Cat can’t decide if she’s in love or if she’s lost her mind. (Yes, Stacy, we know what you will say. Your thoughts on Cat’s shoes have been duly noted in the comments.) You see these green Corazon sandals from Re-Mix Classic Vintage Footwear are either the most darling thing…
In the case pitting retailers against designers, the Supreme Court ruled for the designers today (June 27). In a five-to-four decision, the justices chose to overturn an old anti-trust law that allowed the retailers to set minimum prices on the goods they sell. The question now: Will this drive prices…
Kids not only love to relive their own stories, but they also have the imaginations to pull it off from scratch, winging it on memory alone. That’s why My Horizon, a new exhibit of landscape works by Downtown Aurora Visual Arts students ages seven to eighteen, promises to take gallery-goers…
Today’s Liberty Run, Walk & Festival of Rights has a political slant, as befits an event benefiting the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado. On top of music from Hotcakes Dean & the Flapjacks and assorted walks and runs for children and adults, “we’ve got a bunch of kids’…
After Elitch Gardens amusement park left its longtime location in northwest Denver in the mid-’90s, neighbors began to look with increasing concern upon the two structures that remained at West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street. The domed Carousel Pavilion was fading quickly, and the venerable Elitch Theatre — a Victorian…
Cirque du Soleil’s latest production, Corteo, is all about a dead clown. Or, to be more specific, a clown imagining his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere and observed by angels. “It just promises to be really cool,” notes Doatsy Peifer of Peifer Communications. “It’s a different creative…
The cult of Kahlo needs no explanation: Frida Kahlo, the artist, is already fascinating for her wholly original work, but when you view her in terms of her historical and social milieu — well, what more is there to say? She was born an icon. The Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray,…
Fans of the Man in Black know that Johnny Cash was just hitting his stride when he died, sitting on top of an illustrious fifty-year career that hadn’t ebbed in spite of health problems and the death of his beloved wife, June Carter. The iconic Cash ethos will always be…
Do you like to see bike kids jump ship over their handlebars? If so, then roll down to Civic Center Park tonight at 6 p.m. to catch all kinds of fixed-gear silliness, from bike soccer (yeah, soccer) to footdown (last man riding wins) to other games that result in scraped…
Theta Naught’s website claims that the band’s musical mastery, the precise way it builds its subsonic rhythms and melodic interludes, actually stems from its “brilliant use of mathematical equations and sound declensions.” The bio goes on to paint a scintillatingly hyperbolic picture of the bandmate geniuses working on everything from…
“If you asked me two years ago what I thought the future of Lipgloss would be, I’d probably tell you that the night would be dead by now,” remarks Lipgloss DJ and co-founder Tyler Jacobson. The weekly dance party has become a Friday-night staple in the Golden Triangle, and tonight…
Tonight’s e-town concert — a special presentation with Michael Franti and Spearhead, the John Butler Trio and Mavis Staples, taking place at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison — is billed as the first annual Green Rocks. So what’s to come in future years? “More fun, more green, more education, more…
For last year’s inaugural Great American Sing-Along, Tom Riis and the American Music Research Center crew ran off 100 programs, confident they’d be recycling more than a few of them. Then 400 people showed up. “We were blown away,” says Riis, director of the AMRC. “People were walking out really…
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, in all its interminable, rambling brilliance, inspired — even defined — a generation of teens and twenty-somethings suffocating under the tyrannical stronghold of nuclear families and spirit-stifling routine. But baby boomers weren’t the only ones who clocked out of structured, civilized life one day and…
Any buckin’-bronc fanatics worth their salt know that the Fourth of July holiday is the biggest and best time of the year for rodeo. And there’s a darn good reason that the roughest, toughest names are all appearing at the Greeley Stampede. “This is our 85th annual Stampede,” explains marketing…
Kim Franco thinks big. Or, as it turns out, bigger than she thought: In the eight months that the former Cabaret Diosa songstress Franco and her Company Ink creative compadres spent shaping their new musical comedy, Ciao Eden!, the two-hour biblical-burlesque romp has taken on a life of its own…
Featuring food and produce vendors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., works by local artists from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and the Hot Sounds concert series at 5 p.m…
The story goes like this: When reporters in New York asked Molly Brown to what she attributed surviving the Titanic disaster, she replied, “Typical Brown luck. We’re unsinkable.” And while Molly Brown will always be remembered best for her unsinkability, her life story goes far beyond that ill-fated voyage. This…
We’re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It’s tricky, but it works.” So declares Michael Moore in the midst of his new documentary, Sicko. Moore could be riffing on the war in Iraq, to name only our most recent intervention, but he’s actually referring to U.S…
Still an all-American bloodhound after all these years, Bruce Willis’s Detective John McClane begins Live Free or Die Hard by sniffing around a Rutgers-Camden parking lot and busting the frat boy trying to cop a feel off his daughter, Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Oh, Dad! Since much of the ol’…
Parked uneasily between sensitive indie and studio chick flick, Lajos Koltai’s Evening makes star-studded hash of Susan Minot’s beautifully written, if emotionally constricted, novel about a terminally ill woman trying to wrest meaning out of the shards of her memories. Floating in and out of delirium in her Cambridge, Massachusetts,…
Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.” So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied spirit materializes — Jiminy Cricket-style — to guide the rodent hero of Brad Bird’s Ratatouille toward his goal of gastronomic excellence. He also seems to be…
