Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole season of NBC’s Freaks and Geeks, on which Segel played bright-eyed burnout Nick Andopolis. On the episode “I’m With the Band,” Nick imagined himself an…
If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs leaves you with a funny taste in your mouth. How else to describe Honoré’s orally fixated post-postmodern operetta, whose libretto includes lyrics like “Keep your saliva as an antidote/Let it trickle like sweet…
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in “body art” into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns — this time expanding his horizons rather than his girth. Paraphrasing the title of a venerable computer game, Where in the World…
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it’s worse than that. Pacino plays a Seattle forensic psychiatrist in symbiotic thrall to the serial killer he helped…
If you don’t remember a game called The Typing of the Dead, you’re not alone. Released on the failed Sega Dreamcast system, this gory, hilariously titled arcade-style shooter was in many ways exactly like its popular counterpart, The House of the Dead. But instead of aiming a gun at the…
Shelita is a poised and successful book editor, a young black woman determined to bring the urgent voices of her history and her people to life. As Thomas Gibbons’s play Bee-luther-hatchee opens, she’s riding the wave of a major success: A memoir she’s published has become a phenomenon, achieving bestseller…
John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt is a short, brilliantly constructed, engrossing play that seems straightforward on the surface — but there’s a lot going on below. The action begins with a voice speaking in the dark. As the lights come up, we see that this voice belongs to Father Flynn, who’s…
The Baseball Show. Evil, malaprop-prone Vincent Vascombe, owner of the Beloit Bulldogs, is determined to hold on to his star player, Bill “The Bomber” Dawson. But Dawson — aided by his smart, competent fiancée, Helen — has plans for the majors, and there’s a talent scout hanging around. So Vascombe…
Denver’s Month of Photography ended weeks ago, but many of the exhibits are still up and running. So maybe the highly successful March event should have been called the “Season of Photography,” or even “Photo Spring.” Regardless of what it should have been called, it was an incredible chance for…
As demonstrated by shows at Robischon and the Center for Visual Art, conceptual photography has come on strong in recent years, and in the process, it has revolutionized the medium of photography itself. Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art has long showcased this kind of work — in which the photos…
Clyfford Still Unveiled. A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of an eccentric in the artist-as-egomaniac stripe. His antisocial behavior led to a situation where 94 percent of his artworks remained together after he died — a staggeringly complete chronicle of his oeuvre that…
Ten-year-old ‘tweens seem to leap and claw their way through life. Too old for the Build-A-Bears they dress up and cling to, yet not old enough to rightly embrace their spew of undecipherable longings, they’re members of a truly lost sub-generation, caught in limbo between being “cute” and being “hot.”…
The Annual Neruda Poetry Festival celebrates Chicano oral tradition and flor y canto (flower and song) — meaning a flowery, rhythmic style of reciting poetry. Each year, visiting artists define the individual mood of the festival; for this year, in particular, the late poet Raúl R. Salinas’s motto says it…
Movie-goers familiar with actor Crispin Glover’s eccentric oeuvre won’t be surprised to learn that his directorial debut, 2005’s What Is It?, which he’ll host as part of a multimedia program that begins a three-night run this evening, tends toward the bizarre. According to Glover, the film chronicles a young man…
Join the party at the Lowenstein complex this weekend, when Twist & Shout marks its twentieth birthday. “And we started almost as a lark,” muses Paul Epstein, who, like his wife, Jill, was a teacher when they started the store. “We had no idea how to run a cash register,…
There’ll be more art — way more art — than you can shake a mint Louis XIV walking stick at when you stop by the Gilmore Art Center, 2119 Curtis Street, where the Mile High Bargain Fine Art Fair opens for business today at 11 a.m. Hosted by Gilmore, Gallup…
If you’re tired of the fact that there’s nothing on television, try going out tonight and getting your nothing from the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night. “You know how you get some fried chicken from KFC and there’s those little fried bits at the bottom that are basically nothing?” asks…
Colorado Ballet dancer Andrew Skeels’s independent dance-theater performance, Palimpsest, was inspired by the American Friends Service Committee’s Eyes Wide Open exhibit, for which Skeels volunteered back in October; the exhibit involved 3,000 pairs of combat boots laid on the front lawn of the State Capitol to represent the soldiers who…
The annual tribal-style belly-dance festival known as Elevation is “electric,” according to host and promoter Elizabeth Ostteen (who also owns the Marrakech and Paprika boutiques in Evergreen and Golden, respectively, and dances as part of Tribe Marrakech). “We have teachers from all over the world coming to teach,” she says…
Urban hipsters Brian and Melissa Ball don’t have kids of their own yet, but they’ve seen enough to know that parents simply go nuts when it comes to buying stuff for babies, from the day they unwrap their toothless, hairless wee ones from their swaddling clothes. And after Melissa’s sister…
If you’ve been searching for a way to fulfill your European fashion craving that doesn’t involve crossing the pond and plunging into debt or secretly thumbing through the International Male catalogue, look no further. Recently named Motocycle Dealer of the Year for 2007, Erico Motorsports is bringing its Euro sensibilities…
Not only is the Green Apple Festival a free outdoor concert with the Neville Brothers, Rose Hill Drive and the Benevento/Russo Duo, but it’s also going to be the largest Earth Day celebration in the history of the Front Range — thus making Denver part of the largest Earth Day…
