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By most estimates, nearly 4,000 Cherokee Native Americans died on the infamous Trail of Tears — the paths from Georgia to Oklahoma that some 17,000 Cherokees were forced to traverse in the late 1830s as part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. And while denouncing and abhorring this regrettable historical…
Put glass in between you and an object, and you’ve created a separation much thicker than a see-through pane. Historical museums, in that sense, often fail to forge a connection between the past and the present, because there’s little vitality in an empty pair of shoes or a dingy corset…
Fancy gourmet restaurants might have some tasty grub, but it’s tough to beat Mom’s home-cooked meals. It’s surprising, then, that women accounted for only about one-fifth of all executive chefs and head cooks in 2005, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Females on Fire chips away at the…
Of course, Italy practically invented everything that’s good about food and wine, but at this weekend’s Festival Italiano at Belmar, it will be hard to overlook the finer cultural contributions of everybody’s favorite boot-shaped country. From bocce ball tournaments to Florentine flag-throwing demonstrations, live music, Italian dance and a pizza…
Last year’s Boulder County Brews Cruise, a brewery tour that took place during the Great American Beer Festival, sold out — so this year, organizer Marty Jones of Oskar Blues Brewery decided they needed two buses. Those buses leave today from the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, with each…
Though never as famous as Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Montgomery Pike was an all-American romantic character, the one who peered out across the endless flat prairies and spotted a majestic blue mountain rising out of the horizon. The stark beauty of that granite sentry on the Front Range is reason…
According to the publicity material for All the King¹s Men, bringing Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel of the same name to the screen again has always been “a cherished dream” of executive producer James Carville — suggesting a lurking sense of payback frustration with the insubstantial legacy of the real…
Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again — and hey, pilgrim, isn’t it about time? — might do well to take in Flyboys. In this elaborate, computer-generated fantasy, the plucky volunteer pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille are once more cast as “knights of the sky,” dashing young…
Fans of Hong Kong cinema have been anticipating Jet Li¹s Fearless all year, if not longer. The star is arguably the best in the business at combining major ass-kicking with actual acting; the director is Ronny Yu, known here for over-the-top horror sequels but more familiar to genre fans as…
Despite its title, Confetti, a chaotic mockumentary in the finest tradition of English vulgarity, has nothing whatever to say about marriage. It’s a loud belch in the face of a billion-dollar wedding industry that has sprung up to service the longings of the post-feminist young for ceremonial opulence. Broad as…
Set in 1942 and ’43 and shot in 1969, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows follows a small group of French Resistance fighters in their desperate struggle to survive the Nazis. The movie, too, has been in hiding, at least in the United States, where, amazingly, it went unreleased for 37…
The transgressive German chase movie Run Lola Run happily tramples all our usual ideas about narrative structure, chronology and character, and for that alone, it’s one of the most fascinating artifacts of the late 1990s. Critic Roger Ebert called it “an exercise in kinetic energy, a film of nonstop motion…
William Havu Gallery is the only art shop in the city in its own specially designed building. That’s why, when things are really cooking, as they are right now, the atmosphere is more like that of a small museum than a retail store. For his opening volley this season, gallery…
There are two interesting shows kicking off the fall season at Walker Fine Art (300 West 11th Avenue, #A): WHAT SEASON IS THIS, which is in the front and combines paintings by Don Quade and sculptures by Paula Castillo; and, in the back, Selective Vision: The Art of Digital Atelier,…
Eugene Yelchin. Over the past several years, Singer Gallery director Simon Zalkind has often presented exhibits highlighting the work of Jewish artists who hail from the former Soviet Union. And for these exhibits, Zalkind has turned to Mina Litinsky, director of the Sloane Gallery in LoDo, who’s an acknowledged expert…
When Freyda Thomas’s adaptation of Molire’s Tartuffe was shown at Circle in the Square a decade ago, it received a dismissive review from the New York Times. The seventeenth-century classic is about a religious con man whose false piety ensnares a prominent householder, almost destroying his home and family; translating…
Charity Hope Valentine is a loving and trusting soul, perpetually betrayed by the men she loves but always willing to give her heart again. She works at a dance hall, flirting and dancing for money. Sweet Charity, with a book by Neil Simon and songs by Cy Coleman and Dorothy…
I Am My Own Wife. The subject of I Am My Own Wife is German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde in 1928 Berlin, a collector of antiques who survived both World War II and the Communist years in East Germany. But the play is as much about author…
LocoRoco arrived with impossibly high expectations. This ridiculously cute new game for the PlayStation Portable debuted as a demo in April, and since then, the gaming press has tripped over itself to anoint it the successor to Katamari Damacy or Guitar Hero. Now the game’s finally here, and at first…
The Proposition (First Look) There’s an old saying about Ginger Rogers, who did everything Fred Astaire did — but backwards and in heels. This Australian western seems to be saying something similar about gritty American westerns: You think that’s hard? Try living in the Outback. The Proposition mucks about in…
After Sex (New Yorker) Bob & Tom Radio: The Comedy Tour (Image) The Boris Karloff Collection (Universal) Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Strand) 8th & Ocean: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (Wolfe) Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season (Warner Bros.) Go for…
