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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Midnight premiere of "The Hunger Games" in Denver leaves fans full
The midnight premiere of "The Hunger Games" was the perfect opportunity for Emily Rae Foreman and Molly Culhane to channel all of their literary sophistication and 13-year-old enthusiasm into one epic evening.  

• Fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent exhibit to open at Denver Art Museum
• Movie review: "Hunger Games" offers up youth death match as political theater
• Mondo Guerra celebrates win on "Project Runway All Stars"
• Kurtág's name, music difficult — but Chamber concert often ethereal
• Drowning, coke, heart disease killed Houston

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Sarah Jessica Parker writes to new Carrie Bradshaw
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Ex-wives reality show

Bates as Sheen's ghost

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• People: Oprah woos Maria Shriver to help save network

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Moms - Parenting

7 of the Best Books for First-time Moms
I’m at the age now where most of my peers are having children. Since I was one of the first of our friends to have kids, I have been getting more and more questions lately about pregnancy and parenting for first-time parents. One of the questions I get asked the most involves my favorite books for  

• Win VIK (Very Important Kid) or General Admission Tickets to the LEGO KidsFest! (20 Tickets Up for Grabs)
• To The Gentle Giant From A Mom Who Sometimes Gets It Wrong

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Today's Movies

Midnight premiere of "The Hunger Games" in Denver leaves fans full
The midnight premiere of "The Hunger Games" was the perfect opportunity for Emily Rae Foreman and Molly Culhane to channel all of their literary sophistication and 13-year-old enthusiasm into one epic evening.  

• Review: "Hunger Games" offers up youth death match as political theater
• Review: Audrey Tautou brings a little "Amelie" to "Delicacy," and that's just fine
• Review: "Let the Bullets Fly," along with the laughs
• Review: Sins of the father visited upon the son in "Forgiveness"
• Review: "Hunger Games" mania starts early, and for good reason

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Music - Classical

Kurtág's name, music difficult — but Chamber concert often ethereal
The name György Kurtág doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, and his music requires effort to understand. But in the hands of French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, even Kurtág's sparse, abrupt and angular motifs are palatable, and sometimes ethereal.  

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Reverb

Pop & Circumstance: Nicki Minaj signs Pepsi deal; a look back at past pop stars and soda pop
Nicki Minaj signs multi-million Pepsi deal for ad campaign. A look back at past pop stars in soda pop commercials

 

• Can't Hardly Wait: Drake to play Comfort Dental Amphitheatre in May
• Live review: Typhoon @ the Larimer Lounge
• Talk Talk: SnowBall releases profits, watch Tennis on "Leno," more music news
• Steal This Track: Katie Glassman and Katya Chorover

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Today's Style

Denver Art Museum previews Yves Saint Laurent exhibition
 It wasn't such a stretch for Denver to land the largest exhibition of the late French couturier Yves Saint Laurent's work ever to be shown in the United States, arts officials said at a  

• Theater review: Denver theater troupe's wildly original "Tommy Lee Jones"

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Ostrow: Answers promised at end of sodden crime series "The Killing"
Always the water. A persistent, mood-altering element. The rain on windshields and windowpanes, the running faucets. The ocean, the inlets. The pond in which Rosie Larsen's body was found.  

• Ostrow: An appealingly "Bent" sitcom on NBC
• Romney to look for laughs, and votes, on Leno show

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Theater

Theater Openings, 3/23/2012

 

• Review: Denver theater troupe's wildly original "Tommy Lee Jones"