FRI, 5/21 Opera usually brings to mind a grand spectacle with lavish sets and costumes, supertitles and glass-breaking arias. But in these parts, if you take away all the grandeur, you’re left with a rich pool of vocal talent aching to be heard. Colorado boasts far more fine voices, in…
SUN, 5/23 Most Playboy centerfolds don’t list getting the shit kicked out of them as one of their hobbies. But most Playboy centerfolds aren’t Mia St. John. The total knockout is getting ready to lay a TKO on Avalon nightclub tonight as part of an all-women boxing card. She’s scrapping…
SAT, 5/22 As Karl Marx said, revolution is not a fixed, static phenomenon; it’s a perpetual and ever-evolving process. So it makes sense that after seven years of showcasing the progressive and subversive at its current location, Revoluciones Collective Art Space is moving. The award-winning gallery was opened in 1997…
SUN, 5/23 “Nobody ruins my birthday except me,” states Leo Kottke via e-mail. The musician, you see, turned 56 on the same day planes crashed into the Twin Towers. And with each anniversary since, Kottke continues to thank his lucky stars. “It’s great to be alive,” he writes. “One year…
American art in the post-World War II period is generally considered by scholars to represent a high point in recorded history. In the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, American modernism dominated the world, and the greatest painters, sculptors, designers and architects were working in this country. This cultural dominance is still…
Though the ordinary fare at Gallery Sink (2301 West 30th Street, 303-455-0185) is photography, work in other media is featured from time to time. Painting is the mode showcased in Jeremiah Coleman Teutsch: Six Married Couples and One Lonely Mountain Man, hung in the formal main gallery, and installations make…
Abstractions on Paper. The current show at the city’s coziest little art shop, the Emil Nelson Gallery, is a fascinating group endeavor put together by director Hugo Anderson. The exhibit combines historic and contemporary works in the form of watercolors, prints, drawings and photos by more than two dozen artists…
As Rose opens, an ailing woman in her eighties sits shiva on a public bench. We don’t know whose death she is mourning, though she tells us early on that her own daughter was killed by the Nazis at age nine. The character, Rose, then takes us on a tour…
Triple Espresso is like the first few minutes of a dinner-theater production. You know, the part where the emcee comes out and congratulates the people in the audience who are celebrating birthdays or anniversaries, jokes with a pretty girl, gets impudent with an older couple and asks how many people…
Alarms & Excursions. Alarms & Excursions is minor Michael Frayn, a series of comic finger pieces, but it can’t help bearing the master’s stamp. A group of eight playlets examines the role of technology in our lives and its impact on human communication. In the first, a friendly dinner is…
In the mood to launch a thousand ships? Fine, but it’s gonna cost you. Feel like sacking the Temple of Apollo? Okay, but bring drachmas. Depending on who’s counting, the Warner Bros. pre-summer blockbuster Troy budgeted out at anywhere between $175 and $250 million, including the big wooden horse, assorted…
What becomes of Morgan Spurlock’s body after a month of eating and drinking nothing but McDonald’s assembly-line foodstuffs is not surprising. He bloats up, gaining nearly thirty pounds in thirty days. His sex drive peters out, among the myriad disappointments visited upon Spurlock’s vegan/chef girlfriend, who’s only too happy to…
If even one of the major networks had a successful sitcom in the vein of Friends but with an all-black cast, movies like Breakin’ All the Rules would have no reason to exist. Part of an ever-expanding subgenre that includes The Brothers, Two Can Play That Game and Deliver Us…
Tim Burton’s fantasy of alienation and acceptance, Edward Scissorhands (1990), is almost as haunting as it is romantic — a cunning mixture of charm and fright that shows us a soul in torment. The gentle title character, played by a young Johnny Depp, is the creation of a Frankenstein-like inventor…
Shakespeare said that all the world’s a stage. But in the modern era, it seems more apt to say that every life is a movie waiting to be made: Thanks to digital media, filmmaking is morphing from an unattainably expensive art form into a more democratic medium. “Storytelling is how…
Thursday, May 13 The Physically Handicapped Amateur Musical Actors League is easily one of Denver’s most talented troupes of troopers: Each year, its members hit the stage despite their myriad disabilities, dancing in wheelchairs and showing off their singing and acting skills in a fully produced popular musical (this summer’s…
Davy Rothbart, a 29-year-old hipster with one of those anemic, pencil-thin Honest Abe beards, is probably the nation’s most notable pick-up artist: He sees things on the ground, he picks them up. But unlike most of us, he’s created an entire cult around the random notes, lists, napkin doodles, snapshots…
THURS, 5/13 Who’s had the longest continuous run on Denver television? Russell Scott is first by a big, red nose. As Blinky the Clown, Scott hosted Blinky’s Fun Club, a proudly anachronistic Channel 2 kiddie program, for 33 years. Although Scott has been absent from the tube since 1998, when…
SAT, 5/15 Stamina is key at the Go Fast 24 Hours of BoulderSThe Run, during which more than 100 runners will race to complete as many 7.14-mile laps around the Boulder Reservoir as possible in 24 hours. “We’re hoping to attract a wide variety of people — those who are…
THURS, 5/13 Americans have no single governing persona, and that’s as it should be: The Land of the Free has no room for a goose-stepping, nationalistic identity. We’re mongrels. We believe in and are motivated by thousands of unique, different things, all sprouted from hundreds of intermingling and divergent cultures…
THURS, 5/13 Prepare to be uplifted both spiritually and mentally at this weekend’s encore performance of Mary Lou’s Mass by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. The historical piece is based on Music for Peace, which was composed by African-American jazz artist Mary Lou Williams for Pope Paul VII in 1969. The…
It’s safe to say that no matter when you go to the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, there’s always something worth seeing. But to describe the current offering as being merely worthwhile would be a major understatement, because Jules Olitski: Half a Life’s Work: Selected…
