Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
The sophistication and cynicism of the typical film-goer these days means that cinematic simplicity is damnably hard to pull off — but Iranian director Majid Majidi manages to do so anyhow with The Song of Sparrows, which opens on Friday, April 24. The tale revolves around Karim (Reza Naji), a…
The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the events that inspired it took place within the last four years. An old-fashioned tale for a newfangled world, the movie turns on a series of columns begun in…
It’s fascinating to observe the different acting styles in the Germinal Stage production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, and to think about the ways they work with Tennessee Williams’s characters and dialogue. When Brian Landis Folkins, who plays John Buchanan, walks on stage, you’re momentarily disappointed, so nondescript and…
The work of three acclaimed international directors comes together in the anthology film Tokyo!, showing tonight as part of the International Film Series. In Boulder Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Leos Carax (Pola X) and Bong Joon-ho (The Host) each contribute pieces that offer widely divergent and…
Adam Perry used to feel doomed by a speech impediment that left him unable to talk on the phone or even in person — until he discovered writing as a way to communicate. That might be why his poetry is so “unabashedly experiential,” says the 28-year-old Naropa University student and…
Denver takes to the streets at 7 a.m. today as StandUp For Kids kicks off its fourteenth annual 48 Hours on the Streets event. The national nonprofit has a network of more than 5,000 volunteers across the country who reach out to homeless and at-risk youth in more than thirty…
Troy Rarick was on his way to Moab to manage the Poison Spider bike shop when he passed through the town of Fruita, just outside Grand Junction. There he saw a 100-year-old building for sale that had been a honey house, and a furniture store/mortuary before that. “And being the…
The sophistication and cynicism of the typical film-goer these days means that cinematic simplicity is damnably hard to pull off — but Iranian director Majid Majidi manages to do so anyhow with The Song of Sparrows, which opens on Friday, April 24. The tale revolves around Karim (Reza Naji), a…
Untitled, oh, how we’ve missed you. When the Denver Art Museum put you to bed for the winter, a spark went out of our lives. Though we continued to visit the DAM, it just wasn’t the same as viewing art during one of those accessible, wacky final-Friday happenings that were…
Every fall for dozens of years, the City of Boulder has planted 15,000 tulip bulbs that begin to peep their heads above the ground each spring, heralding the end of winter. And since 2002, downtown Boulder has hosted Tulip Time, a celebration of the blooms that culminates each year in…
From the start, the totally temporary Denver Community Museum has been a one-woman operation, and nobody knows it better the woman herself. Jaime Kopke invented, opened and mostly financed the venue herself, easily devoting 25 to 30 hours a week to the museum, which she ran on a shoestring, without…
Denver art takes off As devil horse inspires us to write Mile Haiku The first time Rachel Hultin saw “Mustang,” Luis Jiménez’s gigantic blue horse sculpture outside Denver International Airport, she nearly drove off the road. “I was shocked, jarred,” says Hultin, a real-estate broker and developer. And when the…
It’s getting hard these days to tell one cirque from another, but the French Canadian circus Cirque Éloize has a pedigree that’s taken it all the way to Broadway. It all points back to a lasting partnership with acrobatic troupe Teatro Sunil and its founder, Daniele Finzi Pasca, a multi-talented…
Art history is full of compelling side trips, including the story of the complex relationship between transitional painter Edouard Manet and impressionist Berthe Morisot, a unique friendship not unlike that of their contemporaries Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Manet was both friend and mentor to Morisot, and, after she married…
Actress and singer Lotte Lenya has long been an object of fascination for physical theater artist Sondra Blanchard, whose mentor lent her a biography of Lenya ten years ago. But it wasn’t until the talented graduate of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre moved to Boulder to complete her MFA…
When photographer Tom Parsons began conceptualizing portraits to shoot of his friends and family, he decided to play with gravity: He placed large frames on the floor, mounted his camera twelve to fifteen feet above the frames and posed his subjects within them. “By having someone lay on the floor…
It has been said that music is the universal language. It goes beyond borders, and there’s been quite a lot of cross-pollination of cultures within genres over the years. Take young local saxophonist Aakash Mittal, for example. On his debut album, Possible Beginnings, Mittal tapped into jazz’s history as well…
The men of Spinal Tap — Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer — have been walking the fine line between clever and stupid for 25 years. Now, in the finest tradition of KISS without makeup and countless MTV Unplugged appearances by hair-metal bands, the trio is mounting a thirty-city…
Ivar and Karen Zeile hail from Salt Lake City, but in 2001 they opened a gallery in Denver that was originally called Cordell Taylor and is now known as Plus. Despite leaving Utah behind, the Zeiles have maintained relationships with many of the artists from their old home town. One…
Strangely enough, throughout McCoy Tyner’s storied career, which spans more than five decades, the jazz pianist has rarely performed with a guitar player — something he more than makes up for on Guitars, his fittingly titled recent effort. The outstanding disc, which features lauded fretmen Bill Frisell, John Scofield (see…
There couldn’t be a better way to celebrate spring than by attending Opera Colorado’s perfectly timed Così fan tutte — roughly translated, “women are like that” — an opera that shows Mozart at his most playful and lighthearted while retaining all the deep beauty of his melodies. The story is…
