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
Ah, 1995: a time when entire Best Of categories were devoted to the O.J. Simpson trial, Bernie Bickerstaff and Dikembe Mutombo were still dominating the sports pages, and Mel's Bar and Grill was still new.
Check out the winners from our 1995 Best Of issue after the jump.
Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were playing
this week. We're currently tracking the playlists for five different
shows: Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only,
the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all
over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on a number
of stations across the country, and the Mountain Home Grown show (we'll add this one some time tomorrow after tonight's show). See
the full playlists po
Big ElfProgressive Nation
Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Big Elf, Scale the Summit
August 25, 2009
Buell Theater
Better than: Reliving high school memories by flipping through a yearbook.
Let me admit to a strong bias up front: I spent at least three of my teenage years with a diet
almost exclusively composed of the music of Frank Zappa. As my peers
followed Beck, Weezer and other rising stars of the late '90s, I was
dedicated to collecting each one of sixty-plus albums from the late
compo
