Kinetics just won’t die.
It looked grim last year when KBCO-97.3 FM announced it was pulling out as a sponsor of the 27-year-old Boulder Reservoir race and downtown parade. Attendance had dropped from 40,000 to 6,000. Kids just didn’t seem into it anymore. Time to put a fork in it.
But that meant no more of those weird, man-made land-and-sea-worthy crafts that made the race fun to watch. No more teams with offensive names. No more college-town characters in costumes.
Not so fast.
Diehard Kinetics fans, led by Boulderite Paul Bailey, have managed to organize an all-day, landlocked version May 3 at the 29th Street Mall.
No water? Well, maybe some squirt guns.
It’ll be a smaller Kinetics, with about 12 floats, some bagpipes to start the parade, and the Vail Precision Lawn Chair Drill Team to finish it off.
I always loved the team names, such as: We Like To Watch; Marvin’s Mischievous Misfit Moist Motorin’ Meshuggahs; The Schwing Team; The Boulder Hippies Have Fallen and They Can’t Get Up; Jeffrey Dahmer Invites Peruvian Rugby Team For Leftovers; Hank Gathers Mid-Court Limbo Team.
This year’s best moniker: Last of the Mojitos.
Hunter gatherers
More on Hunter S. Thompson is headed our way this summer — most notably a documentary by Alex Gibney (2007 Oscar winner for “Taxi to the Dark Side”) titled “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.”
The doc comes out July 4, and it’s getting some good buzz.
Entertainment Weekly notes that it’s not all a “love note” to the late writer.
One scene to look forward to: A re-enactment of a seminal scene in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” when Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo tell a teenager working at a taco stand that they’re “looking for the American Dream.”
The teen actually gives them directions to it: a defunct dance club, a place that used to be the old Psychiatrist’s Club. Classic.
Mommy Dearest
Photog Jim Narcy is hosting a Naughty Mommie Pin-Up Party that will rattle your wedding cake. He is shooting pinup shots of hot mommies from 9 to 11 p.m. Saturday at La Rumba and again from 8 to 11 p.m. May 3 at Brix Downtown.
The winner gets a full pinup photo shoot, announced at the Paper Dolls — Pin-Up Party May 9 at 3 Kings Tavern. All the chicks come in dressed in their pinup naughty mommy party outfits. I hear it’s a packed gasser.
City spirit
Suze Orman — show me how not to flunk retirement! She’ll be at the Colorado Women’s Expo on Saturday, and Sunday at the Colorado Convention Center, along with Stacy London, Bob Greene and Kahi Lee . . . Sez who: “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” Coco Chanel
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