Richard Brooks’s brilliant adaptation of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1967) remains one of the most chilling true-crime films ever made. The tale of two drifters whose disturbed personalities collide to produce their brutal mass murder of an ordinary farming family in Kansas and, in time, their double execution by…
Call it a honey of a drinking festival: The International Mead Festival — Honey Wines of the World features the globe’s best brands of mead. A heady elixir that fueled the fun of early man, the Vikings and Chaucer, the potion still works its magic on a growing segment of…
Thursday, October 23 Are you one of those touchy-feely gift givers? Then get your hands on some of the area’s finest fiber works this weekend at the Rocky Mountain Weavers’ Guild Annual Sale, which will feature a gorgeous array of table linens, blankets, beadwork, sweaters, scarves and more, on sale…
To start a circus, you have to have a bit of the dreamer in you, not to mention an eye for the angle not taken. Cedric Walker has both, it seems: The utterly upbeat CEO and founder of the Atlanta-based UniverSoul Circus paid his dues during a life steeped in…
FRI, 10/24 Pour on the liquid latex and give that corset an extra tug, because the 4th Annual Victorian and Fetish Ball will cast its sexy spell tonight. The masquerade tease will harness the talents of four professional dominatrixes, unleash an exhibition of the sensual art of Japanese bondage and…
FRI, 10/24 Last year, a female quartet sailed through Scream Scram dressed as the Titanic. The women were costumed in such a way that when they stood together, they looked like the doomed ocean liner. Still, they were able to navigate independently around the 5K run’s Washington Park course, which…
SAT, 10/25 Keep your eyes peeled for paranormal behavior at today’s Meet the Fire House Ghosts at the Denver Firefighters Museum. “There is some definite poltergeist activity going on around here,” says the museum’s executive director, Carey Southwell. Built in 1909 as Denver Fire House Number One, the station, at…
SAT, 10/25 Feel free to prance around in your unmentionables at tonight’s second incarnation of Floozy Night at the Buckhorn Exchange.Sponsored by local saloon girls, soiled doves and floozies — actually just a group of grown women who wanted an excuse to parade around in frilly costumes — this sultry…
FRI, 10/24 According to Boulder activist group Vox Feminista, it’s time to declare war. The target? White supremacy. And the battle starts with tonight’s premiere of White Lies.”We are a group of mostly white women who live in Boulder, which is predominantly white,” explains Joy Boston, founder of the fourteen-year-old…
There’s something edifying about retrospectives. I guess it’s their epic scope. Collected in a single place is a representative sample of an artist’s entire professional lifetime. Stylistic phases are marked, as are the topics of interest that the artist embraced over the years. Yet despite these obvious virtues, retrospectives are…
The front spaces at Sandy Carson Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585) are fitted out with Frank Sampson paintings (see page 57), but in the back gallery and extending into the conference room is a separate solo, Virginia Folkestad: Isthmus/go-between. Since the early 1990s, Folkestad has used traditional home life…
I’ve never been a particular fan of John Denver, other than acknowledging that he wrote a few pleasant tunes. And despite decades living in Colorado, I’ve been pretty much immune to the myth of the West. My dreams are filled with cities — Prague, London, New York — rather than…
Underneath the Lintel is a seventy-minute one-act play that takes the form of a lecture by a buttoned-up, pedantic, spiritually timid Dutch ex-librarian. Peering into the audience at the very beginning, he lets us know that he’s disappointed by the turnout (despite the fact that the Aurora Fox theater is…
The six vivid women thrown together by fate in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys are frequently divided by their bickering, but they are united in a deep common yearning — and of that Sayles has made an observant and provocative drama about the ambiguities of adult life and the…
Before you crack your wallet for Veronica Guerin, you’d be well off to rent a video of the 2000 release When the Sky Falls (working titles: When Heaven Falls and, natch, Veronica Guerin), of which this new Veronica Guerin is basically a tarted-up remake. Same story, same scenarios, same basic…
This year’s North American tour of The Animation Show, opening Wednesday, October 22, and running through Friday, October 24, as part of the University of Colorado’s International Film Series, features a collection of award-winning animated shorts from eight countries. They were chosen by the co-producers, Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt…
Anyone who has ever read works written by Maya Angelou, or heard her speak, knows that wisdom radiates from her words. But while this renaissance woman delivers many lessons, inspiration is at the heart of her message. “There are certain truths that I think everybody needs to realize, one being…
Thursday, October 16 Colorado is book country, so it follows that it’s also home to a bumper crop of published authors. You can meet more than 35 of them at this year’s Colorado Book Awards Gala, hosted tonight at the Seawell Ballroom, 14th and Curtis streets, by the Colorado Center…
‘Tis the season when jack-o-lanterns glow, skeletons rattle and houses morph into terror dens that crank out fear for fun. Here are the venues that the werewolves of Westword found to be the most fang-tastic: Das Meyer Fine Pastry Chalet, 13251 West 64th Avenue in Arvada, has traded its rolling…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Guy walks into a bar and orders the cheapest domestic draft available. Bartender pours the man a beer before setting it down on the counter along with a small plastic coin with a bar logo on it. “The chip,” the barkeep explains, “is…
WED, 10/22 Galen and Barbara Rowell perished on August 12, 2002, when their small plane crashed outside of Bishop, California, but their efforts on behalf of Tibet continue. Galen Rowell, considered one of the world’s foremost adventure photographers, had recently returned from a remote area of Tibet. His pictures from…
FRI, 10/17 Tyrannosaurus Rex and dozens of his big-boned friends will roar into town today as part of the Dinosaur World Tour. Featuring the largest flying-reptile exhibit ever assembled — including the giant Quetzalcoatlus, with its 27-foot wingspan — Dinosaur World offers more than a hundred displays, including 2,000 square…
