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Vacation! director Zach Clark talks drugs, sex and death at the beach

The beach-party movie has fallen from its former pinnacle of popularity, but it still has its fans. Take writer/director Zach Clark, for instance. His latest film, Vacation!, resurrects the classic beach-party film formula, updates it for the 21st century and then twists it into weird places that Fr ... More >>

New Morrissey Denver date: Moz now due at the Temple Buell Theatre on Thursday, February 21

Here's some news that ought to brighten your day -- assuming of course that you're suffering from a case of the Mondays like the rest of us and it needs brightening: A new date has been announced for Morrissey, whose previous date at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the beginning of November was po ... More >>

Joe Piscopo on Frank Sinatra and Saturday Night Live

Joe Piscopo joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1980, after honing his stand-up chops at New York's Improv; he stayed with the show until 1985. During his SNL stint, he became known for such original characters as the Sports Guy, as well as celebrity impersonations of David Letterman and Frank ... More >>

Phish returns to Colorado, three days at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, August 31 through Sept. 2

Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods in Commerce City, three days, confirmed! The band just announced the second leg of its summer tour, and Colorado is on the docket for three shows: Friday, August, 31, Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2. A limited number of tickets are available through Phish ... More >>

Review: Trey Anastasio at Boettcher Concert Hall with the Colorado Symphony, 2/28/12

TREY ANASTASIO @ BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL | 2.28.12 The soft, beautiful and, at times, elegant side of Phish's musical catalogue shone last night as frontman and songwriter Trey Anastasio took the stage at the Boettcher Concert Hall backed by the 65-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Outside, fans dr ... More >>

Van Halen in Denver on 5/24 at Pepsi Center

​Oh, hell yeah! Mark your calendars. It's really happening. Van Halen is coming to Denver. It's confirmed, and we finally have a date. Thursday, May 24, at the Pepsi Center, Van Halen will be here with Kool and the Gang. So stoked! Almost as stoked as we are to hear the new record, A Different ... More >>

Child-sex-trafficking stereotypes demolished by new research

Lizzy Allen of Vitamins tells us how she ended up singing backing vocals for the Flaming Lips

With her classical training and her background singing country music, Lizzy Allen brings impressive chops to her role in Vitamins, which got its start in Greeley. And tonight at Red Rocks, she'll be putting that talent to work with the Flaming Lips, who have asked her once again to provide backing v ... More >>

The Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on Ahnold and disturbing ventriloquist dummies

​There's nothing like found footage to showcase a wide cross-section of humanity's most maladapted, inept and bizarre, and as far as that goes, nothing beats the original. Since 1991, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting old VHS tapes, and in 2004, they started editing down the we ... More >>

Denver's Next Improv Star week nine recap: drunken bachelors, talk shows and the high seas

​There's a principle in Buddhist philosophy that the journey ultimately matters more than the destination -- what exists besides right now? -- and, in that capacity, Improv Star is pretty much nothing but nirvana. In the words of one contestant: "as long as you're steering it somewhere, you do ... More >>

Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn't mean it's good

The Muppets cover "Dust in the Wind." Here's five more songs we'd like to see 'em tackle.

You know the world is going to shit when the Muppets have to step up and offer commentary about something. In the case of this video, we have to admit, we agree with the underlying sentiments. In case you haven't seen yet: Beaker's delicate and inspirational attempt at Kansas' "Dust in the Wind," ... More >>

Songs to shout at Yo La Tengo this Saturday night

Photo by Michael Lavine​Skinny boys in glasses, girls in knit jumpers, record collectors of all stripes, rejoice! This Saturday, October 10, college rock heroes Yo La Tengo are bringing the noise, the melody and the irony to Denver in the best indie-when-it-meant-something show this side of th ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Pitch, pitch, pitch

A moment of silence for the passing of a pop-culture icon, gone so young at the age of fifty. Yes, that's right: Billy Mays, star of Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel, has died, silencing that big voice that had become ubiquitous on late-night infomercials. Mays got his start on the boardwalk of ... More >>

Pet Shop Boys announce tour, skip Denver

In support of Yes, their tenth full-length album(!), synth-pop kings Pet Shop Boys have just announced an eighteen-date North American tour, to begin at the end of August. The show promises to be filled with plenty of costumes, capers and theatricality. Unfortunately, the tour schedule is focus ... More >>

Denver Post wins two National Headliners awards

A page from the Denver Post's award-winning online photo gallery. Congrats to the online staff at the Denver Post for twice being recognized at last week's National Headliners awards, sponsored by the Press Club of Atlantic City. The Post won top honors for its daily web slideshow, as well as third ... More >>

Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

Jason Sheehan, live from the MySpace Cafe at the Corner Office

Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

The Soundtrack to Your Future Unemployment: Five More Songs

21

21 doesn't hit the jackpot. Doesn't even come close.

Absent Foxx

Oz, Against All Odds

PHAMALy puts on a whiz of a Wiz.

Four film Louis Malle retrospective

Starz FilmCenter

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 5, 2004

Off Limits

Blinding justice

Monumental Art

The Blair-Caldwell Library is ready for its close-up

Follow That Story

Down, but Not Out

In the Flesh

A fresh, insightful Skin tells us what happens to the human race.

Hank Williams III

Lovesick, Broke and...Driftin' (Curb)

Backwash

Denver bids a bittersweet farewell to a local-music innovator.

On the Road Again

The path of parenting is never clear ­ except on a road trip.

Can't Buy a Thrill

Aspen's bizarre crime spree sent some of its favorite sons to prison -- and left the town wondering what went wrong.

Off Limits

Look who's talking now.

Star Dreck

Mission to Mars becomes a long, strange trip.

Mommy Weirdest

Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman get strangled by the ties that bind in Anywhere but Here.

Cross Purposes

Not just another roadside attraction, descansos mark the landscape of the human heart.

On the Money

Money Plays Eight was a gamble from the start--but it's paying off.

Hot and Bothered

The Larry David Show

The Rockies Take Up Arms

Simply the Tesh

The wit and wisdom of John Tesh. Seriously.

Thrills for the week

A Bout of Fraud

ROLL 'EM

YOUNGIAN ANALYSIS

ALEXIS STAYS PUT

DAD WINS THE LATEST CUSTODY BATTLE FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WHOSE MOM WAS MURDERED IN NEW JERSEY.

LETTERS

LITTLE GIRL LOST

SHE WATCHED HER MOTHER BEING MURDERED, BUT HER BIGGEST TRIALS ARE YET TO COME.IN THE CHILD'S BEST INTEREST AFTER SURVIVING A HAMMER ATTACK THAT KILLED HER MOTHER, ALEXIS STORKSON FINDS HER FUTURE STILL UP FOR GRABS.

OLD LITTLE GIRL LOST