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Matthew Phillips

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Denver's best bar patios: The great outdoors in the middle of the city

Denver's best bar patios: The great outdoors in the middle of the city

Denver Post — On a recent Tuesday afternoon, a 20-something with a windmill mohawk - his brunette spikes almost a foot high - stepped outside Mile High Spirits, 2920 Larimer St. in Denver's Curtis Park neighborhood. He slid a pair of green sunglasses on and wandered eastward. From his gait one would suspect he'd swilled two or three of the local distillery's signature Moscow Mules.
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How to save and stay sane during a move

How to save and stay sane during a move

The Denver Post — Dana Johnson a Denver-based international trade consultant, estimates she has moved 25 times inher 44 years. She knows the moving game backwards and forwards. "I've moved so much that I kind of have it down to a science," Johnson said. But even Johnson, somewhat of an informal moving expert, has let important things slip her mind.
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Our Last Little Fun (co-editor)

Our Last Little Fun (co-editor)

atavist.com — A once-dead retail space suddenly revived, a neon sign lit in the shape of a shamrock, a locked door, behind which lay legal gambling. Across the country, recession-weary working people were wiling away hours in places like this, playing poker, keno, and blackjack on blinking screens.
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Cooking with Cannabis: How marijuana affects baked goods in Colorado (with recipe)

Cooking with Cannabis: How marijuana affects baked goods in Colorado (with recipe)

Denver Post — It smells like cannabis in Julie Dooley's northeast Denver commercial kitchen. It's not the pungent Cheech and Chong odor though. It's slightly aromatic and not at all unpleasant. Marijuana-infused edibles might be easy for a devoted foodie to dismiss - if you think wayward teens and pot brownies - but cooking with cannabis is, in its own way, a high art.
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Home design: Stylish net-zero house on hill above Denver

Home design: Stylish net-zero house on hill above Denver

Denver Post — The image hangs in Brad Goeddel and Julie Applebury's first-floor hallway: a photograph of John Lennon from a poster for Lennon's album "Imagine." It's a fitting totem for the home that the married couple moved into in 2009. A talisman for their sanctuary, a three-bedroom, two-bath and 2,200-square-foot home nestled against William F. Hayden Park on Green Mountain in Lakewood - the one they call the "Ghost House." In the image, Lennon is an apparition; clothed in black and surrounded by ghostly white walls.
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2013 Underground Music Showcase rocks South Broadway in Denver

2013 Underground Music Showcase rocks South Broadway in Denver

Denver Post — Power guitar chords, sweet melodies, thunderous drums and even a little summer love. That's what the Denver Post's 13th Annual Underground Music Showcase provided fans of independent music Thursday and Friday.
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Lord Huron's Ben Schneider on the confluence of fact and fantasy

Lord Huron's Ben Schneider on the confluence of fact and fantasy

www.heyreverb.com — Here is a tall tale: Ben Schneider, frontman for L.A.-based band Lord Huron, one of the headliners at the 2013 Underground Music Showcase, fell asleep in a deep, desert darkness. He awoke on the surface of the moon. Sounds absurd, but like all folklore there is some truth to this tale. It was years ago, and Schneider was really in Joshua Tree, Calif.
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Denver poetry from teen, Spencer Seton

Denver poetry from teen, Spencer Seton

Denver Post — Spencer Seton writes longhand in a well-thumbed journal. His printing is neat, straight, even tidy. Sometimes, he scribbles out words and replaces them with new ones. It's like he's putting together a puzzle. Every piece must have its place. Seton, who goes by the moniker Smooth Sailing, has a dream. He wants to be a writer. He's a 19-year-old Denver street poet with a turbulent childhood behind him. An underdog, an almost-forgotten, Seton often sports solid black or beige shirts and a dangling, gold chain around his neck. He has designs on success today, because his failures of yesterday are long gone.
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Worries greater than secession dominate in Elbert, Lincoln counties

Worries greater than secession dominate in Elbert, Lincoln counties

Denver Post — Rolling east on Colorado 86, housing tracts give way to cattle and horse ranches outside Castle Rock. A few miles farther, crossing into Elbert County, the landscape steadily becomes more rural. In Elizabeth, Elbert County's largest town, there isn't much talk about the 51st state initiative - if any talk at all.
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Residual Kid, the youngest band at UMS 2013, on teenage mayhem

Residual Kid, the youngest band at UMS 2013, on teenage mayhem

www.heyreverb.com — Youth isn't always wasted on the young. Take the trio that forms Residual Kid - Deven Ivy, 15, Ben Redman, 14, and Max Redman, 13 - for example. The boys spend it with their ears bathed in stuttering guitar riffs and thunderous drums.
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Ozomatli, Left Hand team up for Intercambio fundraiser in Longmont

Ozomatli, Left Hand team up for Intercambio fundraiser in Longmont

Denver Post — It's not like Los Angeles-based band Ozomatli formed 18 years ago because they wanted to make some superfluous statement about the importance of diversity or cross-cultural ties. It's not like they wanted to point out that borders are, believe it or not, simply solid lines drawn onto a map. Ozomatli just reflects those truths, that's all.
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Local congregations to align, address citywide issues - San Diego Uptown News

Local congregations to align, address citywide issues - San Diego Uptown News

sduptownnews.com — By Matt Phillips An alliance of San Diego faith congregations, including two from Uptown, will gather Sunday, March 9 at University City United Church to discuss unmet community needs and to establish a clear directive for addressing those needs in 2014.
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