The Denver Post reported today that Max Karson — the CU student who was arrested for saying, in response to the Virginia Tech massacre, that he under stood why someone would want to kill his fellow students — has been given a year to behave. A Boulder County Judge ruled…
You can’t keep a good judge down. Yesterday Joe Nacchio notched a win in the first round of his appeal over his conviction for illegal insider trading, with three appellate judges ruling that the badly toupeed former Qwest exec can stay free on $2 million bond pending an expedited appeal…
Lez Zeppelin Wednesday, August 22 Bluebird Theater Slide Show Better than: Physical graffiti in the houses of the holy when the levee breaks. All right, first things first. Lez Zeppelin, if you can’t tell by the name, is an all-female band paying tribute to the almighty Led Zeppelin. To get…
In the current issue, I published Matthew Brandon’s spirited defense of Texas barbecue, and elaborated on my own obsession. Here’s his reply: I didn’t expect little ol’ me to be quoted in your column. You acquitted yourself just fine, though. One thing I didn’t get a chance to cover in…
In the current issue, I published Matthew Brandon’s spirited defense of Texas barbecue, and elaborated on my own obsession. Here’s his reply: I didn’t expect little ol’ me to be quoted in your column. You acquitted yourself just fine, though. One thing I didn’t get a chance to cover in…
Before Wednesday, the three juvenile delinquents who were called to testify in a Jefferson County courtroom had not seen Michael Tate in almost three years. Back then, he was a sixteen-year-old boy, locked up in juvie for what he claimed to be murder — although few people believed him. Over…
Book it! The Junior Alliance Back to School Book Drive, tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Blake Street Tavern (2401 Blake Street), marks a new push by Girls Inc. to encourage women ages 21 to 35 to be role models for the girls served by the Girls Inc…
Broken English (Magnolia) The Ex (Weinstein) Exorcism: Special Edition (BCI) The Far Side of Jericho (First Look) The Films of Michael Haneke (Kino) House of Games: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) House: Season Three (Universal) JAG: The Fourth Season (Paramount) Man About the House: The Complete First and Second Series (BCI)…
The first worthwhile online-compatible game for the Wii has finally arrived. And in at least one way, Mario Strikers Charged is just like real soccer: Sometimes it scores, and sometimes it’s just a kick in the balls. The sequel to Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged continues the Nintendo tradition…
The Lives of Others (Sony) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film, easily the best of last year, exists on many levels: as tragedy, dark comedy, and love story — not between a man and a woman, but between two seemingly opposite men bound by the same damnation. On the one hand…
If you’re smart, you probably love books. If you’re not, putting a bunch of them on a shelf might help fool people into thinking you are. Either way, everyone needs books, and this weekend’s Used Book Sale at the Denver Public Library is an excellent opportunity to fill that need…
Before Christopher Guest rocked the mockumentary world with Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, he played lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel in the cult classic This Is Spinal Tap. The plot: Fan/filmmaker Marti DiBergi (Rob Reiner) follows his favorite band through what will prove to be a…
The Front Range offers a plethora of striking vistas, and when you add in a gaggle of bulbous balloons floating in the deep blue skies, it’s a view that’s hard to beat. Unless, of course, you factor in an evening illumination of said balloons — perhaps adding some live music,…
Each year, television critics across the country go to industry-sponsored sessions where they sample forthcoming shows and interview the people who made them. In contrast, attendees at Rocky Mountain PBS’s Backstage Pass With PBS Producers, which takes place tonight, won’t be professional couch potatoes. Rather, they’ll be station members and…
There’s no denying it: Firefighters are damn sexy. And the Fired Up for Kids organization knows a good thing when it finds it: The group’s Colorado Firefighter Calendar has raised almost $100,000 to date for the Children’s Hospital Burn Center, and those numbers will only continue to heat up tonight…
Ten years ago, “Ponderosa” Harv Teitelbaum caught a segment on CBS Sunday Morning that would change his life. The piece highlighted Peter Jenkins, an Atlanta-based arborist, climbing giant redwoods in California, showing off the new sport he had invented: recreational tree climbing. “I was working for the Colorado Division of…
Maybe we have completely different ideas of daytime fun, but can you think of a better way to spend an afternoon than in the warm embrace of Uncle Beam and Aunt Sapphire while popping finger food in your mouth and then washing it down with your choice of more than…
If we used the same title for chefs as we do for poets, then Sheila Lukins would be America’s chef laureate. Without knowing it, you’ve probably sampled her menu on board a United flight (back when they fed their passengers) or in a recipe from Parade magazine, where she’s reigned…
Although Teague Bohlen’s book The Pull of the Earth is set in Illinois, the backcloth of the story might as well be rural Colorado. The novel, which is up for a Colorado Book Award, invokes the universality of the small town where a father and son contend with commitment to…
The subject of this week’s Message column (see page 16), Dave Navarro, is comfortable in a slew of mediums, including music, as guitarist for the Panic Channel and onetime string-stroker for Jane’s Addiction; television, as the centerpiece (with ex-wife Carmen Electra) of two MTV reality shows and a judge on…
Ancient roots run deep under Boulderite Betsy Tobin’s multi-layered performance works, which unfold in an eerie, non-linear combination of shadow play and silhouette, puppetry and superimposed video imagery. And despite the use of modern technology, it’s not hard to imagine such works being acted out around campfires thousands of years…
In the ten years that Russian emigré Masha Surprena has been in the United States, she’s noticed how little Americans really seem to know about her native Russian culture: The rich food, the dances and music, the fashion sense and the very heart of the Russian people all seem to…
