A decorous gathering of dames and other knighted U.K. doyens, Quartet centers on the residents of Beecham House, a baronial residence for retired musicians. Former conductor Cedric (Michael Gambon), bedecked in a series of fantastic caftans and charged with organizing the annual gala fundraiser, determines that the reunion of the…
There are two things that are certain in life. One is that death will come for every one of us. The other is that every film Michael Haneke makes will have a fair shot at the Cannes Palme d’Or. Amour, Haneke’s much-garlanded latest, is set almost entirely within a well-appointed…
Michael Mitnick’s Ed, Downloaded, which was commissioned by the Denver Center Theatre Company, had a reading at last year’s New Play Summit and is currently receiving its world premiere. It tells the story of a young man with a terminal illness who is engaged to an intellectual Englishwoman, Selene, but…
Being a lucky guy, I’ve only been kicked in the balls once. How did it rate on the comedy scale? Well, it was funnier than a monologue by Chelsea Handler, but not quite as hilarious as my last screening for colorectal cancer. Yet despite the fact that this act hurts…
In George A. Romero’s deeply silly 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half, Timothy Hutton stars as Thad Beaumont, a writer whose highbrow pretensions don’t pay the bills. When Thad needs to make a quick buck, then, he seals himself into his study and grinds out a nihilistic thriller to…
Inclusion is the name of the game for tonight’s Comedy Show at the Bar, when host Chuck Roy will welcome one and all to a monthly showcase featuring both seasoned and fresh-faced comics from the GLBTQ community and beyond. Roy and fellow comic Penny From Heaven first kicked off this…
When Thea Deley was growing up, she was told a lot of strange things by Protestant leaders. From a Sunday-school teacher proclaiming that only Satan worshippers used a particular brand of toothpaste to a minister making a special home visit to tell her that she couldn’t become a member of…
In the concert film I’m Your Man, folksinger Leonard Cohen describes his childhood reading of the Torah as the earliest, and one of the strongest, influences on his poems and lyrics. And so it’s a wonder that it took so long for sometime to create a Jewish tribute concert to…
Breckenridge’s Keri Herman is a favorite to win the women’s slopestyle event this weekend, when the Winter X Games return to Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain for the eleventh consecutive year. A current leader on the FIS World Cup Freeskiing circuit, Herman is also likely to be a top candidate to represent…
The 1950s weren’t all sock hops, malt shops and boundless economic growth. There was a dark side of sexism, racism and xenophobia that’s scarcely acknowledged when people pine for the “good old days.” That dark side is at the thematic heart of Pleasantville, which sends ’90s-era teens into an idealized…
Focusing on pivotal markers of the civil-rights movement, tonight’s inaugural session of FWD: 1963-2013 at History Colorado isn’t merely a lecture: It’s an invitation for a real, raw community discussion. “We’re talking about 150 years after the Emancipation Procla-mation and fifty years after the seminal events of 1963,” says curator…
Rooted in the found-text theories of such American conceptual heavyhitters of the ’60s and ’70s as Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre and Andy Warhol, the huge exhibit Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, which opens tonight at MCA Denver, will fill several spaces in the museum, including a freight elevator and the…
A decorous gathering of dames and other knighted U.K. doyens, Quartet centers on the residents of Beecham House, a baronial residence for retired musicians. Former conductor Cedric (Michael Gambon), bedecked in a series of fantastic caftans and charged with organizing the annual gala fundraiser, determines that the reunion of the…
Philip J. Steele Gallery curator Cortney Stell spends a lot of time scouring the world for trends in art. It’s her passion, and it pays off: Stell continually charms international artists into visiting the Rocky Mountain School of Art & Design to exhibit and discuss their work. And her first…
You’d hardly expect a Robert Louis Stevenson story to provide fodder for a Broadway musical, but then again, there are zombies in Jane Austen novels now, and Abraham Lincoln is hunting vampires. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Jekyll & Hyde was nominated for four Tony Awards, and has proved…
Last night fans of the London-based Bloc Party gathered to see the band play the Ogden Theatre. Many were dressed for the occasion, and University of Wyoming student Kendall Farrell looked particularly stylish in her combination of lace and flannel. Continue reading to find out what she is studying, where…
David KrutaStacie Passon’s Concussion is a happy surprise.Sometimes, one film in a festival lineup can help to reveal another in sharper relief. To wit, one of the loveliest entries in Sundance 2013’s U.S. Dramatic Competition, James Ponsoldt’s deeply felt coming-of-age drama The Spectacular Now, looked even better after the premiere…
CBS confirmed today that two stars of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club will be among the contestants for the $1 million prize on the 22nd season of The Amazing Race, premiering February 17. While local roller-derby fans know them best by their noms de derby, Triple Shot Misto…
Many Denver theater-goers remember Jacqueline Antaramian from her roles with the Denver Center Theatre Company. During her ten years there, she starred in Mark Harelik’s The Immigrant, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit and Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, among others, and she was a memorable Masha in Chekhov’s Three…
This week’s submission comes from local Meta Skateboards rider JJ Jensen, (whom you’ve also seen in the teaser for Meta’s forthcoming video “The Holy Crail” on this blog), and with the video comes a sweet skate swag package from Meta. If can you guess where Jensen is throwing down this…
Denver hasn’t had enough of a snow dump this winter for a proper sledding run, much less urban snowboarding jibs, but — thanks to last week’s temperature drop and a special agreement with Denver Water to facilitate artificial snowmaking — the Ruby Hill Rail Yard ski and snowboard terrain park…
Rachel MorrisonMichael B. Jordan (The Wire), who’s fully up to the challenge, in Fruitvale.You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in…
