Located across the street from the west side of the Denver Art Museum, next to the venerable Camera Obscura, is the city’s coziest little art shop, the Emil Nelson Gallery (1307 Bannock Street, 303-534-0996). Into the warren of small rooms that once made up the first floor of an old…
Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Art From the Logan Collection. The normal stock in trade for the Denver Art Museum’s Asian-art curator, Ron Otsuka, is traditional styles, but he’s been drafted into doing contemporary duty by a gift that includes more than a score of pieces by Asian and Asian-American artists…
Michael Frayn has to be one of the cleverest writers alive. He’s responsible for the brain-teasing profundity of Copenhagen, a play that examines the race for the atom bomb during World War II in the context of a visit by Werner Heisenberg, then working for the Germans, to his mentor,…
Now that Buntport Theater has come of age and is attracting reliably positive reviews and large, enthusiastic audiences, the six company members have revived one of their earlier works, an evening of one-acts titled 2 in 1. The first piece, “This is My Significant Bother,” is a dramatization of nine…
Book of Days. Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days is a bitter exegesis of life in small-town America; the cast serves as narrator and chorus. At its heart is a murder. The play tells us that life in this country has been corrupted on every level and in almost every way…
We must keep the atmosphere electrified!” announces creepy Igor in reference to an abominable experiment in Van Helsing, but he could just as well be appraising the entirety of this enormous event movie. Breathless cutting, non-stop special effects and a pummeling soundtrack camouflage very silly plotting and mediocre-to-sappy dialogue –…
When a pleasant Italian comedy called Mediterraneo won the 1992 Academy Award for best foreign-language film, a lot of observant American movie-goers scratched their heads. Gabriele Salvatores’s fairy tale of Italian soldiers happily stranded on a gorgeous Greek island during World War II was an outright charmer, but it certainly…
Laws of Attraction is the kind of film you might mistake for “cute” or “charming” at first glance. Maybe you will open the paper and spot the ad with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore canoodling and think to yourself how nice it would be to see James Bond defrosting indie…
That sound you hear is the stampeding feet of millions of pubescent and pre-pubescent girls, racing to movie theaters this weekend to catch sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in their first feature film since 1995’s It Takes Two. The Olsen twins began their acting careers at the age of nine…
Tony Scott’s True Romance (1993) puts a hip ’90s spin on the lovers-on-the-run formula perfected early on by Fritz Lang’s You Only Live Once and, three decades later, by Bonnie and Clyde. Written by ace smart-aleck Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), it stars Christian Slater as a movie-crazed geek named Clarence,…
According to Sandra Renteria, owner of Indigena Gallery, Denver is finally ready for Vodou art — readier, in fact, than she ever could have imagined. She first arrived in the Mile High City from Florida, where Haitian art is far more commonplace and, therefore, understood. But she once feared that…
“It’s like a live B movie,” Fanny Fitztightlee says of Ooh La La, a Denver-based burlesque outfit that she co-founded with fellow peeler Kitty Crimson. “But it’s faster-paced, and the story line is easier to follow. We do everything from fan dancing to fire breathing to pillow fights. We’re more…
Thursday, May 6 Make time for space: Across the nation, Colorado heavyweight Lockheed Martin will sponsor Space Day 2004, which was created to highlight the remarkable work of space-industry pioneers. “Blazing Galactic Trails,” the event at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, will feature astronaut Bruce…
SUN, 5/9 The lot at the corner of Tenth Avenue and Osage Street is about to blossom. But it won’t be an array of flowers that sprouts today. Instead, the west-side neighbors who wanted to fill the site with all the color and flavor of an international marketplace will get…
SAT, 5/8 Teach your pooch to soar through the air at today’s Colorado Disc Dogs Spring Training Seminar, a hands-on workshop that covers such topics as how to throw a Frisbee for your dog and the rules of the game for canines. “We start with the basics — the correct…
FRI, 5/7 Hot rods, tattoos, nudie flicks and cartoons — such are the sources of inspiration for lowbrow art, a movement on display at tonight’s opening reception for Cute, Cuddly and Curvaceous, the inaugural show at D.C. Gallery. The concept of “lowbrow” art originated in the surf and custom-car culture…
MON, 5/10 Local comedian Josh Blue turns his disability into a laughing matter. Blue, who says he “puts the cerebral in cerebral palsy,” uses humor to help audiences overcome preconceived ideas about the disabled. And while he has recently caught the eye of scouts for David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres,…
There’s an important exhibit at the Denver Art Museum that’s being given the royal treatment, which makes sense, because it’s filled with regal pieces. The blockbuster is Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821, a mammoth endeavor that includes more than fifty paintings, many of them monumental in…
California-based photographer Rick Nahmias was researching famed TV journalist Edward R. Murrow when he came upon Harvest of Shame, Murrow’s 1960s documentary about the dreadful living conditions of farm workers. The film inspired Nahmias to revisit the topic, and the results are the dozens of wonderful photos that make up…
Evan. For the first show at Capsule on Santa Fe, director Lauri Lynnxe Murphy chose to feature the work of her old friend and fellow ILK co-op founder, Evan Colbert. Not all of the pieces in the wonderful solo are new; a few were done years ago, when Colbert had…
I’ve been a fan of Lanford Wilson’s work ever since I saw one of his early one-acts at the legendary Caffe Cino in New York in the mid-1960s. It might have been This Is the Rill Speaking, and I think it played in tandem with Sam Shepard’s Icarus’s Mother. I…
I’m absolutely mystified by the weakness of this script. Playwright Rebecca Gilman has won awards and been praised in all the right places. Although it had problems, I rather liked her Spinning Into Butter, which was produced at the Denver Center a couple of years ago. But Boy Gets Girl…
