An image from Megalopolis.
Megalopolis, which screens tonight at 6:45 p.m. at the Starz FilmCenter as part of the Denver Film Festival, is, nominally, a documentary. But it’s a documentary without a specific point to make -- a documentary that revels in the details while leaving the big picture or message ambiguous and undefined. It fuses gorgeous cinematography of six of the world’s biggest megacities with slice-of-life vignettes from a selection of diverse denizens from those cites. F
Lev Grossman is my new best friend.
Who is Lev Grossman, you ask? Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine. And in Time magazine, Lev Grossman (my new best friend) just wrote a killer review of my book, Cooking Dirty.
Yeah, that Time magazine. And yeah, little ol' me and my little ol' book.
But it's actually not just because he wrote about me that I now dig the guy. It's because this is a guy, ensconced as he is amid the desks and bylines and serious news-gath
At noon today, supporters of Frontier Airlines, the subject of a potential bidding war between Republic Airways Holdings (which would probably preserve the company in some fashion) and Southwest Airlines (likely to swallow it whole), are rallying at Mayor John Hickenlooper's office. The name given to the protest? "Save the Animals," a reference to Frontier's ultra-successful marketing campaign focusing on the assorted critters who adorn the tails of its aircraft. In this case, obviously,
If we could get a couple more of these, betcha everybody would be psyched.Even when times are good, fiscal conservatives often rail against public spending for the arts -- because, apparently, life would be better if we lived in a joyless, monochromatic society modeled on George Orwell's 1984. And when the economy turns south, such arguments only intensify. Given that, the only surprising thing about the Independence Institute's latest report on the subject, a Todd Shepherd piece entitled
An image from Liberty on the Rocks' website.News outlets probably worked up a powerful thirst while looking for Denver naysayers to hate on President Barack Obama's speech about healthcare reform before a joint session of Congress last night. Perhaps that's why both National Public Radio and Channel 31 went to Darcy's Irish Pub & Bistro in the Tech Center to chat up local members of Liberty on the Rocks, which describes itself as "a non-partisan, non-profit, social organization that seeks
