Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Meet America's New Poverty Class: Twentysomethings
http://business-news.thestreet.com/denver-post/story/meet-americas-new-poverty-class-twentysomethings/11542949(hidethestreet) NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Does America have a new poverty class that leans closer to Charles Dickens than it does to Charles Darwin? OK, maybe.  

• Marni Jameson: Linen lovers run for cover daily
• As baby boomers age, pet industry gears up for changes
• Colorado pair's home near Franktown is a bird-watching haven
• Hagar: Not surprised at Van Halen tour woes
• APNewsBreak: Loretta Lynn married at 15, not 13

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Naomi Watts is "absolutely terrified" to play Princess Di
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The Rock saves Hollywood

Buy Jerry Garcia's house

 

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Today's Fitness

Fusing tomato with tomahto produces a sweeter yield
Gardeners are accustomed to hearing outrageous claims for new plants or products that promise: Better yields!  

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Today's Food and Dining

Alaska's Copper River salmon arrive in Seattle
SEATTLE—The first shipment of Alaska's Copper River salmon arrived Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport aboard an Alaska Airlines cargo flight from Cordova.

 

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Moms - Parenting

Screenwriter Terri Miller Talks With Us About Encouraging Imaginitive Storytelling For Kids
Have you ever wondered if your child may have a natural propensity for writing? We talk with Denver native Terri Miller, a mom and successful screenwriter, about her life as a writer and ways you can identify and encourage your child's gifts for storytelling.  

• Mama Drama: Direction Following Folly

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Today's Movies

Review: Grave work for actor Jack Black in gentle, dark comedy, "Bernie"
In 1998, Bernie Tiede, a beloved assistant funeral director with a beautiful voice and a kindly way of ushering the deceased of Carthage, Texas, to their eternal resting places, was tried for the murder of Marjorie Nugent.  

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Music - Classical

Denver-born composer Austin Wintory's musical journey
Given the dizzying speed at which Austin Wintory produces music, it's a wonder that any of it makes sense — let alone that it's winning awards and catapulting him into the echelons of his heroes.  

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Reverb

Why So Serious, Tommy Chong?
Stoner-comedy hero Tommy Chong, who's blazing back into Denver's Comedy Works this weekend, talks munchies, his first forays into stand-up, Louis C.K., Carrot Top and... golf?

 

• Mile Marker: Yellow Ostrich
• Pop & Circumstance: "X Factor" nabs Britney Spears, Demi Lovato
• Mickey Hart Band at the Ogden Theatre, 5/17/12 (photos)
• Colorado summer concerts 2012: 10 tough musical decisions before Labor Day

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Today's Style

Solar eclipse, transit of Venus coming to Colorado skies
They traveled the globe 250 years ago, spending months at sea and dealing with storms and disease, with wars and homesickness and miserable food, to witness Venus crossing the sun from different locations. The transit of Venus. Next month, when it happens for just the third time in 130 years, you can check it out, minus the shark worries and the rogue cannonballs.  

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Theater

Complete rundown of auditions
Last updated May 18, 2012.