My husband sometimes watches those World War II history shows. And I have to admit, there’s something downright awe-inspiring about seeing all that heavy equipment on the screen: sinister U-boats and magnificent aircraft carriers in the sea, and in the air, the dashing Banshees and Tigercats and Dominators. But the…
I have a thing for Swiss Army knives. Don’t you? It’s so neat the way everything folds up in a practical ballet of metal and blades — so functional. And the look of the knife, with its bright red enameled veneer, is just so sharp. Plus, the Swiss Army knife…
Some hundred works from the artist’s own collection will go on display at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center when The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, a touring exhibition, opens with a reception May 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. And when CSFAC spokesman Charlie Snyder says this will be…
Flip Orley first saw hypnotism as a tool for a lovesick tween who wanted to invite a girl to a dance. The impressionable lad found a disreputable tome on how to pick up girls with hypnosis that was, he notes, “not well written or very accurate.” But you know how…
If you’re free-associating, likely the last thing you’d come up with when presented with the word “Loveland” is the term “pop art.” Until now. Because on May 30, the Loveland Museum/Gallery at 503 North Lincoln Avenue will unveil a blockbuster entitled Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting, dedicated to the…
The story of how world-class violinist MinTze Wu, who’s delicately wielded her instrument to play classical and folk fiddle music from her native Taiwan to the wild shores of Newfoundland, ended up living in Lyons a couple of years ago must be a whopper. But more important is what she’s…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the auteur behind Three Monkeys, didn’t win the best-director bauble at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his hyperkinetic visuals and mastery of the smash cut. On his latest, he tends to set his camera in place and allow it to stare pitilessly at his subjects for…
Cinema Q, the Denver Film Society’s series focusing on GLBT movies, got its start after Keith Garcia, DFS programming manager, kept getting comments about a lack of good gay films. “I was like, ‘Actually, no, there’s lots of it, it’s just that it’s not being programmed,’” he remembers. “I got…
Filmmakers Richard Taylor and Zack Beins of Bizjack FlemCo Productions will shoot their first feature-length film in Denver this summer. And in the spirit of movies produced by Troma Entertainment — responsible for the Lloyd Kaufman-directed, cult favorite Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead — their Atom the Amazing Zombie…
There’s little out there that’s sexier than salsa dancing, except maybe the delightfully lurid tango, which shares some Latin roots. And Denver, like any multi-ethnic city worth its #10 Scoville-rated habanero juice, is lucky enough to have a tight little salsa community that kicks up its heels to the clavé…
In the 1960s, the oldest of the baby boomers were coming of age, and they collectively launched the counterculture across America. The unofficial capital of this youth movement was San Francisco, where thousands of hippies descended and turned American culture upside down. They embraced pre-industrial styles of dress, grew out…
Curiouser. Singer Gallery director Simon Zalkind is one of the top curators in town, and one of the secrets to his success is presenting artists whose efforts are worthwhile but who for some reason rarely exhibit their work. That’s what’s happening now with the unusual show Curiouser: A Dozen Years…
Rumba, which begins its run on Friday, May 22, following a Wednesday-evening preview, is a loopy slab of filmic absurdism that has more in common with the work of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco than with the movies of Keenan Ivory Wayans and Judd Apatow. Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon…
Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade’s model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984 Schwarzenegger; the bullet-streamlined, liquid-metal ’91 Robert Patrick of T2: Judgment Day; Kristanna Loken’s 2003 T-X (with burgundy pleather upholstery). Terminator Salvation, a departure in many ways,…
Imagine having reached the highest level of skill in your field through hours of grueling work that began when you were four years old. Now imagine knowing that you’ll never get a permanent job, but will, if you’re lucky, be hired periodically — that is, if your potential boss likes…
Olivia, a fifteen-year-old girl living unhappily with her father, Aaron, and stepmother (who’s never seen on stage and appears to be either vicious or neurotic to the point of pathology), finds herself throwing up uncontrollably for reasons we’ll learn only later in the play. In a fever pitch of loneliness…
Anyone who’s followed the theatrical footprints of Brian Freeland, founder of the LIDA Project and Countdown to Zero troupes (and one of Westword’s most recent crop of Masterminds), will immediately know – and not know – what to expect of his next production. A grassroots agenda, subversive politics and truth-seeking…
Do you believe in ghosts? Maybe, like me, you find the idea fascinating, but there’s that whole science thing and the need for evidence bringing you down. If so, you might want to join author and paranormal researcher J. Allan Danelek’s Spirit Photography class at Colorado Free University today. The…
What started as a simple pre-kayak-season sale eight years ago has since become a massive river festival that marks the official start of paddle weather. “Paddlefest is a lot different than most river festivals in which you go and watch people compete,” says Earl Richmond, general manager of Colorado Kayak…
If you could put together the perfect boy band, what would the elements be? You’d need a leader (Matthew); a sweet, sensitive singer (Mark); and since no boy band would be complete without a little taste of gangster, an edgy dude (Luke). A little bit of Latin lover (Juan) should…
Imagine the same story, relived in four similar yet incredibly different cultural situations. That’s more or less what happens in The X, a five-act character study by Phil Klingsmith, a Gunnison playwright and professor emeritus at Western State College. The ingenious play follows four couples — one Anglo, one interracial,…
The Wildlife Experience Museum proved it knows how to keep up with the Joneses this year, with the May opening of Globeology, a new 30,000-square-foot permanent interactive exhibit that provides a virtual trip around the natural world. Along the way, visitors will encounter lifelike animatronic wildlife from eight unique and…
