At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was just an old cup or the womanly seed of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Tom Hanks’s Robert Langdon, ace symbologist, sloped off back…
Jim Jarmusch’s anonymous anti-hero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in terms of his unspecified mission. The Lone Man is introduced in an overhead shot doing tai chi in an airport toilet stall, then taking…
Bus Stop is set in a diner, where worldly-wise owner Grace supervises her high-school-aged waitress, Elma. On this particular night, a snowstorm has closed the road ahead, and a bus is stranded outside. Among those requiring doughnuts and coffee or bacon and eggs are driver Carl, who is Grace’s occasional…
The late Pauline Kael named her 1968 collection of film reviews Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in celebration of movies at their most visceral – the ones in which sex and violence and speed combine in ways that produce sheer sensation. Thirty years later, Run Lola Run, screening at midnight on…
The Colorado Colfax Marathon is, predictably, a really, really long running event that begins at the ass crack of dawn. And because it’s all USA Track and Field-certified — not to mention a qualifier for the Boston mary — swarms of sober endurance junkies will be in full effect with…
Young Coyotes has been around for less than a year. In that short time, however, the act has released two EPs, embarked on several cross-country tours, recorded a Daytrotter session, been hailed on numerous blogs and attracted a high-powered manager in Blee Music’s Brian Swartz (Rose Hill Drive). Seemingly milliseconds…
The Forney Museum of Transportation, like the multitude of ancient vehicles housed there, has been up and down a hilly road over time. And since the museum struggled through a massive move from its old digs in what is now the REI flagship store in the Central Platte Valley to…
According to Howard Szigeti, founder of the Unique Lives and Experiences lecture series almost twenty years ago in Toronto, it’s a girl thing: “The overall spirit of the concept is to bring compelling female role models to speak to a room filled nearly exclusively with women,” he says. “Women talking…
Are you curious about the current burlesque renaissance and the women who are learning to take it off? If so, you won’t want to miss A Wink and a Smile, a documentary opening tonight at Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli, complete with an appearance by Denver’s own burlesque queen (and…
Claudia Jordan has always been partial to the Points. The owner of the Five Points Plaza office complex, Jordan says it’s always been a place for good food. “We’re trying to encourage restaurants to come and bring that portion of the community back to where it was and make it…
There’s something about fashion, Fidos and fundraising that works well together. But Unleashed: A Passion for Fashion isn’t just another fashion-show fundraiser for an animal shelter — at least not in the usual ways. First difference? The designers. Haley Mariah of Trophy Clothing and Terra Jo of Havea Lolo are…
The drive to Pueblo, some ninety minutes south, perhaps seems a long way to go to see a bunch of boots, but I’ve got to tell ya — it’s the idea of the thing, the cultural wrap-around of it all. I love Pueblo, with its red-brick-and-cold-steel hide and its dusty,…
Who owns our culture? Should ideas and creations be locked into gilded cages to maximize profit, or set free to breed strange new forms? That’s the central question in RIP: A Remix Manifesto, screening tonight at Denver Open Media. The film centers on the work of Gregg Gillis, the sample-mashing,…
The Squabble is a seemingly simple tale of two small-town friends driven apart when one calls the other a goose. “It’s a comedy,” says Buntport player Brian Colonna. “It’s very absurd, but the absurdity is like real life, where people have a falling out and then spend the rest of…
Time to don your ten-gallon hat, some spurs, maybe some ass-less chaps (over your rugged jeans, of course), your gold pan, your six-shooter, a fair maiden and your favorite horse, and head on down to Four Mile Historic Park for a good old-fashioned box social. Okay, I exhausted just about…
Lily Burana began her writing career as a columnist and editor for punk and alternative zines. She was also a stripper, starting off in punk-inspired Times Square peep shows and even taking a battle for strippers’ rights to the courts. In other words, she’s not the kind of woman most…
May brings spring flowers and the start of Denver’s growing season, but you won’t find the delicate orchids used for traditional Hawaiian leis growing anywhere around these parts. For a true tropical experience, head to the Second Annual Lei Day Celebration this evening at the Denver Police Protective Association Event…
Here’s what’s to love about a muscle car: candy colors, waxy gloss, racing stripes and beefy but aerodynamic lines. Each one is like a rolling metal-and-leather vial of testosterone that can’t help but point out in all directions. And vintage Camaros and Mustangs? They’re bullies on wheels, but works of…
Former Bronco and Channel 4 weekend sports anchor Reggie Rivers says he pulled a Jay Cutler before Jay Cutler: “The day I got cut from the Broncos, I refused to go in because I knew it was coming.” When he told that story recently to playwright Steven Cole Hughes, it…
In Chapter 17 of The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter’s meta-narrative about the complicated — sometimes sweet, sometimes erotic and perverse — sex and love lives of a group of severely confused characters, pierced barista Chloe is told that her attempt to make extra cash by breaking into the amateur…
The mysteries of the ancient inhabitants of Mesa Verde have enthralled archaeologists and tourists for decades, but there is one good way to travel back in time 1,400 years: birds. The same species who called southwestern Colorado home when the ancestral Puebloans built these dwellings — including hawks, owls, hummingbirds,…
The term “painter’s painter” is bandied about quite a bit — I use it myself from time to time — and we all know what it means: an artist who may not be appreciated by the public but has earned the respect of other artists, the highest form of flattery…
