The Big Lebowski‘s ten most quotable moments

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Littleton will host its first-ever Quote-Along tonight, and it’s chosen one of the most quotable films of all time to kick things off: The Big Lebowski. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a Quote-Along encourages the audience to recite the best lines of the film as it’s…

Man of La Mancha still has impact at Arvada Center

Man of La Mancha, based on Miquel de Cervantes’s seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote, was an award-gobbling sensation when it was first staged in 1965. The musical has less impact now that it’s been through decades of professional and community productions. Still, the Arvada Center has mounted a big, sumptuous show,…

Keeping up with (January) Jones

By Mad Men’s fifth season, Betty Draper had walked out of our lives, and a much plumper Betty Francis had waddled in. The audience response to this swollen version of a once-slender character: a collective cringe. Suddenly Betty became a joke. In no time, a parody of Ram Jam’s “Black…

Metro goes beyond the Month of Photography with two new exhibits

It seems like every place in the city’s art world has gotten into Month of Photography this year. And Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art has gone beyond, mounting two exhibits — plus a chaser — on the theme. The first show, Semblance, was organized by Metro…

Now Showing

Charles Partridge Adams. Rocky Mountain Majesty: The Paintings of Charles Partridge Adams highlights the career of a prominent turn-of-the-nineteenth-century impressionist who lived and worked in Colorado for decades. Adams first came to Colorado in 1876, when he was only eighteen years old. He was self-taught, but worked informally in Denver…

Tattoo Nation documents California’s romance with ink

Tattoo Nation documentarian Eric Schwartz isn’t inked himself — “I’m nicknamed ‘The Virgin,’ ” he admits — but when he started photographing tattoo conventions, he stumbled across an untold, half-century history of color and style inextricably linked to California. Unlike the permanent art they’ve created, these tattoo artists and their clients…

Thanks to a new dimension, Jurassic Park 3D is scarier than ever

They do move in herds,” Sam Neill marvels, purportedly gazing at his director’s miracle dinosaurs but in reality directing his wonderment right into the camera — and right out at us, the viewers whose herdability made such smash successes of Jurassic Parks one and two. (Our failure to turn out…

The Place Beyond the Pines‘s actors take the film beyond its plot

The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling’s chiseled abdomen and heavy breathing on the soundtrack. Then, in a single, five-minute tracking shot, we follow Gosling’s character, Luke, across a fairground and into the tent where he and two other stunt motorcycle performers ride their bikes…

Five amazing, ridiculous soap opera plots

Soap operas are more wondrous and ridiculous than you may realize, especially if you’re under the misapprehension that soaps — especially daytime ones — revolve around nothing but steamy affairs, unplanned pregnancies and Maury-style DNA tests. In fact, we thought the same, until we started watching General Hospital to catch…

The Other Place offers a riveting look at a mind unraveling

At the beginning of The Other Place, Sharr White’s absorbing study of a mind unraveling, a woman is standing at a podium giving a lecture on a new drug intended as a cure for dementia. She is poised, intelligent, witty, self-aware. This is Juliana, a neuroscientist originally involved in developing…

Does The Walking Dead have female trouble?

Four years ago, on assignment for The Comics Journal, I asked Robert Kirkman a tough question about his Walking Dead comic series, a question that now, after the TV adaptation’s third season finale, is still resonant: Why are all the strong female characters either crazy or dead? His response, from…

All Four One

Vie for supremacy and a shot at reliving childhood glory on the Connect Four battleground — while drinking beer — at the third annual Connect 4 Kids tournament tonight. “When we started three years ago, there was this resurgence of people in Denver wanting some of that childhood nostalgia,” explains…

Here’s the Pitch

Hope springs eternal in baseball: Every year on opening day, you can hit the reset button and tell yourself that this is the year that your team will win it all. The equinox is meaningless to baseball fans; spring will arrive with today’s first pitch. The Colorado Rockies are coming…

Color Your World

For the past year, Lowbrow has been rescuing art from the clutches of intellectuals and handing it back to inspired but untrained mortals. The gallery/art-supply store’s latest community-art project? Coloring. “We’re kind of coloring pushers,” explains Lauren Seip, Lowbrow co-owner. “People will hang out here, and we’ll be like, do…