15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
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…
Tender irony and dark humor abound in The Human Resources Manager, Israeli director Eran Riklis’s latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion. This followup to 2008’s Lemon Tree, based on the novel A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua, hits the road when the restless personnel director (Mark Ivanir)…
There’s a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word “pussy.” Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with the spectacle of this lady rom-com…
When I think about the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, the predominant image is of Jamie Ann Romero as Juliet, longing to consummate her startlingly sudden marriage and leaping onto the bed, arms outflung, to implore the night, “Give me my Romeo.” At this point, she doesn’t know that…
Some of the best acting you’ll see anywhere. A brilliantly putrid set design. Haunting sound effects. Taut direction. On an Average Day is a first-rate production — but unfortunately, the play itself feels like an early exercise, full of sound and fury, signifying not much of anything. John Kolvenbach is…
Mo money mo problems, the Notorious B.I.G. posthumously noted back in the late ’90s — and for him, it was certainly true: By the time he said it, he was, after all, dead. Another way of putting that is that money can’t buy happiness — in fact, it probably does…
Tonight, First Friday attendees can take a break, grab a drink and a doughnut and raise money for Youth on Record, a non-profit that provides music classes for young people in treatment facilities, at Tattooers on Deck, a silent auction bidding off custom-painted skateboard decks from several tattoo artists, including…
While cruising last winter’s Fancy Tiger Holiday Handmade show, we chanced upon the most delightful booth: Featuring paper dolls, prints and cross-stitched buttons by crafty Canadian partners Sara Guindon and Samantha Purdy, who together comprise the Pin Pals, their table offered up something truly original and more than a little…
Holy crap, have we forgotten how much the computer has made our lives easier. We’re not talking about the non-stop stream of free porn — we’re talking about word processing. What’s word processing? Well, if you’ve forgotten (or weren’t born yet), word processing was how we first were able to…
Get ready to give up any excuse you might have for not staying active and living a life of adventure: This weekend the National Sports Center for the Disabled is hosting No Barriers Summit 2011 at Winter Park “to promote innovative ideas, approaches and assistive technologies which help people with…
With the classic noir flick The Maltese Falcon screening at the Esquire this weekend for Midnight Madness, we’ve been thinking a lot about our favorite noir films, from the classic era to the modern. While there are a few archetypes in the genre, many think it always stars a detective,…
If he were around today, it’s pretty certain that Neal Cassady, immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, would appreciate what the street artist Theo has been up to lately. Cassady was a born rabble-rouser, after all, and in more ways than one Theo and a small…
This 4th of July weekend, no one should be left watching the tube, sitting on the couch and drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon all by themselves. No sir. There are plenty of things to do on this three-day weekend, and not all of them require patriotism (though a healthy dose…
Maybe you found the perfect unicorn painting for your living room. Maybe you passed out from heat exhaustion on what always seems to be one of the hottest weekends of year. Perhaps you were inspired to begin your own art career or driven to scream at the people who park…
Though I’ve never been in Nebraska for more than about six hours at a time, most of which has generally involved driving and possibly having lunch, I have some pretty distinct impressions of that state: the plains, the sky, the wind. Nebraska, it seems to me, is a place of…
Maybe you’ve heard about it: The buzz has been slowly growing over time. But what exactly is this Denver County Fair people are clucking and waving around their feathers about? Well, that’s not an easy question to answer, since chances are pretty good there’s never been anything quite like it…
Gardening writer Gayla Trail says that one of the strangest places she’s seen a plant growing was corn coming up out of a crack in the pavement in an alley. Trail will use this, and other examples, to help inspire gardeners to grow their own plants even in the smallest,…
With Canada Day (tomorrow, although celebrations are starting today) and the 4th of July (Monday) so close together, it’s important to do what Americans do best: compare our independence day to that of our neighbors and observe that once again, our shit kicks way more ass than other countries’ shit…
As it stands, my social networking career came to fruition and subsequently peaked with Myspace. For this reason, I use as much room in this weekly column talking about the rotting News Corp carcass as I can, constantly reliving my heyday as a late-blooming web queen. Of course I have…
This week the Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy amid accusations of mismanagement by owner Frank McCourt, who evidently learned nothing from his childhood of poverty and hunger in the slums of Limerick. Wait, different Frank McCourt. The author’s deceased; the desperate businessman who borrowed against the team until they…
Yesterday, we brought you the long and strange story of Michael Fairchild, whose labyrinthine research we stumbled across when we were looking into the seemingly random slew of asteroid movies of the late ’90s. Fairchild’s theories — which involve Jimi Hendrix, extrasensory perception, Microsoft and a hyper-secret cabal of world…
