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Eggs Benedict is a notoriously hard dish to pull off. I wasn't even intimidated, though, when my girlfriend told me that's what she wanted for breakfast -- even though I had never made it before, I'm basically like the King Midas of victory, and I made that Eggs Benedict, and it was fucking delicious. I fucking killed it on that Eggs Benedict. Then I ate roughly 35 steaks in preparation for my debate with Andrew Orvedahl at Arguments & Grievances last night at the Vine Street Pub, where we had been called upon as men to defend our competing positions on attachment parenting: Orvedahl is for it, I'm against. The stakes were high, and obviously, Andrew Orvedahl did not eat enough steaks.

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Comedian Cory Kahaney

Friday night's installment of Feminism & Co., the third in this season's series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, was titled simply "Funny Women." But as the MCA has shown itself to be very good at doing, the museum had booked an expert in the field of funny: comedian Cory Kahaney. In turn, Kahaney offered some valuable insight into the history of women in stand-up comedy.

Kahaney -- a veteran comedian who has hosted her own HBO and Comedy Central specials, as well as a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing -- opened with a reference to a quote from Jerry Lewis: "A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world," Lewis famously said at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 1998.

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You can't take apart the LEGO sculptures at LEGO Kids Fest. I know, because I tried: Turns out the pieces are all glued together, presumably to protect them from assholes like me. Still, that's about the only thing you can't do at LEGO Kids Fest (held over the weekend at the Colorado Convention Center.) The rest is all interactive, and while that interaction is basically limited to putting stuff together with LEGO bricks -- "LEGO is always spelled with all caps, and never play with LEGOs; always play with LEGO bricks," the PR rep told me -- there are a lot of LEGO bricks to put together. Like, a shit-ton. More than I've ever seen in one place, anyway, and much more than enough to keep my nine-year-old LEGO-enthusiast son Avry entertained for a couple of hours.

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Deja Blue: cool or... not cool?

The basic Goodwill business model -- which relies on people cramming a bunch of garbage bags full of random shit they don't want anymore and giving it to Goodwill to sort and sell for cheap -- offers two major benefits: 1) You can get the shit for way cheaper than if you bought it new, and 2) There's a lot of great, weird stuff in these stores that you can't even find anywhere else. But those benefits come, of course, at a price: You have to be willing to dig through a heap of crap to get to them.

For some people -- like me -- the thrill of the chase is the best part; for others, not so much. And it's presumably that latter group that Goodwill seeks to cater to with Deja Blue, its brand-new "boutique" that purports to dig out all the good designer stuff and centralize it at one location. But while the prices are still cheap, I'm not sold.

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A ticket to tonight's Start the Art benefit concert buys more than just a night of good food, a cold beer and music by Westword Music Showcase nominee Josh Novak -- it buys a chance to support a brand-new initiative to ensure kids' access to arts education.

Event organizers Chris Fabian and Sarah Murray have teamed up with the Denver Art Society on the concert, where they'll unveil plans for the Treehouse Youth Art School, designed to generate a renaissance in the arts and "take the first step towards guaranteeing every child's right to the arts," Murray says.

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Today doesn't just mark the start of that festive, lush, and green holiday: St. Patrick's Day. It also kicks off that upcoming festive, lush and green season: spring.

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Charlie Murphy is returning to Denver with Charlie Murphy's Acid Trip Tour for a three day stint at the Comedy Works in Larimer Square. Westword recently spoke with Murphy to see what he enjoys most about comedy.

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Love was in the air on Friday night at Zip 37 in the Navajo Street Art District, where the show LoveSick opened to the public. The exhibit, which features nine artists contemplating the meaning of being lovesick, was curated by artist Katie Hoffman, who unveiled her own piece, Heloise and Abelard , done in oil on canvas.

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This piñata was whacked until it bled taffy.

Saturday night's Scorned Lovers Art Show and Event at the Art Salon was a revenge-laden success. The evening's anti-V-Day theme came through with humor (and minimal bitterness) as party-goers gathered around the low stage for some erotic poetry and selected excerpts from the My Teenage Angst diary readers. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse players reenacted breakup text messages mined from the Internet and a mysterious and mustached Love Sultan read fortunes -- or misfortunes -- of those willing to hear some good old-fashioned ambiguous advice.

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Get ready to place your paws on DIBS, or Denver Independent Boutiques, this Saturday. Because come sunshine or snowfall, DIBS creator and Rakun owner, Meghan Throckmorton, along with her contemporaries, will host an event called Sweetheart Boutique Crawl.

"This event is one way that we can encourage shoppers to buy from local fashion designers and support local business owners," she says. "We formed DIBS last November as a way to help each other grow and expand and cross-promote our stores. We will have an event at least once a season."

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