NHS Ethics Club Food Drive
by Elisa Cohen
HIGHLAND - North High School’s Ethic Club, founded by North High senior Isaac Solano, lives its name. The extracurricular group meets after school to perform works that will help the school and the surrounding community. This holiday season, the Ethics Club once again strives to feed the hungry with their 3rd annual canned food drive. The club seeks the help of the community to reach their food drive goal. Read the story »
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Family-Friendly and Surreal
HARKNESS HEIGHTS – One of the favorite books of my childhood was Roald Dahl’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I remember being angry when the movie version with Gene Wilder came out, because they changed things slightly, including having Charlie behave inappropriately and then get away with it. I knew that the current production at the Denver Victorian, an adaptation of the book, couldn’t try to match the special effects of either film version, so I was curious how they would deal with the magical and surreal world Dahl created in his story. Read the story »
Bliss Cafe, a hip, mod venue for food, music
ARVADA – Bliss, the state of ecstatic happiness so far from reach at times it seems a foreign word. With children attending schools along the Aurora border and the outer edges of Arvada and their dueling night time performance schedules, our family sampled the food at Bliss in Olde Town Arvada, in part because the café looked so inviting and in part because it was equidistant from two events our children were involved with in their schools. Luckily for us, the food was good, the mod hip environment was charming, and the service was quick enough that we all managed to make it to our destinations in time to enjoy the events of the evening. Read the story »
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Policy in Action
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