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Contributions can be made to a money tree, and raffl e tickets will be sold for a chance to win one of Barnes’s beautiful illustrations. Admission is a suggested donation of $10 at the door; get details at http://rivernorthart. squarespace.com/crow/midsummers-night-benefit-party-for-michelle-barnes.html. — SUSAN FROYD SUNDAY|8.1 [BOOK CLUB] GRAPHIC TALK Book clubs don’t haveto include stuffed shirts discussing “literature” or soccer moms fawn-ing over Oprah’s latest selection. Just take the Koelbel Library’s Adult Graphic Novel Book Clubas an example (by the way, that’s adult as in “for grownups,” not adult as in porn). Every 28 days, fans of the graphic novel meet to break down the best books in the cutting-edge form in a casual, fun atmosphere. Led bythe library’sNick Taylor, the club started a year ago to help drawattention to the library’s underutilized graphic novel section. “There’s an audience for [mature graphic novels],” he explains. “The trend in comics is to make a lot more mature,kind of deeper comics rather than standard kind of superhero stuff.” The current selection is Warren Ellis’s Or-biter, a haunting sci-fi epic. You can pick up a copy at the front desk of the Koelbel Library, 5955 South Holly Street in Centennial. Then come back for the discussion today from 2 to 4 p.m. Next up, the club meets on August 29 to discuss Charles Burns’s Black Hole, a satirical story about a fi ctional STD called Bug. For more info, visit www.arapahoeli-braries.org or call 303-542-7279. — CORY CASCIATO [BIKE RACE] GET A GRIP WITH THE YETI BETIS Denver’s best bars are one click away Ladies lovedirt, too, and the mountain-bike racing Yeti Betis are out to prove it today with the first-ever Beti Bike Bash at Bear Creek Lake Park. “The Yeti Betis are all super-active in all aspects of racing,” says Beti spokes-woman Sarah Rawley. “We wanted to have an event that encourages any woman — even fi rst-time racers or people who haven’t rid-den a lot — to experience that women’s field racing is a lot different than men’s. “It’s just a very positive, encouraging atmosphere,and wefelt that a lot of women weremissing that,” she adds. “We just kind of wanted to break all that down and havea no-barriers event where anyone could come and race, havea good time, feel accomplished and maybe learn something new.” The Bike Bash kicks off today at the park, 15600 West Morrison Road in Lakewood, | Hit the trail at the Beti Bike Bash. women and a relay race, truly allowing something for everyone.Afterward, an expo will be open with product demonstrations, a massage therapist and brews from Great Divide. The race is $30 to $40; register at www.active.com or go to www.betibike-bash.com for information. — AMBER TAUFEN MONDAY|8.2 [BOOK SIGNING] PLANET WAVES Science and sci-fi collide in What If Earth Had Two Moons?: And NineOther Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar Sys-tem, a new book from University of Maine professor of physics and astronomy Neil Comins that theorizes about the possibility of life on an Earth thrown willy-nilly into physical scenarios other than the existing one. Comins toys with our planet’s axis, its age, its mass and more, and in turn, the speculations spread to the rest of the uni-verse and the idea that somewhere out there, there’s another planet with conditions ideal for supporting life. And he does all with a contemporary sleight of hand supported by the latest scientific research. Maybe it’sjust a twist of fate, but Comins will ask the question “What if?” tonight at 7:30 p.m. when he discusses and signs the book at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street; for more information, go to www.tat-teredcover.com or call 303-436-1070. — SUSAN FROYD TUESDAY|8.3 [FILM] A VAMPIRE MOVIE THAT DOESN’T SUCK Despite the tragic death earlier this year of star Corey Haim — not to mention a regret-table, never-should’ve-been-filmed sequel in 2008 — The LostBoys remains one of the most enduring, rewatchable vampire mov-ies of all time. 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