archiTECHtonica. This is one of several shows put together by CU Art Museum director and curator Lisa Tamiris Becker to herald the opening of the institution’s new building. It’s paired with a show made up of related objects from the permanent collection. Becker invited an international cast of artists who…
The Container. There’s a little uneasiness before production begins, a shuffle for the restrooms, some groping in purses for water bottles. As they’re admitted, audience members must sign a release acknowledging that the experience will be claustrophobic, that they will be closed in, seated along the sides of a large…
Adapted from Valerie Plame and Joseph C. Wilson’s memoirs, the unsurprisingly validating Fair Game begins as a timeline-hopping international thriller of the countdown months to the Iraq War. Covert CIA operative Plame (Naomi Watts) and ex-ambassador husband Wilson (Sean Penn) are proverbial ships passing in the night, shuttling from Niger…
Other people besides James Franco appear in 127 Hours, but as they’re unimportant, they will not be mentioned in this review. Danny Boyle’s film — based on the story of Aron Ralston, who in 2003 cut off his own arm after being stuck for five days under a rock in…
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, in December 1974, to Atlanta’s Tyler Perry Studios, where the impresario filmed much of this calamitous adaptation. Though striving…
First they managed to get it pulled from the trailer of The Dilemma. And that’s fine; a trailer is not a creative effort, it’s an advertising vehicle designed to get people to see a creative effort. Now, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, along with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper,…
Mickki Langston of Colorado Local First loves the end of November. That’s her ground zero, the week after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Buy Local Week, when Langston wants folks to support the local economy by patronizing locally owned businesses on Black Friday and beyond, rather than dive-bombing the malls and…
As reported earlier today on the Cafe Society blog, the enormously popular new cantina from Sean Yontz and Jesse Morreale, El Diablo, will host the second annual Dia de los Muertos Tattoo Art Show and Charity Auction, which debuted last year at the team’s defunct Tambien in Cherry Creek and…
Yes, there are great men out there, influencing your world every day without your knowledge, and you could be one of them someday, assuming you’re male. If you’re a woman, there’s another Askmen.com list you can be on, but it uses, ahem, slightly different metrics in determining greatness, which you…
Unsure of how to vote today on Initiative 300, which would create an official Denver UFO commission? On the fence regarding whether or not the city should bother creating a body “to help ensure the health, safety, and cultural awareness of Denver residents and visitors in relation to potential encounters…
Of all the days of the week, Tuesday is perhaps the one most conducive to despair, the one that really drives home the boredom of the working week and the one where there’s the least to do outside of the workaday drudgery. Which makes it all the more important to…
It looks like the heavy-hitting new releases are taking the week off, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some killer new products dropping this week. With the exception of Toy Story 3, there isn’t anything too high-profile this week, but there are a few under-the radar releases worth checking out,…
Shout it from the mountaintops: The Travel Channel announced this week that it has picked up First Ascent, a six-episode climbing and adventure travel series from Boulder-based filmmaker Peter Mortimer and his crew at Sender Films. First Ascent, co-produced by National Geographic International, has been winning big on the festival…
In a way, cats make terrible pets. For one thing, they obviously hate being pets — they’re predatory, spiteful and aloof, and no matter how much you love them, they will never, ever give a single shit about you. On the other hand, the very fact that cats hate being…
At Denver International Airport yesterday, Southwest went the extra mile of flair by festively decorating concourse C with Halloween-themed stuff — stuff like the three gravestones above, which sported humorous epitaphs. Most of them were pretty goofy, but a closer inspection revealed that at least one was a clever dig…
In a way, Las Vegas is like America turned up to 11: Loud, weird and relentlessly excessive, Vegas is kind of like the splatter pattern that resulted when God balled up everything hilarious and awful about these great United States and hurled it at the most barren part of the…
Nobody in these parts does activist theater quite as well — or with as much enthusiasm — as Boulder’s Vox Feminista, an ever-changing collective of radical women that’s been at it now for more than twenty years. “It” constitutes a heady mixture of sharp satire, poetry, feminism, leftist rant and…
Tomorrow is the Day of the Dead, but the Olinger Crown Hill cemetery in Wheat Ridge celebrated El Día de Los Muertos on Saturday with music, dancing, art, food, chiles and sugar-skull painting for kids (at least while the sugar skulls lasted). And the party was hot — or at…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…
A coffin shaped like a skateboard, a yuppie dressed up as a homeless person, a sexy nurse: all things we had to find on the bicycle scavenger hunt Dethride at 3 Kings last night. Sixty people and 15 teams entered the hunt, which took riders across the city to collect…
Halloween is over. The zombie crawls have been crawled, the monster-mash dance parties mashed, the slutty nurse costume put away so you can go back to your boring day-job as a “slutty accounts receivable processor,” leaving you with only the sweet memories and a large pile of candy stolen from…
In addition to making feature-length flicks like STOP… Hammer Time!, Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions releases weekly video episodes in its Ride With Us series every Sunday during snowboard season, which — now that Loveland, Arapahoe Basin, and Wolf Creek are all open — is officially now. This week’s…
