Once the temperature threatens to reach 80 degrees on a regular basis, I must shop. Sure, there are all those old spring and summer clothes in my closet, but to truly feel like the nice weather is here, I need to buy some new shoes (and skirts and jewelry). First,…
This past April I went to Kim’s house to do my taxes. When the process was complete I shouted, “This is horseshit! How the hell do I owe the government any money?! I’m broke as it is!!! Come to think of it, why do I have to pay taxes, at…
The concept at Positive Strokes, a Greenwood Village shop combining women’s tennis and fitness gear with wellness programs just for the ladies, was different enough to garner a Best of Denver award earlier this year (here’s what we said about it). But here’s another reason to go check it out:…
You all have one lurking in a drawer somewhere, girls: a nasty tangle of broken and knotted gold chains, mateless earrings with twisted posts and, I dunno, something made of shiny metal that might have once come out of a bubblegum machine. And you can part with this stuff, believe…
When the second season of Bravo’s “creative competition” show Shear Genius premieres in June, Denver will be represented by Charlie Price, co-owner of Click Salon, located at 231 Milwaukee Street. The first show airs on June 25, with stylists competing to “cut or get cut” (sounds violent, doesn’t it?). Should…
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though — those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema as both supplier and repository of dreams — a good movie merely sends you bounding home from…
If you read reviews the way I do, you’ve already started by checking out the score, and now you’re back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft Auto IV is a fine game, with tons of content and all the great moments you’ve come…
Many years ago — before his current incarnation as a Scientology guru-cum-acting coach in Hollywood — I took acting classes with Milton Katselas in New York. Among my classmates was a tall, dark-haired gypsy named Bea. One evening, she gave an oddly flat monologue from Romeo and Juliet, sat down…
When Donald Margulies’s Sight Unseen opens, we’re in a house in the English countryside — but this is no cozy cottage surrounded by green, sheep-dotted fields. This is a gray, damp world. It’s inhabited by Patricia, an American expatriate, and her British husband, Nick, whom she married on the rebound…
Arcadia. There’s so much richness to this play that once you’ve seen it, you want to acquire the text, ask your mathematician friends to explain the science, re-read Byron, study the history of the English garden, and generally try to plumb the ideas that Tom Stoppard has set whirling about the stage, including…
The development of abstract painting a hundred years ago can be easily explained by the rise of photography fifty years before that. Since cameras were much better than brushes at recording reality, painters moved toward new ideas, like abstraction. Given this, it’s hard to explain the continuing appeal of representational…
In the past few years, Denver’s art world has reached such a critical mass that many of our marvelous alternative spaces have been lost in the shuffle. As a palliative for that, I’ll now lead a whirlwind tour of the present offerings at two of the best. At Spark Gallery…
Berghaus, Douglas and Riverhouse Editions. In the front spaces at Sandy Carson, there’s a whimsical yet intelligent show called Clearing: The Kinetic Sculpture of Marc Berghaus. The pieces are mechanical, with the most clever use of machinery being “Freeway Chase,” in which viewers look through the frame of a TV…
The House of Yes “started with a particular house, a house I saw in an elegant suburb of Washington, D.C. There was just something about this chic, moneyed house that made me want in,” writes playwright Wendy MacLeod on her website. The plot follows fiancés Lesly and Marty; Lesly is…
Celebrate fitness with the elements of earth and water this weekend in Buena Vista. Two separate events — Paddlefest and Bike Fest — will give participants the opportunity to enjoy some of their favorite recreational activities amid the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Paddlefest kicks off today and runs through…
Giant squid lurk in the deepest depths of the oceans, doing battle with whales and mystifying scientists who have yet to observe one in its natural habitat. As big as a bus, they are one of this planet’s least understood creatures. Some say a giant squid could even take down…
Despite the presence of “Another Brick in the Wall,” a hit that featured a children’s chorus, The Wall, Pink Floyd’s 1979 opus, isn’t exactly kid stuff. Chris Soucy, general manager for the Paul Green School of Rock Music’s Denver branch, acknowledges that some tunes are “horribly depressing.” So why have…
In desperate times, people invariably start calling for desperate measures — and, just as invariably, corrupt politicians are always ready to echo and amplify those calls as a way to launch themselves to power. That’s the message behind The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a play written in 1941 by…
The Capuchin Franciscan friars — the subjects of this evening’s Trivia Night fundraiser — are, in many ways, a blast from the past. As event spokeswoman Rose Lane points out via e-mail, the members of the local order, who range from their mid-twenties to late eighties, wear brown robes straight…
“If I go into this fight, I am going to win. There will be no mincing matters, no pink-tea policies. It will be a regular man’s kind of campaign, stump speaking, spread-eagle and all.” — Margaret Brown When Margaret Brown (aka the “Unsinkable Molly Brown”) ran for public office —…
Fresh City Life’s Audrey Sprenger, the nomadic Kerouac scholar who’s somehow found herself staying in one place long enough to share the programming saddle of the Denver Public Library’s innovative free cultural series, just can’t say enough about New York artist (and personal friend) Ed Adler, whose visual pantheon includes…
I was raised a spelling geek, consumed from a very young age with word derivations, spelling-bee protocol and other tricks of the trade. It came in handy in the eighth grade, when I won a ten-inch black-and-white television for taking second place in the Colorado-Wyoming bee; it was handed to…
