Everyone knows that a good pair of jeans is a girl’s best friend, and more than a few of us also know how hard it is to find that elusive grail. But if you can’t chance upon the perfect fit this weekend off the endless racks at the Warehouse Sale,…
First of all, deep down inside, every mom knows her baby is beautiful. The tot could have two heads and, yes, it would still be beautiful. But the real question here is this: Is your child a rock star? Perhaps the only way to find out is to call hipster…
Maybe it’s just that competitive reality shows have hit the tipping point. Maybe it’s that being a “star” on HGTV is sort of like being the quickest runner at fat camp. Maybe it’s that fast design isn’t usually good design. Whatever the reason, HGTV’s reality show Design Star needs to…
In a wonderful marriage of food and fashion, tonight’s Do At The Zoo should present fabulous eats from over 40 of Denver’s top restaurants as well as plenty of fashionable guests in tropical cocktail attire. The event is themed “Silk and Spice” and proceeds will help to build the zoo’s…
Pink hair streaks, huge shades and a Johnny Cash inspired shirt….stop being so damn cute Holli! I loved this top because it is the perfect mesh of casual and dressy. It could be worn to a party or to take multiple shots of tequila, like Amy was doing. — Rossy…
The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin’s intercontinental, cross-cultural ensemble piece a Best Screenplay statuette makes perfect sense: It’s not brilliant, but it wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relationships…
The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in ’06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life partner, Adam McKay, to get distributors interested. Notes the trailer: The men behind Anchorman and Talladega Nights “watched it…
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, “Doc” Paskowitz, at Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance, showing director Doug Pray a blown-up photo of a Nazi preparing to shoot a Jewish mother and child at close range…
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here’s a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI tumult of 300, Alexander and Troy look like sissy-boy slap parties. Mongol, alias Genghis Khan: The Early Years, may compress, elide and…
A man in a Michael Jackson outfit — red shirt, black jeans, white face mask — rides hunched over the tiny frame of a clown bike. Jutting out to his side, attached by a wire, is a stuffed monkey puppet with angel wings. The background is a nondescript go-kart track…
The idea behind the Gaia Film Festival is that simple choices can inspire us to make a difference, thus changing the world, one choice at a time. That’s why you’ll find films such as the Colorado premiere of Saida Medvedeva’s Water, which examines the secrets of the most common substance…
It’s probably a good thing Game On wasn’t around to review Ninja Gaiden when it hit Xbox in 2004 — we probably would’ve written “an awesome, brutal, majestic action masterpiece,” then filled the rest of the space with crude crayon drawings of ninjas. Because really, there’d be nothing else to…
This is how the New York Times’s 2003 review of Matt and Ben begins: “Is there anyone who isn’t sick of Ben Affleck, with his J.Lo and his Gigli and the salaams he elicits when he deigns to show up in Project Greenlight?” But therein lies my problem with this…
Thaddeus Phillips, who visits Buntport every year or so, is one of the most interesting theatrical forces around. His Lucidity Suitcase offers proof that all you need for great theater is creativity, imagination and performers with guts, talent and integrity — performers like Tatiana Mallarino and Phillips himself. Phillips approaches…
The Denver Project. Created by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of New York’s UNIVERSES, this is an attempt to bring the realities of life on the streets to us, the well-fed patrons of Curious, to show that the homeless constitute a society and culture of their own, one that abuts…
It was in the nineteenth century that artists in Europe and the United States, for the first time in millennia, went outside to create their works. This led to a rise in the status of landscape paintings, previously a secondary type of art overshadowed by historic narrative painting and the…
Using pictures to tell stories was definitely a no-no in classic modern art and for the first three quarters of the twentieth century. Manipulating form was the thing for painters to do instead. But in the 1980s and ’90s, narrative painting made a huge comeback in contemporary art circles, and…
Abstraction. A group of untitled abstracts by Ania Gola-Kumor launches this exhibit, which was organized by Sally Perisho. Gola-Kumor is little known around here; in fact, she could be called the best unknown artist in Denver, though she had her first show in town back in 1982. She’s represented here…
When is a Wiffle ball more than just a Wiffle ball? When it’s a light object created by lighting artist Chris Armijo. You can catch Armijo’s work — unexpected light installations that link together mass-produced items — alongside furniture by graphic and industrial designer Dan Sjogren, who “stitches” flat sheets…
If you think there’s something inherently wrong with laughing on a full stomach, stop right here. Tonight’s Standup Comedy and Dinner Shows at the Gorilla Room in Littleton is not for you. On second thought… Here’s the haps: Chow down on a four-course gorge that includes a chicken marsala entree,…
Despite its name and status as the unofficial kick-off party for PrideFest, Gay on Santa Fay isn’t really that gay. Rodney Wallace of 4 Art Studios, one of the founders and organizers of the event, says it’s about celebrating diversity and about the arts community giving back to the gay…
If you’ve never experienced the cute mountain town that is Crested Butte, now’s your chance to take in its rich backdrop of snowcapped peaks and pines and aspens again — and again and again and again. The Bridges of the Butte 24-Hour Townie Tour is not a race. It’s a…
