Denver Post: Entertainment

Hungry kids and thirsty parents will soon have a new place to grab a burger or brew after soccer games at Longmont’s Sandstone Ranch ball fields.
Collision Brewing Company, a restaurant and brewery, is expected to open in mid-September on Skyway Drive adjacent to the popular east Longmont recreation area.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Sometimes, a restaurant reviewer runs the risk of upsetting a particular eatery’s clientele by exposing their slightly under-the-radar gem that they wish to keep to themselves. This very well may be the case with Boulder’s Il Pastaio, an understated strip-mall gem that dishes out top-shelf pasta and equally remarkable sauces.

Just when Denver noses stopped living in fear, Stinky is back.
The Denver Botanic Gardens’ corpse flower — which will grow to 5 feet tall at its peak of stinkiness — is expected to bloom in all its rotting-corpse-smelling glory in early to mid-September, according to a news release from the Gardens.

Who knew swishing a raw egg in your mouth and then spitting it into someone else’s mouth was a talent? The Human Fountains, that’s who.
The comedy group with Colorado roots has advanced on Season 13 of “America’s Got Talent” thanks to a wildcard spot, and will appear during the live quarterfinals, Tuesday on NBC at 7 p.m.

Aurora on Saturday will hold its fifth annual Global Fest event, which celebrates international cultures in a city where one in five residents was born outside the United States.

John David Washington’s first big acting job is a decidedly funny one.
Not just “funny haha,” but funny in the sense that it’s somewhere on the spectrum between curious and bizarre.

Sunday Brunchday
SUNDAY. You could check out one Denver brunch spot this weekend, but why stop at just one? Why not 20? BrunchFest returns to Civic Center on Sunday, when you can, as its slogan says, “brunch so hard.” From 11 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

KREMMLING, Colo. – In the state known as the “mother of rivers,” the third-warmest and driest period in more than a century is wreaking havoc on waterways that provide the economic lifeline for rural communities and high-alpine habitat for Colorado’s signature fish, the greenback cutthroat trout.

3 1/2 stars; Rated R; 134 minutes
Among Spike Lee’s prodigious filmmaking talents, opening sequences are perhaps his most distinctive. He creates ambitious, operatic overtures for his films, mini-movies that introduce viewers to the stories and themes they’re about to encounter, as well as plunge them into the precise kind of dream-state necessary to best appreciate what’s to come.

The most popular autographed jersey in an online auction for Denver Broncos Charities doesn’t belong to anyone on the team.
In fact, the name on the jersey doesn’t even belong to a football player.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share