Mysteries of interest for March:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDressing up and hitting the town for a special Valentine’s Day dinner is fun. However, fighting the crowds of couples doing the same thing isn’t.
With Valentine’s Day landing on a Tuesday this year, staying in and celebrating the occasion might be what most folks opt for.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
“Gilded Mountain” by Kate Manning (Scribner)
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTwo Denver men suing author-director Julian Rubinstein and his production team over “The Holly” book and film withdrew their lawsuit on Thursday after admitting they hadn’t actually seen the movie they were suing him over.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Some books of regional interest for September:
“Treasure State” by C.J. Box (Minotaur Books)
A lot can happen between the beginning and end of the Panama Canal.
That’s where Denver City Council member Kevin Flynn was in mid-December when he got the email confirming that his book with the late Gary Gerhardt, “The Silent Brotherhood,” was going into production as a big-budget movie.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The baseball gods blessed Frank Ryder but his conscience torments him.
That’s the guts of “The Fireballer,” a new novel by Colorado author Mark Stevens.
“There is so much paradox to the idea that the exact same thing that is bringing Frank Ryder so much fame and attention — and upending the sport he loves — is the very same thing that took a human life,” Stevens said in a phone interview from his home in Mancos.
Resolutions, schmesolutions. If you want to do something, you should start the moment you think of it rather than on an arbitrary day on the calendar.
At least, that’s what some of us think to ourselves.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Joel Swanson’s “The Distance Between Words” is a complicated body of conceptual art expressed through a daunting variety of media, from drawings and prints to video, sound pieces and monumental installations.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
You know you want to (pet the tarantulas)
Friday-Oct. 31. Spiders have crawled all over the news lately in Colorado as the southern portion of the state has watched its annual mating ritual among thousands of tarantulas bring the creatures out into the public — as well as lots of new tourists.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The ongoing war between Denver’s Bloods and Crips gangs crescendoed in May 2008 when the Holly Square Shopping Center burned to the ground — retaliation by the Crips, neighborhood residents said, for a killing by the Bloods.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“This America of Ours,” by Nate Schweber (Mariner Books)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“Double the Lies,” by Patricia Raybon (Tyndale)
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe plight of independent bookstores in the age of Amazon seems simple: live or die.
But the Jan. 31 closing of BookBar, a drink-and-read concept that opened a decade ago in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood, is more complicated.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
At its best, the latest touring Broadway production of “Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” finds crackling energy in its dialogue and performances, arcing from actor to actor during scenes of ever-glowing intensity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDenver author and comics artist R. Alan Brooks meets a lot of people at the city’s top-tier art openings and cultural events, from the Denver Art Museum — which weeks ago opened its second exhibit featuring his work — to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, where he’s readying the release of Season 2 of his “How Art Is Born” podcast.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“Wake” by Shelley Burr (William Morrow)
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYou’re all set for your next hike, backpacking trip or camping excursion, secure in your knowledge of the great outdoors. Right?
Not so fast. It turns out some of what we think we know about wildlife, surviving in the outdoors, campfires, mushrooms and more might be old-fashioned or just plain wrong.
BookBar, a beloved bookshop and wine bar, will close its doors for good at the end of next January, with the owner blaming fatigue and rising costs.
On Monday, owner Nicole Sullivan broke the news that her business at 4280 Tennyson St.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Editor’s note: The Denver Post respects the wishes of Aurora theater shooting victims and their families that the assailant’s name not be repeated in news stories. In this article, his name is only mentioned in direct quotes by the author.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAuthor Joanne Greenberg has never been one to rest on her laurels.
In 1964, her second book, the critically acclaimed “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” was published and sold millions of copies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share