Spray is filmmaker Brian Solano’s fourth project about rock climbing, but don’t expect a typical adrenaline-driven climbing flick this time around. “It’s a movie about climbing and exploring and just living life,” Solano says, but it’s also about maintaining climbing areas for future generations. “Throughout the entire film, we kind…
I am a home brewer because it satisfies so many of my sensibilities. I enjoy the creativity of crafting flavors, and I’m fascinated by the science of fermentation. But above all, I home-brew because it’s a deal — for $30, I can make two cases of beer in a month…
In its December issue, Men’s Health magazine named Denver the “Most Dangerously Drunk City” in America. It makes sense: Denverites can count on one shaking hand the social spaces that are sober and open late in this town. Tran and Josh Wills (the married couple behind the Fabric Lab) hope…
Ballet is already kind of campy, with its large, sweeping movements expressing overweening emotion. But what happens when you take fifteen male dancers — chock-full of skill and mastery of difficult ballet technique — and infuse their performance with glee, fun, hilarity and just the right amount of naughtiness? Les…
Hi, how are you? Fine, how’ve you been? Terrific. That’s wonderful. How are the kids? They’re great. So what’s new? The answer to that question is the latest book by Debra Fine, Denver’s queen of small talk, conversation expert and author of The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to…
While little kids like to see the characters of their favorite books spring to life in mascot costumes, older kids are a little harder to please. In author Justina Chen Headley’s case, she couldn’t bring her young snowboarding character to life when she headed out on tour — so instead,…
It’s crazy: A black man is neck and neck with a woman for the Democratic presidential nomination, while a Mormon is in the mix for the GOP nod. This is such a different America than even a few years ago — has the bigotry passed us by? Are we really…
Big air is big news at this year’s ESPN Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen/Snowmass. With the addition of the skiing/snowboarding big air events, athletes will showcase their vertical skills as they blast off a 65-foot jump in search of gold. Even better, these two events turn interactive:…
Every week, Aaron Harber comes into your living room courtesy Channel 12 and “The Aaron Harber Show” — and now he’s returning the favor. Well, not quite. He’s inviting the public to a “Thank You” party and fundraiser for KBDI-TV in the Wynkoop Brewing Company’s Mercantile Room, 1634 18th Street…
Depending on whom you ask, thrift store shopping is either a thrilling exploration to find treasures untold, or it’s a huge, time-sucking pain in the ass to locate one good vintage t-shirt. Thriftonista, a new Denver company, subscribes to both world views. TaRosa Jacobs and Rebekah Adams, two new mothers…
If Diane Keaton were a comer in 2007, she’d likely be stuck in romantic comedies cooked up in movie-studio test kitchens. No Godfather for her. No Annie Hall, no Shoot the Moon, no Reds. Filmmakers who now use Katherine Heigl as their go-to girl would be flummoxed by the willowy…
I do think the writing is pessimistic — all that stuff about life being a tragic experience,” says Angela Stark (played by newcomer Hayley Atwell) early in Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream. An actress talking about the play she’s appearing in at a small London theater, Stark could just as well…
Unreal Tournament III is ideal for overcaffeinated teenage boys with PlayStation 3s, broadband internet connections, extensive online friend lists, hours and hours of time to blow, and — just for good measure — a deep appreciation of the steroid-addled dystopian sci-fi aesthetic. You know, the one where men are 450…
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest(Fox)As someone with no use for Seth MacFarlane’s potty-mouthed Simpsons rip, I’ll admit to choking out a few giggles during his Star Wars send-up — though, truth be told, it’s slightly less daring than Spaceballs and, sure, Porn Wars. Stunningly faithful to the 30-year-old franchise, MacFarlane’s…
Alex Haley’s Queen (Warner Bros.) Amazing Planet Earth (Questar) The Attic (Allumination) Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Warner Bros.) Breaker Morant (Image) Extras: The Complete Series (HBO) Dora the Explorer: Undercover Dora (Paramount) DragonLance: Dragons of the Autumn Twilight (Paramount) Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate) In the Heat of the Night:…
For most Americans, the first Gulf War was a video-game war. We knew it only as television images of blurry streaks across greenish skies, talking heads, excited voices giving a play-by-play on tactics and military decisions; we found it impossible to understand what was happening on the ground, who was…
Life was rough for the average white male in 1950s America. Although few women had jobs and fewer still had any semblance of power in the political or business world, women actually ran the entire country. At home, they psychologically emasculated their husbands and sons. Outside the house, they helped…
Last summer, I was part of a panel discussion about the role that our local scenery plays in both contemporary and traditional art, especially — though not exclusively — in the art that’s done in the region. At one point, artist Don Stinson, who was in the audience, made a…
The walls of the William Havu Gallery (1040 Cherokee Street, 303-893-2360, (www.williamhavugallery.com) are covered by The Nature of Things, combining the work of Tracy and Sushe Felix (see review). A second exhibit, Erick C. Johnson, has been installed around the edges, in the corners and outside, with one of the…
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…
According to filmmaker and actor Ash Christian, I am a fat girl. So is he. As explained in Christian’s debut film, Fat Girls, anyone can be a fat girl, regardless of gender or body mass index. A fat girl is anyone who doesn’t fit in, who’s too quirky for the…
Tonight’s e-town installment features two acts who are in the heyday of their careers: Shawn Mullins and Puerto Plata. Mullins, a solo artist, started playing the drums when he was four and recording his tunes on a tape recorder when he was in the seventh grade. Perhaps one of the…
