Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Ex-Playboy playmate gets $1.2M in suit vs. NYPD
NEW YORK—A New York City jury has awarded a former Playboy playmate $1.2 million for injuries she suffered during a 2006 scuffle with police based on a taxi driver's false accusation that she was armed and dangerous.  

• Christo Over the River plan to drape Arkansas pushed back a year
• Author Michael Pollan pares down healthy eating into simple suggestions in "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual"
• Sugarland attorneys: Injured Ind. fans share blame
• A Colorado hot-spring soak is so much sweeter in private
• SEALs hope film blitz draws recruits

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Today's Food and Dining

Author Michael Pollan pares down healthy eating into simple suggestions in "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual"
Michael Pollan's media coronation over the past half-decade has been nothing short of stunning. The Berkeley, Calif.-based author and professor is responsible for The New York Times best-selling books "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food," tomes that have not only changed the way we talk about food but also netted their author a certain guru status among forward-thinking eaters.

 

• Mild winter concerns some maple syrup producers
• 12th annual Soup for the Soul fundraiser helps hospice
• Mr Beer: Estate auction taps Danny Williams' gold mine of beers
• Got a reservation for Denver Restaurant Week? It's not too late!
• Denver Restaurant Week feeds a growing appetite

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Gossip

Parker: Marlowe's celebrates 30th anniversary with meal deals, music
When Marlowe's first opened in 1982 at16th and Glenarm streets, the 16th Street Mall was still converting to a pedestrian-and-shuttle-only street.  

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Moms - Parenting

Mama, I'm Coming Home (the conclusion to our journey with Asperger's Syndrome)
In my last guest post, I ended by saying we had received Z's Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis, researched alternatives to public schools and their IEPs and settled on a nearby private inclusion preschool and supplemental therapy. Z was going to get everything he needed. All was set. Until…. Until J, my husband, got a job offer in  

• Event Round-up: Colorado Baby and Kidz Expo, BugaRhythm & More!
• Leap Year: The Fun Inside Scoop On the Whats & the Whys!
• Something New: Skibiking at Winter Park

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Today's Movies

SEALs hope film blitz draws recruits
WASHINGTON—Navy SEALs never expected the film "Act of Valor," starring real, active-duty Navy SEALs, to be this big.  

• Netflix strikes movie deal with Weinstein Co.

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Reverb

News: Passion Pit, Justice headed to Red Rocks in August
Passion Pit and Justice will play Red Rocks Amphitheatre in August 2012

 

• Album reviews: Galactic, Grimes, Tyga
• Blur, the Specials, New Order to close out 2012 Olympics in London
• Can't Hardly Wait: Florence + the Machine announce Red Rocks date

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Today's Style

Look of the Day, 2/22/2012

Photos of people at events, on the street, runway shows and on the red carpet.  

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Comcast to start new minority-owned cable channels
NEW YORK—Comcast will launch four minority-owned networks on its cable-TV systems in the next two years, including channels spearheaded by music mogul Sean "P.  

• 9News anchor Kyle Dyer doing well after 2nd surgery to repair dog bite injuries
• Magic Johnson starting TV network targeting blacks