Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Bieber helps make 'Call Me Maybe' a big success
LONDON—Carly Rae Jepsen is playing cupid—on an international scale. Her catchy hit "Call Me Maybe" is about giving someone you don't know your phone number.  

• National Park Week means free admission
• Arvada Center announces a 2012-2013 season of mirth and music
• Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda are still sweating it out, showing us how to exercise
• Recipe: Healthy Mother's Day muffins
• Colorado Mountain Club celebrates its 100th year

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: "Hunger Games" star "obsessed" with Ryan Gosling flick
Also

Gregg Allman tell-all book

Blake, Reynolds buy house

 

• People: Kobe Bryant hoping to win wife back -- with a church?

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Today's Fitness

Words of encouragement: Losing weight and keeping it off
"I will always have to watch what I eat because I still live in the tempting food environment that got me heavy in the first place."  

• Denver Post Fitness Calendar, 4/24/2012
• Texts remind kids to use their asthma inhaler and meds
• Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda are still sweating it out, showing us how to exercise
• A trainer can jump-start your workout

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Today's Food and Dining

Recipe: Healthy Mother's Day muffins
Mom deserves a freshly baked breakfast in bed on her special day.But indulging her desire for a lazy morning doesn't mean you can't also respect her efforts to eat healthy.

 

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Moms - Parenting

25 Worst Things About Having a Big Family
It’s always wise to explore both sides of every issue. I recently shared the 25 Best Things About Having a Big Family. Believe it or not, there are some drawbacks when mom and dad are eye-crossingly outnumbered and there are more smelly little toes than stars in the sky. 1. If I ever win a family  

• Denver Deal: Colorado History Museum, LEGO Kidsfest, Consignments, Harkins Theaters
• Kid-friendly Exhibits Bring New History Colorado Center to Life (Win tickets!)
• Helping kids survive allergy season

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Today's Movies

"Pirates!" director, studio co-founder Peter Lord on Aardman, luxuriant beards
Director Peter Lord brought a couple of friends along to breakfast while in Denver the other week. His guests were stars of "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," the first feature directed by the Aardman Animation studios cofounder in more than 10 years. His last: the successful tale of ruffled feathers "Chicken Run," with Mel Gibson.  

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Reverb

Levitate festival: Rusko, DJ Shadow, Paper Diamond, Pictureplane at 1stBank Center, 4/20/12 (photos)
Levitate festival: Rusko, DJ Shadow, Paper Diamond, Pictureplane at 1stBank Center on 4/20/12. Photos of the concert.

 

• Dazzle Recordings Artist Festival at Dazzle Jazz, 4/21-22/12 (photos and review)
• The Cave Singers at the Larimer Lounge, 4/20/12 (photos and review)
• Akron/Family at the Fox Theatre, 4/20/12 (photos)
• Happy birthday, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
• Iron & Wine, Neko Case, Justin Townes Earle added to Folks Fest lineup

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Today's Style

5 Reasons to Visit: Pine Grove, Colorado
Don't blink or you'll miss it, but what this tiny town lacks in size, it makes up for in charm. Three years ago Pine Grove successfully petitioned to return Pine — which it had been called since sometime before 1920 — to the name it was given when it came to be in 1886, but either way, it's an apt moniker because the surrounding forests make a trip to this area southwest of Denver a visual delight.  

• National Park Week means free admission
• Words of encouragement: Losing weight and keeping it off
• Denver Post Fitness Calendar, 4/24/2012
• Texts remind kids to use their asthma inhaler and meds
• Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda are still sweating it out, showing us how to exercise

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Theater

Schedules by company
Last updated April 23, 2012  

• Schedules by opening date