the people
The Arab Spring didn't begin in Egypt, but it achieved its most memorable triumph there. Yet that triumph was always understood to be fragile and incomplete, with its final resolution far from clear.  

• Editorial: Stuck on I-70? There's an app for that
• Colorado Voices: Second chance for teen killers?
• Rosen: My two cents on tipping
• Ditmer: What makes the U.S. is us