Believe it or not, in the 1950s, Colorado’s main art scene was seated not in Denver, but in Colorado Springs, of all places. The most sophisticated art in the region was being created by a loosely affiliated group of artists who were based down there and who represented a veritable…
Like the pop charts, boutiques and Hollywood, the art world is always looking for the latest thing. And because the newest ideas are usually found in the ranks of unknown and emerging artists, juried shows are worth looking at, because that’s who they feature. Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive,…
Apparition. The brand-new Gallery Severn, which is owned by art collector and retired executive Andy Dodd, aims to be what he has called a “launch pad” for emerging artists. This specialty in fresh faces instantly makes the place interesting. Also interesting is Dodd’s decision to feature only one artist at…
Will & Grace: Series Finale (Lions Gate) The way this got hustled to shelves, mere days after Will Truman and Grace Adler said their mushy farewells, you’d think it were some classic adios — another M*A*S*H or Cheers wrap-up. Alas, it was just another Very Special Episode of a show…
The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.) A Fine Romance (Tango) Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Dark Sky) Freedomland (Sony) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Fox) Hercules/Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (Image) John Wayne: An American Icon Movie Collection (Universal) The Kids in the Hall: Complete Season 4 (A&E)…
If the creepy, self-flagellating albino monk in The Da Vinci Code really wanted to suffer, he’d drop his flesh-shredding cat-o’-nine-tails, pick up a controller and play The Da Vinci Code video game. It’s that bad. Now it can be told: The Da Vinci Code game is one of the crappiest,…
Art lovers in search of a bargain buy would do well to drop by Open Space Gallery, 2914 West 25th Avenue, today for the last day of a benefit sale of art and collectibles hosted by local artist/entrepreneur Mary Mackey, with proceeds going to Mi Casa Resource Center for Women…
Bet you can’t guess what happens at the third annual Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival. Here are a couple of hints to get you started: It doesn’t have anything to do with squirrel hunting or heavy metal, and the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover” doesn’t stand a…
So you’re fair, fat and forty? Your raven locks have all gone gray? Whatever. Once you hit a certain plateau, it all starts to go south, and who cares? You had your bikini-clad day in the sun, and it’s time to simply enjoy yourself — a pastime that just got…
When you’re lucky enough to have a natural resource such as Mesa Verde National Park in your back yard, it’s easy to take good fortune for granted. Readers of Condé Nast Traveler voted Mesa Verde the number-one historic monument in the world, and National Geographic Traveler has cited the park…
Last year, Boulderite John Georgis bought a school bus on eBay that came from Moline, Illinois. He tore off the roof and added logs, wood paneling — recycled, of course — and a rubber chicken. Inside, he installed saddles, recliners, a couch and disco balls. Thus, Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours…
The Munny has no face, though it does boast some innate character. It’s seven inches tall, comes in black, white or glow-in-the-dark, with or without accessories, and in the small world of limited-edition vinyl art toys, it’s the ultimate invitation to decorate as you please. Plastic Chapel, a toy nook…
When kids of all ages discuss comic books and superheroes, there is inevitably one question that comes up time and again: If that one guy and that other guy had a fight, who would win? Comics companies occasionally indulge these debates with special issues pitting Thing against Hulk, or Wolverine…
Such is the currency of lies these days that “Based on an Untrue Story” might well be a shrewd tagline, if an unusually honest one. Still, the recent discovery that teen-prostitute-turned-hardcore-memoirist J.T. LeRoy is merely the fanciful invention of failed-musician-turned-moneymaking-writer Laura Albert won’t necessarily boost the box office of The…
Most memoirs, like off-brand hot dogs, should come with labels that list their suspect ingredients. Outrage over James Frey aside, does anyone still believe that a person’s reconstructed narrative of his or her life isn’t going to mix some snouts or tails among the meat? The best one can hope…
The pleasures of Michael Winterbottom’s relentlessly hip 24 Hour Party People, released in 2002, still reside in what Village Voice critic Dennis Lim called the film’s “brazen impatience.” The place is Manchester, between 1976 and 1992, and the ruling presence — loud, pompous, delightfully full of himself — is Factory…
The swank David Cook Fine Art has been riding the recent wave of interest in the art of the American West, a formerly untapped treasure trove. One way the gallery has done this is by presenting consistently great shows on the subject, filling them to the brim with first-rate pieces…
Surely one of the city’s funkiest, grungiest, edgiest and strangest art galleries is Capsule (554 Santa Fe Drive, 303-623-3460), the brainchild of artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy. I don’t see every show presented here, but I’ve seen enough to know that whatever’s on view will at least be interesting, if not…
Apparition. The brand-new Gallery Severn, which is owned by art collector and retired executive Andy Dodd, aims to be what he has called a “launch pad” for emerging artists. This specialty in fresh faces instantly makes the place interesting. Also interesting is Dodd’s decision to feature only one artist at…
The first scene of Fiction pulls off a telling bit of trickery. Two people argue and banter over espressos in a Paris cafe. Playful, self-conscious and hyperliterate, they seem a long-married couple. But as they rise to leave the cafe, the woman extends her hand in farewell, and we realize…
A dreary scene confronts us on the small, square stage: a counter with knives and a cleaver, a dirty bucket, blood splashed against the back wall, on the floor. It’s 1990, the first Intifada is in process, and a pair of Palestinian brothers, Chaled and Na’im, are arguing in a…
Impulse Theater. Basements and comedy go together like beer and nuts or toddlers and sandboxes. The basement of the Wynkoop Brewing Co., where Impulse Theater performs, is crowded, loud and energetic. Impulse does no prepared skits, nothing but pure improv — which means that what you see changes every night,…
