No joke, Annette Roman’s father was a Holocaust survivor and her mother once belonged to the Hitler Youth. It’s a tricky tightwire to balance, but Roman puts it all into perspective in her solo performance, Hitler’s Li’l Abomination, currently showing at the Boulder Fringe Festival. And though she worries that…
Gotta love Colorado, where Labor Day has come to be synonymous with winter gear sales like Sniagrab and Ski Rex, and the dog days of summer serve as a tidy reminder that the best deals on season ski passes are on right now. We spent a day huddled by the…
Hospitals are gloomy places, but thankfully, life is all about perspective. Instead of wasting everyone’s time on some boring flowers, a shiny balloon and some chocolate, I wanted to show my friend — and some patrons on the fourth floor at Denver Health — that hospitals are not the depressing,…
Long before cell phones began making beelines for toilets, pools and other dangerous bodies of water, pagers were seeing the same fate. If you recall, Usher once sang about girls beeping whenever they wanted to get freaky, and if you (like the author) wore your pager on the front pocket…
Though the host was unfortunately neither arrayed in a cape nor other kingly attire, and there was no hilarious Japanese overdubbing, this weekend’s Iron Artist live art contest at The Other Side Arts employed the Iron Chef formula to undeniable success, calling on artists to put together original works with…
The Clyfford Still Museum, which is being built at the corner of West 13th Avenue and Bannock Street, has begun to take shape, but there is still a staggering amount of work left to do before the construction company turns the building over to the museum in September (it’s scheduled…
Joseph Coniff. This smart and at times extremely funny show, titled Joseph Coniff: This Is What It’s Like, highlights the efforts of an emerging conceptual artist. Coniff, who studied at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was a protegé of Clark “Drop City” Richert’s, is just…
Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import this side of June’s Trollhunter, Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced seasonal trifle: Anchored in social realism yet determinedly goofy, it’s neither too eager for laughs nor overtly preachy. Set in a sprawling London public-housing compound, the film follows a group of teenage…
In Jesse Peretz’s Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of upstate New York version of Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski — a man out of time, blinkered enough to be living the hippie dream. In the film’s first scene, Ned is “entrapped” into selling pot at a farmers’…
Inspired by a 2008 New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James’s commanding documentary The Interrupters, about “violence interrupters” in Chicago, who intervene in conflicts before they escalate into gunshots, unfolds as deeply reported journalism. Much like Hoop Dreams (1994), James’s in-depth examination of the athletic aspirations of…
Eight gay men assemble for three summer weekends at a beautiful upstate New York house in Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! Tellingly, the place is called Manderley. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” begins Daphne du Maurier’s spooky novel Rebecca, and there are echoes of her prose…
If only we could fully surf the webs like we once did ten years ago. Things were so much simpler then, before annoying commercials for Lysol and prescription medication clogged up our Youtubes. Well, YouTube didn’t even exist yet, which is still weird to think about, considering YouTubing is now…
Don’t talk shit to Steve Carell, because apparently he will slap you like a bitch. Not in a scary, Wayne-Brady-turned-evil kind of way — no, Steve Carell is way too nice for that, and also, in a weird way, he’s even scarier. Because somehow, Steve Carell is a sweet enough…
From swanky neon signs to the obvious remnants of an old cow town — including our awesome and never confusing two-grid street system — Denver’s past shows through her shiny exterior. But Denver is a city of transplants, and all too easily, much of that history gets lost. Phil Goodstein,…
It was back in 1942 that a mysterious, silver-masked Luchador known only as El Santo appeared on the scene in Mexico City as an unknown contestant in an eight-man battle royale. He won that fight, but what was more important was that he would change wrestling forever — an influence…
Rob Delaney opened his own show at the Gothic Theatre last night. As in, he walked out before the opener and ran through a small stretch of material, as an opener, for the opener. Because that’s just the kind of guy Rob Delaney is. He might be a bit dirty…
Before that other big endurance event gets underway today, we thought we’d let you know that runner Lynette Clemons — a Leadville local — won the women’s division at the 28th annual Leadville Trail 100 with a time of 19:59:06 to beat out Rhonda Claridge (Ophir, CO; 21:11:24) and Andrea…
These days, down the hill in the city, Aspen has the reputation of being a resort Mecca for mostly celebrities and the über rich — and anymore that’s mostly true, but it would seem there’s at least a few vestiges of the counterculture that for years sustained pseudo-pranks like Hunter…
This late in the summer blockbuster season, it’s pretty much like 3 o’clock on a Friday for Hollywood: You stopped caring right around yesterday, and at this point you’re just churning shit out so you can go home and get ready for Oscar season. At no other point during the…
Poor Miami. It’s been a rough summer for Will Smith’s favorite town — first hit hard by the Heat, now facing a ruinous Hurricane. OK, I can’t think of any more team name puns, so here’s the recap: after their superteam lost the NBA Finals, the city was disappointed. But…
In the local skateboarding world, CLFX is code for one of the home teams at 303 Boards. But on the existential plane, CLFX is the place where we live, eat, shop. drink and party — a damn good reason to want to snap up one of these brand new CLFX…
