“Hip-hop is more than just one thing,” says Denver Film Society programming manager Keith Garcia, the man behind a new Wednesday series titled Next Stop, Hip Hop. “It’s an attitude, it’s a style — it’s a whole world.” The flicks Garcia’s assembled examine hip-hop from every angle. First up was…
Chicago’s Bird Names make freaky, folky, psychedelic rock for unhinged minds and untrimmed beards. If you gave Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett a cardboard box full of homemade instruments and unlimited use of the Little Rascals as their backup band, they might give back something like this. Tue., July 8,…
Michael Chavez, curator at the Foothills Art Center (809 Fifteenth Street, Golden, 303-279-3922, www.foothillsartcenter.org) has put together a marvelous group show called Artists in Residence: Anderson Ranch. As indicated by that title, the exhibit is made up of works by artists who teach or who’ve had residencies at the world…
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past few years, you’ll know about The Secret, that phenomenon of a film that discusses the Law of Attraction — basically, your life is your responsibility; you manifest your problems as well as your solutions. Now, I don’t necessarily buy into…
Stressful work environment? Bad breakup? Lost your job? Some days are meant to be followed by a bourbon, a beer and an old Western movie, and happily, you can get all three at the venerable Watson’s groceries and liquors, which has held down the corner of Ninth and Lincoln since…
Teen fashion correspondent Sarah Bolliger brings us the teen view of the latest summer fashion trends. I’m just back from a vacation in California, where a bizarre visit to Hollywood inspired this blog. I was in a world where fashion seemed completely influenced by the celebrities you might stumble into;…
Yesterday, I browsed the women’s page of the New York Times — from August 4, 1901 — where the very latest “Gowns Worn by Visitors to Our Town” were detailed. Mrs. E. Reeves Merritt, for example, wore ” a simple white pique gown” with a skirt that cleared the floor…
“It was a most forlorn and desolate-looking metropolis,” Albert D. Richardson wrote in Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean, of his trip to Denver in 1859. “If my memory is faithful, there were five women in the whole gold region; and the appearance of a…
For the sleep-deprived, one of the benefits of being awake at 4 a.m. Saturday morning is being able to catch a rerun of Gunsmoke on TVLand. But that wasn’t Miss Kitty on the screen this weekend. No, it was the fourth installment of You’ve Got the Look, a train wreck…
Chicagoan Carole Frances Lung, better known as Frau Fiber, descends from a long line of seamstresses and works out from under the historical shadow of apparel industry workers, a distinctly underpaid female faction haunted by sweatshop roots yet later uplifted by the solidarity of unions. But the Frau – professional…
You know you’re in deep when the “green” lifestyle goes past reusable bags and recycling. The new trend for eco-friendly pet-owners is the Doggie Dooley, a product for making your dog’s visits to Mother Nature’s bathroom as environmentally sound as possible. The Doggie Dooley is an in-ground septic tank that…
I am from a small, li’l town in eastern Iowa. We have a grocery store, a maximum security prison and a Wal-Mart. My family is still there and I miss them, terribly. I admit that I am often homesick for the slower pace and ease of mind Small Town America…
Tomorrow night, 5 Degrees lounge is taking the evening off from their usual club fare by sponsoring a fashion show for its patrons. The lounge, which has been putting on these shows for eight years, is “very in-tune to the fashion community,” says Marketing Director Josh Gold, since normally the…
Wearing a beautiful piece of clothing just makes you feel good. It does something for your mind, your body, and if you are a shopping addict like myself, it does a bit for your soul. So just imagine how you would feel knowing that piece of clothing is not only…
Of the summer’s many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain to The Foot Fist Way — Wanted stands the best chance of dislodging Fight Club from fanboys’ Facebook pages. It has the same dizzying flipbook style, the same kicky ultra-violence,…
Nothing snaps a child’s head around quite like a dying parent, especially when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim Broadbent), whose nominally adult son Blake (Colin Firth) still clings to childhood grievances. Directed by Anand Tucker and cleanly adapted by David Nicholls from a brutally…
To my ten-year-old daughter, the term “American Girl” means “that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms — won’t let me go near.” While we’re on the defensive, why should I? She hates dolls, and I — creeped out by row upon row of…
A topsy-turvy Escherland exists where Dario Argento’s The Mother of Tears is considered a twisted classic, and it is a magical place. Up is down, sour is sweet, sewer rat tastes like pumpkin pie and Hitchcock never made a more ripping yarn than Jamaica Inn. A once-great director’s near-worst work…
I wasn’t prepared to like I’m Through With White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks), but I did like it — I liked it a lot. Despite the title, the film isn’t really about race; it’s about finding someone to love and sticking with them, despite their quirks and…
No one really knows whether there was a barber in Victorian London who slit his customers’ throats and passed their bodies down a chute so that his harridan lover could make meat pies of them. There are evocative snippets in an old newspaper, a couple of popular nineteenth-century serials, an…
I’m generally a fan of playwright Steven Dietz’s cunningly constructed, verbally agile and often thought-provoking theater pieces, but I was surprised by Honus and Me. Although it wasn’t listed as part of the Aurora Fox’s children’s series, it turns out that Dietz adapted the play from a book by Dan…
The Last Five Years. This intimate two-person musical involves the breakup of a marriage. When Jamie and Cathy met in New York, he was an aspiring writer and she an actress. Success came for him fast, while she continued to inhabit the dreary, ego-pummeling world of auditions and summer stock —…
