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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Album reviews: The Chieftains go indie; Lyle Lovett goes diverse
There was no way they could have seen this coming. First, Irish music heroes the Chieftains scored a couple big-name indie collaborators for their next record, which will mark its 50th anniversary.  

• Davidson: Saturday Night Alive's hopping frog-themed Denver benefit
• Whitney Houston leaves everything to her daughter
• Jury hears 2 versions of when Sheridan's role cut
• Body artists bring vision to naked fruition at Denver Fashion Weekend
• Boulder Restaurateur and 'locavore' Eric Skokan is a do-it-yourself kind of guy

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Taylor Swift changes her tune, sports a Kanye West design
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Split for "Bachelor" creator

Ashton at Rumer's concert

 

• People: Arnold says he and Maria still are divorcing

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Today's Food and Dining

Retro exhibition stirs appetite for retro recipes
Has this ever happened to you? You're in an antiques store, you see something from your childhood and say, "I had that growing up!

 

• If you like bacon, wait until you try pancetta
• Denver's Pinche Taqueria: small plates, big flavors
• Beautiful French simplicity of tartines

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Moms - Parenting

How to teach your children to practice music so they can learn to play it
It is common knowledge that teaching children to play and appreciate music generates numerous lifetime benefits. Many parents, however, are hesitant to spend money on private lessons for fear that their child won't have the discipline to practice. Other parents may have spent plenty of money on lessons only to find their child's expensive instrument  

• Muppets Parody The Hunger Games
• Royal Gorge zip line will be world's highest
• Pinterest isn't for Everyone

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Today's Movies

Teenager petitions to change R rating for 'Bully'
LOS ANGELES—Katy Butler hasn't forgotten what it was like to be bullied in the seventh grade, when a group of boys surrounded her, taunted her and broke her finger by slamming it into a locker.  

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Music - Classical

Chairwoman of Aspen Music Festival steps down
Kay Bucksbaum, the chairwoman of the Aspen Music Festival and School's board of trustees, has stepped down from the position due to health reasons, the music festival announced Tuesday.  

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Reverb

Live review: Leftover Salmon @ the Fox Theatre
Colorado act Leftover Salmon played two blistering sets at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Tuesday

 

• Why So Serious, Nikki Glaser?
• Talk Talk: Your weekly dose of Colorado music news

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Today's Style

Denver Post Fashion Calendar, 3/8/2012

 

• Amy's rules on dating with an age gap (3/8/12)
• Davidson: Saturday Night Alive's hopping frog-themed Denver benefit
• Show: Fashionable paper dolls
• Store: YSL gems and clothing
• Five tips: Shopping vintage for spring

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Ostrow: Public radio launches four-part series on nuclear energy
On the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan, public radio stations nationally will carry a four-part documentary series focusing on nuclear  

• Ostrow: Angie Austin out at KWGN

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Society - Joanne Davidson

Davidson: Saturday Night Alive's hopping frog-themed Denver benefit
Bullfrogs aren't a common sight at fundraising galas like Saturday Night Alive. But when they are, they bring some fun elements to the table. Literally. Shades of Jeremiah, the amphibian that Three Dog Night sang about in their 1971 hit "Joy to the World," were evident in everything from the décor to the cocktail-hour menu.