No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell’s eyebrows with a tweezer. Black, fluffy and gloriously unilateral, they still aren’t the prettiest things about In Bruges; that honor falls to the Belgian city itself, known for its scenic medieval turrets, bourgeois tedium and unfavorable comparisons with Amsterdam. Bruges…
When a friend recently told me that she’d been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool’s Gold adorning her local multiplex — that she’d thought for sure this movie had already come and gone — I understood her bewilderment. Even as a professional film critic…
Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the fuss is about. Burnout, the crash-happy racing series from EA, puts the pedal down once again…
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford(Warner Bros.)Beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and 19 hours too long, Assassination is an uneven mix of the artful and the arty that never had a shot at bringing in the audience that Brad Pitt’s chiseled melon should’ve delivered. Pitt is great,…
Across the Universe (Sony) The Apartment: Collector’s Edition (MGM) The Aristocats: Special Edition (Disney) Blonde and Blonder (First Look) Boy Meets Girl (Unearthed) Drive-In Cult Classics: 8 Movie Collection (Navarre) Feast of Love (MGM) Fierce People (Lionsgate) The Jane Austen Book Club (Sony) Midnight Express 30th Anniversary Edition (Sony)Psychotronica: Volumes…
Kent Haruf’s novel Plainsong won critical acclaim for its quiet beauty, and Eric Schmiedl’s stage adaptation — miraculously — comes close to doing the original justice. This isn’t one of those theater pieces that wows you on the spot; instead, Plainsong stays with you, settling slowly into your consciousness until…
Without memory, we lose our identity. We can’t know who we are unless we’re aware of what we usually think about and read, who our friends are, what we like to eat, the flowers we prefer. And the workings of memory are mysterious. In his new book, Musicophilia, the ever-inspiring…
A couple of years ago, while I was serving on a panel, one of my fellow panelists — I won’t say who — commented that it was no longer relevant where something was made because art had become truly international. I had two words for this would-be theorist: Chinese art…
In 1990, Denver Art Museum director Lewis Sharp hired his old friend Craig Miller to start the Architecture, Design and Graphics department. A gifted and visionary curator, Miller took the ball and ran with it, collecting pieces with abandon. He became especially deft at absorbing entire collections of graphics, and…
Grounded. This good-looking exhibit pairs recent landscape-based abstract paintings by Lui Ferreyra with photos recording roadside landmarks by Peter Brown. Ferreyra fractures the imagery in his distinctive work by reducing it to non-repeating patterns of geometric shapes. There are reverberations of cubism in this, as well as references to digitization…
I don’t have HBO, so I can’t say whether its version of In Treatment — a television series following a therapist as he conducts sessions with a range of patients, occasionally attending a therapy session himself — measures up to the original Israeli series, Betipul/In Treatment. But if HBO managed…
To Chef William Poole and Loren Penton, his partner in business and crime at their LoHi shop, Wen Chocolates, chocolate is life. Or at least the true meaning of existence: “Wen” is Egyptian for “to exist,” and the bounding rabbit that is Wen’s stylish logo is also its hieroglyphic. To…
Don’t be fooled by the title: Space Invaders, the new show opening today at the Museo de las Américas, isn’t about little green men or Roswell minutiae. Rather, it refers to what you get when you deconstruct those two simple words — “space” and “invaders.” And the ten artists included…
Tucson artist Kate Breakey found her calling one day in 1995 when a bird she tried to rescue died in her hand, leaving her moved and fascinated by her closeness to the creature’s final moment. By photographing it and, later, more birds, as well as reptiles and flora found dead…
From a stomping by the Hells Angels to dodging “bats” on a desert road outside Barstow, California, Hunter S. Thompson is the counterculture icon of American letters. Immortalized as Uncle Duke in the “Doonesbury” comic strip, channeled on the big screen by both Bill Murray and Johnny Depp and author…
Just as Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund all pass through the wardrobe into Narnia to find a world they can be part of, the goal of tonight’s Frozen Balls: A Carnival in Narnia at Naropa’s Performing Arts Center (2130 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder) is to create an inclusive winter festival…
BDSM 101. Female ejaculation. Anal play for beginners. These aren’t your typical convention-floor seminar topics. But then again, The Sex Show — an erotic trade and educational show taking place today through Sunday at the Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 East 58th Avenue — isn’t your typical convention. “I’d like to…
Last year, harmonicat Clay Kirkland hit the big 6-0 — an achievement that surprised him. “I never expected to live until sixty, and actually took steps to prevent it,” he admits. To mark the occasion, he staged a concert he dubbed Beat the Reaper, “because every extra day was like…
Connections between hip-hop and the “green” lifestyle generally refer to, well, reefer. In the rare instance when “eco” does get hype, it’s usually during a streetside purchase of misspelled Ecko gear. But tonight, Urban Allyance aims to prove that environmental awareness and consciousness mean more to hip-hop heads than merely…
For their Asian pop-culture boutique, Andrew Novick and his wife, Janene Hurst, wanted a name that was too long and translated funny — like the nonsensical English phrases on Japanese T-shirts. Inspired by a plastic model of a dessert they spotted in the window of a Japanese cafe, they named…
As far as anyone can tell, ski-waxing began in the 1860s in California, when gold-rush miners held impromptu downhill races. They discovered that smearing compounds on the bottoms of their skis helped the equipment slide over snow, increasing their speed. Many early waxes were not actually made of wax —…
Banish the hump-day blues at Distortion Disko, a weekly excursion into the groove at the hi-dive, 7 South Broadway. The night features an eclectic, electric mix of dancefloor-friendly tunes mixed by DJ Rockstar Aaron and weekly guest DJs. “The night’s going to open up with some Brit pop and rock,”…
