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Top Five Thanksgiving Songs

Delegating Denver #36 of 56: New York

Today's featured event: Monday Movie Madness lights up Infinity Park

Outdoor movie nights? They're the best! Everyone lolls about, enjoying picnic fare in the fresh air under a starry sky, watching a popular movie that not only has something for everyone, but that also somehow transcends its second-run status thanks to the lovely atmosphere. And weather notwithstan ... More >>

Obscene and Heard

What can you get in trouble for saying on the radio these days? Not much.

Hail, Mary

Mary Katherine Gallagher may be a Superstar, but do you really care?

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters.

Busted Rhymes: The Top Ten Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials ... More >>

Drink of the Week

Gin and Tonic

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 19, 2004

Best Free Movies

Denver Public Library Film Series

Run Fatboy Run

Simon Pegg may not have the ideal physique to play hefty, but he's a good fit for FatBoy.

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Simon Pegg may not have the ideal physique to play hefty, but he's a good fit for FatBoy.

Role Models

Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie

Deuce Is Wild

Hilarious Rob Schneider flick? Who'd have seen it coming?

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbes will love him.

Summer Movie Preview

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain.

Drillbit Taylor

Owen Wilson’s a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard.

The Message

Woody Rises

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Two straight guys pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists in Chuck & Larry.

Lofty Cinema

The Civic Center Film Series will have you walking on clouds.

Reign Over Me

Adam Sandler finally nails a somber role.

Shooter

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap.

Freeloader

You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome.

Pause & Effect

A truly universal remote leads to Sandler's best movie in years.

Easy Out

The Benchwarmers put a zero on the board.

Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: Jew-pergroup.

Long Bomb

Adam Sandler, a star quarterback? If only they were joking.

All You Can Eat

James L. Brooks serves up too much of a good thing in Spanglish.

Deliver Us

Threadbare Without a Paddle proves a bear can dump in the woods.

The Message

The Voice

The "S" Word

Bad Santa is crude and rude and the jolliest Christmas movie ever.

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Uncool as Ice

Jamie Kennedy's co-stars steal the show in Malibu's Most Wanted.

Hooked Shnook

Adam Sandler is truly disturbing in Love -- deliberately so this time.

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm.

Comic Relief

The Original Kings of Comedy stars some very black humor.

Feedback

The Original Kings of Comedy stars some very black humor.

Thrills for the week

The Original Kings of Comedy stars some very black humor.

Funny People

The Original Kings of Comedy stars some very black humor.

A Wild and Crazy Guy

The Original Kings of Comedy stars some very black humor.

Top 10 Booze-Fueled Holiday Songs

​It's a holiday tradition no less practiced than trimming trees and visting family. We're speaking, of course, of drinking. And while "Frosty The Snowman" works just fine for opening presents with junior, kids songs start to sound a little creepy once you go in for thirds on the 'nog. We, of c ... More >>

The Ratcracker and ten other sad endings to Christmas stories

​Everyone knows The Nutcracker, but few people know the story -- and that's for a good reason: It's is so slight, it's almost incoherent. Yeah, there's a pseudo-plot in the first act about a battle with a Rat King or something, but that's all wrapped up by the second act, which is devoted pret ... More >>

A piñata, and five other "suspicious packages" that turned out to be hiliarious

A receptacle for candy, ingeniously disguised as a bomb.​In Superior yesterday, a "suspicious package" left in a Costco parking lot triggered alarm bells, causing the store to go on lockdown, with shoppers held inside while the Boulder County Bomb Squad investigated. Why a terrorist would be t ... More >>

Zookeeper is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​Ever since he started his career as a fat loser UPS driver in King of Queens, Kevin James has had a knack for fictionally scoring some unbelievably hot babes -- remember his wife in that show? She was smoking. Since then, in his various leading-man roles in film, James has apparently lost his ... More >>

Artist Joseph Coniff on hippies, the Tony Tiger deathmatch and getting all that gold

Self Portrait. ​Joseph Coniff's about to experience his first solo art opening, This is What it's Like , at RULE Gallery this Friday, August 5. He specializes in photography and sculpture, and his show will feature about eight pieces from both spectrums. What makes Coniff special, RULE owner ... More >>

Survivor update, week seven: Dispensary owner Jim Rice plays on as Ozzy seeks Redemption

Jim Rice​Last week, Jim Rice ended up as the hero for his Savaii Tribe after pushing his team to victory in the elimination challenge. This week, though, the role of tribe savior was usurped by his team mate, veteran Ozzy.

Victoria Jackson's excellent Tea Party adventure

Jim Rice​Last week, Jim Rice ended up as the hero for his Savaii Tribe after pushing his team to victory in the elimination challenge. This week, though, the role of tribe savior was usurped by his team mate, veteran Ozzy.