It takes Bruce Willis a while to get warmed up. He’s always just a bit below room temperature — a cool brother, dig, dating back to his Moonlighting days as a private dick belting out “Tighten Up” while going undercover as a man of the cloth in Wayfarer shades. He’s…
Dinner theater is an odd phenomenon. Emerging pretty much from nowhere in the early 1960s, the genre flourished through the ’70s, when it often employed television stars, and began fading in the next decade. Dinner theaters tend to be associated with steam-table food and bland, smiley-faced productions; they draw a…
People used to talk about Cirque du Soleil as if the company’s productions were somehow transformative, as if taking in the brilliant spectacles, pondering the ambiguous plots and thrilling to the performers’ beautiful and impossible feats would somehow bring clarity and enlightenment to their own lives. As Cirque grew into…
Every Secret Thing. Judy GeBauer’s Every Secret Thing deals with the effect of McCarthyism on a group of high-school teachers, and it couldn’t have premiered at a more fitting time. The play is based on GeBauer’s memories of a civics teacher in her high school who was called before HUAC…
It’s hard not to notice all the public sculpture that’s come on line in the past few years. As I drive around, it seems like I’m always spotting something new. That’s what happened when I found myself out in Lakewood the other day. I was looking for an important mid-century…
Some very sad and shocking news came out of Boulder last week: Noted Colorado artist Jim Colbert was found dead in his Boulder home, an apparent suicide. Colbert, a contemporary realist painter with a political bent, had exhibited widely throughout the state since first coming to Colorado thirty years ago…
Altar Girls. Two very different exhibits roughly collide into one another in the middle of the Museo de las Américas. One part, put together by Museo curator Kristi Martens, is an extravaganza of santos made mostly in Colorado, Mexico and New Mexico, and primarily culled from a recent gift to…
Black Snake Moan (Paramount) The best place to see Craig Brewer’s mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would be a Mississippi drive-in circa 1972. His tale of a black bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) who chains up a seething, scantily clad cracker nympho (Christina Ricci) would’ve had the lot under martial law…
Everyone’s got a different sense of what makes a killer party. For kids, maybe it’s whacking a piñata and overdosing on cake. For adults, it could be sticking a beer bong down your gullet and declaring yourself Mayor of Schlitz City. But since 1999, the Mario Party series has served…
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Complete Series (Shout!) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Anchor Bay) Dead Silence (Universal) Echo & the Bunnymen: Dancing Horses (MVD) Film School (Docurama) Frankenstein Conquers the World (Tokyo Shock) Going Under: Unrated Version (Blue Underground) High School Musical: The…
Emily Francis is turning 27, and she wants everyone to know it. The road perma-buddy — she’s a career tour manager, working for acts like Planes Mistaken for Stars and These Arms Are Snakes — celebrates getting older today with a big-ass birthday fiesta at 3 Kings Tavern, complete with…
I’m from Detroit. Not a whole lot gets by us, but after my latest discovery, I feel a bit daunted. Because even after living in that incredible music city all those years, I was stunned when I first set foot in my new favorite record shop, Twist & Shout, at…
It isn’t often that a head shop turns 28, or that the funk comeback in Denver spawns a full-on ball to celebrate all things groovy and danceable. And when those things happen together…well, you don’t want to be the one who misses out on all the fun. Tonight at 7…
In 2001, when Breckenridge’s Firecracker 50 bike race was born, it was a rather modest undertaking — a fun way to begin the town’s annual Independence Day parade. But last year’s series of rides, which range from a fourteen-miler designed for regular folks to a fifty-mile challenge for top wheelers,…
For the first time in 69 years, the Barbershop Harmony Society International Convention is taking place in Denver. And this is no wimpy two-day celebration of song: The harmonizing starts today and continues through Sunday, July 8, making for almost a full week of performances, contests and sing-alongs. “People should…
Today and every Thursday through August 9, the Denver Pavilions transforms into the Urban Market: An Artisan Experience. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., vendors will offer up everything from farm-fresh fruit and veggies to baked goods and tamales along Glenarm Place on the 16th Street Mall. And from 11…
From a tattered American flag to a bronze office key, a hunk of glass to an elevator sign for the 102nd floor, the most common objects can tell the most extraordinary stories. Opening today at 9 a.m. at the Aurora History Museum, 15051 East Alameda Parkway, September 11, 2001: The…
Aren’t fireworks on the Fourth of July a little…cliched? Trick question! Anyone who said yes is either un-American (and probably a terrorist) or has never seen the Estes Park Independence Day Celebration. “The setting can’t be beat. To see the fireworks in this expansive sky with sound reverberating off the…
Liz Claiborne died today at age 78. It’s very sad news, but Cat didn’t actually know all that much about her. She knows the woman was an icon who revolutionized dressing in the ’70s — when a whole lot of women suddenly needed a whole lot of work clothes. But…
Thursday, June 28 Beauty Bar Happy Hour Hit DC10 for complimentary champagne, $4 mojitos and $5 spa services. Happens every Thursday night. DC10 940 Lincoln Street 6 to 8 p.m. (open bar for ladies from 9 to 11 p.m.) Free…
At the BET Awards last night Beyonce wore the gold gladiator-type leggings from Balenciaga’s spring/summer 2007 collection. Cat isn’t a big fan of leggings, but those are so Mad Max, she can’t help but admire them. The blogosphere has been abuzz about them for weeks, so it’s a good bet…
Cat just discovered that Vogue online does a weekly best-dressed list. And wow are there some doozies on there for the 6/23 installment. (via Fashionista) 1. Katie Holmes in kahki shorts and heels. (Would have been palatable if Tom weren’t on her arm.) 2. Shoelace as headband 3. Tan lines…
