Dev Pateal and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire. Last year’s so-called Big Night at the Denver Film Festival featured Juno, a small-scale comedy about a pregnant teen that inspired the blog “Juno Lives Up to the Hype at the Starz Denver Film Festival” before becoming a left-field box-office success and…
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler: bloody but unbowed — for the moment. Pre-season Oscar forecasters make Mickey Rourke a frontrunner for a Best Actor nod in conjunction with The Wrestler, which made its local debut at the King Center on November 14 as part of the 31st Starz Denver Film…
Don’t forget to take your medicine. When the eleventh anniversary of John Denver’s death passed by on October 12, I noted it privately, but let it be at that. After all, how many times can you dredge up cheesy feelings for an artist whose songs alternately inspired and gagged so…
An image from Waltz With Bashir. A couple of weeks ago, I had a choice: either catch up on several hundred non-spam e-mails then clogging my inbox or attend a Denver Film Festival press screening of Waltz With Bashir, an autobiographical animated film by Israeli director Ari Folman about a…
The devil made him do it. For more blogs, look out below. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Imp of Satan writes the best Craigslist musician-wanted ad ever. • Get a free MP3 download from your Mama. • Meese’s now not-so-secret show in Boulder next week. • The Fray premiers…
Start your engines. Here’s the sad vehicular truth: When you take your car in for repairs, you just pretty much assume you’re going to get screwed by the mechanic. He’s either going to tell you something is broken when it’s not, make up the name of some part that needs…
A mock-up of a billboard coming soon to a neighborhood near you. So you thought last night’s vote of the Golden City Council not to allow religious symbols on city property this year was the only local event likely to attract notice from culture warriors nationwide? Ha. As of this…
Skating nirvana in Nederland. Well, the hippies finally did it. After five years of scratching the dirt for funds, the tiny, pinecone-smoking hamlet of Nederland is opening the Nathan Lazarus Skatepark this Saturday at the edge of the Barker Reservoir. It was constructed over three months by the expert skater…
Dare 2 Share’s Greg Stier. Some 10,000 evangelical Christian teens from around the state and region will descend on downtown Denver today and tomorrow for the annual Dare 2 Share conference at the Pepsi Center. They may even show up at your door on Saturday asking for canned goods –…
It’s getting chilly for management pensions at the Post. Yesterday, multiple sources confirm, managers at the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency learned that their pensions would be frozen beginning on January 1. Tracy Simmons of the Denver Newspaper Guild stresses that the freeze will only affect so-called exempt…
Emily Rice. Six months after reaching a $4 million settlement with Denver Health Medical Center for the wrongful death of Emily Rae Rice, attorneys for the family of the former Herman’s Hideaway waitress are poised to collect a $3 million settlement with the city. As I wrote in “Rae of…
Danni Boatwright cleaning up. Yesterday, Channel 4’s Brooke Wagner hosted a “Breakfast With Brooke” segment about new Denver Broncos center Casey Wiegmann and his wife, Danni Boatwright, a former Kansas City sports-radio personality who also happens to be the winner of Survivor: Guatemala. Predictably, the piece was ultra-wholesome, prompting Wagner’s…
Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo in the Rian Johnson film The Brothers Bloom. The Brothers Bloom offered the folks behind the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival with a win-win situation at last night’s opening night. The film has a local hook of sorts: Its director, Rian Johnson, spent part of…
Ken Jeong gives Paul Rudd the finger in Role Models. Role Models, a new flick co-starring Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott as energy-drink salesmen forced to take part in a mentorship program after briefly going rogue, has some pretty funny bits — although there’s a little too much learning…
California’s Proposition 8 outlaws scenes like this. I don’t know about you, but I had a distinct bittersweet taste in my mouth on November 5. Sweet for obvious reasons; the bitter came from the passing of Proposition 8 in California. I thought it was a damn shame that just as…
A “Radioland” exhibit at Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery. Today marks the beginning of Denver Arts Week, a cultural celebration that encompasses a multitude of people, places and things — and you’ll be able to read about many of them in this space. But the celebration of art is hardly…
“I thought she ordered a Screaming Orgasm…” Welcome to our daily blogapalooza. Today in Cafe Society: • Did cops find the bartender at K’s China wearing his pants around his ankles? • Pho 7: Talk about a cursed location! • Veggie Girl dines at Lucile’s Creole Cafe. • BD’s Mongolian…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The “Cultural Ambassador,” or Q1 visa, was created by Congress back in 1983 to help the Disney Corporation staff its newly opened Florida theme-park. The Epcot Center showcases the pavilions of eleven foreign…
No Botanic Gardens for you!. It seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. My East Coast folks in for the weekend, we decided to take a jaunt down to Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, a place we’d never been but about which we’d heard many a tantalizing tidbit. Nature…
The online banner for KRCC and its sister stations. The economic downturn has affected all of us in one way or another — but its impact is particularly tough on non-profits, whose mission becomes impossible if they can no longer generate enough donations to keep the lights on and the…
If you’re looking to add to your sort-of retro, kind-of hip Broncos sports gear collection, the folks at Derailed Ink — who designed the “What Would JC Do” shirt in honor of Jay Cutler — have added a second shirt to their collection: The “Eddie Royale with Cheese.” Here’s how…
Yohannes Gebregeorgis and friends. Today’s Rocky Mountain News features an appropriately positive profile of Yohannes Gebregeorgis, the man behind Ethiopia Reads, a Denver-based organization that raises funds to build libraries and bring books to the African nation of Gebregeorgis’ birth. Gebregeorgis is one of ten finalists for CNN’s “Hero of…
