A fourth Rambo? The question isn’t why; it’s what took him so long. Was America’s avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and what we’re cooking up for Iran and Syria? (Oops — pretend that last part was redacted.) Sure, last time we saw John Rambo, twenty…
I’d like to see Closer again, not because the first viewing was overwhelmingly enjoyable or illuminating — although it was definitely interesting — but because the structure wasn’t immediately apparent, and you sense that it’s important to the meaning. When I got home and went on Google, I found an…
There are moments from Paula Vogel’s And Baby Makes Seven that stick with me: Anna, a pregnant woman, seated on a kitchen chair and smiling while her gay male roommate, Peter, cups one of her breasts, and Ruth, her lesbian lover, holds the other; Ruth fighting her alter ego, a…
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: 5 (Warner Bros.) Barn of the Naked Dead (Legend House) Bordertown (THINKFilm) Canvas (Universal) Chancer: Series 2 (Acorn Media) The Comebacks (Fox) Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Sixth Season (HBO) Daddy Day Camp (Sony) Damages: The Complete First Season (Sony) Drumline: Special Edition (Fox) El Cid:…
I’m way too old to be captivated by Kidrobot toys, and yet I inexplicably am — if I were richer, I’d have a houseful of Dunnys and Munnys and Zoomies and Labbits and IceBots. But I was raised on a steady diet of Denver Art Museum doll trolls, Cootie, Gumby…
‘Tis the season to celebrate and remember all things African-American, and Rocky Mountain PBS is going full speed ahead with its premiere of African American Lives 2, a new four-part series building on the momentum of 2006’s African American Lives. Featuring such notable Americans as Maya Angelou, Bliss Broyard, Don…
For Kingdom of Magic’s debut, Luke Fairchild and his White Dynamite cohort, Joe Ramirez, team up with drummer Devon Rogers for a relentlessly heavy bong-burner. Unlike their cannabis-cracked stoner-rock cronies, however, the trio keeps the riff tonnage at maximum and drops it hard. There are only two tracks, but they…
“Bob Marley is a staple in life, period,” says Lillian Marsh, event coordinator for tonight’s What About Bob? celebration. She has a point: The reggae master and activist — who would have been 63 now had he not passed away in 1981 at age 36 — is still influencing today’s…
The football gods are a fickle bunch. Despite the wishes of everyone not living within driving distance of a Revolutionary War battlefield, a championship-game showdown between Brett Favre — the most mythical Midwestern folk hero since Paul Bunyan — and the undefeated New England Patriots will remain a fantasy played…
If you’re not afraid to go a little out of the way for the chance to hear something truly unique, plan a trip tonight to the Syzygy Community House, 51 Paula Avenue in Rollinsville, for the Imbolc/Candlemas Celebration. The highlight of the evening will be the first Colorado performance in…
Tony Garcia is a Chicano baby boomer wading through middle age, a veteran of the Mexican-American civil rights movement and an aging artist who really hates standing in line. “There’s a whole list of shit that I don’t care about anymore,” says the executive artistic director at El Centro Su…
Poets hate war, especially this one. And they all do readings that push their own anti-war agendas. But that’s often just one lone voice screaming into the wilderness. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have thirty voices screaming into the wilderness?” That thought, posed by local poet Wayne Gilbert, sparked fellow…
Can you create a comic in 24 hours? That’s the question the comic-book world asks every October when it challenges cartoonists to come up with 24 pages in 24 hours, complete with story, art and lettering. Last year, several local comic-book artists took the “dare” — as 24HourComics.com calls it…
When artist Terrilynn Moore went to see The Vagina Monologues at a venue on the Auraria campus in 2003, she noticed that the lobby contained pictures of llamas. It seemed a little odd that the famous Monologues had no art to tie in to the performance, so Moore thought up…
As a ’70s-era teenager, I worked at my cousin’s stereo store — and whenever a staffer really wanted to close a sale, he or she would spin the Mobile Fidelity vinyl pressing of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. The sound of those clanging clocks on “Time” would make…
My husband once lived in L.A. and worked at the fabled and now-defunct Aron’s Records, where he regularly bumped elbows with everyone from Belinda Carlisle to Ray Davies. He never tires of telling those stories, matter-of-factly, to the slack-jawed Denverites who’ve only dreamt of such encounters. What a kick. Ceramic…
Denver players, beware: Greg Behrendt is coming to the Comedy Works, and he’s ready to simultaneously burst your dating bubble and bust your gut. With a mane of frosted hair, a chain wallet and a penchant for man-gab like “bro” and “dude,” Behrendt may seem more Mark McGrath than Dr…
Although compendiums of hilarity from The Onion are published annually, it’s been more than eight years since the arrival of 1999’s Our Dumb Century, the last all-original book from “America’s Finest News Source.” According to Megan Ganz, the Onion assistant editor who co-authored Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of…
The people of Grand Lake have been preparing for months. The ice is ready for the Teapot Curling event. The snow is primed for snow sculpture and kids’ snowman contests. The Kauffman House Museum is open for tours. Grand Avenue has been cleared in preparation for the parade and the…
Eric Matelski is an alternative scene impresario who hosts arty-events that attract the night owls. Tonight at 11 p.m. Matelski is putting forward his latest effort with the help of his cohort, Hector Munoz (aka Hecktor Muoz). The two are hosting their on-going adventure in cutting edge entertainment at Dazzle…
Information is power, especially when navigating the intricacies of the law. Whether you’re stuck in a custody case, worried about a DUI or getting ready to sign a new lease, a little education can help. To that end, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and Colorado Free University present People’s Law…
Blue Heaven, for the record, refers to the preference of LAPD retirees for the remote sticks of northern Idaho, which explains why so many ex-cops, both good and bad, are suddenly on duty in Kootenai Bay in C.J. Box’s so-named new thriller. A stand-alone from Box, the Wyoming-based author of…
