The Real World (TV Show)

Backbeat's top five spins: This is what we're listening to this week. What's on your playlist?

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn't be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't you know it, off ... More >>

Danny Marianino's fifteen minutes are definitely up

Reader: Are you sure that Real World casting call was real?

Is it possible that last Tuesday's casting call at Suite 200 for The Real World wasn't, well, real? It certainly wasn't crowded when Claire Delahorne left at 11 p.m.: "In 2012," she wrote in her Real World blog post the next day, "a major cable network casting for an insanely popular reality show co ... More >>

MTV's The Real World casting call last night in Denver fails to fill the room

I didn't wake up Tuesday morning thinking I'd stop being polite and start being real, but that's how I ended my day. MTV held an open casting call for the new season of its infamous reality show, The Real World at downtown bar Suite 200 and, against my better judgement, I decided to see if I had tha ... More >>

Audition for The Real World tonight, and you could be an ex like Tyrie Ballard, too

Tyrie Ballard, back in The Real World.​Revisit the glory days of The Real World: Denver tomorrow night, when Tyrie Ballard, one of the cast members of the eighteenth incarnation of the reality show that held LoDo hostage five years ago, is featured in the opener of Real World, the Challenge: B ... More >>

The Real World holds an open casting call in Fort Collins

Buy a red car and find someone young and spry to liven up your life. That's what most people would do when staring down the precipice of a life crisis. I applied for The Real World online. Last Tuesday I got an e-mail telling me that I was a very important person -- or at least invited to the Th ... More >>

Bad Girls Club coming to Denver?: Casting call for Real World-style Oxygen net bitchfest

​Are you ready to play host for a houseful of reality-show attention addicts à la MTV's Real World: Denver a few years back? If not, you'd better get ready -- because Bunim/Murray, Real World's production company, has just placed a Craigslist ad announcing, "THE BAD GIRLS CLUB IS COMING TO D ... More >>

Next Big Sound: Alex White's Boulder startup uses social networks to find rock & roll's future

​Thanks to recording programs like GarageBand and social-music sites such as MySpace, Twitter and Last.fm, it's never been easier for wannabe superstars to record and distribute music. But how to find rock and roll's future among all this discordant noise? As described in this week's feature, ... More >>

WALKING TALL

Blake Street Tavern takes a swing at a new location

Jared Polis is an American idol -- for Thornton's Mike Manning on The Real World

Jared and Mike bonding on "The Real World."​Representative Jared Polis knows a little something about reality TV, having co-starred in the cable series Freshman Year -- a gig we wrote about last March in a blog headlined "The Real World of Jared Polis, Courtesy of CNN." Little did we know tha ... More >>

Lock up your daughters: For Real World star Andrew Woods, joking about rape was a career-builder

"I'm just a little bit of comic relief in times of recession," says Andrew Woods. "I'm just there to kind of ease the pain."​Making light of sexual assault and rape isn't usually the best way to get a job -- or an invitation into the family living room. But for shock cartoonist Andrew Woods, a ... More >>

Hearsay bits: Sean Foreman and Nat Motte put the 'OH!' in 3OH!3 at mtvU's Woodie Awards and more

​Some quick news bites from the local scene...Oh my!: Recognize these striking dames? Yeah, us neither. That boa helmet and weird, red, veil, feathery thing kind of obscures any chance we have any sort of face recognition. This pic was snapped a few nights ago at mtvU's Woodie Awards, which we som ... More >>

Reality bites for Colorado and Richard Heene

The Real World Hooters = Classy

MTV is looking for overweight home-schoolers who have been affected by natural disasters for the next season of The Real World -- and it's coming to find them in Denver, which hosted its own cast of seven strangers picked to live in a house in 2006 and 2007. Real World casting directors will be at ... More >>

Theorie closes the doors, making way for a sports bar at 1920 Market Street

The former Real World home is empty again.​As Bella, 1920 Market Street served upscale Italian fare. As B-52, it was bar chow. As the site of the Real World: Denver, the space served up mostly melodrama. But when new owners Shane Alexander and Josh Hawkinson took over the LoDo building and tur ... More >>

Let's get real: Who are Denver's top ten reality TV stars?

Robert Thompson is headed back to Denver

When last we saw Robert Thompson, he'd closed Brasserie Rouge, was out of Atomic Cowboy, and was selling B-52 Billiards (which would become the Real World: Denver House, then Theorie). He moved on to Chicago, where he's now co-owner of Seasoned Development -- a restaurant company that just&nb ... More >>

New owners for Theorie

When they bought the site of The Real World: Denver series at 1920 Market Street (formerly B-52 Billiards), Shane Alexander and Josh Hawkinson had big plans for the ultra-swank nightclub and restaurant they planned to name Theörie. But the reality of running a restaurant proved much rougher tha ... More >>

The Real World house lives on, in Theorie

Theorie goes from the Real World to reality

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Theorie

This Just In…

The latest nightlife news.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 5/24/2007

Goodbye, Cruel Real World

Denver says goodbye to the worst cast ever.

Spill

Fat Tuesday is phat.

Outta Sync

Nature Calls

Moovers and Shakers 2006

Backbeat writers sound off on the best local releases of 2006.

The Hard Truth

Celery, I can forgive. Bad French, never.

Snooze Julius

A real eye-opener.

Real Home Sweet Home

The Devil's in the Details

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 11/23/2006

Horror Show

Zombies are attacking this city.

Brave New World

Meet The Real World: Denver" cast before they join the collective.

World Peace

Bidding farewell from the cheap seats.

Solid Gold (and Black)

Beaten back by Montana State, can the Buffs charge ahead with this new anthem?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 29, 2006

Get Real

A clipboard and a camera will get you anywhere -- even on The Real World.

Welcome to My World

Why I love The Real World.

Rock On

Everybody must get stone.

Halifax

Saturday, December 17, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Teletunes

Indie rock meets prime time in a post-O.C. world.

The Beatdown

The mountains win again at the South Park Music Fest.

Off Limits

A smokin' deal

New Yakkers

Edward Burns's Sidewalks does more talking than walking.

Backwash

Dire predictions for music in the Y2K.

Feedback

The Unreal World

Rebecca Blasband, veteran of The Real World, is getting on with her real life.