The Thief of Baghdad is an enormous contradiction of the auteur theory. The 1940 release credits three directors — Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan and Michael Powell — and only the latter assembled a filmography of any particular note. Moreover, it’s likely that producer Alexander Korda and others contributed to the…
While Buntport Theater’s tRUNks team – the very funny Matt Zambrano, Mitch Slevc and Jessica Robblee – takes a summer break from the usual serial creative kids’ comedy based on book titles, the droll trio has cooked up something delicious for adults: Love and Potatoes, a well-packaged threesome of short…
Local artist Kyle Banister is all about baseball. Yep, he lives it, breathes it, reveres it and draws it. “There isn’t an emotion that you will feel in life that you won’t feel on a baseball field if you spend enough time there,” Banister writes online, and that’s why, in…
The past ten years have been a remarkably interesting time for the fine arts in Colorado. The most obvious evidence of this cultural flowering has been the museum-building boom we’ve all witnessed. But there’s also been a consequent growth in the commercial-gallery realm, with the emergence of many art districts…
The Psychedelic Experience. The AIGA graphics curator, Darrin Alfred, has only been on the job at the Denver Art Museum for a year, and already he’s the author of a major blockbuster, The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters From the San Francisco Bay Area. Alfred selected around 300 posters from a…
Annie. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre is at the top of its form; it has to be. How else could the company make Annie anything but a smirking sentimental bore? As everyone knows by now, the story of Annie concerns a little red-haired girl’s rough life at an orphanage run by the…
Eddie Adams, the late photographer at the center of An Unlikely Weapon, which opens July 2, was a romantic of an especially cantankerous sort. He’s most famous for a Vietnam-era photo of a prisoner being executed in the middle of a street — but rather than reveling in the accolades…
They’re all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody’s going.” So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying the clientele of a chic Chicago eatery in a key scene from Michael Mann’s Public Enemies. And, much like its subject, Mann’s exhilarating movie exists in a…
Oren Neeman’s Conviction tells a fascinating story about the Spanish Inquisition and the 1486 persecution of Andres Gonzalez, a Catholic priest — a member of a family that had been forced to convert from Judaism — who finds his way back to his own religion through the love of a…
Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen’s Whatever Works. Allen’s exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho Marx singing his trademark paradoxical assertion (“Hello, I must be going”) and is powered almost entirely by the presence of a single, larger-than-life — and less than…
Why do people keep coming back year after year to the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival? “I don’t know what is so unique about Crested Butte,” admits Sue Wallace, director of the 23-year-old event. “It is just so lush, and we have such diversity here; you see such an abundance of…
Back in 1991, the night before “limited-stakes gaming” was officially introduced in three Colorado mining towns – Black Hawk, Cripple Creek and Central City – a group of journalists gathered in Central City to document the start of legal gambling. (Central City’s budget was largely based on illegal games back…
It’s hard to believe that Ironton Studios and Gallery, a trailblazing pioneer in the now-thriving RiNo, has been around for ten years, but the name of the venue’s new show, decade, says it all: Ironton, a true arts community, was founded ten years ago by four graduates of the University…
Eddie Adams, the late photographer at the center of An Unlikely Weapon, which opens July 2, was a romantic of an especially cantankerous sort. He’s most famous for a Vietnam-era photo of a prisoner being executed in the middle of a street — but rather than reveling in the accolades…
Have you known for years the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, and even how the entire epic tale of Harry Potter ends — but still can’t wait to see the big-screen version of the sixth book hit movie theaters next week? Relax, Muggle. In honor of the July 15 release…
I didn’t know anything about Coca-Cola collectibles until I went away to college and discovered that my roommate was a huge fan of kitschy Coca-Cola Americana. But I soon became a fan myself; this memorabilia has a certain old-school charm that makes any room feel comfortable. “The first calendar came…
“I don’t care what happens to my body,” Allen Ginsberg wrote in the last poem he composed before he died in 1997. “Throw ashes in the air….” Still, what goes up must come down, and though it’s taken a dozen years, some of those ashes will finally land this summer…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra regularly gives back to the community with a slew of free concerts each summer, but the best of them is Symphony on the Rocks, where beautiful music and scenery combine to make sparks more brilliant than any of last night’s fireworks. And not only is this…
More than a thousand miles of trails can be accessed right from downtown Breckenridge — but not many people know about them, says Scott Fortner of the Breckenridge Resort Chamber. He’s out to change that, with the first-ever Breck Bike Week, July 4 through 12, timed to coincide with two…
Brian Finn recommends arriving early today in Gold Hill, since the tiny mountain village’s fire department will host a pancake breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m. The town parade, featuring fire trucks and children’s bikes, follows; it “usually has more viewers than participants,” Finn advises. But the main event is at…
The tiny town of Glendale has been doing a bang-up job of celebrating July 4th for years – though its festivities, which always fall a day before or after Independence Day, never compete with all those municipalities that shoot off their own spectaculars on the holiday proper. The date isn’t…
From its Nobel Prize winners to the divine madness that is Kinetics, Boulder is full of fantastic firsts. With that in mind, curators at the Boulder History Museum (1206 Euclid Avenue) decided to mark the town’s sesquicentennial with the exhibit Only in Boulder, a historical overview with a tongue-in-cheek title…
