The final production of Colorado Ballet’s 47th season is The Repertory Series, a collection of contemporary works. First up is Anthony Tudor’s “The Leaves Are Fading,” followed by Lar Lubovitch’s “…smile with my heart,” set to Richard Rodgers’s music, and Dwight Rhoden’s high-energy “Straight Line to Never.” The program runs…
Obituaries are the final stories of our lives. And while they vary in length and detail, even the most cut-and-dried provoke questions about their subject. Poet Hilary DePolo based a series of 32 poems on obituaries she researched, then turned them over to artists who created pieces for Character Sketches,…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Remember Joan Collins’ portrayal of Dynasty’s villainess, Alexis Carrington Colby? I don’t. I wasn’t allowed to watch it as a child. But I have since seen some reruns and she’s fabulous. And what makes her…
On the all-important neighborhood catwalk, that Bugaboo stroller-wear is so 2007. To up your little one’s luxe factor, it’s best to drape him in this season’s hottest look: the Yummsie, crafted by maestro Ray Young Chu of the fashion-forward Denver art collective the Yummies. Here’s an effortlessly chic example from…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Poor Drew. Like many of us, Mr. Bixby, our “Drunk of the Week” writer, has not yet adjusted to Daylight Saving Time. Here we see him sleeping under his desk, another victim of what I…
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Curious Theatre brings us a show by Martin McDonagh, the dark mastermind who wrote the recently released film In Bruges starring Colin Farrell. In his gruesome black comedy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, McDonagh explores the life of a ruthless Irish Liberation Army Enforcer…
“Based on a true story,” brags The Bank Job before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics with two swimming mates — just another day in Paradise. The trio retires to a hotel room for a sweaty, breathless afternoon quickie, which…
For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy night-club singer, the 1938 English novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has enjoyed a pretty lively renaissance. Knocked off in six weeks by Newcastle homemaker Winifred Watson while she washed…
To all the gun-toting video-game bad guys out there: Please stop standing next to exploding barrels. Seriously now. Of the hundreds of places you could squat and shoot, you and your henchman pals always camp beside the neon-orange canister with “Flammable!” painted on the side. Really, we don’t need your…
“Fresh City Life is making a real effort to create programming that doesn’t simply inform and entertain people, but also gives them the space to create something,” says the Denver Public Library’s Audrey Sprenger. That’s the idea behind the EyeBelieve: Independent Filmmakers Competition, which kicks off Saturday, March 8, with…
Into the Wild(Paramount)Sean Penn waited a good decade before adapting Jon Krakauer’s book about Chris McCandless, who graduated college in 1990, then disappeared into the American unknown, re-emerging as Alexander Supertramp before his final, tragic farewell in the Alaskan wilderness in ’92. Penn’s patience is evident in every finely wrought…
Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series (Classic Media) Army of the Dead (Maverick) Arranged (Film Movement) Ben 10: The Complete Season 3 (Turner) Billy Wilder Film Collection (MGM) Dead Moon Rising (Anthem) Half Moon (Strand) Lonesome Dove: Season One (Echo Bridge)Magnum P.I.: The Complete Eighth Season (Universal) Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium…
Halfway through her best-selling Nickel and Dimed, a book examining the minimum-wage way of life, author Barbara Ehrenreich stops for a disquisition on cleaning other people’s toilets. “The first time I encountered a shit-stained toilet as a maid, I was shocked by the sense of unwanted intimacy,” she writes. “A…
When the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver unveiled its fabulous new David Adjaye-designed building last fall (“Smart and Sassy,” October 27, 2007), director and curator Cydney Payton put together seven discrete shows which were presented in each of the museum’s seven clearly defined spaces. Partly because the exhibits all opened on…
Just a hop, skip and a jump across Wadsworth Boulevard from the Lab at Belmar (see review) is the Lakewood Heritage Center in Belmar Park (801 South Yarrow Street, Lakewood, 303-987-7850). In the LHC’s Radius Gallery, curator Robin Anderson has organized Parallel Pathways, a ceramics duet featuring the work of…
George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George Carlson: Heart of the West deals with the career of an accomplished neo-traditional artist who looks to the century-old Impressionist style for inspiration. The Carlson exhibit includes nearly…
The award-winning play The Lieutenant of Inishmore — written by Martin McDonough of In Bruges fame — is the perfect way to kick of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations if you’re Irish. Even if you’re not, it’s hard to resist this wacky tale of an Irish Liberation Army enforcer and his…
Thomas Steed, owner and financier of Polygamy Productions, has simple things to say about the first installment of his two-part music and sound festival, Illusions in Sound: “People loved it. It was received very well; we got a lot of fan mail.” But there was a hitch: Part one took…
Although he doesn’t like to favor one show over another, Plus Gallery owner and curator Ivar Zeile expects jaws to drop at this month’s exhibition. Zeile deems it an array of “intelligent representational art,” and the display of works from two Colorado painters and one photographer is sure to provoke…
Two very different artists with a common talent for evoking the fantastic and otherworldly in familiar subjects come together in I’ve Got the Zombies If You’ve Got the Tilt-a-Whirl, which is on display at Kitchens’ Ink, 757 Santa Fe Drive. Trevor Alyn makes digital composites of multiple photographs to transform…
It might not seem as though burlesque and feminism have much in common, but Michelle Baldwin, Westword contributor and founder of Burlesque As It Was, has several compelling reasons why she considers burlesque a feminist activity. She’ll share her thoughts tonight during Feminism & Co.: The History and Politics of…
The Stories on Stage Out-of-the-Box Series is called that for a reason: Like its SOS parent series, it’s a cycle of dramatic readings melding literature and theater arts on a theme. But unlike the main stage productions, Out-of-the-Box is sequenced differently, with more than one reader on stage at a…
