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Denver Parks and Recreation has scrambled to stay on top of upkeep in the city’s green spaces after temporary city budget cuts prompted by the migrant crisis delayed spring hiring, department officials say. The result has been longer grass, along with plentiful dandelions and other weeds, spotted by visitors to Mestizo-Curtis Park in Five Points, Mamie D.

Denver Fringe Festival turns 5 Thursday-June 9. Denver’s version of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival returns Thursday, June 6, with new and experimental shows ranging from one-person multimedia performances to improv, dance, juggling, and magic. National performers and some of Colorado’s most celebrated actors, singers and comics are on tap, including at free shows, street performances, and the two-day KidsFringe. Colorado native Naomi Grossman, best known as Pepper from “American Horror Story,” is bringing her one-woman autobiographical show “American Whore Story” as this year’s headliner, June 6 and 9 at the Bug Theatre, producers said. But with more than 150 performances and 60 productions spread across 20 venues in the River North Art District, the historic Five Points neighborhood, the Lower Highlands, Aurora and other locales, you’d do well to check out Denver Fringe Festival’s schedule at denverfringe.org.

You are invited to a graduation party. Yes, it’s the season and you’ve maybe been to a few, but think about accepting the invite for this one, too, from Victoria and Jacob, Aunt Bertie and Cousin Cygna in honor of their dear Alex — and in celebration of the many forms this thing we call theater can take and the many ways it can delight. Over the next three weekends, the Boulder-based theater company the Catamounts is bringing its gift for artisanal adventure to Greenwood Village and turning the grounds of the Museum of Outdoor Art into something akin to a sky-box theater.

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO (AP Business Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy reported another quarterly drop in sales as the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain wrestles with cautious spending by Americans as they prioritize essential purchases and pay more for things like rent. The company has reported quarterly sales declines for more than two years, a stretch reaching back to the pandemic when households were bulking up on new laptops and other goods to work from home. Sales were worse than Wall Street had expected, but profits were better than projected.

Prairie View baseball’s put itself on the map. The Thunderhawks are in the Class 5A Final Four this weekend amid their first appearance at the state tournament, one that’s been years in the making considering the majority of Prairie View’s lineup started since their freshman years. “We had a true commitment and dedication to each other over the past two, three years,” ninth-year Prairie View head coach Mark Gonzales said.

Respect for the many caring funeral directors Re: “Colorado finally will license funeral home directors,” May 25 news story Rep. Matt Soper would have been correct if he’d referred only to the Return to Nature and Sunset Mesa funeral homes as a “dark, dark world.” His mistake was in painting the entire death-care industry with that broad brush. I have been in the business for more than 15 years at Colorado’s oldest family-owned funeral home.