As unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous as its title, Luca Guadagnino’s visually ravishing third feature suggests an epic that Visconti and Sirk might have made after they finished watching Vertigo and reading Madame Bovary while gorging themselves on aphrodisiacs. That it works so well — despite frequently risible dialogue (“Happy is…
You know and love Jason Bourne as an implacable killing machine. But what if he was a mouthy asshole instead? That’s the question posed by James Mangold’s Knight and Day, which casts Tom Cruise as a Bourne wannabe who seriously can’t shut up. As Roy Miller, an agent gone rogue…
“Never ask for what ought to be offered,” seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her brother in Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s dark and flinty Ozark fairy tale. Those are words to live by for Ree and her people, scattered across the hardscrabble southern Missouri woods. But in Winter’s Bone, a…
Gunnison’s Whitewater Park takes center stage at this weekend’s eighth annual Gunnison River Festival, where casual events like the River Parade, Race for the Golden Paddle and Hooligan Race bump oars with USA Freestyle Kayak-sanctioned competition. “As of this year, we’re now one of six locations in the U.S. for…
Ellen Dugan has written numerous books on practical magic, including 2004’s 7 Days of Magic: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for the Bewitching Week. “I’ve taught from the basics every place I’ve been,” Dugan says, “and I said if I ever had the opportunity, I was going to expand 7 Days.”…
If you love good coffee, you know that it is an art form: Its origins and the quality of preparation are what separate a bitter cuppa diner joe from a perfect espresso topped by a smooth, airy layer of foamy crema. Ah. And there’s no better place to learn more…
Lights. Camera. Action figures! It’s time again for Gio Toninelo’s G.I. Joe Fest, a celebration of film dedicated to the stop-motion animated exploits of everyone’s favorite Real American Hero toys. Now in its third year, the event continues to find new tales to tell via the medium of Joe. This…
Cinemaphiles, meet Denver’s newest film event: The Film Festival of Colorado. The eclectic festival will showcase a wide variety of films, half of which originated in Colorado. “We invited films with the theme of adapting and surviving in our changing world,” explains Helen Trencher, the festival’s associate director. “A good…
Foodniks can get their grub on tonight at twenty LoDo restaurants, all of which are taking part in LoDo Bites, a sip, sup, stroll and sampling affair that last year amassed a crowd of 800 hungry feedbags who stuffed their guts and ate their hearts out. “LoDo is blessed to…
They just don’t make ’em like they used to. Tonight, the Denver Art Museum combats that slipshod rush of the efficient modern world with “Sloth,” the latest entry in its Untitled series, during which the museum hosts musicians, performers and activities centered around a theme on the last Friday of…
Those Iron Chef competitors have no problem looking tough as they prepare for a match: Nothing says “Don’t touch me” better than a row of perfectly sharpened Wüsthofs glistening on a counter. But what about an Iron Artist? Can he wield a nasty Kolinski sable brush in your face and…
Art is a big element in the Biennial of the Americas, but many of our local artists felt left out as the event began to take shape. So when Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, one of the area’s toughest artist activists, was offered a chance to curate a showcase that reveled in…
If you’ve been lying awake at night thinking desperately about how to save helpless Gulf seabirds covered in goo, you’re not alone. But thanks to fellow worrier and block organizer Robin Lohre of the Talulah Jones boutique, 1122 East 17th Avenue, you can now contribute in a small but certain…
Sharpen a stake, grab your pom-poms and join Mile High Sci Fi for its latest “comedic restoration” project: the film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See, while the television incarnation of Buffy transcended the outlandish premise of a cheerleader who’s also the world’s last, best hope against the vampiric…
Cinema Q is the Denver Film Society’s monthly nod to GLBT culture. But Cinema Q is also a once-a-year film festival designed to celebrate and kick off another year of those monthly screenings. The second annual Cinema Q Film Festival begins today at Starz FilmCenter with a 7 p.m. opening-night…
Hush Denver, the supper club whose nighttime food and wine events usually commune in off-the-beaten-path warehouses and speakeasies, takes it to the aboveground asphalt today when it hosts a Celebration of Denver Street Food in the courtyard of the Paris Lofts, 2193 Arapahoe Street. “We put together the street fair…
Restless Empathy is an ambitious group exhibit that fills the Aspen Art Museum and extends to a few other places around town. It was put together by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson and Matthew Thompson, who invited eight participants to create work exploring the idea of empathy. Specially created pieces by Allora…
Many attempts have been made over the years to popularize the inner workings of science — ways to make laymen able to grasp the essence of the innovations in theory and technology that drive the everyday world. Physicist George Gamow was one of the first to do so back in…
Why would you put good beer in a can? It’s a question that the crew at Oskar Blues has been answering since 2002, when the Longmont brewery inspired the Canned Beer Apocalypse by becoming the first beer maker in the nation to make and can its own craft brew. And…
In a clever bit of self-reference, singer-songwriter and Denver native Jill Sobule opens the Jill and Julia Show with the story — in song form, of course — of her first awkward meeting with comic and Saturday Night Live alum Julia Sweeney. Clearly a mismatched pair from the start, the…
As hard as it is to break into pro skateboarding, there always seems to be some little kid shaking things up. And after seeing young skater Ryan Sheckler rise to become the superstar of the Dew Tour five years ago, promoters opened a back door to the big show for…
When cookbook author and food activist Bryant Terry was putting together Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy & Creative African-American Cuisine, he knew the book would be successful if “my family, who lives in the deep South,” enjoyed the recipes. “I knew my friends in New York City and the San…
