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The Shining

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    We Need to Talk About Kevin may be the most revealing Columbine-related film

    This week's feature, "The Columbine Effect," explores the enduring fascination indie filmmakers seem to have with the attack on Columbine High School thirteen years ago -- and the agendas advanced (gun control, bullying prevention, etc.) in their fictional and not-so-fictional interpretations of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Review: Feel the Energy 03/09-10/12

    There are assumptions to be made prior to attending something billed as a "Paranormal House Party." One makes assumptions about the crowd, about what could be passed off as "evidence" supporting the existence of ghosts, and what might be found lurking in the dark recesses of the Stanley Hotel's earl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Behold Feel the Energy, a paranormal party at the Stanley that's sure to be out of this world

    Next weekend, a highly unique paranormal party is slated to take over the infamously spooky Stanley Hotel, which, of course, provided the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining. Part paranormal investigation and part dance extravaganza, Feel the Energy, as its been dubbed is a party that exists ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2012

    Welcome to Collywood!

    Next weekend, a highly unique paranormal party is slated to take over the infamously spooky Stanley Hotel, which, of course, provided the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining. Part paranormal investigation and part dance extravaganza, Feel the Energy, as its been dubbed is a party that exists ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2012

    Colorado hopes to lure filmmakers with a new plan

    Next weekend, a highly unique paranormal party is slated to take over the infamously spooky Stanley Hotel, which, of course, provided the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining. Part paranormal investigation and part dance extravaganza, Feel the Energy, as its been dubbed is a party that exists ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    The Innkeepers director Ti West doesn't try to be subversive, really

    This is what happens when you go into the basement of an old haunted hotel in New England.At only 31 years old, filmmaker Ti West has quickly made a name for himself by challenging audience expectations and assumptions about the horror film genre with movies like 2009's the House of the Devil. His l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    It's Halloween! Take a shining to the Stanley Hotel.

    ​The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is a lovely old place. Built in the early 1900s at the mouth of what is now Rocky Mountain National Park from wood salvaged from the Bear Lake burn of 1900, it was best-known then for the Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered automobile invented by hotel owner Freel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    This Weekend in Stoke: Make the '80s Ski Party last all weekend

    ​Come out of the closet, gapers! Hot pink and electric blue ski and snowboard gear from the 1980s lives forever thanks to events like tonight's 8th annual 80s Ski Party at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue, where they won't even let you through the door unless the bouncer needs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Colorado Cocktail Project ticket winners!

    ​Dry with an unexpected splash of everything else! That's what Lori Gray thinks Colorado tastes like, and that entry in our Cocktail Cocktail contest just won her two tickets to the two-day Colorado Cocktail Project, which will be pouring out wisdom -- and drinks -- at the Museum of Contempora ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Comment of the day: "Too creeped out to get out of the car"

    At this distance, a theremin constantly plays.​Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don't believe in no ghosts. It just doesn't make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my "logic," suffice it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Ghost hunt! A weekend at the Stanley Hotel passes without haunting

    Well, it looks pretty ominous.​It was partially by coincidence and partly by design that the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining had just started rolling when we flipped on the TV Saturday night in our room at the Stanley Hotel; the movie, of course, is based on Stephen King's nov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Stanley House: Estes Park home of Stanley Hotel namesake yours for $2.4 million (PHOTOS)

    Big pics below.​Last week, we took you on a photo tour of actor Kelsey Grammer's ski home, on sale for just $7.9 million. By that standard, Estes Park's Stanley House -- built in 1904 by automaker F.O. Stanley, who built The Shining-inspiring Stanley Hotel five years later -- is a genuine barg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Top 10 list of Colorado movies a ten-cent ticket fee didn't subsidize

    "The Searchers."​The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers -- ... More >>

  • Articles

    February 3, 2011

    Kraddy: Dubstep is just slow hip-hop

    "The Searchers."​The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Gratuitous randomness: Heeeere's... Johnny?

    Heeere's... Rick Astley​For anyone who's ever seen The Shining, it's the image you can never erase from your mind: a terrified Shelly Duvall watching the ax splinter the door right before Jack Nicholson at his most crazy-eyed does that famous line: Heeere's Johnny! Which, of course, makes it a ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 21, 2010

    Luminous Flux is an odd pairing, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

    Heeere's... Rick Astley​For anyone who's ever seen The Shining, it's the image you can never erase from your mind: a terrified Shelly Duvall watching the ax splinter the door right before Jack Nicholson at his most crazy-eyed does that famous line: Heeere's Johnny! Which, of course, makes it a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Get a Grip

    Heeere's... Rick Astley​For anyone who's ever seen The Shining, it's the image you can never erase from your mind: a terrified Shelly Duvall watching the ax splinter the door right before Jack Nicholson at his most crazy-eyed does that famous line: Heeere's Johnny! Which, of course, makes it a ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2010

    Fact or science fiction? Colorado's importance in the sci-fi world is no fantasy

    Heeere's... Rick Astley​For anyone who's ever seen The Shining, it's the image you can never erase from your mind: a terrified Shelly Duvall watching the ax splinter the door right before Jack Nicholson at his most crazy-eyed does that famous line: Heeere's Johnny! Which, of course, makes it a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    Check-In Time

    Heeere's... Rick Astley​For anyone who's ever seen The Shining, it's the image you can never erase from your mind: a terrified Shelly Duvall watching the ax splinter the door right before Jack Nicholson at his most crazy-eyed does that famous line: Heeere's Johnny! Which, of course, makes it a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 14, 2007

    Rock On

    Film on the Rocks' eighth summer series will please and tease.

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2007

    Lights, Camera, Action!

    Film on the Rocks' eighth summer series will please and tease.

  • Dining

    May 3, 2001

    The Bite

    Wining and dining in Estes Park.

  • Dining

    April 19, 2001

    The Bite

    John Hickenlooper's lastest, and other news on the food front.

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