THURS, 3/3 Yes, what goes up must come down. But how you finesse that law makes all the difference. The Outdoor Life Network’s Gravity Games showcase people who grab Newton’s law with both hands and stretch that sucker to the limits. Copper Mountain is hosting this year’s competition, which starts…
SAT, 3/5 Michael Reynolds’s vision of the future is totally wireless: There will be no matrix of pipes or power lines connecting humans and their homes to supply plants and water- treatment facilities. The creator of the Earthship — a self-sustaining, eco-friendly form of architecture made primarily from refuse –…
SAT, 3/5 Denver hosts big musical acts all the time, but how many of them involve music inspired by a man who has his own United States postage stamp and whose works were acquired by the Library of Congress? Enter the Mingus Big Band, a troupe that carries on the…
Kevin Pharris’s career as a tour guide began when he was teaching English as a Second Language. His immigrant students imagined getting mugged, raped or killed if they ventured into downtown Denver, so Kevin started taking his classes on tours to calm their fears and show them a good time…
Sculpture has long been one of the specialties of the William Havu Gallery. Typically, there’s a piece or two placed outside the front, plus there’s a sculpture garden in the back. Right now, there’s even more sculpture on display than normal, as the inside exhibition spaces have been outfitted with…
Carley Warren is the subject of the thoughtfully conceived and handsomely presented solo, Cribs, currently on display in the intimate indoor space at Artyard Sculpture Gallery (1251 South Pearl Street, 303-777-3219). Though the room is unbelievably small and modestly appointed, it almost always looks good — as it does now…
CPAC MEMBER AWARDS. Every year the Colorado Photographic Arts Center brings in guest jurors to select one member for a Project Grant and two others for Personal Visions Awards. The three are then brought together in the CPAC MEMBER AWARDS exhibition, which is currently on display. Though this may sound…
Ed Baierlein has mounted a clean, skilled, well-acted production of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love at Germinal Stage and, paradoxically, the production’s strengths highlight the play’s weaknesses. The action takes place in a cheap motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert, where May and Eddie are performing yet…
Julian Sheppard’s Buicks falls squarely in the middle-aged-male life-crisis genre. Bill, who owns a car dealership and has a wife, Kathy, and two children, is a glad-handing, posturing creep, mildly racist and, most of all, utterly oblivious to the thoughts and feelings of those around him. He doesn’t see his…
Always…Patsy Cline. Always Patsy Cline is a light, mildly entertaining evening. You get an efficiently evocative set that’s divided into three parts: a down-home apartment; an old-fashioned country bar, complete with jukebox; and, in the center, the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. There are two skilled singer-performers, one of…
Give Dan Harris, the writer-director of Imaginary Heroes, plenty of credit for boldness and ambition. Not many kids fresh out of Columbia University would have the wherewithal to tackle a complex family-crisis drama with four or five different kinds of trouble running through it and half a dozen crucial minor…
It’s not easy to pull off a good morality tale. Too often, movies with a message, or about a movement, reduce characters and events to type. They pit unqualified good against unqualified evil — a dark-narrative temptation — and, like so much of what issues from Hollywood, do so to…
Thanks to the talky self-absorption of everyone from sleek Julia Roberts to slovenly Michael Moore, the Academy Awards broadcast is always too long by half. For the short of it, why not open the package called Oscar Shorts 2005, on view this week at Starz? The three Oscar-nominated animated films…
“Here we find this planet a billion miles from the sun that turns out to be the most Earth-like place we’ve ever explored,” says David Grinspoon, principal scientist for the Department of Space Studies in the Boulder-based Southwest Research Institute. “The first impression is that this could be the coastline…
Thursday, February 24 Sideways glance: If only that glorious Sonoma County climate could be shipped along with the handpicked selection of California wines, Suddenly Sonoma, Definitely Denver would be nearly perfect. But the Colorado Restaurant Association will come darned close to perfection during this two-day fundraiser for the organization’s scholarship…
A couple of eggs, a bit of cheese, one fistful of cubed ham and another of soggy green-pepper-and-onion mix out of the galley cold table. It’s a strange thing to be famous for, but culinarily, the Denver omelette is about all we’ve got. For years, decades even, this simple mix…
MON, 2/28 Were I to make a film focusing on an item of food, I would tell the tale of a single green pepper. Our story would begin with a crane shot of a slow descent from above a windswept treeline to a northern California field, where hundreds of laborers…
FRI, 2/25 The lesser snow goose is an undependable fellow: Cruising the Western Central Flyway during migration, it makes one of its stopovers at John Martin Reservoir near Lamar. But, hey, some days the pickings might look better at Horse Creek Reservoir outside Las Animas. And sometimes, when the weather…
THURS, 2/24 Cheech Marin chucks Chong and the bongs tonight for a bit of culture. As the owner of one of the largest collections of Chicano art in the country, Marin is in town to participate in Leaving Aztlán: Rethinking Contemporary Latino and Chicano Art at Metropolitan State College of…
FRI, 2/25 “We filmed everyone during the auditions,” explains Morgan Ralph, director of CU Idol, a search for the University of Colorado’s best crooner, which takes place at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Old Main Chapel on the Boulder campus. “We wanted to show highlights of all the really bad…
An astounding thing about Simon Zalkind, the director of the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, is the way he turns the ridiculously modest facility into a place that’s guaranteed to have an important exhibition, as it does now. The show in question has the epic…
It’s so discouraging to be interested in architecture and live in Colorado. There’s very little top-drawer material here to begin with — surely not more than 1 percent of the built environment — and demolition seems to be relentlessly picking off the buildings in that elite 1 percent. About a…
