Colorado may be a square state — in shape, if not in spirit — but History Colorado promises to break “out of the box” at its new monthly program, COmingle, which kicks off from 6 to 9 p.m. today, March 13, at the History Colorado Center. The theme of the…
Critical Focus: Ian Fisher. This show, located in the informal Whole Room at MCA Denver, is made up of a group of mostly monumental paintings of the sky. It’s the type of thing that has become the artist’s signature. Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the…
The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a brilliant work, its flaws so intertwined with its crazed strengths that you can hardly separate one from the other. McDonagh grew up in London, the son of Irish parents, and invented an Ireland — and an…
Leave it to Wes Anderson to make a film about World War II without mentioning Germany. In The Grand Budapest Hotel, a wundercabinet set in the fictitious Eastern European republic of Zubrowka circa 1932, Anderson captures the collapse of a kingdom and the rise of a reich without so much…
Think adapting War and Peace is hard? Try adapting the race-car video game Need for Speed. Tolstoy’s 1,225-page behemoth has nothing on the Electronic Arts franchise’s irreconcilably complicated twenty-year, twenty-installment history: Sometimes cars are subject to physics; sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they’re invulnerable; sometimes they break. Maybe you’re in London;…
Ah, the Romanians: Sometimes it seems like no one else is bothering to make movies for grownups anymore. With Child’s Pose, the Romanian tide enters its Cassavetes phase, where the thin ice of haute-bourgeois life cracks and opens wide. Classically, we’ve got a character study under pressure, with Luminita Gheorghiu…
As you walk into the theater for There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, you are handed what looks like a school notebook, the kind with a stiff black-and-white-speckled cover. You take your seat before a long blackboard. A bearded fellow watches as you settle in, chiding the latecomers. He…
Anyone visiting the William Havu Gallery right now will be thinking about constructivism — or at least the idea of making things through the assembly of rectilinear shapes — even before they get to the building and the exhibit inside. That’s because of the construction site right across the street…
A wise man — or, more precisely, a wiseass trucker named Jack Burton — once opined that “it’s all in the reflexes.” Few actors have had better ones than Kurt Russell, who makes a welcome return to theaters this weekend in The Art of the Steal. Having been largely MIA…
According to lore, Liberace used to greet the tourists who’d come by bus to gawk at his bejeweled home with the line, “I hope you like it. After all, you paid for it!” Not everyone has to like Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars, the feature-length incarnation of his much-loved television series,…
As of this writing, the Netflix Instant catalogue boasts more than 10,000 titles available for online streaming — a number that, as per the official Netflix rhetoric, seems colossal. But the landscape of this digital paradise may not be quite so idyllic. As classic-film enthusiast Jaime Christley reminds us, “If…
The boozy excesses of St. Patrick’s Day weekend are enough to sabotage anyone’s diet, so Denver Co-ed Soccer is giving party-goers a chance to sneak in some exercise during the second annual Bikes & Beers bar crawl. “Pretty much all of us are really active as soccer players, and in…
Olde Town Arvada shows off its Irish flair today with the third annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival, an afternoon of Celtic-themed rock and roll, Irish dance performances and family fun. Grandview Avenue at Olde Wadsworth Boulevard will be closed off for the occasion, as local vendors roll out their wares…
When the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema screens the ’70s rogue-cop classic Dirty Harry as part of its On the Case series of crime cinema, it will be more than just a chance to see one of Clint Eastwood’s defining roles on the big screen. The movie is a veritable history lesson…
Today through Sunday, Boulder’s LOCAL Theater Company will hold its Lab 2014, during which some of the area’s best-known actors, including Jamie Ann Romero, Candy Brown, Steven Cole Hughes and Patty Figel, will read new plays by James McLindon, Kyle Warren and Alison Carey. Managing director Megan Mathews says these…
Rather than celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by downing sickly green beer at a pub this year, why not dress in your finest green duds and head to Boettcher Concert Hall? That’s where you’ll find New York-based Irish-American fiddle player Eileen Ivers and her five-piece band, Immigrant Soul, playing Celtic songs…
“In the news, you rarely see the intersection of queer issues and immigration issues,” says Kevin Patterson, an organizer with Eye-Resist, an ethnic-studies group at the University of Colorado at Boulder that is sponsoring tonight’s Undocuqueer Voices: Stories of Growing Up Queer and Undocumented. The event features Two-Spirit slam-poetry champion…
Warm Cookies of the Revolution is a place to eat warm cookies and discuss important topics with strangers — but organizer Evan Weissman also describes the event as a “civic health club.” “That term is pretty foreign to most people,” he acknowledges. “We merge civic issues with fun programming. We…
We live in the era of Big Data, and business and political decisions are increasingly driven by that fact. But what does that mean to the typical small-business owner? “The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t enough for the vast majority of businesses, especially small- and medium-sized…
By now, audiences know to expect lively and unusual productions from the Catamounts, so it will surprise no one to hear that the company is staging There Is a Happiness That Morning Is — a play written entirely in rhyming verse. “We picked it because it’s a really fun piece,”…
Since its beginning four years ago, the Women + Film Voices Film Festival has been a place for women to be seen, heard and celebrated through film. Centered around International Women’s Day, the festival highlights the best in drama, documentary and comedy from the past year, offering first-time Denver screenings…
For its Present Box series, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art invites artists to interpret the venue’s gift-shop space in whatever way they choose. The most recent one to do so is South Korean Sammy Lee, whose work is presented in the form of detailed artist books. For her Present…
