Editor’s note: This year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, November 12-22, features more than 200 films. To help navigate this cinematic abundance of riches, we asked fest artistic director Brit Withey to highlight some worthy selections off the beaten screening-room path. Look for Brit’s Picks each weekday through the extravaganza’s close…
A trifecta of local blogs worth eyeballing. Kyle at Bronco Talk thinks Peyton Hillis may be the cure the ailing Broncos running game needs. Watch your back, Knowshon. What’s the best thing about Colorado being number eleven in foreclosure activity among states nationally? As 5280’s Michael de Yoanna points out,…
Pilots are casual enough as it is. Whether explaining why you’ve been sitting on the tarmac for 45 minutes or forecasting the Hail-Mary-inducing turbulence ahead, they’re always so relaxed. It’s as if they’re unaware that they’re guiding a massive piece of metal through the sky. And now we know they’re…
Yesterday, Tom Tancredo confirmed his plans to run for governor now that state senator Josh Penry has dropped out of the race. That throws a kink into frontrunner Scott McInnis’ dream of a united party — united behind him, anyhow. Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, claims to…
MTV is looking for overweight home-schoolers who have been affected by natural disasters for the next season of The Real World — and it’s coming to find them in Denver, which hosted its own cast of seven strangers picked to live in a house in 2006 and 2007. Real World…
Know a kid age twelve and under in need of some holiday cash? Then encourage him or her to come up with a name for this penguin, the mascot of the 35th annual Parade of Lights, scheduled for December 4 and 5. The winner will receive, among other things, a…
Downloading of movies, music and other digital media has the entertainment industry in an uproar. All of a sudden, they’re afraid those multimillion dollar budgets aren’t going to be recouped, and they have families to feed! Okay, they have coke habits to feed, but same difference, right? Despite a few…
“Dan, please stop joking on air that the new National Weather Service Station, located near the 12th tee at City Park Golf Course, is reporting ‘hail-sized golf balls.’ You’re confusing our senior viewers!”…
Attorney Rob Corry has been on a roll of late, having won over Judge Larry Naves in a recent Denver District Court proceeding that voided a Board of Health ruling about the definition of a medical-marijuana caregiver — a response to a Colorado Court of Appeals decision in the case…
You’ve got to have a surplus of political creativity to criticize an opponent for voting as your guy would have, as opposed to going the other direction. So props to Cory Gardner campaign manager Mike Ciletti for pulling off a difficult routine regarding Democratic Representative Betsy Markey’s “no” vote on…
The Starz Denver Film Fest opened last night with a screening of Precious followed by a party at Suite 200. Aaron Thackeray crashed the bash, camera in hand. To see the stars, and the shots, click here…
As you can see by the Associated Press footage above, Balloon Boy parents Richard and Mayumi Heene weren’t forced to do a perp walk when turning themselves in to Larimer County authorities, as their attorney, David Lane, had feared. Instead, the process was orderly and low key, unlike pretty much…
It’s been a tough year for the Denver Film Society. Not only has the economy wreaked havoc on the organization, necessitating shortened hours of operation, but internal turmoil boiled over in June, when executive director Bo Smith, on the job for less than a year, was sacked following a mutiny…
Yesterday morning, a woman was stabbed at an RTD bus stop near the intersection of West Colfax Avenue and Winona Street — and as the Denver Police Department notes, this isn’t exactly the first time something like this has happened. Three other stabbing incidents took place along the West Colfax…
It was just last week that we were talking about how overrated Jay Cutler is. But even we never imagined that he’d offer up a performance as embarrassing as the one the nation saw last night in the Chicago Bears’ 10-6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Sweet Baby Jay…
On last night’s Channel 31 late newscast, reporter Heidi Hemmat mined comedy gold with the story above, about a Boulder man who’s created a “THC ministry” that ordains anyone, Hemmat included, willing to treat ganja as a religious sacrament. The most humorous moment — even funnier than the use of…
It’s officially The Future. Denver announced today that its Public Works Department is piloting a program in which shoppers at Cherry Creek North can call parking meters from their cell phones and deposit money via their credit cards — and then call back to extend the time on their meters…
Somehow Ron Angotti has survived his first two months in the helping business –despite running the cheapest, strangest and probably most imperiled thrift store on West Colfax. His Colfax Thrift Store, two blocks west of Sheridan, has become a bargain among bargains, a port in the storm for needy families…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted here: Communications Intern — Denver Mayor’s Office Pay: Unpaid…
Get inside the heads of a group of top local Chicano artists who work in a variety of media at tonight’s 7 Minutos slide jam, hosted by Westword favorite Jerry Vigil and featuring Al Cardenas, digital media professor Rafael Fajardo, muralist Emanuel Martinez, mixed-media artist Jerry De La Cruz and…
Here’s some local bloggery to peruse. Colin over at South Stands Denver is a little skittish about Josh McDaniels benching o-lineman Ben Hamilton in favor of another former New England Patriot. But if Joshy McD can go from high-school kicker to NFL head coach in fourteen years, he’s doing something…
“Precious.”Editor’s note: This year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, November 12-22, features more than 200 films. To help navigate this cinematic abundance of riches, we asked fest artistic director Brit Withey to highlight some worthy selections off the beaten screening-room path. Look for Brit’s Picks each weekday through the extravaganza’s close…
