Denver Post: Entertainment
- ESPN likes opinionated personalities. Until it doesn’t. Just ask Jemele Hill.
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:18 PMIt’s almost axiomatic at ESPN: You’re nobody unless you’ve been suspended for saying something you — or perhaps mostly your bosses — regret.
Over the years the dishonor roll at the self-styled Worldwide Leader in Sports has been studded with many all-star names.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Created in Breckenridge, Pumpkin Spice Latte beer goes national
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 05:08 PMBreckenridge Brewery has rolled out a new seasonal brew across 40 states that seeks to capitalize on the pumpkin spice craze but was originally dreamt up by the mad scientists at the brewery’s “Innovation Center” in Breckenridge.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dallas, Houston, Philly join Overwatch esports league
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 11:40 AMPHILADELPHIA — Dave Scott is quick to note he wasn’t at Comcast Spectacor when the company sold the Philadelphia 76ers six years ago.
The NBA franchise Comcast Spectacor sold for about $280 million in October 2011 was valued this year by Forbes at $800 million and could probably sell for more — the Houston Rockets recently sold for $2.2 billion.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Enjoy a slice of Italy at these family-owned Wheat Ridge/Arvada pizzerias
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:30 AMTake a bite into the Italian culture at these longtime, family-owned Italian staples throughout the community featuring handmade doughs, meats and sauces whipped together from special recipes handed down from generation to generation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver Museum of Nature & Science rolls out rarely seen artifacts
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:45 AMThe Denver Museum of Nature & Science currently possesses 4.1 million objects and specimens, and much of that is tucked away in storage areas and research rooms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kevin Hart’s alleged cheating and extortion scandal, explained
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:17 PMKevin Hart enjoyed pretty good press last month as he was publicizing his new book and calling on fellow celebrities to donate loads of cash to relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- TV chef Christopher Kimball coming to Lakewood with Milk Street Live!
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:30 PMYou probably first saw Christopher Kimball as the bow-tie-and-glasses-wearing, endlessly curious host of “America’s Test Kitchen,” the show he helped create back in the early 2000s.
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Now, he’d like to reintroduce himself, this time with a broader cooking philosophy, and he’s coming to Colorado to share it with you. - “Dancing With the Stars” premiere: Ranking the contestants from best to worst
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 07:22 PMOn Monday night, ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” kicked off its 25th season with 13 new celebrity competitors; lots of sparkly costumes; and a few gimmicks, including a married couple competing against each other.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 54thirty, Denver’s highest rooftop bar, has fire pits to keep patio season burning into fall
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 02:03 PMIt’s just about fall, which means we’re all on the clock for drinking-on-the-patio season. If that’s you, head to the top of the Le Meridien hotel while you can. That’s where 54thirty, Denver’s tallest open-air rooftop bar, just opened on Sept.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Spicy Pickle is back, plus more sandwiches in this week’s restaurant openings
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 02:43 PMThe return of Spicy Pickle
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- At 82, Judi Dench’s mission remains the same: “To learn”
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:11 PMBy Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
TORONTO — Judi Dench is not tired.
“I’ve had one of those pep-up drinks,” Dench, beaming as she sits down for a recent interview.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Aspen Filmfest announces 2017 lineup of 20 films
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 05:09 PMFrom food waste in the western world to an animated adventure about a guitar-playing dog in Tibet, the Aspen Filmfest lineup announced Tuesday sweeps across many genres of cinema.
The 20 films selected for the 39th annual festival were chosen out of hundreds screened, organizers said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Westminster welcomes hub of tree houses in new nature playground
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:54 AMScraped elbows and bumped knees are notorious marks of childhood — earned during sunny afternoons spent climbing trees and splashing in creeks. In a time when playing video games trumps riding bicycles, and watching TV beats building tree houses for many kids, the city of Westminster is looking to bring children back to nature by bringing nature to them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cities within a city: A glimpse at three Denver neighborhoods
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:32 AMDenver’s 78 neighborhoods are like cities within a city. Each neighborhood offers distinctions — the mix of residents, the architecture of buildings, the variety of public places, the uniqueness of businesses.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A day trip to Golden to ride the rails at the Colorado Railroad Museum
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:12 PMGOLDEN — It was a warm, sunny Ride the Rails Saturday morning at the Colorado Railroad Museum. My family and I entered the gift shop to get our tickets and I realized I wasn’t the only one who’d decided this was a good day to visit Golden.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Twenty years ago, “Butterfly” changed Mariah Carey’s career. It also helped change pop music.
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:20 PMBy Bethonie Butler, The Washington Post
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VH1 recognized Mariah Carey for her many hip-hop collaborations at this year’s Hip Hop Honors, which aired Monday night, and the timing couldn’t be better. - Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition coming to Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 07:22 PMThe Dead Sea Scrolls, among the oldest known Biblical documents dating back over 2,000 years, and hundreds of artifacts from the Holy Land will be on display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science early next year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Rebel in the Rye” an all-too-conventional portrait of literary iconoclast J.D. Salinger
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 07:29 PMOne and one-half stars. Rated PG-13. 109 minutes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 used and specialty bookstores to peruse when you’re near Englewood
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 02:41 PMThere’s a lot of literature packed into Englewood’s seven square miles. You can find used and novelty books of virtually every genre among the locally owned shops on this list.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- PHOTOS: Taste of the Broncos 2017
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 12:25 PMThe third annual Taste of the Broncos was held outside Sports Authority Field Monday night as 40 Broncos wandered a maze of chefs and fans. Von Miller, Brandon McManus, Brandon Marshall and more greeted fans who got to sample dishes from Denver’s top chefs beneath the stars.
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- Songs about failure fuel Walker Hayes’ success
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:29 PMOn a day in 2015 when Walker Hayes really didn’t need anything else to go wrong, the roof of his car fell down. Someone on the Internet swore thumbtacks could fix it, so Hayes borrowed blue, purple, pink and green tacks from his young daughter, Lela.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Downtown’s Santa Fe Cookie Co. to reopen this fall
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 01:20 PMDebbie Kuehn — better known as “The Cookie Lady” in downtown Denver — liked to say that she changed the world one cookie at a time.
After her death on June 28, we mourned the loss of both Kuehn and her Santa Fe Cookie Co.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jimmy Kimmel: Senator “lied right to my face” on health care
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 10:51 AMLOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel says U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy “lied right to my face” by going back on his word to ensure any health care overhaul passes a test named for him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Arvada brewery harvests ingredients from Denver Botanic Gardens to create nature-based beer
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:42 AMIt’s hard to get much more “Colorado” than wrapping up a day’s adventure in the mountains by sipping a craft beer at a local brewery — unless, perhaps, the beer you’re sipping was brewed with ingredients handpicked from the majestic Rocky Mountains themselves.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dr. Oz surprises the hosts of “Fox & Friends” by talking about America’s pot “hypocrisy”
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 10:26 PMFor the first six minutes of the segment, “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy agreed enthusiastically with his guest Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz — even as Tuesday’s episode kept straying from the original topic of Ivanka Trump’s pregnancies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Commentary: How Hollywood got over the summer blockbuster
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:26 PMBy Kyle Stock, Bloomberg
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If the movie business were an actual movie — say, a cliche action film — August would’ve been that point 90 minutes in when the hero gets kicked in the teeth, the bad guy takes the girl hostage, and all seems lost. - “Stronger” spawns a friendship for Gyllenhaal and Bauman
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:48 PMTORONTO — As the cast and makers of “Stronger” collectively rose to take a bow after the film’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere, Jake Gyllenhaal realized that Jeff Bauman, whom he plays in the film and who wears prosthetic legs, was still sitting, overwhelmed with emotion.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Four places for art supplies and hands-on crafting in Aurora
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 05:31 PMIt’s never too late to get in touch with your inner artist. But once you decide to brave a new hobby, what’s the next step? Where can one find the right paint brushes or needle and thread?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Great American Beer Fest 2017: 5 can’t-miss events around Denver
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 02:32 PMThe first week of October offers an embarrassment of craft beer riches thanks to the Great American Beer Festival.
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But it creates a good-to-have problem: How do you pick where to grab a beer in Denver if there are so many special events at the same time? - Nederland locals raise concerns about mountain-bike trail work
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 08:25 AM
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