TUES, 7/6 When longtime Denver resident Dennis Law isn’t working at the University of Colorado, he might be found negotiating with China’s government for permission to contact various Chinese performers. Law also spends his time touring with more than ninety foreign artists whose talents he has assembled for Terracotta Warriors,…
FRI, 7/2 I’ve gleefully lit my share of fuses on bottle rockets, cones, pinwheels and other sulfur-spewing devices in honor of July 4th. More than my share, actually, since my cousin — the future plastic surgeon — was forbidden by his folks to handle the explosives. Still, there’s a lingering…
Ever hear of something called the Sundance Film Festival, a little gathering that Bob Redford started up in the hills of Utah a few decades ago? It caught on, and now everyone who can afford a fringed buckskin jacket and a private jet heads to Sundance in hopes of hightailing…
SAT, 5/22 As Karl Marx said, revolution is not a fixed, static phenomenon; it’s a perpetual and ever-evolving process. So it makes sense that after seven years of showcasing the progressive and subversive at its current location, Revoluciones Collective Art Space is moving. The award-winning gallery was opened in 1997…
FRI, 4/23 El Centro Su Teatro’s annual Neruda Poetry Festival and Barrio Slam events are all about instilling a new appreciation for literacy in Chicano youth through a series of in-school residencies designed to get kids excited about putting words together in a creative way. The wordplay culminates with tonight’s…
FRI, 4/23 “My mission is to make something new out of an old piece of crap that nobody wanted anymore and to bring forth genius — satirical, irony-filled attitude — to a mundane world of fashion drones,” says Boulderite Rachel White, who will show her new designs at tonight’s Retrofit…
John Elway to the rescue! The former Broncos quarterback has been offered the head coaching job at the University of Colorado, and he’s expected to accept the $1.6 million-a-year position pending final negotiations, which have reportedly snagged over university cutbacks in dental coverage. The 43-year-old Broncos great would replace embattled…
SAT, 3/27 Things have gone considerably better for John Elway’s Arena Football League team in its second year. Heading into tonight’s 7 p.m. head-butt with the Indiana Firebirds, the Colorado Crush has already won the season’s three home games. That’s quite a turnaround from last year, when the Crush managed…
SUN, 3/21 Cyclists throughout the state know Team Evergreen as the club that, among other things, assembles the annual torturefest called the Triple Bypass (motto: “For those who dare”). And while that grueling July test of body and sanity continues to be the hallmark of the club, Team Evergreen offers…
THURS, 3/11 The average person has probably never heard of the seven women artists featured in a pair of exhibits opening today at the Metro State Center for the Visual Arts. The shows highlight the women’s works from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. “That’s what’s wrong with this world,” grumbles…
FRI, 3/12 “We love Denver,” say the producers of Rattlebrain Theater Company, as if to cover their tracks. “And you always hurt the one you love.” The improvisational troupe will explore its abusive relationship with the city in its fifth original comedic production, It’s Hickenlooper’s World — We Just Live…
1. Colorado will have a presence at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony because: A. John Sayles’s Silver City, shot here and screened secretly in Aspen on December 31, sneaked in under the wire in the Best Adaptation of an Original Adaptation category. B. Boulder documentarian Sandy McLeod’s Asylum is nominated…
1. Carmelo Anthony spoke out about the NBA All-Star Game selection process that snubbed him and his teammates. Quoth the super-rook: A. “A bunch of old guys picked another bunch of old guys.” B. “I was surprised they didn’t take anybody from us, but I guess it’s Denver.” C. “We’re…
1. As the heat increases at CU for the school’s allegedly rape-inducing 2001 recruiting session, Big Buff Gary Barnett denied wrongdoing on The Fan radio show with all but which of these? A. “Fire me, fire everybody, if we’ve done any of this stuff.” B. “We do not break rules…
1. Regardless of what happens with his sexual-assault case, Kobe Bryant has already suffered this punishment: A. Loss of Shaq’s friendship. B. Hair loss. C. Loss of a multimillion-dollar McDonald’s burger-chompin’ campaign. D. Loss of a cameo role in Lost in Translation. 2. Jeffrey Shapiro, the former tabloid journalist who…
I like movies as much as the next person, but I’m not certain how I’d fare in next month’s Independent Film Channel’s Ultimate Film Fanatic competition. After all, I enjoy watching Ben Stiller, but don’t ask me his shoe size. Still, this trivia tussle is tempting. The champ will earn…
1. Colorado is looming large in the national elections. What connection ties Democratic revive-nik John Kerry to the Centennial State? A. He owns a ski chalet at Sol Vista. B. He attended Regis University the year before Bill Murray did. C. He was born here. D. He was stationed at…
1. Ted, United Airlines’ low-cost sibling, is set for takeoff next month from Denver International Airport. What can’t you find now on its cutesy Web site? A. Electronic refrigerator magnets of states that Ted will be flying to. B. A digital coloring book. C. A list of famous Teds, searchable…
Amid the nourishing chaos of city life, we urban dwellers find ourselves brain-deep in startling juxtapositions. Mid-morning one Tuesday, a formation of squawking geese sweeps its shadow across a used-bookstore window, dimming the dog-eared covers of The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, and Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. An instant later,…
1. Before playing at the Pepsi Center on January 8 — his first game in Denver since he was charged with sexual assault last summer in Eagle County — Kobe Bryant said: A. “I can’t comment, but if I could, I’d ask fans to forgive me.” B. “My expectations are…
MON, 1/12 Who really knows, other than a sculptor, what goes on in a sculpture studio? It’s actually a loud, messy business — with machinery buzzing and dust flying — but it’s also an endeavor that undergoes many stages of evolution between drawing board and finished work. Most of us…
WED, 1/14 The media has romanticized the kiddie bedtime ritual. In the sitcom world, rosy-cheeked toddlers — clad in spotless PJs that actually fit — willingly slide between crisp sheets, lie still while their parents read them a brief story and then quickly drift off to dreamland. There are no…
