Jerri Theil

At 3 Kings, the misfits of Denver celebrated their lives.

FRI, 8/5 Most people in this country don't equate Canada with the word "exotic." But risqué Canadian dance troupe Fluffgirl Burlesque hopes to turn up the heat on any chilly notions of our friends to the north. Fluffgirl founder and performer Cecilia Bravo started producing sold-out burlesque shows in her...

WED, 7/13 "I was at a comedy club in the Midwest once where three black comics got put on back-to-back just as a fluke," remembers Denver-based comedian Louis Johnson. "Myself, Tommy Davidson and Percy Crews, and we killed it; it was the funniest thing. The next day the front office...

THURS, 6/23 Comic Dave Attell offers this philosophical stumper: "Which would you rather have: A butler, an ice sculpture of your own ass, a baby pool full of Skittles, or $100?" "Huh?" I reply, wondering if this question was actually rhetorical. "C'mon man! The 100 bucks!" exults Attell over the...

FRI, 6/3 Cognoscenti in the early '90s openly referred to my air-hockey talent as "burgeoning," but a thug from Chicago abruptly snuffed out this promising career. Before that fateful moment, my friends and I would head to the Cherry Creek mall and idle away the time. There were many diversions:...