As I was going up the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away. — Hugh Mearns In Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, an unworldly young governess is employed by a wealthy Londoner to…
Amadeus. The Denver Center Theatre Company’s glittering, sumptuous version of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus focuses more on a clean, elegant delivery of the text than on the passion at the play’s core. The central figure, Antonio Salieri, was the best-known composer of eighteenth-century Vienna, an upright man dedicated to serving his…
Viewed from an airplane high over the islands of San Esperito, the land seems to stretch out endlessly. The sun slowly rises over the ocean, bathing the clouds in ochre and throwing stark shadows on the lush jungle below. If only there were something worth doing down there. Welcome to…
Reservoir Dogs: 15th Anniversary(Lions Gate) Quentin Tarantino’s first film shows its age these days, mostly because we’ve seen all its tricks done far better by now. From the nonlinear storytelling to the pop-culture gabfests to the shameless cribbing from obscure films, everything that once seemed so shockingly fresh has since…
The Addams Family: Season One (MGM) An American Haunting (Lions Gate) Astaire and Rogers: The Complete Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Freak-Out (Anchor Bay) Greg the Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies (Shout!) Justice League Unlimited: Season One (Warner Bros.) La Commune (Paris, 1871) (First Run) Looking for Kitty (Velocity/ThinkFilm) The…
It’s official: Denver has reached the top. The good people of Wolford — the Netherlands-based company best known for sexy legwear that can va va voom up any outfit — also have a line of body-conscious tops named after famous places worldwide, such as “Arizona,” “Long Island,” “Jakarta,” ” New…
Boys, The Cat’s Pajamas tried. She really, really did. She went to The 400’s Shoe Shine sneaker competition at Andenken on Saturday night in hopes of bringing you a tasty treat of edgy menswear. But Cat was sadly disappointed: The boys did not bring their A-game. Yes, it was a…
Here’s the “it” fashion accessory of the season. Available at a convenience store near you. Please pardon Cat while she hacks up a hairball…
For a look at a true fashionista, take in Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, which opens next Friday. Sure, all of the reviewers agree that the movie falls apart once Francis Ford’s daughter strays from frippery to history (including our own J. Hoberman, whose review can be found here), but the…
So you’ve got one hell of a weekend booked. But you don’t know what to wear. The Cat’s Pajamas has you covered with our weekly installment of What to Wear Fridays, where the most styling boys and girls in town show off their favorite party outfits. Whether you’re heading out…
The Cat’s Pajamas must ask: What in the hell was Heidi Klum wearing last night on the finale of Project Runway? That dress with those boots just made her look stumpy — and if you can make Heidi Klum look stumpy, it doesn’t bode well for normal women everywhere. Egad,…
Elyse Burja lives with her shoe obsession every day. As the owner of STRUT, at 3877 Tennyson Street, she earns a living making sure that the women of Denver are well-heeled. She’s always seeking something that catches her eye and makes an impression. Cat certainly understands her dedication; she’s got…
Grab your favorite music — whether it’s on vinyl, a CD or an MP3 — and head to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, which opens at noon today and runs through Sunday at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 South Syracuse Street. The show is the largest independent audio event…
My daughter plays the fiddle, not the violin, and it’s an important distinction: Fiddle music is a whole sunshiny animal unto itself, born of traditional roots and primeval ties to the earth. The very best fiddlers tend to channel the primordial, something I can only hope my daughter learns to…
Every night in Colorado, more than 9,000 people — including whole families, women and children — are out on the street. Laura Brayman worries about them all. As the executive director of HomeAid Colorado, the charitable arm of the Colorado Association of Homebuilders, Brayman has helped build seventeen homes and…
A single photograph, we’re told early on in Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, can win or lose a war. But sometimes, that photo shows us only part of the story, whether it’s the part we don’t want to see — slaughtered villagers at My Lai, tortured prisoners at Abu…
Drop-dead hip or cluelessly clueless? Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, a candy-colored portrait of France’s infamous teen queen, is a graceful, charming and sometimes witty confection — at least in its first hour. The famously shy Coppola may be an inscrutable personality, but her bold exposé of backstage royalty opens with…
If the greatest magicians never reveal their tricks, then Christopher Nolan wouldn’t make it past the children’s birthday-party circuit. It’s not that Nolan has anything against the old hocus-pocus, but it’s the practical side of magic that appeals to him most — the nuts-and-bolts explanation behind the seemingly “impossible” feat…
The Queen is more fun than any movie about the violent death of a 36-year-old woman has a right to be. It’s also as exotic an English-language picture as the season is likely to bring. Directed by Stephen Frears from Peter Morgan’s script, The Queen is set in the peculiar…
From the moment Daniel Libeskind was tapped to design a freestanding addition to the Denver Art Museum, people began to question whether a building designed by a deconstructionist could possibly function as an art museum. There was even more skepticism when Libeskind’s model for a crystalline concoction of up-ended boxes…
Every other year, the University of Denver’s School of Art and Art History teaches a very interesting class called the Marsico Curatorial Practicum. It’s an outgrowth of the special relationship DU has with Vail mega-collectors Vicki and Kent Logan, who open their collection to the school and allow art students…
Emilio Lobato and Martha Daniels. The solos that open the season at William Havu Gallery combine the disparate work of two of the area’s best-known and well-regarded artists. On the walls is Emilio Lobato: Desde Siempre (Since Forever), which comprises the artist’s signature abstractions. The title refers to Lobato’s self-exploration…
