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April 18, 2013Founded in 2008, Ghost B.C. created a bit of mystique for itself right from the start. The sextet is essentially anonymous in its elaborate costumes, with singer Papa Emeritus II decked out like a satanic pope, and his cardinals, The Ghouls With No Name, performing in uniform brown robes whose cowls ... More >>
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October 5, 2012At Wednesday's debate, Mitt Romney casually said that if he's elected president, he'll cut funding to PBS -- and he specifically mentioned Big Bird seconds later. Fowl play! That was a serious harsh to the eight-foot tall, loveable yellow bird that has spent his entire career on Sesame Street, educa ... More >>
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April 12, 2012Friday, April 13, Ogden Theatre, 888-929-7849.
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February 16, 2012Sunday, February 19, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
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November 8, 2011Hear that? That's the comforting sound of pure, undistilled, unbridled jubilance emitting from kids everywhere across the vast expanses of the frozen Front Range this morning. The reason for their glee? Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! is back in town at 1STBANK Center tonight, almost exactly a year aft ... More >>
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November 2, 2011Elvis is everywhereElvis Costello finally made his Sesame Street appearance last week with a number-orientated rendition of "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes." The show is a well-tread, 42-year-old road that has included a charmingly sweet Tony Bennett, an unexpectedly fitting LL Cool J, ... More >>
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October 7, 2011Sesame Street, the show that has taught several generations of suburban white kids how to ask where the potty is in Spanish, is introducing a new Muppet this Sunday in a special episode about hunger, sponsored by Wal-Mart. Lily, the "food-insecure" Muppet, is seven years old, pink-faced, dressed in ... More >>
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August 12, 2011 Encapsulating everything that is creepy about talking inanimate objects created in the name of children's television programming, this new video from the London-based This Is It Collective is just that: creepy. The short begins innocently enough, with a small cast of sort-of identifiable ch ... More >>
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May 12, 2011We miss Saturday mornings sometimes, when we would run downstairs filled with sugary cereal and spend the day watching cartoons and "educational programming." Even though these days we're well aware of the alphabet (some of us, at least -- mostly those that don't comment articles on the inter ... More >>
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April 7, 2011Monday, April 11, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
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November 10, 2010Dueling grouches: Oscar vs. Lamborn.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, the grouch in the trash can to the left in the picture above, represents Colorado Congressional District 5. His bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio is getting a lot of attention and support ov ... More >>
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November 8, 2010Photo: Aaron Thackeray
Yo Gabba Gabba! Live
11.07.10 | 1STBANK Center, Broomfield
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It would kind of rule if all concerts were split into two half-hour sets with a twenty-minute break between -- but unfortunately, not all shows are geared toward four-year-olds. Yesterday's Yo ... More >>
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November 5, 2010The beating heart of Yo Gabba Gabba!: Scott Schultz (clockwise from left) DJ Lance Rock and Christian JacobsAs co-creator of the children's television show Yo Gabba Gabba!, Christian Jacobs has a simple agenda: Create entertainment that engages both parents and their kids through really aweso ... More >>
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November 4, 2010Sunday, November 7, 1STBANK Center, 303-830-8497.
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September 24, 2010After being urged to withhold the airing of Katy Perry's appearance on Sesame Street, someone over at PBS clearly needs a guidebook of which musicians not to hire for the show. What were they expecting exactly? Did they miss the whole bit about her kissing a girl and liking it, or that whole ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Katy Perry is inappropriate for children. That's the message that went out today when the Sesame Workshop, who produce the long-running Sesame Street, announced they'd be nixing the pop tart's already completed guest appearance with Elmo. The reason? The video caused an uproar when it was prerelea ... More >>
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June 22, 2010Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs, touring this summer and fall as "The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue," visit Red Rocks on Monday, September 27. What will they be playing, you ask? Ah, follow the jump to find out.
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December 17, 2009Thomas Keller
While having dinner recently, I overheard a woman trying to familiarize her dining companion with Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In an attempt to jog her memory, the friend asked, "What show is he on?"
It's an interesting state of affairs, more obviously a sign of the times. In a ... More >>
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July 16, 2009Blues With a Backbone
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July 6, 2009The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments....
Figure 26. Globeville: Mockey Mouse, Guard Poodle and Green Angel
Unlike the Japanese, whose entire economy is now dependent on cuteness, American culture has never been very good at handling the concept of cute. Perhaps it is because cuten ... More >>
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February 20, 2009Illustration: Todd WebbLast month, we mentioned Robert Schneider's new project Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine. And earlier this week, Schneider, the ever prolific Apples in Stereo mastermind, released his debut under the Robbert Bobbert moniker, and already the whimsical, kid-centric project ... More >>
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December 11, 2008I never knew about the short-lived show Beer Nutz, mostly because I haven't had cable in ten years and it played on something called HDNet (is that the Hot Dog Network?).
But I am very familiar with local microbrew establishments. And though the two hosts of Beer Nutz look and act like the guys fr ... More >>
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September 4, 2008Avenue Q arrives at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
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July 10, 2008Now her touring days are numbered.
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April 17, 2008House of the Dead returns for the Wii, stiff as ever.
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April 14, 2008Home Entertainment
March 20, 2008The combat's cuddly in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
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December 26, 2007Calendar
December 6, 2007Our holiday boutique watch.
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November 8, 2007Sesame Street and the Who bookend two very special editions.
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November 1, 2007Music
October 25, 2007Thursday, October 25, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.
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October 25, 2007News
August 23, 2007Do you have what it takes to beat the brainiacs?
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August 22, 2007Blogs
June 12, 2007Calendar
January 11, 2007A prefab girl group scores with preteens.
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October 26, 2006Home Entertainment
August 3, 2006Music
March 16, 2006Born Again in the USA (Drag City)
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October 6, 2005Calendar
September 1, 2005An avant-garder takes a walk on Sesame Street.
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August 18, 2005A: Almost -- but Devo's audience is getting younger.
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March 25, 2004People & Places
March 25, 2004Shoun Flynn, "Needles for Teeth"
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September 11, 2003See traces of the past at Quetzalli
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March 29, 2001Best of Denver
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