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Two-timing

Second Life for Stuff in Metro Denver, sallyk@ecentral.com

Convertible.

Perennial recycler Sally Kurtzman has updated her “Second Life for Stuff” booklet, which lists organizations eager for usable secondhand goods — defined as useful enough to give to a friend or sell at a garage sale — from books and bicycles to yarn and yogurt containers. E-mail her for a tree-friendly e-booklet. About 40 printed booklets are left; send $2 per booklet to Second Life for Stuff, 664 Ulster Way, Denver, CO 80230- 7919.

Hefty vocabulary

“The Weighty Word Book” and “Weighty Words, Too” at bookstores or unmpress

Wordinistas.

University of Colorado English professor Paul M. Levitt teams up with two other CU-Boulder former professors and illustrator Katherine Karcz to use puns, mnemonics and droll pictures to teach big words to small readers. To define “winsome,” judges at a personality contest normally dominated by the mayor’s daughters rebel, announcing it’s time for other pleasant girls to win some awards.

You gotta have art

Cottonwood Center for the Arts, 427 E. Colorado Ave., Colorado Springs; 719-550-1899, cottonwoodcenterfor

Opening weekend.

It takes lots of faith to open an arts center in this economy, but these plucky folks are hoping for the best. Today is the second day of the spanking-new Cottonwood Center’s grand-opening weekend. Meet some of the artists who keep studios at the new center.