Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.) Ed Zwick’s Blood Diamond, about the civil war over diamonds that devastated Sierra Leone in the late 1990s, plays like a guilt-ridden Jerry Bruckheimer movie. It’s little more than action-adventure pulp drenched in someone else’s blood — which it tries to wash off by proselytizing to…
There’s one similarity between Ghost Rider and most video-game movie tie-ins: Get too close to either, and your ass will probably get burned. Though it stars goofy Nic Cage and Sam Elliott sound-alikes, Ghost Rider claims only to be an offshoot of this year’s soul-sucking blockbuster — not a direct…
Batman Beyond: Season Three (Warner Bros.) The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sony) Burning Annie (Warner Bros.) The Caine Mutiny (Sony) The Care Bears Movie: 25th Anniversary Limited Edition (MGM) Come Early Morning (Weinstein) Eragon (Fox) The Guns of Navarone (Sony) JAG: The Third Season (Paramount) Justice League Unlimited: Season…
The profiles continue of the twelve designers selected to complete in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. The winner scores two tickets to New York Fashion Week this fall — which would better than sex for most of the competitors. Name: Kandyce Hudson Company name: Kandyce Kreations and the KMH8 Custom…
Meet our second victim in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project rundown. Name: Stephanie Ohnmacht Years designing: Sewing since I was seven. Bio: At seven I was given a beat-up sewing machine, scrap fabric and a license to sew anything I could dream of. Since my sisters on the farm were…
Shawn Reinoehl In preparation for the March 28 kick off of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project, The Cat’s Pajamas got in touch with each of the finalists and asked them a series of questions about themselves, their views on fashion and random other must-knows (red chili or green chile; Ritter…
Fashions by Gino Velardi. Cat didn’t think it was possible, but she is judged out. She has nothing snide or snarky left to say. At least for a few days. It wasn’t Fashion Week, a trip to Coyote Ugly or even her brother’s upcoming nuptials that finally wore her down…
Psst. Want to hear a secret? Frame 312 wasn’t Next Stage Theatre Company’s first choice to open tonight at the Phoenix Theatre. Match, the previously slated production, hinged on cast members smoking on stage. Extinguished in the aftermath of the smoking ban, it was replaced with Frame. “We wanted to…
“It’s going to be a visual banquet,” promises Nada Diachenko, director of DanceWorks 2007. She’s not kidding: This year’s installment of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s annual faculty dance concert is a night of guaranteed booty-shaking. “Three of the six pieces have video projections,” Diachenko continues. “All of the…
Ever have that dream where all your teeth fall out? What about the one where you look in the mirror and your hair is gone? Make the latter a reality — and show solidarity for children with cancer — by shaving your head this morning during the St. Baldrick’s Event…
Stefan Veltri says the indoor-football experience is like watching an NFL game on a postage stamp. “It’s fast,” he says. “It’s the fastest game you’ll ever see.” And it’s rough, too, adds the assistant general manager for the Colorado Ice. “These guys are out to blast each other.” The Ice,…
When Cathie Quigley-Soderman finished reading Leonard Peltier’s story, she wanted to spread it across the nation. Peltier has been surrounded by controversy since 1975, when FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler were shot and killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Native American activist and member of the…
What does a filmmaker do when the most devastating hurricane in American history is heading straight for the set? Keep rolling. “We set out originally to tell the story of a future, hypothetical hurricane and how the rapid erosion of the wetlands left New Orleans more vulnerable to flooding,” says…
Apparently, St. Patrick isn’t the guy who invented green beer. (I’m as shocked as you are.) Honestly, the beer thing is way more interesting than just driving some serpents out of Ireland. Hell, one time I chased a garden snake out of my yard with a hoe, and I don’t…
Everyone knows that First Fridays on Santa Fe Drive are for people-watching, not art-buying. Sure, there are a dedicated few who aren’t afraid to throw a subtle kidney punch or let their shoulders do the talking in their quest to see the writing on the wall — but, in general,…
The space-time continuum smacks the shit out of Sandra Bullock in Premonition, the latest in non-linear nonsense, but the fun really gets going when she starts to smack back. As Linda Hanson, humdrum mom of Anywhere, USA, Bullock sets things up by doing her thing, effortlessly establishing the girl next…
Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair’s The Namesake left no doubt about the film’s target audience. If anyone’s going to flock to this warm and likable tale, it’s going to be women, yet it seems a pity to confine the movie behind the bars of…
It is November 7, election day in America, the year of our Lord 2000, and en route to the ballot (screen, chad dimpler, whatever), every hand miraculously freezes in mid-selection. All at once, there is a lightning-fast stroboscopic blip of the future: two planes, human rain, a shower of debris…
Issues of race in America are so intensely fraught, convoluted, personalized and wrapped in ego, self-righteousness, guilt, rage, self-pity, anger, class and confusion that it’s a wonder black and white can even talk to each other anymore — and in many important ways, they can’t. A white professor uses the…
The Perfect Party. Tony, the protagonist, is a middle-aged professor, steeped in American history and literature. He has quit his job in pursuit of a single overwhelming passion — to host the perfect party — and has invited Lois, a critic from a “major New York newspaper,” to witness and…
I’ve sometimes been criticized for promoting our own art scene too much, though my detractors often misunderstand my position. It’s not that I want our local institutions to feature only artists from around here, but rather to better integrate them into their exhibition schedules. In championing this cause over the…
Some time ago, Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, accused me of always making fun of her titles. I strongly made the claim that she was wrong. Honestly, I don’t always do it, just most of the time. But, come on, she makes it so easy. This time the…
