Adam Helms is a New York artist interested in taking up political themes in new works on paper and a monumental sculpture. His solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver — which officially opens tonight — is his first museum show anywhere, and director Cydney Payton is the one…
You’ve got to fight for your right to wear cool protest shirts. A few local anarchists who are helping to coordinate planned disruptions of the Democratic National Convention have been raising funds by selling off these spiffy “Defend Denver” T-shirts. I picked one up myself after being approached by the…
When I was told that I was being sent to a Teen Vogue party on August 16th to promote the first ever Silver Jeans store opening, I was ecstatic! The new store is in the Park Meadows Mall, and I thought before I went I should research the jeans and…
Though I rarely make it out to the Family Thrift Center, in Wheat Ridge, at 3777 Kipling Street, I always find amazing deals when I do, so I keep it on my radar. Family Thrift happens to be across the street from my favorite diner, the Apple Ridge Café, which…
Monday night I headed down to South Broadway in pursuit of an interesting subject to cover for “Secondhand Sartorialism.” South Broadway is a great area to investigate when you are seeking style inspiration. Hip boutiques, thrift stores and interesting bars abound, filled with people who possess intriguing and inspiring taste…
You know those people who are so incredibly gorgeous that even on your best hair day, in a moment of your most profound self-esteem, if you found yourself seated next to one of them you’d feel like one of those nasty mutants from The Hills Have Eyes? Only less interesting?…
Macy’s, the venerable department store that originally opened in 1858 as a fancy dry goods store in New York City, is celebrating 150 years by releasing celebrity prints from famed Rolling Stone photographer Mark Seliger. Cat thinks Christina is looking beautiful, fashionable and classy in this pic, which was inspired…
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd Apatow’s brand of stunted-man yuks a global franchise. Once more, Seth Rogen’s red-rimmed, half-shut eyes peek out from beneath his tousled Jewfro, which sits atop…
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center inspired fantasies of lustful conquest. As James Marsh’s documentary Man on Wire tells it, a mischievous French teenager was sitting in a dentist’s office in 1968 when a magazine image caught his eye. It…
A young female writer of romantic novels decides to turn to the supernatural for her next book. As she struggles with writing, throwing away page after page of work, she begins having a series of strange and unsettling experiences. Before long, she’s drawn into a dark, horrific alternate reality, populated…
I wanted to sing along to the pulse-quickening rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” that closes Woody Guthrie’s American Song — as the cast of this Colorado Shakespeare Festival production was urging us to do, and everyone around me was doing — but I couldn’t, because I was crying…
The man onstage (the character is actually called Man) begins by telling us he’s an unreliable narrator, and goes on to prove it in scene after scene. He tells a story about how he ran into Belinda, the girl he loved in high school twelve years earlier — or perhaps…
Henry VIII. Shakespeare’s Henry VIII is not the licentious, swollen-bellied, wife-dispatching monster we know from Hollywood. When we meet this Henry, he’s relatively young, under the thumb of the scheming Cardinal Wolsey, and still consorting with his first wife, Katharine of Aragon. As the action proceeds, he’ll divorce Katharine for…
Foothills Art Center marked its fortieth anniversary last Friday, and to honor that milestone, the institution is presenting XL: Forty Years on the Frontier of Art, which runs through the end of the month. The main exhibit features a quartet of contemporary artists, while an ancillary show, Foothills Founders: A…
Denver artist Gwen Laine is one of the four artists selected to help celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Foothills Art Center in Golden (see review, page 46). But she’s also completely taken over the Carson/van Straaten Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585, www.sandycarsongallery.com) with her solo, Passing Through. The…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
Hey, kids, it’s time to relive your favorite part of college! No, not the parties, girls, or the booze…the lectures. Roxborough State Park is hosting its own version of a lecture seminar today in Fountain Valley. The Fountain Valley OLOGY Hike, which is described as a “walking presentation,” features naturalists…
Costumes, frivolity and historical riddles often characterize an evening in downtown Boulder — but usually not for the benefit of children’s and family events at the Boulder History Museum. For tonight’s History Mystery Challenge, starting at 5:30 p.m., groups of four to six adults will be scavenging around town, looking…
If your DVR isn’t set for the X-Files, or if you’ve never watched a UFO program containing blurry photographs and retired Air Force colonels, then the UFOlympics is probably not your ideal weekend getaway. However, if the thought of little green men gets your blood pumping, then pack your tents…
In 2002, Alexandre Dumas — the long-dead author of The Three Musketeers — was moved from his eternal resting place in Villers Cotterets to the Pantheon in Paris. Three men dressed as his fictional protagonists (Athos, Porthos and Aramis) walked the casket from point A to point B in a…
As a kid, I always wondered what the zoo was like after closing time. Tonight, it will be transformed into the enchanted fairy tale land I once imagined, complete with characters such as Snow White, Shrek, Tarzan — and real live animals, of course. ZOOmily, taking place from 6 to…
From classic Detroit muscle cars to souped-up Japanese speedsters, plush luxury sedans and lovingly restored vintage autos, Americans love their cars — even if it’s just the well-worn grocery-getter in the driveway. And just as there’s a car for nearly everyone, now there’s a car show for everyone: the Krazy…
