9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the Triangle of Death entered the nearby home of a fourteen-year-old girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza. Steven Green, a private, took her parents and six-year-old sister into…
Produced by his youngest daughter, Gina, this profile of Harry Belafonte, foregrounding the 84-year-old actor and singer’s political activism, is a moving if occasionally wearying hagiography. Not that the subject is unworthy of anything but veneration: Unbowed by the racism that dogged him during the first several decades of his…
A Separation — which just received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box. Dispensing with preliminaries, it opens at a judicial hearing where, both facing the camera that stands in for the…
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror filmmaking. His little-seen apprenticeship cheapies (The Roost, Trigger Man) led to a disowned, freelance gross-out job (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) and then finally a name-above-the-title breakthrough…
The Israel-Palestine conflict has spawned furious arguments among friends and families at many a Jewish dinner table — even with guests who agree about almost everything else political. You’ll find hardcore Zionists who call the entire area Judea/Samaria and insist that every inch of it belongs to the Jews, others…
Update! Thanks for chiming in! We’ve picked a winner, so check your email to see if you’ve won! On Saturday, February 18, Artopia will fill five SoCo venues with work from some of Denver’s best visual artists, local fashion, culinary creations and specialty cocktails mixed exclusively for Artopia attendees. Tickets…
“Team Canada-Quebec created a sculpture that demonstrates all virtues of carving snow: clean execution, anatomically correct figures and animals, texture, balance and more,” said Jenn Cram, judge coordinator for the 22nd annual International Snow Sculpture Championships and Arts District administrator for the Town of Breckenridge. The team won the competition…
The SnowSports Industries of America trade show that filled the Colorado Convention Center last week has melted away — but not before we got the drop on some hot new items that will be on the shelves in your favorite shop this year. Technology has only gotten better, and so…
Fashion Denver owner Brandi Shigley encourages others to do just as she is doing: “Focus on your focus.”…
With so much of our waking life consumed by the busywork of e-mails, texts and tweet-only communication, it’s hard to remember that once upon a time, connecting with other humans didn’t involve anything electronic. What would happen if we stepped back into that time for just a moment, and actually…
Denver is chock-full of storage facilities, which in turn are stuffed to the brim with things for which Denverites just can’t find room. Most of the time those things are as mundane as macaroni jewelry boxes and old recliners, but in a few of those storage units are hidden treasures…
Are you ready to “open up a can of Yee Haw!” at the Denver County Fair? While you’ll still have to wait until August 10 for the second edition to start — filled the National Western Hall of Education with a carnival, vendors and pavilions, and the return of the…
The Culture of African American Art is now on display in the lobby of Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, where the show will run through February 23. But you might want to take a look at it before the crowds descend for a reception for the artists scheduled for 5…
Is it possible that last Tuesday’s casting call at Suite 200 for The Real World wasn’t, well, real? It certainly wasn’t crowded when Claire Delahorne left at 11 p.m.: “In 2012,” she wrote in her Real World blog post the next day, “a major cable network casting for an insanely…
If you’ve always wanted to be part of the two week riot of performance that constitutes the Boulder Fringe Festival, you need to get your application in before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 30. The festival — organized in the anarchic spirit of Fringe Festivals all over the world –…
As the end of the month approaches — and the rent is due — other expenses fall by the wayside. We start making bizarre food concoctions out of whatever is left in the fridge and skimp on luxuries, like shampoo. But even though the landlord is looking for us, it’s…
Look! Up in the air! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it’s usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, which reached unbelievable sizes and was related…
Giving to charity when you’re an artist may seem like a catch-22. After all, many emerging artists could use some charity of their own. But Heart Art Denver has made it possible to give back to the community by donating a piece or art to their 18th annual AIGA (American…
Vine Street Pub, along with a group of fifth-graders from Bromwell Elementary School, will host a fundraiser on Sunday night for the Raymond Wentz Foundation, which helps raise money for parents whose children have cancer and are dealing with the medical costs associated with chemotherapy. To get people involved, four…
Wax your mustaches and practice your crazy eyes: Salvador Dali is coming to Colorado, for a month-long stay at the Center for the Arts/ Evergreen. Okay, so it’s unlikely that Dali himself will show up. And the items on display are actually poster reproductions on loan from the Dali museum…
Almost as if the producers new what a mistake they made with last week’s episode, this week they turned up the excitement with big guests and an even bigger challenge. The designers have been tasked with creating a garment inspired by a flavor of gelato to show to fashion legend…
There’s little snow along the Front Range, but there’s a blizzard of activity at the Colorado Convention Center, which is currently hosting 20,000 industry buyers from around the world at the SnowSports Industries of America Trade Show…
