You’ve got nothing to do tonight, right? Skip another night of must-see TV and head over to the best Denver cultural event of the year, the Denver Film Festival. We’ve compiled some reviews and profiles of filmmakers and suggest, if you can, that you check out one of the following…
The Memory Thief Director: Gil Kofman It’s going to take a long time to digest this film. For me, the entire experience was thrown off by the woman in front of offering information on her colonoscopy to no one in particular. Shortly after that, Songbird, the short film from director…
Iron Ladies of Liberia Directors: Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott-Johnson When Denver-based documentary director Daniel Junge and producer Henry Ansbacher first contacted newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (who, among other degrees, received a masters in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1970), they were told their…
“Light Your Windows” Quicksilver Messenger Service One of the most interesting run-ins with a drunk I ever had was in San Francisco. My fiancee’s father insisted that, while vacationing there a few years ago, we stop into a bar called The Saloon. Built during the Civil War, The Saloon is…
It started off as an e-mail thread conversation with some former coworkers about absinthe. We went back and forth for a while on the best way to get, prepare and truly enjoy the wormwood wonder before I reached way back into my toxic past to summon the best liquid buzzes…
Today, November 15, the Rocky Mountain News launched its latest web revamp, and the design team deserves kudos. The look of the home page and beyond is clean, open and very readable, and as a bonus, everything loads much more quickly, improving a major problem with the previous permutation. And…
A few years ago, our hearty band of pranksters devised the Bad Colorado Souvenir Mall Crawl Challenge, a one-hour contest to find the very worst souvenir available on the 16th Street Mall. But it was no challenge at all. Once a bastion of great shopping – with real department stores…
Art Deco was a product of the opulent Jazz Age, a time when technological advances, relative financial stability and modern thinking encouraged the integration of imagery borrowed from both primitive and futuristic fine-art influences, man-made materials and an elegant, streamlined symmetry into a variety of forms. Architecture, fashion, furniture, graphic…
My favorite piece of art that I own (although I truthfully couldn’t afford it) is Dede LaRue’s “Hell Cat,” a ferocious, smiling cat outta hell whose golden tabby half torso leaps gleefully, taxidermy eyes all aglow, as if he’s crashing through the wall to perform some willful destruction in my…
Every superhero has a secret identity — even the ones who spend their days hustling tips as the self-proclaimed “ambassadors to Hollywood Boulevard.” Confessions of a Superhero, opening tonight at Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli and running through November 29, is an X-ray view of the lives of four performers…
Plainsong, Colorado author Kent Haruf’s lyrical, spare novel, was considered too racy for the One Book, One Denver program. But it should work just fine at the Stage Theatre, where the world premiere of the adaptation based on the novel debuts tonight in previews. Last year, the Denver Center Theatre…
Chris Loffelmacher and the rest of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life team had their work cut out for them when they decided to tie in cooking demos with the overarching theme “Scene.” “Food that you eat with your eyes first,” explains Loffelmacher. “Food that tends to be very…
If it’s true what they say — that you can judge a man by the quality of company he keeps — then Zach Galifianakis pretty much kicks ass. Over the past few years, the bearded absurdist comic has been involved in projects with such disparate artists as Kanye West, Fiona…
A question for the guys out there: Has there ever been a time when — brewski in hand, chilling on your couch during a Broncos game — you looked over at your best friend and thought, “If only there were a way that we, the best of bros, could go…
Opening tonight and continuing through Sunday (with an additional date on December 1) at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder’s Evolving Doors Dance Project presents Flawless, an intricate look at the human body and all its imperfections. Choreographed by Angie Simmons, the eclectic performance offers a creative view of…
Eugene O’Neill’s More Stately Mansions might never have seen the light of day: The second (after Touch of the Poet) in a projected cycle of plays following the New England-ensconced Harford family through history, its over-long draft was burned in the fireplace, along with other unfinished works, by the declining…
Aurora’s stubborn little East End Arts District just may redub itself the city’s “blue-light district” with art sprouting from all the nooks and crannies along the Colfax Avenue corridor between Clinton and Geneva streets during tonight’s East End Winter Art Walk. From 5 to 9 p.m., area galleries and art…
In 2005, Jim Schwartzkopff went to Bulgaria with Planina — a Colorado-based group of Eastern European folk musicians — to live in a village and learn the music that sounds so foreign to Western ears. Few members of the group have Eastern European heritage, so they wanted to immerse themselves…
Forget those newspaper and magazine articles you’ve been amassing year after year with information on properly roasting your bird. This holiday season, finding tips on taking your soiree up a notch is just a phone call away. The Turning Leaf Vineyard’s Thanksgiving Tips Hotline will be live from 1 to…
If you’re an art enthusiast who’s tired of buying overpriced work to support a guy hooked on cappuccinos and black turtlenecks, come down to the Gallery at 910 for the opening reception of the Dalit Freedom Network and North East India Project, tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The exhibit…
Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast owner Janene Hurst is fascinated with the way the Japanese can make anything cute, recalling that even “a warning not to put oil down the drain had a cute little cartoon of a drop of oil with a face.” That love (combined with a desire to…
Color tonight’s Mixed Bag Festival green. According to Heidi B, one of the event’s organizers (although she prefers the title “funklectic mistress”), the bash is “a mix of music, fashion and art involving a lot of people and businesses in the local Denver community.” But along with entertainment that includes…
