FRI, 9/16 Medieval myth says that Adam’s first wife, Lilith, was a demon, but feminist scholars, who delight in re-interpreting old stories, declared in the 1970s that she was merely an independent woman — the first ever to rebel against a dominating husband and a patriarchal God. Gregory Maguire took…
The Blues Brothers 25th Anniversary Edition (Universal Studios Home Video) Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman’s modern-day revival of the Blues Brothers is less a stroke of comedy genius than a dose of karaoke night at Hooters. Fight off those thoughts and pop in this 1980 classic. John Belushi and Aykroyd,…
Barn of the Naked Dead (Koch Vision Entertainment) The Bela Lugosi Collection (Universal) Bruce Springsteen: VH1 Storytellers (Sony Music) Charmed: The Complete Second Season (Paramount) Crash (Artisan) The Deer Hunter: Special Edition (Universal) Dragnet: Volumes 1-3 (Delta Music) Fat Albert’s Halloween Special (Ventura) Fraggle Rock: Season 1 (Hit Entertainment) Greta…
At the entry to the complex of buildings that make up the Lakewood Heritage Center is the Visitors Center, a sleek-looking neo-modern — or would that be neo-moderne? — structure. Designed by Oz Architecture, a firm with offices in Denver and Boulder, it was completed in 2002 and includes a…
A second floor is being added to the building that holds the Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200), with the idea of creating condos out of the added space. Despite the considerable inconvenience of the construction and the loss of nearly all nearby parking spots to construction workers, though,…
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…
I loved this production of The Fourth Wall when I saw it at the late lamented Nomad Theatre — directed, as now, by Billie McBride and featuring the same cast — and I fully expected to love it again at the Avenue. But I didn’t. The script remains witty and…
The Fourth Wall. Playwright A.R. Gurney is a courteous, upper-crust kind of guy, so when he found himself enraged by national politics, he didn’t respond with agitprop or searing realism. Instead he imagined a comfortably middle-class housewife, Peggy, who — by way of protest — rearranges all the furniture in…
Fans of the last two Miramax films from Swedish director Lasse Hallstrm — Chocolat and The Shipping News — may be happy to know that he has stuck to the exact same formula for his latest, An Unfinished Life. Like its predecessors, this is the tale of an itinerant single…
The Man isn’t so much a movie as it is a parody of one, the kind of thing people in movies about the movie business pitch as outrageous, inept ideas when a director’s going for the cheap and quick giggle. Only in movies like The Player or Bowfinger or Christopher…
The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which is based on a true story the same way Harry Potter and the Star Wars movies are, is the latest — though certainly not the last — movie of this bloody (awful) year trying to scare the money right out of your wallet. It…
Ray Bradbury’s short story “A Sound of Thunder” is right up there with Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” for the sheer number of movies that seem to have been inspired by it. Both are receiving ostensibly faithful adaptations on the big screen this year, but why bother?…
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance hits these shores now in large part due to the recent positive reception for Oldboy. Both films make up two thirds of Korean director Chanwook Park’s “Vengeance” trilogy, with the third, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, due out next year. If you haven’t yet seen Oldboy, which…
Floundering mimics and hopeless imitators come and go behind the camera, but there is only one Alfred Hitchcock. The “master of suspense,” the committed ritualist who combined sadism and satire with the ease of a god, the schemer who created what critic Anthony Lane once called “a whole new etiquette…
Though drinking liberally is nothing novel in the fine city of Denver, Drinking Liberally is. Conceived in 2003 by two friends in New York as a means for young Democrats to talk politics over a pint, the organization has flowed across the country ever since; some ninety DL chapters have…
Thursday, September 8 At a time when Hurricane Katrina’s gut-wrenching aftermath drives home the value of service to others, you can find an outlet for your concerns at the tenth annual 16th Street Mall Volunteer Fair, taking place today during the lunch hour along 16th Street in downtown Denver. Hosted…
Like James Dean, I grew up in a small town in Indiana. And, like James Dean, I left that small Indiana town as soon as I could. He got out young; I got out older. We both dreamed of becoming famous. He made it; I didn’t. I never starred on…
SUN, 9/11 Since its inception five years ago, Stories on Stage has been a noble experiment, blending the best of literature and theater into a series of transcendent moments, bringing words to life through a host of fine actors. And the series has stuck to its original community-building vision: Not…
Some otherwise normal folks harbor a deep knot of fear in their souls: They’re petrified of yoga. “People are scared to death to walk into a yoga class,” says Melissa Faykosh, the Golden parks and rec department’s wellness coordinator. “They don’t want to go in feeling like they don’t know…
SAT, 9/10 “Having been the first American Buddhist monk to be ordained in a Buddhist country,” confesses Alan Clements, “I think I’ve logged more damn hours on my ass than anyone I’ve ever met.” According to Clements, the time for meditation is over. Tonight at 7 p.m. at the Boulder…
SUN, 9/11 You may have done a double take last fall while driving along 14th Street past the gutted Auditorium Theatre, wondering why it was suddenly reduced to a shell filled with giant construction cranes. Then you remembered checking a ballot box in support of a bond issue two years…
At the beginning of this summer, Eugene Sternberg, one of the greatest of a generation of Denver architects who came to prominence in the post-war period, died at the age of ninety. Sternberg approached the practice of architecture as an intellectual pursuit. He was a utopian who believed in an…
