Friday, March 9, 2012

Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Denver art shows take on dirty job of looking inside our souls
The more art I look at, the happier I am that I'm not an artist. What a miserable life. You spend all day observing the outward bounds of human behavior — and that's rarely pretty — and then all night rendering them in paint or clay or ink or some other uncooperative material, so the rest of us can get inside your tortured head.  


Today's Food and Dining

Retro exhibition stirs appetite for retro recipes
Has this ever happened to you? You're in an antiques store, you see something from your childhood and say, "I had that growing up!

 


Gossip

Parker: 4 restaurants, 4 hotels designated as Denver gathering spots for fans during Women's Final Four
When the NCAA 2012 Women's Final Four rolls into town late this month, there will be four restaurants and four hotels designated as official fan-gathering spots for the regional champions from earlier rounds held in four cities.  


Moms - Parenting

How to parent your kids without regret
In an era of ads and promotions directed at kids – from toys to Disneyland – many parents wonder what kids need most. We asked Dr. Harley Rotbart, Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Colorado, and the author of No Regrets Parenting – Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments  


Today's Movies

Review: "Friends With Kids" a grown-up "Friends With Benefits"
Ah, movie marketeers. What they lack in cleverness, they more than make up for by being opportunistic as all get out. Take the trailer for the new relationship comedy "Friends With Kids," written and directed by and starring Jennifer Westfeldt.  


Music - Classical

Questions for a diva: Renee Fleming's coming to Denver -- and she likes Death Cab for Cutie
Renée Fleming is opera's best-known voice these days, but she has also become its most-famous face. The soprano appears frequently in grand productions, as well as song recitals.  


Reverb

I Might Be Wrong … but not about Radiohead
In advance of Radiohead's show at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado, a look back at the band and its influence on modern music

 


Today's Style

Show: Fashionable paper dolls
Set creative types loose with some simple materials and there's no telling what they'll come up with. That's the premise behind the March 15 Paper Fashion Show, sponsored by the Art Directors Club of Denver.  


Television - Joanne Ostrow

Ostrow: Celebrity train wrecks: What do we learn from relishing others' troubles?
To look or not to look: Charlie Sheen's latest career implosion, Lindsay Lohan in a sheriff-issue orange jumpsuit, Michael Jackson's autopsy photos, the latest Daytona 500 crash video.  


Theater

Denver Center Theatre "Great Wall" builds on a historic newspaper hoax
In the 1890s, The Denver Post's downtown office was known as "The Bucket of Blood." Under the ownership of a genial confidence man and a frugal grifter accused of running a fixed lottery, The Post painted the city in red headlines and splashy yellow journalism.  


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