At the opening-night performance of The Little Mermaid, I saw a little girl perched on a booster seat, ecstatically dancing her upper body to the big numbers; in the row behind me, a pair of sisters waved their small sparkly shoes. At intermission, wide-eyed boys wandered the corridors in adorable…
In Craig Lucas’s Prelude to a Kiss, Peter and Rita meet cute and proceed to have one of those idiosyncratic, charming conversations that invariably herald on-stage love — except that this conversation has points of real shadow and light. Soon after discovering that she has a passion for social justice,…
All in the Timing. David Ives’s six one-acts are all about language, communication and understanding, and also chance and fate. The dialogue is light and funny and fizzy, and it gets your frontal lobes buzzing as you attempt to catch and process all the flying puns, allusions, jokes, rhythms and…
The Sandra Phillips Gallery, situated about halfway between El Noa Noa and the Sandy Carson Gallery on the 700 block of Santa Fe Drive, is a little hard to see as you drive by. Even on foot, the quaint little storefront is easy to miss from the sidewalk. Once inside,…
Denver printmaker Diana Vavra Strong died on July 24 after a nearly twenty-year battle with cancer. Vavra Strong was most active as an artist in the 1960s and ’70s, so until recently, her work was known mostly to a handful of old-timers. Last year, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant mounted…
The American Landscape and Carny. Rule Gallery has typically presented single solos since landing in its new space several months ago, but this time, there are two different shows in that long and narrow sales room. The two work well together, though, as both are made up of photographs about…
Year of the Dog (Paramount Vantage) It’s just about the First Commandment of Hollywood: Don’t kill the dog. So it’s a testament to the clout of writer-director Mike White (School of Rock) that killing off the dog is the first of many rules broken in this weird-ass movie. Folks fooled…
The next-gen consoles are sexy as hell, but it’s not all bad being the reigning “last-gen” champ either. With more than 100 million PlayStation 2 consoles sold, software companies can afford to be a little adventurous — after all, even if their game appeals to only 1 percent of that…
Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right (HBO) The Boris Karloff Collection (St. Clair) Broken English (Magnolia) Carlito’s Way: Crime Saga Collection (Universal) Dark Shadows: The Beginning (MPI) The Essential Ozzie & Harriet Collection (Mill Creek) Friday Night Lights: The First Season (Universal) Gideon’s Trumpet (Acorn) Heaven & Hell: Live From Radio…
I like the simple pleasures in life. A day off from work, girls, beer and rock and roll are some of my very favorite things. How fortuitous, then, that Panties at the Bar is happening tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, 60 South Broadway. From 9 p.m. on, Fanny and Kitty,…
Every decade or so boasts a local scene with bands to watch and a camaraderie heated by bouts of drinking, smoking, dancing and shouting in one another’s ears about social change and that girl sitting next to you, isn’t she hot? A rite of passage for every generation, the scene…
First, a confession: After a dozen books, I was getting a little tired of Father John O’Malley and his obsession with the mission on the Wind River Reservation (although I could certainly appreciate his love of that rugged Wyoming landscape), not to mention his obsession with Indian attorney Vicky Holden,…
I can’t imagine why anyone would choose to sit around thinking about all the avian-flu-type things waiting to kill us. What a bummer it would be worrying about pandemics and blizzards and extended power outages all the time. And does anyone even listen? Yeah, we know: bottled water, batteries, canned…
Longtime local runners Alan Lind and Maureen Roben, who already provide the brains and the brawn behind the Platte River Trail Half Marathon in April, fantasized about organizing a run that took side trips through the neighborhoods of Denver, but they learned that it could be a costly endeavor to…
Having fun and feeling good about yourself has never been easier than it will be tonight at the Colorado National Speedway, 4281 Weld County Road 10 in Erie, when the Shining Stars Celebrity Challenge revs up starting at 4 p.m. Benefiting the Shining Stars Foundation — which provides fun programs…
If there’s one thing Denver is lacking, it’s pools. Unless you live in a trendy apartment complex or splurge on a plastic pool for the back yard, you probably don’t spend much of your summers here dangling your toes in the water with an umbrella drink in hand. Picking up…
Princess Cheri Bottoms, aka Jason Nichols, co-founded and headlined last year’s Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! show in support of the Boulder County AIDS Project because the spread of HIV/ AIDS is an issue that hits close to home: The Princess lost a long-term partner to the disease. This year’s showstopping headliner,…
Colorado lacrosse is down one living legend. Two weeks ago, Colorado Mammoth coach Gary Gait announced he was leaving to pursue other interests. Gait was more than just the coach who led the Mammoth to a 2006 National Lacrosse League championship in his first year at the helm; he was…
On the last Friday of each month, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art has been throwing open its doors for NightLite, a bash featuring art in just about every manifestation possible. “We offer different live performance art, music, entertainment, libations, food from local restaurants,” explains Keleigh Asbury, director of special…
Erik Klanderud watches the MotherLode Volleyball Classic every year, and every year he’s amazed by the level of play. The Classic’s producer, Leon Fell, was his volleyball coach at Aspen High School back in the ’80s, but Klanderud — who now works for the Aspen Chamber Resort Association — says…
This year’s Creede Salsa Fiesta isn’t just about five different categories of dip — red, green, freestyle, hot tamale and fruit. And although — as at Fiestas past — attendees will be able to purchase a ticket from the Creede and Mineral County Chamber of Commerce Office, 1207 North Main…
What’s up with this? Can it be that Scotch-sipper, actor and satirical humorist Joel McHale, host of the E! network’s The Soup and star of screens large and small, is the opening act at one of Colorado’s biggest and most complete organized motorcycle rallies? That’s the plan: McHale kicks off…
