Well, that was fun while it lasted. American Idol had its worst season premiere ever, coming off the heels of its first season where winning didn’t translate to commercial pop success. Turns out J-Lo and fossilized Steven Tyler are pushovers trying to make their own careers as much as anyone…
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In the final minute of last night’s Nuggets win over the visiting Thunder, Rocky the Mountain Lion was trying, again, to drain a half-court shot while facing the opposite hoop. He’d been doing it for two full time-outs and hit rim twice. A stunt, like everything else he does, except…
Although the band is based in Los Angeles, the Airborne Toxic Event has a special place in its heart for Denver. “On our first tour, we played a sold-out show for 1,600 people at the Ogden, and the night before, we were in Salt Lake City and played for 200,”…
IFC’s new show Portlandia is basically a hipster SNL. It stars Fred Armisen (of, uh, SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (aka the Jesus Christ of Portland hip). The first episode premieres Friday, but you can watch it now on Hulu. In it, jokes are made about organic chicken and radical feminist…
Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes for the second time in a row this year — looks like, as predicted by Gervais himself, he won’t make it a third next year. Gervais has never been one to hold a punch, but which monologue hit the hardest? Below, we’ve included video…
Lissie With Dylan LeBlanc 01.17.11 | Bluebird Theater Lissie walked on stage to the Twin Peaks theme song. That should come as no surprise, as she’s a well-publicized fan of the show. The lesson here and throughout her set at the Bluebird: Lissie is not big on subtlety…
There is no movie theater in Denver like the Landmark in Greenwood Village. Popcorn and fountain drinks come free with your ticket, there’s a full bar and VIP seating, some of the highest-quality screens in town and much better movie offerings than their megaplex peers. The current selection is True…
Elisabeth Maurus, who performs under the moniker Lissie, plays tonight at the Bluebird. She had to cancel a show here in October because her voice gave out, but she’s eager to return to Colorado. She spent a couple undergraduate years at CSU in Fort Collins. We spoke with her right…
The largest musical collective in Fort Collins will be coming to Denver for a trio of shows in February. Act So Big Forest becomes the second group to curate a residency series at the Meadowlark after Hot Congress did it in November…
Gucci Mane went straight from the psych ward to the tattoo parlor and came away with the confusing mess you see to the right. Lots of people have suggested this is a clear indication he got out a bit too soon, but does this really seem like exceptionally, uncontrollably rash…
Aziz Ansari brings his Dangerously Delicious tour to Denver tonight. The stand-up album he’s supporting, Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, was one of the funniest releases of 2010. He also plays Tom Haverford on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, which returns for season three next week. To prepare you for…
The 68th Golden Globe Awards will be handed out this Sunday. It’s a contractual obligation that all televised awards shows do not reward quality, and this will be no different; plenty of shitty movies will wind up being allowed to slap Golden Globe Winner on their DVD packaging. Of course,…
Sample topics from Aziz Ansari’s stand-up repertoire: Craigslist, thread counts, Jamba Juice and his cousin Harris. In his hands, they’re all opportunities to screw with someone. Ansari has a big resumé that’s just getting bigger. He starred in MTV’s Human Giant and now stars in NBC’s Parks & Recreation. He’s…
The brick-and-mortar movie rental store is a dying breed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rent local. Louisville’s John Griffin has started a local kiosk movie business called Treehouse Movies. Right now he’s got one kiosk in Denver, at the Sunflower Market at 2880 S. Colorado Blvd., and three in…
After last week’s Poptimystic in which we questioned the value of Next Big Sound’s new Billboard charts, company co-founder Alex White got in touch to clarify some things. Our complaint with the more compelling of the two charts, the NBS25, was that it never features the same artists twice, and…
Soulja Boy is struggling. His latest album, The DeAndre Way, posted anemic sales figures, and he’s only still making news by picking painfully stupid fights way out of his weight class. Many people in the world have always hated him, and for them, watching the man flail around in 2011,…
There are lots of ones in today’s date, and we as a culture do not miss chances to invent significance for these sorts of things. Croatian gaze-healer Braco, pictured here gazing, gets his power from oneness and can therefore heal cancer today. Or something. Video below…
Mini-golf courses, good ones anyway, always have personality. You expect tunnels and ceramic animal obstacles, general minor fighting back from the holes. So in some ways, Smash Putt: The Return of the Miniature Golf Apocalypse, now two weeks into its six-week run, is like other courses you’ve played. Sort of…
Lissie is what Taylor Swift claims to be. It’s going to take the rest of this to dig out of that analogy, because she’s nothing like the Taylor Swift you know. What she is: A singer with country roots and pop leanings, singing about youthful love and loss. But there…
Jumpin Jammerz, a brand of footy-pajamas for adults, is currently the number one Google search in the United States. At its peak, earlier this morning, people were searching for Jumpin Jammerz at a faster rate than people were searching for Barack Obama on the day of his inauguration…
Billboard recently debuted a pair of new charts compiled by Boulder-based company Next Big Sound, the subject of a recent Westword feature. The charts, called the Social 50 and the Next Big Sound 25, track bands’ online presence, whether it’s Facebook “likes” or Last.fm plays. Music industry bigwigs think this…
