The Notebook
Zoos are becoming more cost-conscious and know that snakes don’t attract a big audience. So zoo operators are paving over the snake pits in order to develop more lucrative displays.
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Mike’s Market, home of the World’s Best Macaroon, had an open house last Thursday night. Some of the marketing: Mike’s family dinners to go. A variety of dinners, side dishes and so forth prepared by folks who know what they’re doing for us time-challenged types who live hereabouts.
Second grade students of Robyn Unger’s class at Northside Elementary School are working on a special community service project.
The students will weave placemats in art class for children who are patients at the Denver Children’s Hospital.
“Initially, were were going to make a Valentine’s Day project, but with a some creative minds in the class, it evolved into a community project,” says Ms. Unger.
Well done.
Second Sunday Cinema has a terrific film Sunday. It’s the “other” movie about author Truman Capote, ‘Infamous.’ Not that the other one, ‘Capote,’ starring Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t any good; no sir, he won an Oscar for the role. A good many critics have preferred this one, though it didn’t get the buzz.
‘Infamous’ stars Toby Jones, who is recognizable from his parts on BBC TV’s, ‘Midsomer Murders.’ Its cast is nothing less than stellar: Sandra Bullock as Capote’s cousin, the novelist Harper Lee; perhaps Bullock’s best work yet. Sigourney Weaver, Isabella Rossellini, Jeff Daniels and Gywneth Paltrow in supporting roles. Daniel Craig, the “new 007,” is Perry Smith, the stone-cold killer of a Kansas family, from whom Capote based his book, ‘In Cold Blood.’
Curtain: 1 p.m. in the cozy confines of the Fox/Penthouse Theatre, with pastries and coffee to greet patrons.
Film lover Kay Lair of Ridgway, by way of Midland, Tex., started SSC 11 years ago and has treated local film lovers with small, independent movies which are often provocative and entertaining.
Q: So who did all the printing and reproduction of those photographs at the Montrose Pavilion?
A: Ken Holyfield, and his capable crew at MegaPixel Imaging.
They did a super job. Those photos, part of the Daily Press’ 10 Years of Photojournalism Show had its debut Jan. 27. They will be on display at the Pavilion for another few weeks.
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“And if history is any guide, the claiming of a scalp this large will only add fuel to a pyre that is already licking at the heels of several better-known CEOs.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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“I always say my real purpose is to attract the largest audience I can and hold it for as long as I can so I can charge confiscatory advertising rates. Getting along is not the objective.”
—Rush Limbaugh, radio talk show host
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