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DU women's lacrosse team embarking on historic season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — It has been a season of firsts for the University of Denver’s women’s lacrosse team.“First time being ranked fourth, first time being 10-0, and the best start to a season the program has had,” said Ellie Curry, a senior midfielder.Their historic start includes four victories over teams ranked in the top 25. But after beating national powers like Maryland and Boston College, head coach Liza Kelly had a hard time coming up with a word to describe what makes the Pioneers go.“I don’t even know if it would be swagger,” said Kelly. “They’re just driven. They have the drive to want to win and to keep winning.” How much will a Colorado Rockies game cost a family of 4? “We have a high bar for ourselves. But within the lacrosse world, we’ve always played with that kind of [drive]. People don’t always know us or recognize us, we’ve always played with that hunger to show people who we are,” said Sam Thacker, senior defense.Denver is one of only three undefeated teams...

Denver weather: Winds to calm for breezy, warm weekend

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay dry and windy, leading to increased fire danger through Friday evening. Red flag warnings will stay in effect through 7 p.m. ahead of a warmer weekend. Weather tonight: Breezy and cool Dry and breezy weather will stick around through Friday night. Wind speeds will calm some to 5-15 mph with gusts at times around 40 mph as low temperatures fall to around 30 degrees. Weather tomorrow: Warm and breezy Saturday will be sunny, breezy and warmer. High temperatures will reach the mid-60s with wind gusts reaching 20-25 mph. Looking ahead: Nice weekend ahead of rain, snow showersWarm, breezy weather will continue on Sunday as high temperatures climb to the upper 60s alongside wind gusts reaching around 30 mph. Dry, breezy conditions will continue into Monday and help highs climb into the mid to upper 60s. The next chance for showers moves in Monday night into Tuesday. This will be followed by much cooler temperatures and another chance for sho...

April Events

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

Chameleon Arts Ensemble Presents Fêtes galantesDate: Saturday, April 1 & Sunday, April 2Time: Saturday @ 8:00pm; Sunday @ 4:00pmLocation: First Church, 66 Marlborough St., Boston, MAMore Info: https://chameleonarts.org/concerts/fetes-galantes/Chameleon continues its 25th anniversary season with Fêtes galantes! The program brings together rhapsody and reverie, dreams and magic and includes Claude Debussy’s Première rhapsodie for clarinet and piano; Helen Grime’s take on the commedia dell’arte, Seven Pierrot Miniatures for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano, and many more. The program was inspired by Gabriel Fauré’s Cinq Mélodies “de Venise” for soprano and piano, Op. 58. Composed in 1891, the short cycle is based on five poems by Paul Verlaine from his collections Fêtes galantes and Romances sans paroles. Though Faure considered the grouping to be a kind of suite or story, the end result is more mood than narrative, perfectly capturing the moonlit scenes o...

Boston rock scene star Rick Berlin reunites bands for Brighton show

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

He’d be the last one to say so, but Rick Berlin is one of the longtime heroes of the local rock scene. Over the years he’s led some of Boston’s most artful bands, three of which will be playing at Brighton Music Hall Thursday.Along with his current Nickel & Dime Band, Berlin will be reuniting his ‘70s band Orchestra Luna and his ‘80s band Berlin Airlift; both for the first time in decades. He’s reunited all the surviving members (each band has sustained a couple of losses), and he’s pulled in a star lineup of guest bands– the Sheila Divine, Hallelujah the Hills, and the Nervous Eaters — who between them represent a good half-century of Boston music history.““I can imagine all the white-hairs in the audience, and I’m worried I’ll be keeping them up past their bedtime,” Berlin laughs. “It’s a lot to ask of an audience to take in four hours of music that one guy wrote, plus three awesome other bands. I just hope there’s somebody there when we get to the finale.”Even in ...

Mandery & Dannenberg: Make elite colleges do the right thing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

Within the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court is almost certain to rule race-based affirmative action unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by a group of Asian-American applicants denied admission to Harvard.Harvard and other high-brow colleges could have responded to the lawsuit by limiting the significant preferences they give to children of alumni (legacies) and donors and ending the practice of early admissions — all of which disproportionately benefit white, well-connected, and wealthy applicants. Curtailing these practices would have created more opportunity for socioeconomically disadvantaged students and those from marginalized communities. It also would have partially counteracted the mistrust of elites that has become such a divisive force in America.Harvard chose not to change.The university’s indignant insistence on continuing its longstanding practice of what amounts to affirmative action for the rich needs to be understood in historical context. Harvard began inst...

Editorial: New VA motto reflects today’s military

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is commendably replacing its motto with a gender-neutral one reflecting a modern reality: women serve in the military, too, not just men.In an age where the term “woke” too often derisively greets such changes, consider an influential advocate for the update. It’s the well-regarded Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) service organization.IAVA, as the name suggests, represents military men and women from the nation’s most recent conflicts. The organization has been a powerhouse at the U.S. Capitol, where it played a leading role in passing legislation to aid veterans exposed to burn pits.The wording change has long been an IAVA priority. It began its update-the-motto campaign in 2017 in response to members’ concerns. Not surprisingly, the organization’s own leadership reflects the modern era’s more diverse fighting forces. Its CEO is Allison Jaslow, a former U.S. Army captain who has lo...

Lowry: Outrage of Jan. 6 shouldn’t be valorized

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

The philosopher Eric Hoffer famously wrote, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”What he evidently didn’t count on was great outrages becoming causes.From the perspective of the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, it was hard enough to believe that Donald Trump would survive the event, let alone make it a plank in a powerful comeback bid just a few years later. But there was Trump in Waco, Texas, opening his inaugural rally of the 2024 campaign with a recording of the song “Justice for All” that he performed with the J6 Prison Choir, with some scenes of Jan. 6 playing on the jumbotrons.Among those favorably inclined toward it, the riot at the Capitol has progressed from something to be minimized closer to something to be celebrated. For Trump, a master at appropriating the catch lines and attacks of the other side, reversing the meaning of Jan. 6 would be his most audacious move yet. How long ...

RJ Barrett, Obi Toppin get into dustup during win vs Cavs: ‘It probably happens more than people realize’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

A dustup on the Knicks bench between RJ Barrett and Obi Toppin had to be separated by Tom Thibodeau, who downplayed the incident as a normal product of competitive spirit.“The cameras are everywhere. It probably happens more than people realize,” Thibodeau said. “Heat of the moment. It dissipated immediately. If there’s a flare-up, go talk to each other. When they walked out together [on the court], I knew they were fine. And just move on. Win the game. When everyone wants to win, sometimes there’s a difference of opinion. Just put the team first and that’s what they did.”TV cameras caught the tense exchange between teammates during a third-quarter timeout.  It appeared Barrett was angered by something Toppin said and stood up to go at his teammate. Barrett was pulled away from the scene by assistant coach Johnnie Bryant.Toppin and Barrett posed for pictures together in the locker room postgame to demonstrate it was water under the brid...

Dear Abby: Ghosted by GF, then tragedy strikes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

Dear Abby: My first long-term girlfriend ghosted me. She died soon afterward, and I’m left with a gaping lack of closure. I’m 19. We had dated for four years and we were best friends. We didn’t live together, but planned to in the coming months. I intended to marry her.One day out of the blue, she cut me off. She had been acting depressed, but convinced me she was fine when I (gingerly) confronted her about it. She ghosted me the next day. She blocked me, changed her number and refused to speak to me when I showed up at her house. Everything to my knowledge had been fine between us.Weeks later, she had a terrible accident at work, and died in the hospital. I learned about it only afterward, from her mother. Her parents have denied me access to her room, to some shared personal and sentimental belongings and wouldn’t let me adopt her pets, which were sent to the pound. Most painful for me, they asked that I not come to her funeral. Her family believes that bec...

Security cameras capture person vandalizing menorah outside SDSU Chabad House

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:50 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Security cameras captured someone vandalizing a menorah outside the Chabad House near San Diego State University.The footage shows one person shaking the menorah until it begins to break. The incident happened sometime early Sunday morning."This time I think is really the worst out of all the incidents. The individual who did this came with rage and intention to destroy and hurt a symbol of peace and light," Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah said.Boudjnah said he believes the vandalism was deliberate.When a similar incident happened less than two years ago, it was also caught on camera. San Diego jury awards $46M to paralyzed jiu-jitsu student The Rabbi said after that incident the menorah was rebuilt and he started working with the university on a task force to combat anti-Semitism."The past two-and-a-half years, we had three anti-Semitic incidents, with the menorah being torn down," the rabbi said.The now-destroyed menorah cost about $7,000. The Chabad House has received an est...