The problem with being a football fan is that the off-season is so much longer than the season. By the time the Broncos take their next meaningful snap, the Presidential contest will be a two-man…er, two-person race, the Beijing Olympics will have run their course and we’ll be months removed…
Volumes have been written about how good these two Denver legends are live, so here’s a pictorial taste of what you missed this weekend. DeVotchKa @ Mercury Cafe Slim Cessna’s Auto Club @ Bluebird Theater…
It’s one of the most ecologically diverse areas in Colorado, but there are already some natural gas drilling rigs on private land on top of the plateau. Extending the drilling to the Roan’s vast, untamed public lands could prove a billion-dollar windfall in lease payments to the state within a…
Picking on bad shows like Viva Laughlin is just too easy. There’s enough low-hanging fruit being broadcast to fill a whole bushel of awful from 2007. And then there are those shows that represent how TV fails us, how it fails itself, how it just plain fails. In other words,…
The Year of our TV 2007 was something of an odd duck. It saw the end of some TV classics (The Sopranos) and the beginning of a strike that still threatens the medium as we know it. Fun year! But in these trying times, we all yearn for something to…
A Year in Photos Moovers and Shakers 2007: A Year of Amazing Local Music 11 Concerts You Probably Should Have Seen…
Los Comicos Super HIlariosos is a monthly gathering of Denver’s best underground comics for a celebration of cheap booze and jokes. And last was … well, it was interesting. Transplant Tig Notaro (who you can see tonight at the Oriental Theater, and I highly recommend that you do) absolutely killed…
To anyone who says there isn’t any dope hip-hop coming out of Colorado: you need to have your ears checked. I’ve compiled a list of what I think were the 20 hottest songs from Colorado hip-hop artists in the last 12 months. They range from mixtape joints, freestyles, album cuts,…
Comedian Ben Roy attempts to sweep Ben Kronberg off the stage at Los Comicos Super Hilariosos on December 27. The first time I saw comedian Ben Kronberg, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat, scaled Everest with a Sherpa on his back, and split a molecule of hydrogen with…
Jay-Z fades to black Everyone in the hip-hop world pretty much knew it was going to happen, but Jay-Z made it official on Christmas and turned in his two weeks’ notice as president of Def Jam Records. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have served as president of such a culturally-defining…
Here are the transcripts to the Cadorna v. City and County of Denver case profiled in Alan Prendergast’s December 13 feature, “Blackburned.” Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Day Six Day Seven Day Eight…
Why the Rocky is so annoyed by breasts is a mystery. And to single this woman out for having the most annoying breasts of all is kind of cruel, in spite of the photo crop. Foreshame Rocky, foreshame…
I don’t want to bore you with too many personal details of my crazy 2007, so I’ll simply say that any year that includes being laid off and getting divorced is one for the record books. It’s been overwhelming at times, exhilarating at others, and frequently depressing. But the new…
After listening to a cumulative 41 hours of 97.3 KBCO’s online streaming Christmas music over the past few days, I found myself grappling with a very important question: Where was “A Hazy Shade of Winter” by the Bangles? Well, that’s not a Christmas song, you may counter. But you’d be…
Why give something the considered judgement is creators would prefer when you can make a snap judgement in 45 seconds. Assassin’s Creed Xbox360 Okay, this one took me a little while just to figure out what was going on, the stupid kid in line ahead of me at Best Buy…
Life can change in an instant, and sometimes that change disrupts or even destroys the carefully wrought plans we’ve made for the future. In DarkBlueAlmostBlack — which ends its run tomorrow as part of Cinema Q’s film series at the Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli — Jorge (Quim Gutiérrez) is…
It’s the age-old New Year’s resolution: “This year, I am finally going to get in shape.” Well, here’s an idea: Instead of waiting till Tuesday to start your health kick, head to Genesis Fitness, 1244 East Colfax Avenue, for Free Fitness Saturday, where you can participate in an intense workout…
The Colorado Mammoth — along with the entire National Lacrosse League — was sent to the penalty box on October 16 when the NLL and the players’ association fell short of a new collective-bargaining agreement. For considerably longer than the standard two- or five-minute penalty, the 2008 season seemed body-checked…
Shakespeare scholars have been worrying away at Titus Andronicus forever because the play is so bloody bad (and we mean bloody). They’ve suggested that it’s not really the Bard’s work, or perhaps that it’s a parody. The characters are nuts and the plot is nonsensical, filled with mutilation and murder…
Guitarist/vocalist Daniel Sproul wasn’t even a zygote when Aerosmith released 1975’s Toys in the Attic, which he and his fellow twenty-somethings in Rose Hill Drive will perform in its entirety tonight and tomorrow night in Boulder. But he discovered the LP at a formative age. “I got into that when…
If one New Year’s countdown just isn’t enough, or texting far-away friends at midnight never makes it through drunk-dialing airwaves, or you’re just tired of bars that are more crowded than Times Square — try ringing in this New Year the multimedia way. Popping its cork for the first time…
Humans are always in such a rush; sometimes we don’t even look up while we dart from one place to another. And it seems that even with recreation, the objective is to cram in as much activity as possible. We boast about how many runs we got in during our…
