Monday, May 20, 2013
News
Kitchen consequential
Bobby Couch has been prepping and cooking for almost 16 consecutive hours when his bubbling garlic and olive oil consommé sloshes up his left sleeve and pools inside his left shoe. His scream and curses echo across the mostly empty royal ballroom.
Jan with a plan
There's one thing the Gazette and other media neglected to tell you about Vice Mayor Larry Small's proposal: It's for the 2010 ballot.
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Long story short
When Paragon Culinary School's Victor Matthews invited me to observe his second graduating class' Extreme Practical series, he called it "hard-core madness."
Housing crunched
Many soldiers who could be house-shopping see little chance of selling their homes elsewhere, with or without federal help.
A closer look
In an unusually hands-on move, the Department of Education will hire independent auditors to look into finances and testing practices.
Locked and loaded
In the past two weeks, arrestees getting booked at El Paso County's jail have had to answer one extra question: "Have you ever served in the U.S. military?"
Noted: Cripple Creek business
Also: Hepatitis carrier wasn't that anonymous, D-49 uncertainty, Schultheis tweets, county budget and more.
Columns
Me and Michael Jackson
It was a bad time to go on vacation, but who would have known about Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin misbehaving, and Michael Jackson passing on?
City manager has it tough, too
In her 18 months as city manager, Penny Culbreth-Graft already has battled through a relentless, damaging barrage of financial traumas.
IQ: Home on the range
Most of us have probably fantasized about being a primo cook, cooking for a living, or sharing the rent with someone who lives to cook. Most of us are still fantasizing.
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Stranger than Fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Broncos' recipe for a surprising year
Five players are among the group who could take Denver much further than expected in Josh McDaniels' first season as head coach.
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Advice Goddess
He only watched porn in his "younger days" — like last week, when he was approximately five days younger. And then he got "bored and curious," as in, "Yawn ... I wonder what really enormous fake breasts look like."
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Letters
Park grass, drone operators, strange headline, Robin Hood, surgeons and more.
Food & Drink
Double duty
Hurricane Katrina may have taken Martin Allred out of New Orleans, but it didn't take New Orleans out of Martin Allred.
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Side Dish
Gaspare's, Pueblo's miracle fruit, Margarita at Pine Creek and more.
Music
Train keeps a-rollin'
Just my luck: During the course of an hour-long interview, Hancock threatens to come find me if I use one particular quote, though he later relents.
Marathon man
His day job as lead singer of the Old 97's has collided with his summer moonlighting as its solo opening act, a concert that keeps Miller onstage for an almost three hours.
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The soundtrack of our lives
When Sony introduced the Walkman 30 years ago this month, it was, in a sense, already obsolete.
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Reverb
In what could easily be the biggest news to hit the metal scene since Dimebag bit the bullet, literally, local metal band Malakai is black! I mean Malakai is back! Back in black!
Chicago
"Quite honestly, those tours back in 2004 and 2005 were just so much fun on a personal level and on a musical level that we were looking forward to when we would do it again."
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Sound Advice
The Mars Volta, Jonas Brothers, Charlie Robison
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Big gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
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Playing Around Listings
Who's playing where, and when, around the region for the week ahead.
Film
Out-rageous
Is Baron Cohen's character — ostensibly an Austrian fashion guru and TV personality — an outrageous stereotype of homosexuality? Yes, without question.
Space oddity
Duncan Jones recalls the years when his father introduced him to the likes of George Orwell, J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick, and let him hang around movie sets. Now Jones has made his own film.
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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Cinefiles
Knowing; Header; They Call Me Bruce?: 25th Anniversary Edition; The Girls Next Door: Season Five
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Opening this week
Brüno; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; I Love You, Beth Cooper and more.
Visual Arts
Accio quidditch!
The Harry Potter series is an escape from reality. Giants ... check. Wizards ... check. Flying broomsticks ... definitely check. It's such a world that it even has its own escape.
Solo duets
"There are two people there," she says. "It becomes more of a duet farther along because in the beginning, the belly doesn't demand as much attention. Now the baby is very active."
Calendar
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Get Involved
Teach English, ride for diabetes, Colorado Latino Forum.
7 Days to Live
What's happening around the area — highlights from our listings.
