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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Theater review: Bewitching "Wicked" still stands strong
It's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? I was. The "American Pie" movie franchise? Still haven't taken a fork to that. The blockbuster musical "Wicked" is a slightly different matter. Rating: ***  

• Theater reviews: "Big Heart" and "Date" prove love is for amateurs
• Court denies Hudson is getting star treatment
• 'Once' leads Tony Award nominations with 11 nods
• Louis C.K., Bjork among Webby Awards winners
• Opera Colorado's Il Trovatore an imaginative, absorbing affair

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: "Me?!" Samuel L. Jackson found himself in Marvel comic
Also

Ryan O'Neal book bashed

Katy Perry moving on

 

• People: Jon Hamm buries the hatchet with Kim Kardashian

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Today's Fitness

Fit Food: Lower-calorie Cinco de Mayo coolers
It's easy to love a great cocktail. Until you look at the numbers.Some margaritas, for example, can pack upward of 1,000 calories. That's an awful lot of empty calories for something that truly is just a minute on the lips.  

• Fitness activities replace drinking at some bachelorette parties
• Home: A little place to keep a lot of (fitness) stuff
• Denver Post Fitness Calendar, 5/1/2012: Scurry out to help Denver Dumb Friends League

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Moms - Parenting

Grand Prize Giveaway: Two-night Family Getaway to Cheyenne Mountain Resort & Zoo!
I’m a longtime fan of Colorado Springs and since my husband’s best friend lives there, we look for any excuse to have a getaway weekend. Plus, as a bonus he usually treats us to dinner. (This time we indulged at Tucanos Brazlian Grill, one of the hottest newest restaurants in town.) My love for Colorado  

• Becoming Mothers: When your water breaks in public & baby manipulates you from the womb
• Denver Deal: Couponing Workshop, Volunteer Opportunity, Mom's Day Freebies and more
• Rural after-school program runs afoul of Colorado rules

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Music - Classical

Opera Colorado's Il Trovatore an imaginative, absorbing affair
Opening nights at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House are always festive affairs, filled with anticipation, and Opera Colorado's opening of Guiseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore" on Saturday was no exception.  

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Reverb

Snow Patrol at the Fillmore Auditorium, 4/27/12 (photos and review)
Snow Patrol at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on 4/27/12. Photos and review of the concert.

 

• Communikey Festival in Boulder, 4/27-2/29 (photos and review)
• Real Estate at the Gothic Theatre, 4/27/12 (photos and review)
• My Morning Jacket returns to Red Rocks with Band of Horses, Trombone Shorty
• Elephant Revival at the Ogden Theatre, 4/27/12 (photos)
• Steal This Track: Low Gravity, Rubedo and Tin Horn Prayer

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Today's Style

Fit Food: Lower-calorie Cinco de Mayo coolers
It's easy to love a great cocktail. Until you look at the numbers.Some margaritas, for example, can pack upward of 1,000 calories. That's an awful lot of empty calories for something that truly is just a minute on the lips.  

• Fitness activities replace drinking at some bachelorette parties
• Drs. Oz and Roizen: Sublingual allergy drops; preventing ovarian cancer
• Home: A little place to keep a lot of (fitness) stuff
• Colorado duo Bill Forrest and Kris Walker mark 40 years since making news with Black Canyon's Painted Wall climb
• Rafting Colorado rivers not so wild in 2012: Water that's not too high, not too low can be just right for first-timers

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Theater

Theater review: Bewitching "Wicked" still stands strong
It's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? I was. The "American Pie" movie franchise? Still haven't taken a fork to that. The blockbuster musical "Wicked" is a slightly different matter. Rating: ***  

• "Big Heart" and "Date" prove love is for amateurs
• Honor roll: Coloradans on national stages
• 'Once' leads Tony Award nominations with 11 nods
• Schedules by opening date
• Schedules by company