“When women tell their truth,” says Jane Fonda, “everything changes.” She is sitting on a sofa in a room on the fifteenth floor of the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. She is noticeably, admittedly tired, having arrived from Atlanta after midnight without any clothes or shoes but for the ones…
In the superbly tacit chamber piece Away From Her, intolerable pressure is brought to bear on the 44-year marriage between a college professor and his homemaker spouse after she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Grant Andersson (played by veteran Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent) and his wife, Fiona (an artfully wrinkled…
Four years after “Mission Accomplished,” 28 Weeks Later reminds us that the mission, whatever the hell it was to begin with, is now officially, apocalyptically fucked. The story thus far: Seven months have gone by since the Rage virus passed from chimp fang to British bloodstream in an animal-rights intervention…
The current art season, which is just approaching its final bell, has been one for the record books. With the opening of the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building this past fall, there’s been an unprecedented upswing in art-related activities. At the DAM itself are several important displays, particularly…
There are two member shows at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) featuring work by established artists. On the gallery’s west side is the self-titled Susanna Cavalletti; in the space to the east is Mysteries of Babylon, which highlights recent paintings by Peter Illig. The two are as different…
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…
Watching Mall*Mart, the Musical! at Curious Theatre Company is almost a schizophrenic experience; the two acts seem part of different productions. The first act details the life of one Walt Samson, a stand-in for Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, and shows his rise to wealth and prominence, as well as…
The genre is familiar. There’s a woman alone in a house on an island off the coast of Maine; a thunderstorm batters the windows. The woman is packing. She has set out three boxes: one labeled Trash; one, Remains to Be Seen; the last, Perpetual Care. The pale face of…
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This is one ugly family that’s gathered in Big Daddy’s Mississippi Delta home to celebrate the patriarch’s 65th birthday. What almost everyone except Big Daddy himself knows is that he’s dying of cancer. There’s Big Mama, operating in an acute state of denial; son…
To Catch a Thief: Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount) Starring Cary Grant as a cat burglar and Grace Kelly as a hot-to-trot heiress, this is easily one of Alfred Hitchcock’s slightest films, especially coming on the heels of Rear Window; indeed, its idyllic setting on the French Riviera suggests it was…
There was a time in my life when I might have actually enjoyed Pocket Pool a little bit. Back when I was twelve, giving myself migraines from staring at scrambled cable porn, the notion of a game where I could “win” pictures of girls in their underwear would’ve seemed pretty…
Because I Said So! (Universal) Breaking and Entering (Weinstein) The Bridge on the River Kwai: Collector’s Edition (Sony) Cagney & Lacey: The True Beginning (MGM) The Caine Mutiny: Collector’s Edition (Sony) Catch & Release (Sony) Deliver Us From Evil (Lionsgate) Dirty Dancing: Twentieth Anniversary (Lionsgate) Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut (Sony)…
Today is a big day for composer Harry Gregson-Williams. For one thing, he wrote the incidental music for Shrek the Third, which debuts nationwide. And this evening, he’ll conduct the world premiere of his “Grand Orchestral Suite” from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as…
In 2005, playwrights Christa Ray, Elizabeth Stanton and Bethany Urban unveiled Power to Pleasing: The Sex Lives of Teenage Girls. In talk-back sessions afterward, Ray recalls, “one of the topics that consistently came up was, ‘What’s the boys’ point of view?’ And we thought, okay, that’s our next play.” Two…
Jean-François Duclos couldn’t mask a snide chuckle when I mistakenly referred to pétanque as a sport. “It’s more like an outdoor activity,” the executive director of Alliance Française said in his thick French accent. When I then asked him if this game — in which players toss shiny steel balls…
Don’t let the title throw you. The first annual Livestrong Yoga-thon is nothing crazy or contradictory, like, “I can hold my Downward Facing Dog longer than you, sucker!” “There’s nothing competitive about it,” says Kevin Joseph of Event Savant. “It’s kind of like, do whatever you want. It’s more intended…
California isn’t the only state that produces delicious wine, you know. Then again, maybe you don’t. “There are over sixty wineries in the state of Colorado, and I think a lot of people are unaware of that,” says Chris Lighthall Hellvig, co-owner of Denver-based Colorado Wine Country Tours. “We’ve had…
The streets aren’t safe for those of us on two wheels. Each ride a bicyclist takes — for fun or to work, the store or the bar — a potential kiss of death is always included. But ride we must. So cyclists from across Colorado will pedal out from the…
It’s been a rough winter — a rough fifty winters, really — for the Burns and Sopris Gardens at City Park. “Those gardens haven’t been fully planted in more than fifty years,” says Carissa Lester, a senior public-relations manager for Ground Floor Media. “That part of the park is pretty…
“People move into old homes because they love them and love the character,” says Elizabeth Field, community-relations and program coordinator for Historic Denver. And who wouldn’t prefer a creaky-yet-charming Victorian over the plethora of cookie-cutter McMansions that are springing up all over the Front Range? Unfortunately, older homes have a…
You don’t really need a reason to visit the Ute Mountain/Mesa Verde area; the scenery and history are enough to draw thousands of people to the region every year. But if you’re looking for a little extra nudge — and if you happen to include birding on your list of…
“I started off wanting to do a comparison between artists who moved here and started to help settle the state — the nineteenth-century artist — and contemporary artists primarily known as landscape painters,” explains Rose Glaser Fredrick, who curated Masterpieces of Colorado Landscape: A Then & Now Look at Landscape…
