“It’s like storytime for grownups,” says Debbie Knapp, a performer for Colorado Homegrown Tales — a dramatic-reading series highlighting stories by local authors. “It’s a nice way to take a break from the holiday mayhem, harking back to the tradition of getting everyone together for the holidays and telling funny…
I grew up in Evergreen, so for me, it doesn’t feel like the holidays until I’ve taken a spin around Evergreen Lake on my ice skates. Luckily for me, I can still squeeze in a quick dose of wintertime exercise before I unwrap my presents this morning, because the lake…
Imagine for a moment that you are Mary, and you’re roundly pregnant with your first child — about to pop, as they say — and you and your husband are seeking shelter for the night in a strange town. But there are hundreds of others who need shelter, who have…
Since the lunar perigree (commonly known as the full moon) doesn’t technically come to fruition until tomorrow morning at 3:12, tonight’s Full Moon Ski and Skate won’t take place beneath a completely, 100 percent, no-holds-barred full moon — but the sky will still be bright enough to light the way…
Chocolate fiends and those with sweet teeth, take note: Keystone chef Ned Archibald’s Chocolate Village, which he (along with his helpers) installs every year in the lobby of Keystone Lodge, might look like a Wonka-esque wonderland filled with delicious delicacies — but seeing as how Archibald recycles the village each…
Sometimes you just can’t find the right thing for the right person, and as the Christmas shopping days continue to dwindle, you wring your hands in despair. Or maybe you’ve been lazy. Whatever the case, you’d better look sharp: Santa lands in a mere five days, and you don’t want…
It takes rare ability to tell a children’s story that conveys the grace and significance of childhood without straying into the affectedly saccharine, oversimplified realm of cartoons and morality tales, but Albert Lamorisse managed to do it twice, both times winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or for the effort…
Just when you thought you had a week off from the festivities, Kwanzaa is here! Now, you might be one of those who puts this holiday in the festivus-for-the-rest-of-us category, or maybe you believe that anything founded in the 1960s just isn’t real. You might also think the founder is…
Would you rather share the holiday season with the cinematic likes of Francis Ford Coppola, or your overcritical in-laws? If all you want for Christmas is a sneak peek into the jet-set world of Oscar nomination, then Aspen is the place to be today through January 2, when the Aspen…
‘Tis the season for Seasonal Affective Disorder, and I am SAD. Perhaps we all are, at least a little bit. I’m not saying I start writing my will and planning my memorial service every time the sun goes away, but I do get a little blue coming home every night…
It’s hard to miss the City and County Building this time of year. The Downtown Denver Partnership touts it as one of the largest holiday lighting displays in the world, with floodlights and nearly a million smaller lights. It’s a colorful, chaotic sight to behold — and an official nightmare…
The Writers’ Strike of 2007 looks to be going into 2008 as well; but late-night programming won’t be following it anymore. NBC has announced that on January 2, both Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O’Brien will return with new episodes. It’s being reported that David…
Where I walk into Tattered Cover and randomly select five books from the new release racks to read a random page for 45 seconds and rate the book accordingly. Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers By Michael A. Banks Page 35 Doesn’t it seem outmoded to…
Turn on ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas programming, and you’ll see a lot of what you might expect; classic TV cartoons, claymation specials, great old movies and an odd lot of newer ones. But here’s something you might not have expected: the whole thing seems to center around the…
There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie’s star, Will Smith — but more about him in a minute. The other is by the movie’s visual effects — not the ones that bring to life a nocturnal army of shrieking,…
Juno marks the second film for director Jason Reitman and the first for screenwriter Diablo Cody, author of the Pussy Ranch blog, which, surprisingly, has very little to do with baby kittens. At first Juno threatens to choke on its own catchphrases — like when The Office’s Rainn Wilson, cameoing…
Punk died, the Silver Jews sang, the first time a kid shouted “Punk’s not dead!” The words are never uttered in Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and maybe that’s why you come away from this epic doc feeling hopeful about the health of punk’s lingering ideals. Piecing…
In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the elderly New York novelist she’s trying to seduce. Later, the two will lie down on his bed with their hands by their sides, and later still, he…
At a Guitar Hero tournament a few months back, one kid complained to me that Expert Mode is “too easy.” Then he demonstrated the game’s secret Hyper Speed mode. My pupils nearly ruptured at the sight of him as he navigated the light-speed stream of colored notes; it looked like…
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The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) The final installment in the Bourne-again trilogy is the one in which the CIA assassin’s true identity is revealed. It’s the origin story in reverse — how brilliant. But solving the mystery (and misery, as Jason Bourne’s among the most tormented action heroes of all time)…
I’ve already seen Buntport Theater’s Titus Andronicus: the Musical twice. But with a few honorable exceptions, theater-going has been pretty dismal this fall, so I figure I’m entitled to a little fun. As we prepare to file in, we see an eccentrically clad woman in the lobby. She’s commenting loudly…
