Who in god’s name would let their kids near this freak?

– Remember when this blog was a “Real World: Denver” gossip fest? Yeah, I’ve tried to forget it myself. But here’s the resolution of an MTV-related story we’ve been following since we announced it last year (note: “announced,” not “endorsed”). “Vincent Margera, who played Don Vito on his nephew’s MTV show, ‘Viva La Bam,’ collapsed in court today after being found guilty of two counts of sexual assault on a child,” The Denver Post reported…

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– The East Village Opera Company, which visits Fort Collins’ Lincoln Center on Nov. 4, is an 11-person band reinventing classic opera arias with stadium-sized rock tools. Sound like a recipe for cheesy bombast? Perhaps, but the New York-based group’s multi-instrumentalist/co-founder Peter Kiesewalter explains why his band has something to offer for both classical and rock fans, and why opera needs acts like his to stay relevant…

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Photo from Mile High Buzz.

There are nearly always a couple of children inventing a game in the café play area while their adult taps away on a laptop, nursing a latte or soda, in Under the Umbrella, a neighborhood café in the fullest sense of the phrase. We can walk there from our house near Congress Park, and usually find a neighbor or two, along with a free table…

Read Under the Umbrella a cozy, tasty café

Let’s face it, people: Pumpkins are not scary.

It’s all about Halloween this weekend. If you don’t have a costume together by now, you’d better whip something up quick. From kinky to classy, every club and venue across town has a theme party, and costumes are nearly always mandatory…

Read Dead celebrites, fetishists, club kids all have events

El Jardin, the Commerce City Mexican food institution, features a mix of clientele.

A fake adobe building alongside Colorado 2 may seem an unlikely venue for a cozy family Mexican restaurant, but El Jardin in Commerce City has been around long enough to get the basics right and rise above its roadside locale. Commerce City has a reputation as a working-class community with a mix of young families and older longtime residents, and that’s the type of clientele you’ll find at the restaurant…

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