The Woody Allen who wrote and directed Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) back in 1972 was not yet the full-bloom, all-promises-delivered Woody who gave us Annie Hall and Manhattan — but at least he wasn’t the inert and seemingly dispirited moviemaker who…
In my mind’s eye, I am Karsten Heuer. Someone who would walk 2,200 miles along the spine of the Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to the Yukon. Nothing but me, my dog and my pack. I, too, could fend off bears, shoot glacier-fed rapids, ski next to fresh wolverine tracks and…
Thursday, April 14 If you channeled a female nude through the eyes of British painter Jenny Saville, you’d have to pass through a few influential gates — Peter Paul Rubens, Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon — to arrive at the monumental, unsentimental, grotesquely fleshy, thickly painted figurative…
“I’m actually surprisingly calm, which makes me nervous,” says Ginger White, consultant to the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and project coordinator for the inaugural Doors Open Denver, a free public event showcasing Denver’s best architecture on Saturday, April 16, and Sunday, April 17. Though White’s responsibilities are many –…
A kid’s world stretched as far as you could safely pedal your Schwinn when I was growing up in southeast Denver. Within my own constellation was the Virginia Village Creamery, where all the neighborhood kids went in gaggles to stock up on penny candy, choosing from open jars of jawbreakers,…
FRI, 4/15 Fans of beer and quiet sunshine at Coors Field will have five straight days interrupted by the Colorado Rockies’ first extended home stand starting tonight at 6:35 p.m. against San Francisco. The Giants are without seven-time National League MVP Barry Bonds, who is without a functioning right knee…
THURS, 4/14 Adventurous gallery curator Simon Zalkind of the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture will throw Denver an aesthetic curveball tonight with Whispers of Contradiction, a site-specific, collaborative electronic-art installation created by multimedia artist Brian DeLevie of the University of Colorado at Denver and local quantum physicist D.S. Oakley…
FRI, 4/15 The seventeen-year- old Frequent Flyers aerial dance troupe will go bottoms-up tonight in Dairy Air, its spring production. “Everyone has some sort of desire to experience flight,” says the company’s artistic director, Nancy E. Smith. “This show continues the tradition, giving these amazing dancers a chance to flex…
Cydney Payton, director of Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art, has often said that one of the most important things an art show can do is to create controversy. The exhibit that’s there now, Will Boys Be Boys?, is not really controversial, but it does raise a lot of issues –…
Time flies, as the saying goes, but it’s still hard to believe that Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1088) is already celebrating five years in business. Apparently, though, it’s true: The current exhibit, Untold Riches, is being billed as the venue’s fifth-anniversary show. Organized by Space owner Michael Burnett,…
Balance. Rarely has Walker Fine Art come up with an exhibit as successful as Balance, which pairs recent abstract paintings by Denver artist Don Quade with abstract sculptures by Colorado Springs-based Bill Burgess. Quade was formerly at Fresh Art Gallery, but Walker picked him up when Fresh Art closed last…
The Denver Center Theatre Company is presenting a version of The Madwoman of Chaillot, updated as simply The Madwoman and set in contemporary New York rather than Paris. The play was written by an ailing Jean Giraudoux during World War II and was first released in 1945, after his death…
Cats. This company does as good a job with Cats as one can imagine. The dancing, choreographed by Stephen Bertles, who also directed, is seamless. The cast is lithe and graceful. They slither like snakes. They leap high and land without a sound. They’re wonderfully into character, batting at each…
Sahara is a stunning piece of work — stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every way imaginable. How this didn’t go direct to video or cable or airplane or bootleg is unfathomable. Actually, that’s not entirely true. It gets a proper blockbuster theatrical release through Paramount Pictures because its…
When was the last time you walked out of a theater feeling shell-shocked, saying to anyone who would listen (in language more profane): “Dude, that was some seriously messed-up stuff!” Not your garden-variety messed-up stuff, mind you, like in Saw. Not the messed-up revelations of political docs. We’re talking the…
Last year, the Simmons family of Needham, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, sent Christmas cards for the first time in more than twenty years. “We send out Xmas cards about as often as the Red Sox win the World Series,” the card very cleverly proclaimed. This movie is for them. In…
Filmmaker Rick Ray spent four months in India, where one-sixth of the earth’s people live, shooting his wide-ranging documentary, The Soul of India. Ray will introduce and discuss the new film in Boulder this week as part of the Macky Travel Film Series at the University of Colorado. Along with…
Some believe that Cuba is the birthplace of salsa dance and music, but neither is exclusively Cuban. Instead, most agree that the style is really a combination of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances and rhythms. As for the actual term, Salsa Central Denver founder Malina Farias credits the great Tito…
Thursday, April 7 A treasury of films both new and old from the Spanish-speaking world will be offered up to the public over the next four days during El Centro Su Teatro’s Xicanindie FilmFest 7, a well-rounded international showcase that just keeps getting better every year. Fest spokesman and local…
Local playwright Melissa Lucero McCarl, fresh off the lauded run of her dramatic Frida Kahlo tribute, Painted Bread, says the creation of her next great project, a play about expatriate author Gertrude Stein, resulted from a “serendipitous chain of events.” The chance to show off the complexities of the legendary…
SAT, 4/9 What’s worse than a cheap cigar? A cheap dildo. Thankfully, you won’t find any of those at Hysteria, a new “feminist, progressive, sex-positive boutique” that opens at 11 a.m. today at 114 South Broadway. Wife-and-husband team Elizabeth Hauptman and Pete Yribia modeled their shop after the internationally known…
SAT, 4/9 The initial run of the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway could have been monumentally disastrous. Utilizing a “cog” or “rack” railway system that was relatively new at the time — outside of a few steep tracks in Switzerland, there were not many such railways in existence — designers…
