Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Adele's album "21" nominated for top Grammy
Adele's album "21," the most popular of 2011, was nominated for an album of the year Grammy on Wednesday. The mournful disc about a broken relationship faces competition from the Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light" as well as Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." Other nominees were Bruno Mars' "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" and Rihanna's steamy "Loud."  

• Kanye gets 7 Grammy noms; Adele, Mars, Foos get 6
• Adele introduces her stand-up side to new CD
• Rock 'n' roll impresario Barry Fey says no to drugs, yes to food
• Keeping Santa's cover in the Internet age
• Glenn Grassi's "micro-house" is big on efficiency

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Kris Humphries hopes to erase marriage with annulment
Also

Ashton takes rural break

Winehouse's dress sold

 

• People: Daniel Craig says if you sell your privacy, you can't buy it back

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Today's Food and Dining

The 2011 cookbook gift guide: Something for every cook on your list
It's been an astonishingly competitive year for cookbooks. Here's a baker's dozen of the year's best, one for every kind of cook on your holiday list.

 

• Oak at 14th restaurant reemerges from ashes in Boulder

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Gossip - Bill Husted

Rock 'n' roll impresario Barry Fey says no to drugs, yes to food
Barry Fey, lurking somewhere in his 60s, brought rock 'n' roll to Denver from the '60s until 1997 - producing hundreds of concerts. He brought U2, Led Zeppelin, the Dead and countless other acts to Denver and helped make Red Rocks a must-stop touring destination. He has just written a book about his rock adventures, "Backstage Past." He sat down recently with Bill Husted at Big Papa's BBQ.  

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Moms - Parenting

What to Wear This Holiday Season
Ah, the question that has haunted women, particularly moms, likely originating from the Fall of Man as Eve pulled the first leaf from her closet of nature, looking around, thinking "I have nothing to wear" and feeling certain that the foliage was unflattering in most every way – unfashionable and adding ten pounds in all the  

• Give back to your school when you purchase from Box Tops for Education Marketplace (win a gift card!)
• Hurry Up and Wait (part 2 of our journey with Asperger's)
• It's here! Mile High Mamas Holiday Gift Guide. The Baker's Dozen.

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Reverb

Why So Serious, Adam Carolla?
Is Adam Carolla sexist? Is he insensitive? Is he a blue collar champ or just a cynical talk show host? In case there was any doubt, the plain-spoken former host of "Loveline" and "The Man Show" does not actually care what you think, and he's got over 60 millions downloads of his "Adam Carolla Show" podcast (recently certified as the most-downloaded in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records) to prove that he doesn't really need to, either.

 

• Live review: The Kooks @ the Ogden Theatre
• Talk Talk: Peter Hook loves Denver, Gauntlet Hair loves Arnold, PBS loves Brass Tree and more music news
• Pop & Circumstance: Performance highlights and photos from Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011
• Steal This Track: Exclusive premiere from Molina, Isis Speaks, Bravo One and DJ Icewater

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Today's Skiing

Winter sports preview: wrestling, girls swimming, hockey and skiing
A preview of the rest of Colorado's winter high school sports: wrestling, girls swimming, hockey and skiing.

 

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Today's Style

What should a man smell like? Wood and spices
What should a man smell like?This is not an inquiry to be undertaken lightly — particularly at this time of the year when the gantlet of parties, events and mixers that stretches from  

• Style File: Designs on Denver; Call of the wild; The shoe fits
• Keeping Santa's cover in the Internet age
• Glenn Grassi's "micro-house" is big on efficiency
• Denver Post Fashion Calendar, 12/1/11
• The 2011 cookbook gift guide: Something for every cook on your list

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Theater - John Moore

Denver Center Theatre Company announces New Play Summit lineup
The Denver Center Theatre Company will bring a reading of a new musical based on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," two fully produced main stage world premieres and a multimedia workshop as part of its 2012 New Play Summit Feb. 10-12.  

Columnists newsletter from The Denver Post

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Today's Most Recent Columnist

A cop-out by Oregon's governor on the death penalty
The latest death penalty drama is playing out in Oregon. On Nov. 22, Gov. John Kitzhaber granted convicted killer Gary Haugen an indefinite reprieve from his scheduled Dec. 6 execution.  

• Littwin: #snuffingfreespeech
• Rosen: "Shameful" support for troops
• Editorial: A dishonest defense of detaining U.S. citizens
• Editorial: End power plays on state mapping
• Carroll: This is your brain on cupcakes ...

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Vincent Carroll - Opinion

Carroll: This is your brain on cupcakes ...
You too may have been astounded by the opening line of a Bloomberg wire story that appeared recently in this newspaper: "Cupcakes might be addictive, just like cocaine.  

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Mike Littwin - Opinion

Littwin: #snuffingfreespeech
You've probably heard the story of 18-year-old high schooler Emma Sullivan, whose tweet heard round the world — it got there somehow from Kansas — has become a centerpiece of the latest debates on free speech and that pesky new social media.  

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