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Deep, star-studded Avs reach the conference finals for 8th time since arriving in Denver

DENVER | Jared Bednar may have put it best after the Colorado Avalanche erased a three-goal deficit to win their series on an overtime tally by a defenseman who hadn’t scored since January and with a different team, no less. “That one was,” the coach said, “something.” Something, indeed. The Avalanche advanced to the Western […]

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Stolen car recovered, juveniles detained after East Colfax motel stand-off

AURORA | Following a stand-off at an East Colfax motel, Aurora police detained four juveniles Thursday in connection with an armed carjacking. According to Aurora Police Deputy Chief Michael Gaskill, a man reported Wednesday afternoon that four people assaulted him and stole his car, firing a gun at him as he ran away. The man […]

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A Vienna cafe offers a welcome for Israel supporters as tensions brew at the Eurovision Song Contest

VIENNA | Vienna’s famed coffeehouses have embraced the Eurovision Song Contest. They have also been touched by tensions over Israel’s inclusion in the sequin-drenched pop music competition. When officials announced a list of “Eurofan Cafes” — Vienna coffee shops offering food and music from competing countries — Israel was initially left out. MQ Kantine, a […]

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Movie Review: Sorry not sorry — ‘Is God Is’ stakes a claim for unapologetic female rage

As playwright Aleshea Harris tells it, something felt missing when she first sat down to write her searing and startling play “Is God Is,” which made waves off-Broadway in 2018. Harris was writing an epic story of Black female revenge, one that drew on Greek tragedy and mythology, but also spaghetti westerns and a liberal […]

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Sandra Oh, Kumail Nanjiani among ‘A List’ Asian American, Pacific Islander names in new HBO doc

Director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term Asian American and Pacific Islander and which ethnicities it includes. “When we’re talking about Asian Americans or Asian people in the U.S., oftentimes it’s people who might look like you and me, and maybe not people who look like (New York City Mayor) Zohran Mamdani,” […]

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Underwater memorial to wrecked slave ship draws pilgrims seeking to connect with their roots

KEY WEST, Fla. | Ruthie Browning dove into the calm, blue water off Key West, Florida, expecting to see “a big, old rock with stuff growing all over it.” She was on a pilgrimage with other Black divers and community members, visiting sacred sites including one where a British slave ship — the Henrietta Marie […]

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Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Chaka Khan and Vince Gill recordings enter national registry

LOS ANGELES | Albums and songs from Taylor Swift,Beyoncé,Chaka Khan and The Go-Go’s are joining America’s audio canon. The new inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include Swift’s blockbuster 2014 pop album “1989,” Beyoncé’s era-defining 2008 anthem “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” Khan’s genre-blending hit “I Feel for […]

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The world’s reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID

NEW YORK | The lingering impact of COVID-19, a few years out from the declaration that the pandemic was over, is scattered across how we live today — the work-from-home jobs, the way some have decided wearing masks is their new normal, the hand sanitizer dispensers that remain ever present. Some of the other ripples, […]