His royal highness, Prince.

His Royal Highness Prince Harry spent the day on Sunday enjoying the Colorado scenery -- and hopefully some of our best weed -- while the Prince of Purple played two of his four shows at the Ogden with his new band 3rd Eye Girl (he plays two more tonight). And while the two princes probably won't meet up to party together like it was 1999 -- or, in Harry's case, like it was 1899, since he is supposed to be on his best behavior after his recent, well-memed ass-capades in Las Vegas. Of these two princes visiting our fair state of Colorado, which one deserves a crown more? Here's our comparison.

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Denver Arts & Venues

What makes a city great? Bolstering the arts and culture is a good place to start, and many of the nation's best cities rely on a civic cultural plan to figure how to best do that. Denver's last attempt at such a plan came back in 1989 when Federico Peña was mayor, and it was a good one. Still, a lot has changed -- the entire urban landscape, for instance -- since then.

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Space might be the place, but earth is home, sweet, home. And for that reason, tonight's installment of Deer Pile's monthly space-nerd evening, Space in Your Face, will turn its telescope on the place where we live, approaching the planet from a dizzying variety of angles, both scientific and out-of-this-world.

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- Lost in Space: Space Junk 3D
- We talk with DMNS Curator of Astrobiology David Grinspoon about 2001
- Dr. David Grinspoon is out of this world! Discover Life Out There this weekend at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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Drink to Honest Abe at Drinkin' with Lincoln.

Folks don't usually think of turning Presidents' Day into a party with drinking games. This most humble of three-day weekends is often associated with mattress sales and sanctioned hooky-playing, not necessarily the beloved national heroes it was meant to honor.

But KGNU Community Radio is out to combine both the honoring and the swilling parts at tonight's Drinkin' with Lincoln event, an evening devoted to Lincolnian facts and trivia...and a bit of silly quaffing in the name of Honest Abe.

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- Drinkin' with Lincoln
- Happy Birthday Abraham! Five Songs that mention Abraham Lincoln
- Read an excerpt from Noah Van Sciver's The Hypo; get the book at Kilgore tomorrow night

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You really do get cookies and milk at Evan Weissman's Warm Cookies of the Revolution.

#93: Evan Weissman

Evan Weissman already deserves the Colorado Creative designation as a member of the wildly creative Buntport Theater (the whole troupe was honored as such when they received a Westword MasterMind award back in 2005 as part of the inaugural class). But then, late last year, he came up with the darndest idea: a new way to get people talking to each other about civic issues.

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- Evan Weissman on why Warm Cookies of the Revolution is good for your civic health
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Onus Spears
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Estee Fox's original piece hanging with other student work at Auraria.

Talk about art on the cutting-edge! On Friday, February 1, the show Estee Fox: fox tales ft. 7 and marbles -- an eclectic mix of videos, paintings and live music -- will open at Edge Gallery, complete with a screening and discussion of Fox's performance piece "How to: A Pretty Vagina." As the artist explains: "For my performance, I cut off a piece of my vagina. This is not about being sick, but of being well in the world. While I was candidly citing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the global sense, I am more specifically drawing attention to the aesthetic genital mutilation in the U.S. This procedure is more commonly know as labia-plasty. It arose with the invention of the designer vagina."

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- Circumcision: Colorado to stop Medicaid coverage of snipping newborn boys' foreskins
- Residue Denver: Artists act out at Edge Gallery
- Susanne Mitchell documents African culture at Edge

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The GoosInator: Yes, it's a real thing.

So normally when my roomie yells "Check this sh*t out on YouTube!!!" I ignore him, but when he told me Denver had a goose-scaring robot to rid its parks of geese, I had to watch. And I saw the "GoosInator," a highway cone-orange creation that looks like something sewn on to an Ed Hardy shirt, making a scary lawn-mower noise and being operated via remote control by a Parks and Rec intern.

"Wow," I remarked. If there was a way that Denver Parks and Recreation could waste *more* money, I don't know what it is (and please, DP&R, don't take this as a challenge or a dare, I beg you).

Here are five reasons why Denver's "GoosInator" goose-scaring machine for parks is super-stupid. I sincerely hope that whoever bought these kept the receipts, or at least got the extended warranty plan.

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- Occupy Denver: Parks and Rec launches expensive park clean-up, protesters help
- Beware the golden egg of Denver's goose harrassers
- What's good for the (Canada) goose isn't really good for Denver

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Fares keep going up...

Riding RTD buses, on certain routes, is an awful lot like using my old roommate's microwave oven: It's steamy, filled with food splatter and spittle, smells like armpits, and you just never know what fresh hell you are going to find in there. But the Regional Transportation District's board of directors recently voted to cap the spending for 32 new shuttle buses at $21,147,350, amidst objections from two board members that the new buses might not be worth the price being discussed -- or any price at all.

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- Best Transportation Deal - 2011 RTD Eco Pass
- RTD fare increases are better for everyone: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

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Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater describes his growing side-project Warm Cookies of the Revolution as a "civic health club." All about getting people together to discuss community issues and have fun, the growing monthly event just naturally draws out ideas in a positive environment. This month, he's invited three very different folks to present differing views of the perfect government, but the evening will also include cooperative LEGO city-building and, well, warm cookies and milk.

In advance of tonight's session at Buntport, we chatted with Weissman about the series and the theme; the Q&A follows. For details visit the Facebook event page.

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- Warm Cookies of the Revolution: Bring Your Government!
- The arts in Denver: Ten people to watch in 2013
- Warm Cookies of the Revolution invites you to share food for thought in Denver tonight

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Check out this glorious mustache.

Editor's note: Mustaches are de rigueur on uncles, cops and closing pitchers, but they've also become a fixture on the upper lips of the young and the hip. In fact, it's hard to imagine a time since the Civil War when razors were so ignored. But the look can be polarizing, and Westword contributors Samantha Alviani and Bree Davies each represent the opposite ends of that spectrum. See Davies's take in "Mustaches: They're gross, they scratch my face, and the Civil War is over"; here's Alviani's:

My love and appreciation of the mustache began at a young age, when I came across a picture of my dad taken in the early '70s. The photo was probably shot somewhere in New England, and Dad was leaning casually against the post of a wooden fence, decked out in bell-bottoms and a classic -- yet slightly unkempt -- handlebar mustache. A different incarnation of that mustache would show up a decade later when he was working in politics; groomed and polished, it had an air of seriousness, but was no less exuberant.

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