Poor Scooter Brightman. As host of Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret’s Celebrity Spelling Bee and Quiz Show, the extravagant Irishman (the alter ego of Jefferson Arca, Lannie’s general manager) has to hold his own among local celebrities, burlesque girls and audience members. They’re all matching wits starting at 7 p.m., hoping to…
The most generous people in this town may well be restaurateurs and chefs, who are always volunteering their time, services and good food for good causes. Tonight’s Straight from the Farmer’s Market will benefit Gilda’s Club Denver, and the food will be very good indeed, since the five chefs making…
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, which author Crystal Zevon will sign and read from tonight and tomorrow, is as unflinching as her late ex-husband’s best compositions — and that’s just the way he wanted it. “He asked me to tell the whole…
The Plain White T’s may be the most polite band in pop-punk. The Tom Higgenson-led combo — which joins Social Distortion, Blue October, I Hate Kate, Jack’s Mannequin, Motion City Soundtrack and Single File as part of KTCL’s Big Gig — is best-known for “Hey There Delilah,” a moony bit…
You’ll remember that Cat was all about the cowboy boots last week. Well, when she got this news, she almost had to kick someone. And still might, if she can figure out who it is she ought to be kicking. Can it really be that Santa Fe has gotten so…
The Denver Public Library and The Fabric Lab have embarked on a cool new event: Frock Out Denver. As part of the library’s Fresh City Life program, they’re trying to bring our local designers to greater heights of attention. How are they doing this, you ask? Well, here are the…
So Cat is just perptually late this week. She needs to go back to Sunday, apparently, and start all over again. Anyway, here are her picks for Cheap and Chic Monday, but on Wednesday. Top row, left to right: Kenneth Cole Pumpkin Pie from Piperlime $45 Very cute with tights…
Claire Danes looks amazing on Vogue’s weekly best-dressed list. But she’s one of the few. Check out the entire fashion train wreck here…
Sorry Cat was incommunicado yesterday, but she had a good excuse: She rescued a stray pit bull off the streets of Denver and is now trying to find him a home. Driving past her office, Cat found this dog tied up to a parking lot fence. She stopped to check…
So Cat seems to have a shoe fetish this week. All she wants to look at or read about are shoes. Maybe it’s time to buy a Lotto ticket, because the Wall Street Journal rewarded Cat’s singlemindedness with an article about women and their heels. The general gist: What shoes…
Cat got sucked into watching (well, TiVoing and then watching) the Fashionista Diaries, the new reality show that premiered on SoapNet last night (August 1). The marketing and advertising for the show had been over the top — every post on Fashionista yesterday was encased in a FD box –…
This week you’ll start seeing ads for Vera Wang’s line of clothes for Kohl’s. That means the time for her fantasy fashion is nigh: On September 9, Kohl’s stores will start carrying Very Vera, which will feature everything from shoes and handbags to dresses and coats. There will even be…
The Bourne Ultimatum opens in Russia as the amnesiac super-spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) does what he does best: elude capture, crack skulls, brood. Lickety-split, he’s en route to Paris, nursing his wounds and breaking out with a bad case of those itchy-scratchy hallucinations known as Hollywood Flashback Syndrome. Choice…
Oh, wipe that starchy Masterpiece Theatre moue off your face. Pop Jane Austen is fun, especially when it’s almost completely made up. According to Becoming Jane, a new addition to the plentiful Austen spinoff canon, our lady of graceful letters was hot stuff at cricket and kissing and had a…
Interview, Steve Buscemi’s second feature as both director and star, takes about twenty minutes to restrict the world to a single room, but once it arrives, the action seems to be held there by the pull of a cold sun. Buscemi plays a shabby ex-war correspondent with the fromage-scented name…
John Waters’s movies are best viewed through the eyes of an autistic child. Please, hear me out before you label this statement as a cruel slur. I was introduced to the world of John Waters by my autistic sister. After suffering though her mechanical spouting of monologues from Uncle Buck,…
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of Julius Caesar has some strong performances and interesting ideas, but it doesn’t hang together conceptually. The play itself is problematic. It begins with a focus on the uses and abuses of state power, as Julius Caesar, home from the wars, seems set to become…
The Central City Opera production of Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon, or Cinderella, is a visual feast. The costumes of Sara Jean Tosetti — who looks a little witchy herself in her playful program photo — combine charming empire lines with the crooked, cunning shapes we associate with fairy tales. From the…
Around the World in 80 Days. The Victorians became increasingly fascinated with stories of adventure as technological advances in travel made their world smaller and more accessible. It didn’t hurt that so much of that world map was colored an imperial red. In his famous novel Around the World in…
The culture boom that’s been hitting the Front Range has reached another milestone: On Saturday, August 4, at 10 a.m., a ribbon-cutting ceremony will open the new two-story, 48,000-square-foot wing that has been subtly added to the magnificent and iconic Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, a 1930s modernist masterpiece that…
The thoughtful new addition to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center done by David Owen Tryba (see review) is surely the biggest cultural event of the summer. But another important happening is the new piece of public art that was recently erected in America the Beautiful Park, just west of…
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…
