WEEKEND LIVE!
Feeling frisky?
The first Rocky Mountain Romance Convention (RomCon) will make readers swoon as it brings more than 80 best-selling romance novelists to Denver to mingle with fans of the genre. Bodice-ripping events include a masquerade ball, trivia challenge, costume contest, author meet-and-greets and romantic accessory sales. Tickets start at $35 at the door. Today and Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Denver Airport Hotel, 15500 E. 40th Ave.
Beer here!
Put on your lederhosen and make your way to the 14th annual Biergartenfest at Morrison’s TEV Edelweiss Pavilion. This guzzlers’ extravaganza promises German brews, food and family fun. Today from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. 17832 Highway 8, Morrison. $10 for adults; free for kids under 12. or 303-837-1146
AT THE MOVIES
Good things come in threes
In “Despicable Me,” the much-marketed new kid flick, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is a horrid, villainous, curmudgeonly guy who’s planning to steal, of all things, the moon. But that’s before three orphan girls see beyond his nasty exterior. Will lunar lunacy rule, or will Gru grow? PG.
Unlikely action hero
A group of brutal aliens known as “Predators” fights elite warriors and mercenaries who have been deposited on a distant planet. Turns out the planet is a “game preserve,” and humans are the game. Adrien Brody bulked up to star in this action thriller. R.
HOMEBODIES
One is the loneliest number
Designer Tom Ford’s entree into the movie world brings us “A Single Man,” out on DVD. It’s the story of an English professor who struggles with how to go on after losing his longtime partner. Starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. R.
Dungeons and dragons
Based on the internationally best-selling novel, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” also on DVD, tells the tale of a journalist who is aided in his search for a long-missing girl by an antisocial young woman. In Swedish with English subtitles. R.
