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Trumbo: Red, White & Blacklisted offers a timely, if timid, lesson.

Take a trip to Megalopolis tonight at the Denver Film Festival

An image from Megalopolis. Megalopolis, which screens tonight at 6:45 p.m. at the Starz FilmCenter as part of the Denver Film Festival, is, nominally, a documentary. But it’s a documentary without a specific point to make -- a documentary that revels in the details while leaving the big pictu ... More >>

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Meet Jim Rome’s Favorite Band

Vendetta Valentine has a nation of clones behind it.

Brideshead Revisited

A good nine hours lighter than its TV predecessor, Brideshead Revisited gets back to the source.

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Where's My Gyrocopter?

Whatever happened to the future?

Tom’s Diner

After midnight, this is the place to be.

The Beatles Continue

Tribute band recalls the Fab Four

Nine Inch Nails

Year Zero
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Moby Dick Unread

Buntport presents a whale of a tale.

Gatsbys American Dream

Saturday, July 16, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Just the 'Fax, man

Thirty miles of developments, drunks and dreams -- the ultimate road trip.

Pure Energy

The thinking man's New Year's Eve

Stupor Freak

Kids may not mind that Freaky Friday has already been done to death, but you might.

Writes of Passage

The documentary Stone Reader opens a new chapter on an obscure novelist.

Pigs Rule

Germinal Stage gives George Orwell's fable a spare treatment.

Eye of the Beholder

Two CU groups feel burned by a fiery sports column.

Woody Goes Limp

Post columnist Woody Paige's big shtick shrinks in chilly Utah.

Million-Dollar Beauty

Stagecraft rules when Disney unleashes its sumptuous version of Beauty and the Beast.

The Littlest Victim

Raw-edged Joe the King takes a terrifying and unflinching look at the life of an abused child.

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Raw-edged Joe the King takes a terrifying and unflinching look at the life of an abused child.

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Raw-edged Joe the King takes a terrifying and unflinching look at the life of an abused child.

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Raw-edged Joe the King takes a terrifying and unflinching look at the life of an abused child.

Cooking Dirty: Eight days and counting

Lev Grossman is my new best friend. Who is Lev Grossman, you ask?  Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine.  And in Time magazine, Lev Grossman (my new best friend) just wrote a killer review of my book, Cooking Dirty. Yeah, that Time magazine.  And yeah, little ol' me and ... More >>

Frontier Airlines animals: endangered species?

​At noon today, supporters of Frontier Airlines, the subject of a potential bidding war between Republic Airways Holdings (which would probably preserve the company in some fashion) and Southwest Airlines (likely to swallow it whole), are rallying at Mayor John Hickenlooper's office. The name ... More >>

Independence Institute on jihad against public-art spending in Denver

If we could get a couple more of these, betcha everybody would be psyched.​Even when times are good, fiscal conservatives often rail against public spending for the arts -- because, apparently, life would be better if we lived in a joyless, monochromatic society modeled on George Orwell's 1984 ... More >>

Denver's Liberty on the Rocks' NObamacare message goes national, with a chaser

An image from Liberty on the Rocks' website.​News outlets probably worked up a powerful thirst while looking for Denver naysayers to hate on President Barack Obama's speech about healthcare reform before a joint session of Congress last night. Perhaps that's why both National Public Radio and ... More >>

Freeloader: "I Don't Know" by Brikabrak and Naeem Oba

​Earlier today, we posted a Q&A with Brikabrak and Naeem Oba, and now we present you with a free track from the pair to download. Built upon a beat laid down by King Karnov, the track, "I Don't Know," centers on Naeem Oba's rhymes, which he recorded at CCM studios on Colfax, and Brikabrak's de ... More >>

Part two: Chef and Tell with Matt Mine from the Oceanaire Seafood Room

Lori MidsonMatt Mine, executive chef of Oceanaire​ This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Matt Mine, executive chef of Oceanaire. You can read part one of that interview here. Culinary inspirations: Many things, but the weather and the seasons usually play a big part in how I cook, ... More >>

Martyna Majok searches for identity in Mouse in a Jar

Lori MidsonMatt Mine, executive chef of Oceanaire​ This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Matt Mine, executive chef of Oceanaire. You can read part one of that interview here. Culinary inspirations: Many things, but the weather and the seasons usually play a big part in how I cook, ... More >>

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Kevin Boyer on the distinction between Tyvek the substance and Tyvek the sound

Lori MidsonMatt Mine, executive chef of Oceanaire​ This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Matt Mine, executive chef of Oceanaire. You can read part one of that interview here. Culinary inspirations: Many things, but the weather and the seasons usually play a big part in how I cook, ... More >>

Check out "Julia," the first track from Naeem Oba's new album, Unorthodox

​ Naeem Oba should already be on your radar. But just in case he isn't, feel free to get up to speed on the Minneapolis-bred MC by reading the Q&A we posted with him and brikAbrak this past December. Dude is deep. Real deep. Right now, he's working on an album based on 1984, George Orwell's p ... More >>

Big Brother is everywhere: Theaters to introduce movie screens that watch you

Scene of the latest Two Minutes' Hate?​Ever read George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, wherein the powers that be monitor your every move via video devices called telescreens? Super creepy, right? Well now a creepily similar technology is coming to a theater near you.

Medical marijuana final rules published: Big Brother video regs improved, says attorney

​At 6 a.m., the Department of Revenue published the final version of the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division's rules. The document is 77 pages long, and attorney Warren Edson hasn't had time to study them at length. However, a number of elements jump out at him -- particularly the eliminati ... More >>

In The 30th of Baydak, small moments of hope and defiance stay with you

​At 6 a.m., the Department of Revenue published the final version of the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division's rules. The document is 77 pages long, and attorney Warren Edson hasn't had time to study them at length. However, a number of elements jump out at him -- particularly the eliminati ... More >>

Four things you probably didn't know about Salvador Dalí

​It doesn't take much evidence beyond his most famous paintings to suspect that Salvador Dalí was a weird dude: The persistence of crazy, distended forms, melting clocks, blood, rot and genitals is probably enough to draw that conclusion. But Dalí's weirdness went far beyond its expression i ... More >>

The 20 greatest geek albums

​If the geeks are really set to inherit the earth (that's the saying, right?), then it's time we highlight the musical offerings they have on the table. With Jonathan Coulton's Artificial Heart being released last week at PAX, it seems as good a time as any to look at our favorite albums about ... More >>