In 2005, Jim Schwartzkopff went to Bulgaria with Planina — a Colorado-based group of Eastern European folk musicians — to live in a village and learn the music that sounds so foreign to Western ears. Few members of the group have Eastern European heritage, so they wanted to immerse themselves…
Aurora’s stubborn little East End Arts District just may redub itself the city’s “blue-light district” with art sprouting from all the nooks and crannies along the Colfax Avenue corridor between Clinton and Geneva streets during tonight’s East End Winter Art Walk. From 5 to 9 p.m., area galleries and art…
Eugene O’Neill’s More Stately Mansions might never have seen the light of day: The second (after Touch of the Poet) in a projected cycle of plays following the New England-ensconced Harford family through history, its over-long draft was burned in the fireplace, along with other unfinished works, by the declining…
Opening tonight and continuing through Sunday (with an additional date on December 1) at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder’s Evolving Doors Dance Project presents Flawless, an intricate look at the human body and all its imperfections. Choreographed by Angie Simmons, the eclectic performance offers a creative view of…
A question for the guys out there: Has there ever been a time when — brewski in hand, chilling on your couch during a Broncos game — you looked over at your best friend and thought, “If only there were a way that we, the best of bros, could go…
If it’s true what they say — that you can judge a man by the quality of company he keeps — then Zach Galifianakis pretty much kicks ass. Over the past few years, the bearded absurdist comic has been involved in projects with such disparate artists as Kanye West, Fiona…
Chris Loffelmacher and the rest of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life team had their work cut out for them when they decided to tie in cooking demos with the overarching theme “Scene.” “Food that you eat with your eyes first,” explains Loffelmacher. “Food that tends to be very…
Plainsong, Colorado author Kent Haruf’s lyrical, spare novel, was considered too racy for the One Book, One Denver program. But it should work just fine at the Stage Theatre, where the world premiere of the adaptation based on the novel debuts tonight in previews. Last year, the Denver Center Theatre…
Every superhero has a secret identity — even the ones who spend their days hustling tips as the self-proclaimed “ambassadors to Hollywood Boulevard.” Confessions of a Superhero, opening tonight at Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli and running through November 29, is an X-ray view of the lives of four performers…
My favorite piece of art that I own (although I truthfully couldn’t afford it) is Dede LaRue’s “Hell Cat,” a ferocious, smiling cat outta hell whose golden tabby half torso leaps gleefully, taxidermy eyes all aglow, as if he’s crashing through the wall to perform some willful destruction in my…
Art Deco was a product of the opulent Jazz Age, a time when technological advances, relative financial stability and modern thinking encouraged the integration of imagery borrowed from both primitive and futuristic fine-art influences, man-made materials and an elegant, streamlined symmetry into a variety of forms. Architecture, fashion, furniture, graphic…
Last Hat in Town Director: Zachary Fink Remaining showtime: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, November 18 Told through the stories of three men with three unique and intimiate ties to the rugged business of oil and gas extraction in the Rocky Mountain West, director Zachary Fink’s documentary Last Hat in Town uses…
Great shows never die; they just move to cable. And, sometimes, to PBS. KBDI Channel 12 is into its second run of the full Northern Exposure series, which originally ran from 1990 to 1995 on CBS. After spending some time on cable’s A&E channel, in the “Daybreak” spot (where it…
The world’s worst writer has had enough. Tormented by the knowledge that he will never make it as a playwright, he abandons his primary passion for a more lucrative trade at which he finds he has a natural talent: Robbing banks. And this spur-of-the-moment act of desperation changes his life…
Mountain Town Director: Brendan Kiernan and Frank Pickell Cinematographer: Jasper Gray Show times: Monday, November 12, 6:15 p.m.; Wednesday, November 14, 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, November 18, 5:30 p.m. Pick path, pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, and the universe will conspire with you to make things happen. Even…
A recent posting on the Starz Denver Film Festival website announced that a “mystery screening” has been added to the roster to play at the Esquire Theatre at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, November 13. What might be concealed inside this feature-length grab bag? Well, the blurb says the language is…
OK, there are some weird signs that things in the world aren’t right. And a group of religious fanatics pointing to those signs. And a subway train. Plus, of course, a small group of “normal” people just trying to get home. Add these together, add some cheap blood and gore,…
The JFK assassination is probably the best-covered event in pre-9/11 American history and the documentary Oswald’s Ghost is director Robert Stone’s another take on it. As documentaries go, it’s fairly entertaining, but it lacks a strong message or narrative thrust. It builds a case that Oswald could have done it…
Whatever your punk poison, this Saturday’s Punk Rock Flea Market promises to have something for you. The monthly event features music on vinyl and CD, as well as tables set up by local bands, clothing shops, designers and artists. Presented by Suburban Home Records’ Vinyl Collective, the market is a…
No one can know what exactly will come from this current strike—but its potential to completely alter the landscape of television, should it drag on long enough, can’t be ignored. It’s one thing to complain about the talk-show reruns, or tire of the newsmagazines and reality shows that are produced…
Earlier this week, I started talking about a television revolution. It was going to come anyway, but the Writers’ Strike of 2007 is pushing the schedule forward a bit, or has the potential to do so, anyway. But even if the long-term ramifications of the strike are potentially dramatic, what…
A doom-ridden pulp cabalist with a dark sense of purpose as well as humor, Richard Kelly shoots the moon with his rich, strange and very funny sci-fi social satire, Southland Tales. Kelly’s debut, Donnie Darko, was the first post-millennial cult hit; his second feature, Southland Tales, achieved film maudit status…
