You have six minutes and forty seconds. Ready…set…go! Pecha Kucha Night (“chitchat” in Japanese) is a world-wide event that’s finally making its way to Denver. It’s like open-mike night meets variety show for creative folks of all stripes. But instead of just a microphone, you present twenty PowerPoint slides showcasing…
Da Vinci had his canvas. Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel ceiling. We have snowboards. Yep, that sleek fusion of laminate and fiberglass streaking down the slopes has become the modern canvas for artistic prodigies everywhere. Don’t believe us? Check out an exhibition tonight of submissions for the second annual Design…
Ladies, be honest: When was the last time you gathered together your best gang of gal pals and set out to paint the town red? And I’m talking crimson — bright, blood-colored red — not merely some wishy-washy shade of pink. If the best memory you can dredge up involves…
For the past two years, the Ninth & Lincoln Orchestra has become Dazzle’s monthly house band of sorts. It’s also become something of a musical laboratory for bandleader Tyler Gilmore to try out new pieces he and other band members have written. Whether this modern jazz big band is performing…
The at-risk and special-needs children at Centro Integración de Tapalpa A.C. in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, are nurtured to bloom in many ways, but in particular as folk artisans who use recycled materials to create beautiful and whimsical papel malecho (papier-mâché) animals and flowers. Through the sale of their handcrafted bounty,…
To the Senegalese, Ceeb u Gin, their national dish, is a strong symbol of home. In that country, most workers are allowed to gather with their families for a midday meal of the intricate and spicy fish-and-rice dish. Tonight at 6 p.m. at the Denver Inner City Parish, 1212 Mariposa…
Poor Felix Gomez. When we first met the paranormal private detective in Denverite Mario Acevedo’s debut novel, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, he’d returned from a tour of duty in Iraq as a vampire and was attempting to discover what was behind a murderous conspiracy and outbreak of nymphomania at…
David Beckham is less an athlete than a cult of personality. With a reported $250 million-dollar contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy, Becks — as the British tabloid media has dubbed him — was supposed to popularize soccer in a country where games between seven-year-olds draw closer scrutiny than the…
Nerds are great. Not pocket-protector-sporting nerds, but those colorful little candies that are so addictive. Gobstoppers are good, too, but sometimes they require too much investment. When you need a variety of small satisfactions, you should definitely think Nerds. The Aspen ShortsFest took a similar smaller-is-better notion to heart: Beginning…
As you may remember, trusty readers, I recently came upon a mysterious, unsigned letter in the deposit-envelope receptacle of a downtown ATM machine requesting that I draw a picture of my “normal pajamas” and send it back in an included self-addressed stamped envelope. Since, as a rule, I always do…
Inveterate browsers haunting the scruffy book row on Broadway were left out in the cold when Ichabod’s closed, but Fahrenheit’s Books has been making things cozy again. This long-time comer at 52 Broadway, a block south of the Mayan, has blossomed from a cramped, barely navigable hole-in-the-wall to a spacious,…
A friend of mine forwarded me several pictures like the one shown here claiming that theses skirts are all the current rage in Japan. According to my “source,” the skirts are not really see-through, but designed with these prints on the back to make them appear see-through. As we all…
This thriftonista is living “La Vie Boheme” as a working actress, here in Denver. Her artistic being is reflected in all aspects of her life, including her fashion sense. Elgin’s low rise black cords and sky blue knit top play peek-a-boo with the black panther tattoo on her hip. To…
It takes a little sass and a great set of stems to pull off a pair of ankle boots with anything other than a long skirt or a pair of pants. Retail Sales Rep., Erin, knows exactly what she’s doing, though, by keeping her skirt a couple inches above the…
The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant’s masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film’s narrative structure, but a reflection of the arc of its maker’s career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor. Van Sant’s debut, 1985’s Mala Noche, was a moody drizzle…
The Democratic insurgent is the most charismatic candidate since RFK, and the party’s convention could be the most convulsive since the debacle in Chicago. The Vietnam War has returned in the personae of Johns McCain and Rambo. George Romero, whose Night of the Living Dead remains the definitive celluloid expression…
Sex and chance brought them together one furtive summer night in the cruising grounds of a wooded Parisian park. Adrien (Michel Blanc), a doctor: bourgeois, middle-aged, world-weary, on the prowl for boys. Manu (Johan Libéreau), a boy: beaming, naive, freshly arrived in Paris, on the prowl for experience. Flattered by…
Owen Wilson’s a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard. Rare is the star vehicle that’s as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless Army deserter and con man, able to fool people into believing he’s both a substitute teacher and a master…
Sometimes it’s the terrible ideas — say, a TV show about nothing, or stirring corn into your mashed potatoes — that turn out to be genius. Super Smash Bros. landed on the Nintendo 64 nearly 10 years ago, kicking off a concept that initially sounded nauseating: “lovable Nintendo characters in…
No Country for Old Men(Paramount)”A horror comedy chase” is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow actors add to the list such adjectives as “a very primitive ride,” “a rabbit chase through Texas,” and “a very powerful story…
Stones in His Pockets is a small play — charming, wistful, not quite sure what it wants to be. It starts out as one of those clash-of-culture satires. A film company has plumped itself down in a village in rural County Kerry, Ireland, disrupting everyday life. Caroline Giovanni, the lead…
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…
