Persnickety

MON, 10/24 Though most everyone who cares knows perfectly well that Daniel Handler is Lemony Snicket, the prolific author of the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events books for kids, he still tries to pretend that he and Snicket aren’t one and the same. But no matter how bad a…

They Vant to Suck Your Blood

WED, 10/19 There’s nothing hotter than bisexual vampires — especially bisexual vampires played by the world’s most gorgeous celebrities. Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie star in The Hunger, a slick 1983 horror flick that is one of five films in Starz FilmCenter’s Evil-ution of Horror cinematic monster mash…

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

THURS, 10/6 Alcohol tends to facilitate both good and bad ideas. Bad ideas come in the form of, say, the woman in Georgia who last month assaulted an officer with a plate of chicken wings after being pulled over for drunk driving. In contrast, a good idea would be the…

Cirque du Something

FRI, 9/30 “Some of my greatest friends from college were people that I considered comedy hippies,” says Boulder-based writer and comedian Dave Burdick. “They got into worshiping Del Close and the Upright Citizens Brigade and the spirit of improv. Lately, I’ve been realizing I’m a comedy hippie, too. I just…

¡Anda, Muchachos!

WED, 10/5 Last May, at the Rapids’ Hispanic Heritage Night — while mariachis trumpeted and girls danced and swirled in traditional costumes — brothers Carlos and Juan Morales patrolled the parking lot of Invesco Field. One was clad in a Rapids soccer jersey; the other sported the colors of that…

Radio Free Denver

FRI, 9/23 Last year, on August 29, KGNU made history. The stalwart, Boulder-based independent radio station — Colorado’s home for such lauded syndicated shows as Democracy Now! — purchased the broadcast frequency of 1430 AM in Denver, expanding its potential audience by millions. “It’s a process, and we’re just barely…

Glove Love

TUES, 9/20 The 1770 Sherman Street Events Complex is a 99-year old building known not only as one of the area’s finest examples of Moorish Revival architecture, but as one whose access was once on a members-only basis. Since the building’s sale in 1995, the facility has become highly fought…