The Diary of Anne Frank. The Denver Center Theatre Company has mounted Wendy Kesselman’s rewritten version of The Diary of Anne Frank, the 1955 play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett that not only sugarcoated the horror that drove Anne into hiding and eventually destroyed her, but — in deference to…
When he was a student at Yale in 1974, Walton Jones created The 1940’s Radio Hour, a tuneful, low-key Christmas charmer. Jones went on to a career in writing, directing and teaching, eventually taking over the theater division at Colorado State University. There he wrote a sequel: The 1940’s Radio…
La Cage Aux Folles is a big, splashy musical with lots of big, splashy numbers. But unlike most such musicals, it’s also got heart, humor and a good story to tell. Beyond all that, in a time of intense mean-spiritedness and prejudice in the political arena, this show carries a…
I’m Not There is the movie of the year — but to whom does Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan biopic actually belong, and when was it really made? The great attention-grabber of last month’s New York Film Festival, I’m Not There is as notable for its stunt casting as its elusive…
Bratz (Lionsgate) Drunken Angel: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Elvis: Blue Suede Collection (Warner Bros.) ESPNU Honor Roll: The Best of College Football Vol. 3 (ESPN) Happy Days: The Third Season (Paramount) Hot Fuzz: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition (Universal) The Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends (Universal) Laverne & Shirley: The…
Hot Rod(Paramount)Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod Kimble, a wannabe stuntman with very little “man” in him. He lives with his mom (Sissy Spacek, not kidding) and a stepdad (Ian McShane), who needs a new heart at a “conveniently…
There’s no surer sign that a franchise is in trouble than when it blasts into outer space. So you were right to be nervous when Nintendo announced its plans to follow up the subpar game Super Mario Sunshine with something called Super Mario Galaxy, which promised to launch the mustached…
Acid flashback or déjà vu? Who, having lived through the late ’60s, would have anticipated re-experiencing the spectacle of an arrogantly mendacious U.S. administration bogged down in an ill-conceived, undeclared, bungled, costly and apparently endless counterinsurgency? (Although who familiar with American history could doubt its recurrence?) Iraq isn’t Vietnam. Yet,…
Santiago’s Mexican Restaurant, known for the spicy stuff it slips into everything from breakfast burritos to carnitas, isn’t as old as Chubby’s, but it already rivals the famed northwest Denver hot spot for the affections of green chile lovers in Colorado. The 21-location chain was founded in Brighton in 1990…
It’s an early Saturday evening, and the tiny front room of Chubby’s Burger Drive-In is absolutely popping with patrons, all waiting to gorge. There are no tables here, no seats for dining, so customers place their order at the busy counter, then jockey for space to await their Chubby’s infusion,…
Colorado Studios houses two of the state’s best-kept media secrets. First among equals at the Stapleton-area facility is HDNet, billionaire Mark Cuban’s ambitious high-definition television service, whose offerings (including Dan Rather’s post-CBS broadcast) can only be seen by Denverites who subscribe to satellite TV, since Comcast continues to shun the…
Both men accused of hatching a murder-by-snake plot to kill Amateur Poker Tour owner Matt Sowash have now pleaded guilty to extortion in exchange for having the most serious charges against them dropped. Herb Beck and Christopher Steelman were arrested in August, charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, conspiracy…
Justin Jahn and Christina Clinkscales met in July 2005 at the Village at Breckenridge. He was a 26-year-old bellman, and she was an eighteen-year-old guest from Missouri who’d tagged along with her mom on a business trip. When Christina locked herself out of the mountain-base hotel on the first day…
Dear Mexican: With a scant four weeks before I cram my mochila with a few clothes for me and a horde of presents for my future cuñadas, sobrinas y mi mera suegra, I found myself terror-stricken tonight as mi novio and I watched a home video of his family doing…
While television programs and commercial jingles will soon rape our earholes again, reminding us that this is the most wonderful time of the year, I’m going to disagree. That nifty little title is reserved for June 2, my birthday (see: free shots, me being the center of attention). Shoot, the…
Eat, drink and be wary. Very wary. ‘Tis the season for holiday scams, and one of the first is putting the Scrooge to local restaurateurs. On Monday morning, Racines received the following e-mail: “I visited your location on Friday evening (11/23/07) with several friends that I was taking out and…
“She Got Served,” Joel Warner, November 22 Miss Manners I’m a Starkey grad living in the Denver area. I read Joel Warner’s “At Your Disservice” in the August 9 issue and was impressed that Mary Louise Starkey was quite fairly dealt with. Although her actions weren’t acceptable, her motivation and…
The most isolated prisoner in America has some new friends at the University of Denver. Student lawyers at the Sturm College of Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Thomas Silverstein, an inmate at ADX, the federal supermax prison in Florence, claiming that his solitary confinement for the past…
For those following the recent travails of Mary Louise Starkey, who’s been accused of mismanagement and physical altercations at her world-famous Denver butler school (“At Your Disservice”) and was recently arrested for allegedly attacking one of her students last February ( “Mary Starkey Got Served”), here’s the latest news: In…
In Minneapolis, the RNC Welcoming Committee – the protest-planning counterpart to Denver’s DNC-dissing Recreate 68 – recently released this hilarious, self-spoofy recruitment video as part of its efforts to draw comrades to the Twin Cities to screw with the Republicans next September. Nationally, an umbrella group to these umbrella groups,…
Diana DeGette has laid claim to the unusual distinction of hosting a Democratic National Convention physically located entirely in a single congressional district: Hers. In the past, conventions have overlapped multiple districts, the congresswoman said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion. The 2008 convention, which takes place next August in Denver,…
Ron Miles and Bill Frisell November 27, 2007 Old Main Theater, CU-Boulder Better than: Seeing these guys in New York There was a guy sitting behind me who’d just come in after the first set was over, and he was on his cell phone trying to convince his buddy to…
