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Ten of the best (and highly giftable) wines of 2012

Last week, we poured out a little guidance on what you might sneak under the tree (or Festivus Pole, or whatever) that would add a little splash of joy in the lives of any wine lover on your list. But we failed to include any actual wine in that grouping, because we believe it deserving of a special ... More >>

Jingles All the Way

Get your tickets now for the Denver Center Theatre Company's 2012-2013 season

People get lazy in the summertime, but it's time to wake up: The fall theater season is only weeks away, and Denver Center Theatre Company tickets are now on sale. The focus may be on The Book of Mormon, which opens today in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, but when Mormon leaves, the DCTC season ... More >>

Denver Center Theatre Company announces 2012-13 schedule

Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year's ... More >>

Michael Buble's Christmas raises the bar for all holiday tracks, plus a breakdown of the charts

It's going to be a holly, jolly Christmas with Michael Buble's new collection of holiday classics.​Michael Buble put out a killer Christmas record, and it could not have come at a better time. While the charts are currently flooded with dance-pop beats, synthesizers-laden hooks and auto-tuned ... More >>

Ten non-traditional Christmas records you should listen to this year

Stop! You don't have to!​So we're well into the Christmas season, and chances are good you're getting a bit tired of Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby and the Time-Life Christmas collection in general. What had been a charming return to familiar holiday standards -- and perhaps the only reason to ... More >>

Five terrible holiday parody songs

​There's just something about this time of year that inspires people to record parodies. Jack Black and Jason Segal just spoofed the David Bowie and Bing Crosby classic, "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy," and yesterday, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly premiered their version of the tune. Cli ... More >>

Just Like the Ones I Used to Know

In honor of Halloween, here are our five favorite theremin cover songs

The theremin is a choice instrument for making spooky Halloween sounds. Case in point, this collection of theremin cover songs, in which a slew of popular tunes immediately become significantly more creepy after being filtered through the completely awesome but frightening device. It's one of our ... More >>

Celebrity Lanes is part of Denver's past and Centennial's future

Top 10 weirdest musical duets

A couple of nights ago, we had the absolute pleasure of seeing William Shatner and Lin Yu Chun do a rendition of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" on Lopez Tonight that made our hearts cream with loving ecstasy. We have no clue what to actually think of Lin Yu Chin (other than that the internet seems t ... More >>

The 10 Most Pointless Christmas Foods

​For the most part, Christmas is a time full of really good stuff to eat -- from the fancy (Christmas dinner with all the trimmings) to the simple (cookies). But there are some foods and drinks that just don't make sense anymore -- they belong to a different time, in which their original role ... More >>

Top 10 emotionally disturbed Christmas songs

​Christmas songs really ought to be up little tunes -- hope, faith, charity, love and all that. But some songs have apparently snuck through the back door, drunk up all the rum, made a clumsy pass on pretty much everyone but the family dog, and are now holding court in the corner, seriously br ... More >>

Top five most overplayed Christmas songs in stores

"Do I irritate you?"​Worry over the outcome of a mail-in vote on a new contract isn't the only thing stressing out King Soopers workers this season, as I learned during a shopping trip yesterday. When "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" came streaming over the speakers, our teenage s ... More >>

Live Review: Rock the Bells Tour

Delegating Denver #53 of 56: Washington

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Saturday, June 21, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, 303-830-8497.

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Capsule reviews of current shows

Ho-Frickin'-Ho: Christmas Specials No One Should See

Tambien

This restaurant’s time has come.

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Capsule reviews of current shows

White Christmas

We're dreaming of a real holiday musical.

Superbad

Geeky, freaky teen virgins attempt to get knocked up in Superbad, produced by guess who?

All I Want for Christmas

Nuclia Waste and her Demented Divas premiere a holiday show.

Hot and Cold

The Naughty and Nice Holiday Revue runs the gamut.

Yule's Tide

Searching for gems in the flood of seasonal discs.

Flick Pick

White Christmas

El Vez

Wednesday, October 6, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Consumed

Good Wheels Toward Men

Critic's Choice

El Vez

Xmas Marks the Spot

A guide to new holiday discs, from surprise presents to Tannen-bombs.

Critic's Choice

Melt-Banana

The Latest Noels

'Tis the season to rate another avalanche of holiday discs.

Knight Falls

Everything old is mold again when a brother from another 'hood lands in medieval times.

That Fleeting Feeling

The music of the Bobby Collins Death Metal Armada is just what you'd expect: light, funny, pop-laden and free.

Holidaze

Unwrapping our annual roundup of musical season's greetings -- and beatings.

Into the Light

The Jurassic 5 make a heroic ascent from the hip-hop underground.

Time of the Season

This year's holiday CDs alternately inspire joy, nausea and terror. Which would you prefer?

Reddy, Willing and Able

Papa J's still does service -- and sauce -- with a smile.

Songs of the Century

Part one of a pre-millennial salute to the music that made America sing.

The Hard Cell

Christmas Packages

The best holiday discs, as well as others that will make you pity the yule.

O'Luney Tunes

Sometime Kingston Trio member Bob Haworth has another gig--as the King of Fun.

Feedback

Christmas Seasoning

Hark! The Herald Angels are practically the only group without a holiday CD this year.

JUST SAY NOEL

THIS YEAR'S CHRISTMAS DISCS PROVIDE SOME ROUGH SLEDDING.

THE HELL OF ST. MARY'S

TONY! TONY! TONY!

TONY BENNETT IS GETTING OLDER--AND BETTER.

Playlist

The Velvet Underground, Big Star, Guru, The Drop Nineteens