It used to be that charities and fundraising organizations would use kickball to appeal to former playground warriors nostalgic for their junior-high glory days. But with at least three respectable kickball leagues co-existing in Denver and fifty teams of ten-plus players signed up for today’s third annual Make-A-Wish Foundation Charity…
If your Dungeons & Dragons sessions just don’t have enough verisimilitude to satisfy your yearnings for the days of yore, head out to Red Rocks Community College, 13300 West Sixth Avenue in Lakewood, for the Fantasy Revel, a free event celebrating times gone by. Today from 10 a.m. to 4…
Fall in Colorado is solid gold, and with the aspens nearing their peak, this is an ideal day to Rush to the Gold. To help steer people to the most colorful sites, Colorado State Parks has devised eight trips that take drivers through a total of twenty state parks (out…
In the first few minutes of Eastern Promises, the striking new thriller from David Cronenberg, a throat is sliced, a uterus hemorrhages, and a newborn baby, slimy and palpitating, emerges from the womb of its dead mother. None of which comes as much of a surprise from the maker of…
Just a guess here, but the majority of Amanda Bynes fans probably didn’t get most of the Shakespeare references in her As You Like It-inspired She’s the Man, so behold: This time she’s gone for something a bit more familiar with Sydney White. Originally titled Sydney White and the Seven…
By the third week, the flower arrangements spread throughout the Jefferson County courtroom were in varying states of decay. It had been a long trial, and a long time coming. Almost three years had passed since the body of Steve Fitzgerald was found in his Westminster garage. In that time,…
The day that Michael Tate was found guilty, sentenced to life in prison for a murder committed before his eighteenth birthday, 45 inmates were already serving life sentences in Colorado for crimes they’d done as juveniles (“Headed for Trouble,” July 7, 2005). But after Tate, only two more defendants could…
After every Broncos game, my roommate and bitter, bitter enemy Monty and I sit in the living room and discuss what transpired with our beloved Denver Broncos in that day’s gridiron competition. It’s a ritual as predictable as the turning of the leaves, with Monty generally becoming so frustrated by…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, a ringleader for Denver’s underground art scene, knows real-estate upheaval almost as well as she knows mixed-media installations. “I’ve had to move my home or studio every two years,” says Murphy, who found out this summer that the building housing her current space along artsy Santa Fe…
Until 2005, Richard Shepard’s was a lamentable direct-to-prop-plane filmography populated with such forgettable titles as Cool Blue, Oxygen, Mexico City and The Linguini Incident, the latter of which was a heist film most notable for pairing David Bowie and Buck Henry — and that’s not even a punchline. For a…
I’ve said it before and hope to again: David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. From Videodrome (1983) through A History of Violence (2005), neither Scorsese nor Spielberg nor even David Lynch has enjoyed a comparable run. A rhapsodic movie directed…
Stephen Brackett’s intuition was unbelievably strong — when it came to Jamie Laurie, anyway. On his first day at Bradley Elementary, the wide-eyed fourth-grader took one look at the fifth-grader across the schoolyard and whispered to his father, “Hey, Dad, that guy’s going to be my friend.” “And then,” Brackett…
Off Limits, September 13 The Light Stuff It appears that you neglected to Ask a Mexican about the word güera for your little commentary on the Budweiser billboard. Güero and güera don’t necessarily refer to gringos. They actually mean “light-skinned,” or having light hair and eyes. For example, there are Mexican…
Satire Records’ Jack Redell is taking a cue from Prince, who was among the first artists to thank concert attendees by including a free CD with every ticket sold. Redell, though, is one-upping His Purpleness. Those who go to A Moveable Feast, a celebration of area tunesmiths taking place at…
The epic, soaring sonics on Happiness Ltd., Hot Hot Heat’s latest effort, owe a debt to some tricked-out production that results in a number of satisfying swells. The strongest candidates for airplay are front-loaded for instant gratification, while the rest the album needs time to ferment. Comparisons to the Cure…
With haunting synths that recall the first three New Order records and a charming collection of songs that otherwise echo the Smiths’ twee moments as fed through a Wall of Sound, Rediscover Lovers, Kissing Party’s new disc, finds the act imbuing its dependably upbeat and catchy tunes with distinctively neo-romantic…
In this town, everyone seems to know Mary Louise Starkey, head of the Starkey International Institute of Household Management. She often invites local luminaries to her Logan Street mansion, one of the preeminent butler schools in the country, for formal dinners served in grand style by her Jeeveses-in-training. These social…
I have to admit, I spent almost the entire evening at the Aurora Fox either glancing at my watch or wondering why Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics had won a Pulitzer. It’s not that the concept isn’t terrific: The play is set at the turn of the last century…
Beyond the Gates (Fox) Blade: House of Chthon (New Line) The Boss of It All (IFC) Boston Legal: Season Three (Fox) Brothers and Sisters: The Complete First Season (Buena Vista) Catherine Deneuve: Essentials (Wellspring) The Condemned (Lionsgate) Deliverance: Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros.) Family Guy: Volume Five (Fox) Flashdance: Special Collectors…
I still have unhappy memories of Menopause the Musical and the slightly less ghastly Hats! at the New Denver Civic Theatre — shows intended to be cheap to produce and expensive to attend, shows that found instant audiences by playing on the sentimentalities and self-delusions of middle-aged women. So I…
Jesse Rose seems to be shooting for the title of hardest-working man in dance music. He runs three labels (Front Room Recordings, Loungin’ and Made to Play), has released a slew of twelve-inches and EPs over the past few years, and has remixed dozens of tracks for artists including Armand…
Kevin Taylor has a big restaurant empire that has occasionally shrunk to a smaller restaurant empire, with closures both temporary (Palettes, the restaurant that reopened last year in the Denver Art Museum; see review) and permanent, but he’s now back in an expansionist mode. Jim Sullivan knows all about boom-and-bust…
