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…
The arts have firmly taken root in River North, the town’s old warehouse district along the Platte, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, you can see just how deep they go when you Plant Yourself at RiNo. The town’s hippest arts district (winner of a 2008 MasterMind award)…
After endlessly teasing us with nice weather that never really stuck around, it looks like the gods have finally decided to go ahead with spring — and what better way to celebrate than with the Lion Project’s Spring Patio Kick-Off? Tonight at 7 p.m., you’ll finally get to enjoy kicking…
As a wholesale jewelry merchant, Is Art doesn’t generally open its doors to the public. But that changes today with the Wearable Art Sale — aptly named, because the beautiful baubles are equally at home in a fine-art display case or enhancing your own natural loveliness. “It’s huge,” says Is…
A desire to “enlighten the gringos to the idea that Muslim women are not shrouded creatures” led Boulder author Jennifer Heath to write a book called The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women Of Islam. In turn, that led her to further explore the politics and history of the veil…
Apart from issues such as illegal immigration and eminent domain, there’s nothing that gets middle-class property owners as blindly furious as graffiti. Kim Owens, of the online magazine Kaffeine Buzz, has taken to calling it the “G-word” while planning Street-2-Screen, which is shaping up to be one of the most…
Remember when big marketing promotions consisted solely of special Lion King Happy Meal toys and “collector” Spider-Man Slurpee cups from 7-Eleven? Those days are long over, as witnessed by the Journeys Backyard Barbeque. The fun goes down from noon to 6:30 p.m. today in the south parking lot of Colorado…
