Nealon at the comedy altar: SNL vet filming special in Colorado
No need for sneaky messages from Subliminal Man to convince me that Kevin Nealon is one of the funniest dudes out there. With his honed wit and trademark dry, straight delivery, Nealon has made a name for himself as an understated observational comic who still comes off as the nice guy you’d want as your...
No need for sneaky messages from Subliminal Man to convince me that Kevin Nealon is one of the funniest dudes out there. With his honed wit and trademark dry, straight delivery, Nealon has made a name for himself as an understated observational comic who still comes off as the nice guy you’d want as your...
Event Horizon: The Descendents & Hot Water Music Tonight
Hot Water Music is in the studio. (Yes, you read that right.) And all of us here in Colorado are reaping the rewards. The band has confirmed they are recording a new full-length at legendary Ft. Collins studio The Blasting Room with super-awesome producer Bill Stevenson at the helm. But wait, it gets better. Stevenson...
President Obama makes post-State of the Union stop in Colorado
Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora was the next-to-last stop on a whirlwind two-day tour for President Barack Obama, who hit the road to stump for the programs and policies laid out in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. Standing in front of an enormous American flag, the president delivered remarks to a crowd of...
Hindsight: Social Distortion @ The Ogden
There are some voices that, when raised in song, don’t merely carry a tune … they preach it. When this happens, anyone within earshot just can’t help being somehow transformed. But when the voice in question happens to be that of Mike Ness, this transformation involves being stripped down, chewed up, spit out on the floor,...
Stage Door: Rock Out with the Undead Monday Night
Zombies, it seems, are everywhere these days. The damn things are popping up far and wide, gleefully ripping the pop culture obsession-du-jour trophy away from those obnoxious sparkly vampires. Yep, we’ve come a long way since George Romero first brought the fear with Night of the Living Dead: AMC has a hit with The Walking...
Ultimate Twilight Marathon: This is actually happening.
The all-annoying, ridiculous term “Twihard” conjures images of either an all-male ménage a trois, or a really horny Cerberus. But in reality, this massacre of language has to do with those who have a raging boner for sparkly vampires, over-hormoned werewolves, and a dopey girl stuck between their two worlds. Yes, that’s right … The...
The Beautiful Art of Vulgarity: Doug Stanhope @ The Oriental
Sculptors work with a mound of clay. Painters: oils, acrylics and canvas. And stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope, who appeared last night at Denver’s Oriental Theatre, creates masterpieces out of feces, Japanese tsunami jokes and anal sex, bound together with various bodily fluids and copious amounts of social satire. Gross, right? Sure, but this comic brilliance...
Red Carpet Report: Starz Denver Film Festival Opening Night
The theme for the 34th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival is “Roll Out the Red” … and that’s exactly what went down last night at the glorious Ellie Calkins Opera House. In a scene more Hollywood than Denver, producers, directors, talent and various festival VIPs strutted their stuff on the red carpet amidst a cacophony...
Obama talks student loan debt in Denver
President Obama desperately needs a win right now. With a wheezing economy in dire need of some defibrillator action, a growing populist revolution on his hands, and a Congress who would likely block his request for a tissue if he should sneeze, the man who promised hope and change has found himself in quite a...
Powder Room: The Art of Flight
Hey, all you snow freaks. Yeah, you. I know it’s that time of year where the daydreams about first chair on a pow day start. I feel your pain. But just for one second, try to stop staring longingly at your boards, skis and other gear, and pay attention to me… Wanna see some of...
Highlarious: Doug Benson @ The Boulder Theater
Doug Benson is one funny dude. You’ll have to take my word for it since, admittedly, I was too busy laughing during his show Tuesday night at the Boulder Theater to take solid notes to prove this fact. I tried, I really did, but the result was purple scribble resembling the phrase “crow dog,” the...
Denver observes 9/11 anniversary
Funny thing, memory is. Regardless of how cognizant we think we are, or how hard we try, once-sharp details eventually blur and fade. But, despite the water-colored depths of our minds, how we felt at the time of an event – those emotions – seem to stick, and sometimes even grow stronger over time. Such...
