Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, right? Right. Our House Accounts Manager, Noel, proves that point in a retro style shirt from True Love worn under a tailored business suit by Nine West. Noel’s clothes…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Something awful has happened. A “Look of the Day” featuring our classified advertising director, Teri, and a pair of amazing red crushed velvet pants was accidentally erased. Tragic, no? Luckily, our Siren of Sales was…
Money might not be able buy everything, but it sure can buy some sweet threads. Who’s our Look of the Day shy guy? I’m not supposed to name names but I’ll give you a hint: His suit is, appropriately enough, by BOSS. And as we all know, BOSS is definitely…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. Denver starlet and avid Broncos fan, Amy Board, shows off the perfect outfit for a classy Valentine’s night out. This floral frock by White House/Black Market references the dark, romantic style of the 1940’s. Amy…
Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy — one worth the effort, because some effort’s actually been put into it. Imagine old-school Woody Allen starring that shit-eating smirker from Van Wilder, Ryan Reynolds, who’s always…
Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off,” says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film student Ridley (Philip Riccio), the gauze-wrapped lead of his no-budget Mummy opus The Death of Death. Pausing to regroup, cast and…
Freudians disheartened by the Bearded One’s fall from psychotherapeutic grace may be cheered to learn that ol’ Sigmund lives and prospers at the movies, at least in child-friendly cinema. The Spiderwick Chronicles, an extravagantly oedipal fantasy adventure based on the popular children’s novels by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, comes…
When it comes to giving a game a vibe, “awesome” is an easy mark to hit. Explosions, hot chicks, macho one-liners, and salivating mutants are all awesome. And it’s just about impossible to overdo the awesome: More explosions, more hot chicks, more machismo, and more mutants are only more awesome…
No Reservations(Warner Bros.) From its cheap, mid-’90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed Food Network behind-the-scenes, blech) to its wide-screen/full-screen option, this feels like something dropped right into the discount bins; it probably debuts at half off this week. And this soufflé of a romantic comedy deserves better:…
The Amateurs (First Look) The Beatrix Potter Collection (BBC Warner) Becoming Jane (Miramax) Blade: The Series — The Complete Series (New Line) Blue State (MGM) Charlie Chan: Volume 4 (Fox) Dallas: The Complete Eighth Season (Warner Bros.)Dedication (Weinstein) The Equalizer: Season One (Universal) Family Ties: The Third Season (Paramount) General…
The central figure in Lydia is a brain-injured young girl who rises periodically to speak to the audience, then subsides again on her pallet in the middle of the family living room, grunting and moaning. Trapped in her stiffening body, Ceci burns with sexual desire and a longing to continue…
I first saw the intimate, two-person musical The Last Five Years when Modern Muse presented it almost two years ago, and now it’s being offered by Denver Center Attractions. The two productions provide an almost-textbook example of the difference that staging, casting and a director’s overall conception can make. Because…
A Body of Water. In Lee Blessing’s play, two middle-aged people wake up one morning in a beautiful house near a lake — or perhaps the shimmering they glimpse through the windows comes from more than one lake or inlet; they’re never quite sure. They have no idea who or where…
Colorado has an important ceramics tradition that stretches back a century. But the ranks of the top artists in the field have taken some big hits over the past decade: Betty Woodman retired from teaching in Boulder and moved to New York; Rodger Lang and Jim McKinnell died; and Nan…
Last fall, the Sandra Phillips Gallery (744 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-5969, www.thesandraphillipsgallery.com) presented a museum-quality show featuring some of Colorado’s most important ceramic artists, including Martha Daniels and Paul Soldner. Before the show opened, Daniels had lunch with Denver Art Museum curator Gwen Chanzit. Daniels — whose own work is…
Face East. Gallery co-directors Jim Robischon and Jennifer Doran usually go the extra mile to put together a great show, but in this case they went an extra few thousand, traveling all the way to China to pick out pieces for Face East, their salute to contemporary Chinese art. In…
Don’t freak when the moon turns blood-red tonight. It’s not the end of the world, just a routine alignment of celestial bodies known as a total lunar eclipse. Over the course of several hours, the Earth will occlude most of the light falling on the moon, refracting the remainder through…
Simon Zalkind, director of exhibitions at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center at the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center, is excited about Good Impressions, a collection of American master prints from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s from the collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer. “Many of the artists have…
Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 epic Alexander Nevsky was made as “a propaganda film for Stalin,” notes Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra executive director Sue Levine. However, its power remains undeniable, thanks in part to Sergei Prokofiev’s sweeping “Alexander Nevsky Cantata” — the centerpiece of the Boulder Phil’s Cinematic Fusion event tonight. A Hollywood…
Pan African Arts Society founder Ashara Ekundayo, who also curated and produced tonight’s “Urban Poetics” Poetry Slam at the Denver Art Museum, describes the event as “a multimedia mash-up of spoken word meets hip-hop meets Black History Month — an amazing lineup of gifted artists and musicians and painting and…
Josh Hartwell worked in two movie theaters growing up, so you can bet that his new play, Contrived Ending, will channel the ups and downs of cleaning candy wrappers and more in a venue for the arts. “It’s about a character who has gone off to film school, and then…
If you’ve never thought of frog embryos as a thing of art and beauty, then you’ve yet to check out the image captured by University of Colorado biology professor Mike Klymkowsky in the course of his research. That photo took seventh place in the 2007 Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition…
