Last time the non-profit organization Human Rights Watch counted, there were 2,270 juveniles serving life without the possibility of parole in prison in the United States, 45 of them in Colorado. In the rest of the world, there is one. The issue of juveniles serving life sentences has recently caught…
Mourning becomes eccentric at In the Dead of Winter: Victorian Mourning, an event at Four Mile House showcasing the customs of Victorian sickness, death and grieving. “The Victorians connected to the dead, talking to people in the other world through seances and spiritualism,” explains Mary Jane Bradbury, volunteer coordinator. “I…
Along with the number zero, the compass, the kite and the seismograph, China apparently cornered the market on Barnum and Bailey-style acrobatics thousands of years before kids in Idaho ran away to join the circus. Tonight, the Peking Acrobats will perform gravity-defying stunts with roots as far back as the…
Each year, CultureHaus — a social and educational support group of the Denver Art Museum — hosts its signature party and fundraiser. For this year’s bash, the theme is Art of Passion, and CultureHaus has worked hard to create an event that will tantalize all five senses while raising money…
Considering that it falls on the eve of Israel’s sixtieth anniversary, it’s a happy coincidence that the emphasis on Israeli film is so heavy this year at the twelfth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival, a well-paced ten-day spectacular hosted by the Mizel Arts and Culture Center. “In the past, we’ve…
The Boulder Acoustic Society’s Aaron Keim, one of the organizers of today’s first Colorado Ukulele Festival, loves the uke for reasons that have everything to do with simplicity. “Because it’s a modest instrument, with just four strings, when you perform a piece of music, there’s little to dress it up…
“Colorado has such a rich tradition of strong ceramic artists,” says Michael Chavez, curator of the Foothills Art Center. “The Colorado Clay exhibition is important because it showcases this tradition.” Twelve ceramicists from all over the state were hand-picked to display eight to ten pieces touching on everything from functional…
Jamaica Kincaid’s writing career got started because of New Yorker columnist George W. S. Trow, who would take her with him while he conducted research for the magazine’s Talk of the Town section. With Jamaica along, his stories always seemed to get better. He went from mentioning her in the…
The relaxed, warm vocal style of Glen Phillips can be deceptive. It allows him to tell stories of human depravity, evoking the darkest depths of human emotions, all while being pleasing to the ear. His innovative folk rock songwriting was honed during his tenure as the frontman of the critically…
Between the popularity of the can-can, the appearance on stage of such performers as Frank Sinatra and Édith Piaf, and the madcap spectacle of director Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 hit Moulin Rouge!, the historic Moulin Rouge cabaret in the Parisian red-light district of Pigalle has fueled the imagination since it was…
Call them what you will: galoshes, rain boots, Wellingtons—when it comes down to it, these rubbers are a fabulous choice for wet Colorado winters and spring showers alike. And now you can get them in all shapes, sizes and colors, running from the extensive selection of patterns and colors at…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Corporate Cutie, Christine, proves that a classic never goes out of style in this vintage blouse by Jones New York, circa 1976. “My sister got this for me when she used to work for Jones…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Sometimes I think that Animal Rights should be extended only to the cute animals. I mean, it’s a lot easier to feel empathetic toward a cute little roly-poly polar bear cub than it is toward……
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. White may be the color of purity and innocence but methinks that smoldering glare hides much darker thoughts. Burlesque temptress, Orchid Mei, is stunning in this floor length evening gown and fur wrap as she…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. A wise man once sang, “Save a horse! Ride a cowboy!” Profound lyrics most certainly inspired by a shirt such as this. Editorial stud muffin, Jonathan, puts the “CO” in “Cowtown” and shows off some…
Slide Show If you chose to spend last weekend anywhere other than the Pink Elephant Room, you made a bad choice. Lucky for you, though, there will be ample chances to redeem yourself. Every Friday and Saturday, PS 1515, at the corner of Madison and Colfax, transforms itself into the…
The current exhibit at Metropolitan State College’s Center for Visual Art is interesting, though decidedly odd. It’s simply called Story, with no subtitle to help explain the idea behind it. This allowed its organizers, CVA director Jennifer Garner and assistant director Cicely Cullen, to build a group show connected only…
When Mark Travis died at the end of 2007, he had begun working on a series of politically themed pieces that were going to be presented at Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1086, www.spacegallery.org) this August to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. That plan was scrapped after his…
Color as Field. It’s no exaggeration to say that Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975 is one of the best shows presented in Denver in a generation. Filled with a who’s who of American art — Still, Rothko, Frankenthaler, Stella — it’s like a brief vacation into a world where…
The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon’s best-of-2007 documentary about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy remains a work-in-progress: Billy Mitchell, the longtime titleholder dethroned by Steve Wiebe over the course of this hysterical, thrilling, and occasionally sad little film, recently reclaimed the throne — and Wiebe has vowed…
The very first time I saw the Wii’s motion-sensitive “Wiimote,” a single thought bounced in my head like a toddler on corn syrup: Finally we’re gonna get an f-ing brilliant lightsaber game. It was inevitable, a perfect match for the technology. Never again would I be caught doing the Star…
Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Sugar, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was inexplicably shut out at the closing-night awards ceremony), gets as much right about baseball as…
