Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That’s more or less what happened to Hill’s The Foot Fist Way in 2008, two years after its Sundance twirl first caught the attention…
A Prayer for Owen Meany begins with John Wheelwright alone on stage remembering Owen Meany, the friend whose life and actions caused him to become a Christian. As a child, John lived with his charming, flirtatious mother, Tabitha, and his grandmother; all he knew of his father was that Tabitha…
In David Cronenberg’s hallucinatory masterpiece, Videodrome, you are what you watch. Working simultaneously as horror, science fiction and media commentary, the film tells the story of mercenary TV executive Max Renn’s encounter with a brutal television program, the shadowy cabal that’s producing it and the bizarre changes that watching it…
If noshing on some gluten-based seitan buffalo wings or sipping a vegan chocolate shake sounds nutritious, delicious and earth-friendly, then head down to today’s Denver VegFest and Health Expo presented by the Vegetarian Society of Colorado. “The Society’s focus is on three areas: health, sustainability and compassion,” says CJ Eliassen,…
One of Colorado’s greatest charms is its mountain festivals. I don’t care if it’s wine or beer or chili: Give me a tasting cup, live music, a couple of booths and some snowcapped peaks in the background, and I’m a happy girl. Throw in a little sunshine and a few…
There is probably no more recognizable deity in the Hindu pantheon than the elephant-headed Ganesh, also known as Ganesha, Ganesa, Ganapati, Vinayaka and Pillaiyar. He fills many roles for Hindu practitioners: lord and remover of obstacles, god of beginnings, patron of arts and sciences, intellect and wisdom. Ganesh is given…
Get ready for a DJ battle like no other as Denver’s top DJs square off and switch styles. Swap Meet will pair trance and house DJs with drum-and-bass and dubstep DJs who will then exchange record bags and try to spin a freestyle set without rehearsal or preparation. For added…
Two years ago, the Colorado Rockies came close to taking home Major League Baseball’s biggest prize, but they lost the World Series to the Boston Red Sox. Bad luck, guys. Last year the Rockies didn’t come nearly as close to eternal glory; instead, the Philadelphia Phillies won the Series for…
Once upon a time, there was a musical about an English man and his wife living in colonial Africa with his mother-in-law, their small boy and an African servant. But this is where it gets weird: A man plays the wife, a girl plays the small boy, and a white…
At its best, April means perfect bike-riding weather: neither too hot nor too cold, with budding trees, singing birds and sprouting bulbs all around. The bikeways green up, and everyone’s wearing a smile under their helmets. This month’s Second Saturday Block Party on the 3100 block of East Colfax will…
Everything is going to the dogs these days, but in some cases, that’s not a bad thing, especially when those dogs are suffering, whether they be homeless, mistreated or stricken with cancer. The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation, a non-profit arm of the Camp Bow Wow doggie daycare chain, is dedicated…
Quick: “Pretty Flamingo.” Manfred Mann. “Over, Under, Sideways, Down?” Yardbirds, dude. “Cucumber Castle.” The Bee Gees, before they were, you know, the Bee Gees. “As Tears Go By.” Marianne Faithfull, before she became strung out and bitter. And, yes, the Stones, who wrote it, did it, too. Which one did…
You don’t get to be the physicist-in-residence at the Science Channel by being merely smart; like theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, you also have to be an expansive thinker. And the thing is, you don’t always have to make sense, at least not the mundane kind, because you’re constantly reinventing the…
Next time you slink up to your favorite sushi bar, you might want to consider something more than just munching maguro or inhaling iwashi — at least according to Casson Trenor, the author of Sustainable Sushi. “The contemporary sushi industry has an immense negative affect on the oceans,” says Trenor,…
Seventeen workplace sexual-harassment videos edited down to three “greatest hits” minutes, a public-access clip of a crazy old man explaining his odd method of saving the world, and a montage of training videos from Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A and a Chicago grocery store. That’s just a taste of what you’ll find at…
Even the finest documentarians need great material — and filmmaker Kevin Rafferty’s got plenty of it in Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, which begins a week-long run on Friday, April 10, at Starz. Both teams were unbeaten going into this 1968 game, which took place against the backdrop of campus unrest…
It ain’t easy being a poet, no matter where you live — a fact of life that L.A. poet Sarah Suzor and her creative cohorts, Lizzy Epstein and Polly Geller, had to find out the hard way once the protective arms of college life gave way to the real world…
The last time the Bronx played at the Larimer Lounge, singer Matt Caughthran rode up to the stage on a motorcycle, nearly running over the capacity crowd. Although the same can’t be promised for this return trip, the band’s high-energy, cutthroat punk should make the show dangerous nonetheless. The Bronx…
This year marks drummer Bill Goodwin’s fiftieth as a professional musician. During the past 35 years, he’s performed with, recorded with and produced albums for legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods in addition to working with Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett. Goodwin also played on Tom Waits’s…
We’re all in the same boat here, ladies: The Spa Week website is off the hook! Hotter than Kilauea when it blows its top! Just be prepared to stand by for information, because the glorious week in spring when spas across the nation, including several here in Denver, offer introductory…
Every ski area bids the season adieu with a big, sloppy snowball of slushy hoopla, but Vail can confidently declare its ginormous Spring Back to Vail one of the biggest spring bashes in Colorado’s high country, not to mention the entire nation – it’s so chock-full of stuff to do…
Since he became mayor, John Hickenlooper has followed an ambitious program aimed at changing — literally, at times — the cultural underpinnings of the city. The latest idea is the Denver Biennial of the Americas, slated for the summer of 2010. And while the staff at the Denver Office of…
