5 Degrees Warmer Fashion Show

Babylon Floral spiced up the evening with its wearable floral arrangements. Slideshow Cat crawled out from under her dive-bar rock on Saturday night to check out the 5 Degrees Warmer fashion show at, you guessed it, 5 Degrees. Now, this is the first time Cat has been out in LoDo…

Kate Moss Flops for Topshop

This is the capstone of Kate’s collection. Collective disappointment ensues. Cat’s apparently been napping this week, as she missed the big launch of Kate Moss’s new line for British Topshop. Yep, the girl who defines heroin chic – even after rehab for coke – now has her own collection. She…

Farewell, Isabella Blow

Greg Kessler, from Style.com This was a sad, sad week for fashion. On Monday, May 8, Isabella Blow died from a drug overdose, and with her passed one of the most interesting, eccentric, fabulous personalities in all of fashion. Her hats alone were cause for celebration. She discovered Alexander McQueen…

Georgia Rule

Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around trying to make contact in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of rampant parental insufficiency from director Garry Marshall. Marshall’s broad comedy has always made him a soft target for critics, but along with his duds (Beaches, Runaway Bride and Raising Helen…

Georgia (and Much More) on Her Mind

“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…

Away From Her

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…

28 Weeks Later

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…

Triple Threat

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…

Susanna Cavalletti|Mysteries of Babylon

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…

Sketches

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…

Mall*Mart, the Musical!

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…

Squall

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…

Now Playing

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…

Hitchcock on Holiday

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…

Lousy Hustler

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…

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 8

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)…

Narnia Scores

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…

Sharing Secrets

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…

Tossing Balls

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…

It’s No Stretch

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…

Wine & Dine

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…