This week our friends at PowderRoom.net (“for girls who know snow”) and Boardistan are pointing to news of a new Hollywood snowsploitation flick based on the 2007 novel The Chalet Girl: Falling In Love Can Be a Slippery Slope, the first book in the Little Black Dress romance series by…
Okay, so it’s not exactly Girls Gone Wild, but with another six inches of new snow at Echo Mountain in the last 24 hours, on top of the 18 they reported the day before, the closest ski area to Denver is looking more and more like the place to be…
It’s a Monday night in Fraser, and the Crooked Creek Saloon looks like the place to be an hour after the lifts close at Winter Park. The crowd is a nearly ideal mix of blue-collar locals and younger ski-bum types who combine to outnumber tourists by an approximate ratio of…
Hal Gould just turned ninety, and not only is he by far the oldest gallery director around, but his photo gallery, Camera Obscura (1309 Bannock Street, 303-623-4059, www.cameraobscuragallery.com), which he runs with Loretta Young-Gautier, is one of the oldest in the country. That said, there’s nothing old-fashioned about the place,…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Chicago. Sort of Brechtian, sort of Cabaretish, Chicago tells a story of injustice and corruption, and tells it in the most seductive way, with witty, memorable songs, elegantly glistening dance sequences and a smart, cynical and grown-up script. Roxie Hart is an evil, self-serving little hoofer. Having murdered a man…
Essentially a locked-room mystery with lashings of gore and sexual brutality, Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo disguised the simplicity of its narrative by embedding it within an almost Balzacian depiction of Swedish society, warts and all (but mainly warts). Niels Arden Oplev’s adaptation relies more on…
Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach’s new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine were common in the ’70s. Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible protagonist — I’d be hard put to name one as maddening as the eponymous…
Lost boy John Hughes was inducted into the pantheon this month, when the Academy devoted a moving Oscar-night tribute to the departed writer-director. But do you actually remember being a teenage movie-goer in the 1980s? It wasn’t all some kind of wonderful. Hughes movies came out twice a year, if…
Pretty much everyone in this wambling, good-natured shaggy dog of a comedy is older than the character he or she portrays: Lazy layabout Royce appears about the same age as his mother, Marguerite; Ray Bud Jr. doesn’t look much younger than his supposed mother, Raynelle; and actress Pam Clifton thanks…
“When we visit a city, we plan to always make three episodes for every event,” explains Marsha Bemko, executive producer of PBS’s hit series Antiques Roadshow. “We make three field pieces, because even for those of us who work on the show, those convention centers, once you’re inside of them,…
The premise of Earth Hour, now in its third year, is simple: For an hour — in this case, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time tonight — individuals and organizations are encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights and electronics in the interest of global climate change, not…
Shopping at farmers’ markets and growing your own vegetables is great, but “the local food movement without a resurgence in cooking is no good at all,” insists Sundari Kraft, founder of Heirloom Gardens. “People can care about local food, but they have to know what to do with that food.”…
Future historians will no doubt fish in the vast, endless sea of audio-visual media we leave behind. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett of the Found Footage Festival have already netted quite a catch from the early ’80s VHS era, collecting and curating the weirdest, most off-the-wall detritus ever committed to…
How many runs down Pallavicini can your knees handle? Participants in the 2010 Ski/Board-a-Thon for the Children will be pushing their limbs to the limit as they lap the lifts at Arapahoe Basin today to raise money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation. A-Basin’s hoping to have the East Wall open…
Owning an old house is a real labor of love — and so is putting on an old house fair, says Elizabeth Jeanne Wheeler of Denver’s Old House Society. With an emphasis on labor in both cases. But all of the nonprofit’s hard work will pay off at its fourth…
Although it’s still Untitled, the Denver Art Museum’s series is never unwelcome. This year’s series, which kicks off tonight, has a rather mischievous theme: Borrowing from the concept of the current (and soon to end) Embrace! exhibit, for which a group of artists literally “took over” the museum to create…
From a disagreement over who’s cooking dinner to a war over oil or land or religion, conflict is as universal as death. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s expansive Conflict|Resolution project examines the subject from a multitude of disciplines. “The goal is to build a program around a theme that…
Electronics geeks, it’s time to come out of the basement. Your day in the sun will commence when the fourth Vintage Voltage Expo opens for business this morning at the Ramada Plaza Convention Center, 10 East 120th Avenue in Northglenn. The expo, organized by promoter Dana Cain, will feature approximately…
Many happy hours are designed to decimate participants — but not Dewey After Hours, a new series hosted by the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation at the Central branch, 10 West 14th Avenue Parkway. The idea was “to put together an event that offers a new way to experience the…
Screw cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies: Good, old-fashioned pies are the dessert du jour, at least today, when Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, Steve Ballas’s eponymous wiener joint at 3525 East Colfax Avenue, hosts the Best Tasting Pie Contest. More than a dozen local bakeries, pie palaces and restaurants will compete for…
After years of doing representational paintings, Craig Marshall Smith suddenly changed course ten years ago and started creating abstracts. “I took an inventory of what I’d done,” he says, “and I realized that my work was not really notable. All along, I’d had this affection for Motherwell, Kline and Diebenkorn…
