Too Old to Be Loud is the sixth in Heritage Square Music Hall’s Loud series, and the cast does much the same thing every time. The very thin plot line always involves an annual reunion in the Boylan High School gym. Actor-director T. J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer play sister…
The weather decided to become a participant in the opening night of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s The Servant of Two Masters. To begin with, the performance had to be delayed for a half-hour because of pelting rain. Then, after a remarkably good-humored audience had been seated again, gusts of wind…
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…
Installation art, an aesthetic approach that uses space as one of its materials, dates back to the early twentieth century, but then it was a mere sidelight rather than the major art form it is today. Installation began to take off in the 1960s and 1970s, along with the rise…
Lawrence Argent, one of the four featured artists in Looking Up at Metro’s CVA (see review), has emerged over the last decade or so as the region’s premier conceptual artist. But unlike most of his fellow travelers in this brainiac pursuit, Argent has been successful in getting public commissions. Selection…
Fang Lijun: Heads. China is definitely on the ascendancy internationally. Not only does the teeming economic powerhouse produce all the junk that can be found in a suburban Wal-Mart, but it’s also turning out important artists who have taken the contemporary scene in the U.S. and Europe by storm. Adam…
You’re Gonna Miss Me(Palm) A hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival two years ago, Keven McAlester’s doc about the Papa of Psychedelia, Roky Erickson, at long last gets its proper release. But time has done McAlester a tremendous favor: Had he shot the film too soon, he would…
One of the best new video games on the market requires you to take math tests. During summer break, no less. But before you cue up “Night on Bald Mountain” and run like hell, you really should play Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree. Any “party title” that can hold a…
After the Wedding (IFC) The Astronaut Farmer (Warner Bros.) Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Funimation) Brutal (Lionsgate) The Comedy Collection (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Taylor Collection (St. Clair) Extras: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Fat Burning Hip Hop Dance Party: Urban Style (Shami) Fred Astaire Collection (St. Clair) Frankie & Annette: MGM Movie…
Celebrate the storming of the Bastille and the official launch of ElitistHipsterSnob.com today at the EHS Bastille Day Party, taking place at the Meadowlark, 2701 Larimer Street. Why Bastille Day? Because no one is snobbier than the French, of course! Thrill to the sounds of fake French accents and DJ…
Put on your best celebratory hat and head down to the Fancy Tiger Birthday Party to celebrate the shop’s successful first year in business. The one-of-a-kind boutique, located at 1 South Broadway, specializes in hipster fashions, local music and handmade crafts. Owners Matthew Brown and Jaime Jennings promise lots of…
Why are so many fun things illegal? Are authorities just enemies of good times and public play, or is there something inherently pleasurable about pushing against prohibition? Or, as unruly teen Ren McCormack questioned in 1984’s Footloose, “You really can’t dance here, man? I can’t believe that.” But while Kevin…
Don’t expect a prim-and-proper ode to the Bard of Avon at the free Shakespeare Festival at Skyline Park, 16th and Arapahoe streets, starting tonight at 6 p.m. Soliloquies may get a little lively, and actors may get feisty with off-stage prompters. After all, the players involved haven’t rehearsed the plays…
Dan Witherspoon may have left the dating scene a long time ago (try fourteen years!), but he knows a thing or two about stirring up romance. First, food and wine are sexy. And second, orchestrated meet-and-greets can quickly turn into awkward disasters unless there’s a welcome distraction. That’s why he’s…
In order to understand Not the Same Old Song and Dance, you need to be familiar with Open Dialogue XI: Global Connections to Cultural Democracy. This national multicultural arts conference unites arts organizations, academics, cultural policy-makers and other movers and shakers to discuss global connections and issues affecting communities of…
Amateur filmmakers, students and brothers Steven and Brian Amos last year organized the Door County Student Film Festival in their home town of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and were blown away by both the quality of submissions from around the world and the sold-out screenings. So this year they turned their…
Bikes are so damn hot right now. It seems like every day, there are two dozen more mad cyclists racing their cut-down single-speeds up and down the avenue. And they are all so sexy, those gear-shifting girls with their big shades and those grungy bike boys with their jeans rolled…
One night maybe a year ago, I saw Ben Kronberg do a comedy set before a midnight movie at the Esquire. He pulled out his little notebook and subtly asked the audience if anyone had ever paid for an abortion with their frequent-flyer credit card: “How many abortions does it…
The Colorado hills are alive with the sound of music every summer, in venues as spectacular as Red Rocks Amphitheatre and as posh as the Aspen Music Festival tent. But the most charming setting of all could be the Cherokee Ranch & Castle, the stunning property in Sedalia that longtime…
It’s hard being a writer. For one thing, your family is always asking you what you’re doing with your life, and your girlfriend just can’t understand why you want to spend more time with your computer than with her. It’s a tough sell on all sides, so anyone who writes…
Whether you make folk art or simply admire it, the inaugural San Luis Valley Folk Arts and Fiber Festival has something for you: A combined artisan networking event and vendor fair, the weekend fest in Monte Vista (at the junction of U.S. highways 285 and 160, near the Great Sand…
Though already in step with the fast-rising local-food movement, Whole Foods Markets is taking its commitment to regional growers and food producers even more seriously this summer by hosting the Farmers and Food Artisans 2007 Road Tour, a moving feast of a farmers’ market that includes some of the best…
