In the Upper 15th Street shopping district, centered around 15th and Platte streets, low-key commerce thrives to the distant tune of freeway traffic and an unmistakably downtown beat. The shops here are all about marching to your own drummer, whether that’s expressed by what you wear, what you feed your…
SUN, 11/13 When a team’s motto is “The hit’s not real unless it bends steel,” you might assume that its members engage in a sport that involves full body armor. Considering the fervor of Denver’s Harlequin Wheelchair Rugby players, maybe their endeavor should involve such protection. The team’s passion is…
FRI, 11/11 In 2000, artist Patricio Córdova produced a piece titled “Allegory of My Life,” an assemblage of painted hearts, abstract lines and scenes from his family history in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. A year later, the picture of Córdova’s life changed dramatically. Hit from behind while stopped in…
FRI, 11/11 “Bring ’em on,” challenges Rodney Crowell. “Bring on the conservatives. I’ll argue with them all day.” Like fellow Texan Steve Earle, Crowell has steered country music into new territory with his latest album, The Outsider. Mixing American roots music with pop, ’60s rock and a dose of liberal…
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lucasfilm Ltd.) The final installment of the Star Wars saga actually plays better at home: You can watch it, then pop in the original trilogy and chart the evolution of Anakin, and have it all actually make sense. Though it’s still a…
Pity the videogame zombie. He spends his short afterlife dodging self-righteous heroes hell-bent on peppering him with buckshot, setting him on fire, or blowing him to smithereens with a bazooka. Well, Stubbs is here to even the score. Set in the 1950s, Stubbs the Zombie casts players as the eponymous…
American Chopper: Third Season (Columbia/Tristar) Attack Pack (Commando, Predator, and Kiss of the Dragon) (Fox) Bill Maher: I’m Swiss (Image Ent.) The Brady Bunch: Four-Season Pack (Paramount) Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam (Warner Bros.) Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment (Disney) Duran Duran: Live From London (Universal Music) Fame:…
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center recently made the surprise announcement that it is closing when the current show, Layers: Contemporary Russian Photography, comes down next week. Ironically, the show had been billed as the center’s grand reopening. Before I get into CPAC’s future, I’d like to talk about Layers, a…
I was surprised when I heard that Roland Bernier joined the co-op Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200). After all, Bernier is an acknowledged master of contemporary art in Denver. He’s had a solo at the Denver Art Museum, for heaven’s sake! But there is an explanation: The key…
Andy Warhol’s Dream America. Hot on the heels of its smash hit, Chihuly, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is presenting yet another blockbuster devoted to the work of a household name in contemporary art: Andy Warhol’s Dream America. The exhibition was curated by Ben Mitchell of Wyoming’s Nicolaysen Museum…
Buntport’s Horror: The Transformation is based on Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, a novel published in 1798, and inspired by the true story of a farmer who killed his wife and children. It’s not done as a period piece, though the clothes and setting aren’t strictly modern, either: At one point,…
What a disappointment! Kent Thompson began his tenure as artistic director of the Denver Center Theatre Company with a terrific production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and a hugely funny version of Feydeau’s classic farce, A Flea in Her Ear. But the third offering under his tenure, Jose Cruz…
Ain’t Misbehavin’. Five terrific performers and a slate of Fats Waller songs. How can you go wrong? Ain’t Misbehavin’, a jazzy, bluesy Waller showcase that brings the world of 1930s Harlem to life, is often staged in a broadly presentational style, with lots of humor, shtick, dancing and acting out,…
If Jarhead, director Sam Mendes and writer William Broyles Jr.’s adaptation of Anthony Swofford’s 2003 Gulf War memoir, seems at all familiar — like, say, a DJ’s mash-up of Full Metal Jacket and Three Kings — there’s good reason for it. Swofford, twenty years old during Operation Desert Storm in…
Chicken Little is a groundbreaking movie in more ways than one: Not only is it Disney’s first in-house all-computer-generated feature, but on select screens, it will be presented in “Disney Digital 3-D,” a brand-new system created with the help of George Lucas’ special-effects company, Industrial Light & Magic. It’s revolutionary!…
With a name like Prime, a movie had better be about something more than an older woman digging on a younger man, much to the disapproval of the younger man’s mom. It ought to be about, oh, I dunno, math or something — like Pi or Proof or even Primer,…
Tragically, the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people in Rwanda didn’t stir the world’s conscience as it should have. A decade later, though, it sent moviemakers scurrying for the their cameras and microphones. The best-known of the films was, of course, Terry George’s fictionalized Oscar nominee Hotel Rwanda, starring Denver native…
When Marcia Weber was first exposed to contemporary folk art and outsider art, she didn’t realize how integral it would become to her everyday life. “I come from a fine-art background,” Weber says, “and I was mesmerized by the fact that people who didn’t know how to spell Œart’ actually…
Thursday, November 3 When top ski instructor and equipment expert Jeannie Thoren exhorts women to “ski like a girl,” she’s dead serious: Women’s bodies, she reasons, are different from men’s and therefore require female-specific ski gear to properly perform on the slopes. Thoren, who’s been exploring the subject for more…
Answer this: How are aspiring white supremacist Hal Haterman, ultra-right-wing operative Drake Sutherland, Christian headbanger Chad Sin-No-More and teen abstinence educator Quentin Smalls connected to each other? Sorry, it’s a trick question: There is no connection. They are not in any way some of the fake personas that Harmon Leon…
SAT, 11/5 Finding a great bottle of wine can be an adventure or a crapshoot. You can spend years educating yourself about grapes, vintages and vineyards, or you can simply trust the little info tags (“A facetious little wine, with hints of birch and guava”) that punctuate the shelves of…
SAT, 11/5 Every so often, on cloudless nights that follow slow traffic days, smog makes a deal with the atmosphere and agrees to cut out early so Denverites can see those white, twinkling things Midwesterners and mountain purists call “stars.” Skepticism is understandable, of course, considering that the closest thing…
