contributing columnist
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The perfect prescription for health care reform may make us really feel sick
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The occasional bleating noises that have emerged from the offices of health care providers since the 2009 adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are about to swell into a full-throated chorus of high decibel wailings and lamentations. Within a few weeks insurors will be filing their premium schedules with state Insurance Commissions for the…
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Spring Fashions, 2013
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Nancy Sagar, public relations doyenne of Neiman Marcus, rushed into the tony Edge restaurant in the downtown Four Seasons hotel last week, minions and models following in her wake. I knew immediately that something was very wrong. Now Nancy and her staff dress in black, always black. It’s their uniform, and if they should…
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A Portrait of Robert Kennedy and War Horse are great entertainment
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A Portrait of Robert Kennedy by Jack Holmes. Directed by Terry Dodd and playing through February 24 at the Vintage Theatre, Aurora. War Horse adapted by Nick Stafford and the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa from the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo. A National Theatre of Great Britain production, directed by Nicholas Hytner and…
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January reflections on three Americans — two for the ages, one still belongs to Colorado
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January (1st) marks the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, by America’s greatest President, Abraham Lincoln. Make no mistake, and ignore criticism to the contrary – this one act by Lincoln (combined with winning the Civil War, of course) had more to do with the elimination of America’s Original Sin of Slavery…
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Stars of the West Shine at Citizen of the West Dinner
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STYLE MATTERS Style Matters loves attending fundraising dinners, social events with deserving honorees, and women’s luncheons where the finest jewelry and newest facelifts are on display. To misquote Shakespeare’s description of Cleopatra: “Custom cannot stale their infinite variety.” As many as I have attended, both as working media and as a guest, I still…
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A Portrait of Robert Kennedy and War Horse are great entertainment
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A Portrait of Robert Kennedy by Jack Holmes. Directed by Terry Dodd and playing through February 24 at the Vintage Theatre, Aurora. War Horse adapted by Nick Stafford and the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa from the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo. A National Theatre of Great Britain production, directed by Nicholas Hytner and…
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January reflections on three Americans — two for the ages, one still belongs to Colorado
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January (1st) marks the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, by America’s greatest President, Abraham Lincoln. Make no mistake, and ignore criticism to the contrary — this one act by Lincoln (combined with winning the Civil War, of course) had more to do with the elimination of America’s Original Sin of Slavery…
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Stars of the West Shine at Citizen of the West Dinner
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STYLE MATTERS Style Matters loves attending fundraising dinners, social events with deserving honorees, and women’s luncheons where the finest jewelry and newest facelifts are on display. To misquote Shakespeare’s description of Cleopatra: “Custom cannot stale their infinite variety.” As many as I have attended, both as working media and as a guest, I still get…
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No dragnet will catch every madman with a gun, but there is no excuse for not trying
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Only a fool bothers to write about guns in America. However polarized Congress may be today, firearms define a public fault line where passions bubble furiously along both sides of the divide. It’s nearly impossible to propose a middle course that doesn’t invite vituperative attacks from both gun nuts and their opponents. But, after the…
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STYLE MATTERS: Exploring Gift Shops at Denver’s Cultural Institutions
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Last issue we visited the museum stores at the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Style Matters was even more impressed with their inventory than we had hoped to be. Looking for the unusual, the unique and the one of a kind? Denver’s gift shops have them all. Figuring…