Afrail-looking young woman, outfitted with a bomb, wanders through Times Square — finger on the switch, searching for the moment to blow up. That, in a sentence, is the premise of Julia Loktev’s outrageously abstract Day Night Day Night. Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating…
The idea of “getting axed” is exploited for maximum double-entendre value in Severance, a grisly horror-comedy from the U.K. that has its tongue planted so firmly in its cheek that you half expect it to pop out the other side. Yes, heads (and, in one indelible bit, a severed foot)…
This is the second time this season that I’ve watched an actress struggle into her pantyhose onstage. Both times, the sequence was brilliantly executed and brought down the house, and each version illustrated that actress’s particular strengths. In Modern Muse’s Bad Dates, it was Diana Dresser — blond and lithe…
Judy GeBauer’s Every Secret Thing deals with the effect of McCarthyism on a group of high school teachers, and it couldn’t have premiered at a more fitting time. Fox’s Bill (“Shut up!”) O’Reilly has just set his sights on a Conference on World Affairs panel at Boulder High School that…
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. Apparently major changes occurred when members of Charles Schulz’s well-loved Peanuts gang reached their teens: Pigpen became a sex-obsessed, homophobic jock; Lucy entered a psych ward after setting the little red-haired girl’s hair on fire; Linus morphed into a dazed pothead; Schroeder…
Surely Homare Ikeda is on just about everyone’s list of the most interesting and important contemporary painters in the area. His work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, and he’s had pieces included in shows at any number of venues, particularly the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver…
The Singer Gallery of the Mizel Center (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360) is nominally a Jewish institution, although the programs are typically more secular than religious. However, the current exhibit, Fourteen Stations/Hey Yud Dalet, is thoroughly Jewish, and the subject is the Holocaust. On display are fourteen monumental charcoal drawings…
Altar Girls. Two very different exhibits roughly collide into one another in the middle of the Museo de las Américas. One part, put together by Museo curator Kristi Martens, is an extravaganza of santos made mostly in Colorado, Mexico and New Mexico, and primarily culled from a recent gift to…
The Sergio Leone Anthology (MGM) Sergio Leone made Westerns like Wagner made ditties. This essential boxed set — four films with four discs of supplemental material, much of it scholarly and insightful — shows the Italian director supplanting the elegiac Monument Valley iconography of John Ford with a darker, ruder,…
Bold proclamation time: There wouldn’t even be an Xbox 360 without Halo. Microsoft lost billions on the original Xbox even with its mega-successful sci-fi games, so it’s hard to imagine the red ink that would have spilled without them; even suggesting a second go at the console business would’ve had…
The Abyss: Special Edition (Fox) The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Extra Frills Edition (MGM) Bruce Springsteen With the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin (Sony) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Re-Imagining of the 1919 Masterpiece of Horror (Image) CHiPs: The Complete First Season (Turner) Coming to America:…
This cowtown is brimming with great style and interesting ways to while away a lazy summer afternoon, from the perfect mojito to a perfect getaway dress. Treat yourself. Tee Party High temperatures are no excuse for too-short shorts and baggy T-shirts. These sweet tops sold at The Fabric Lab are…
Bag Lady The best parts of summer: adventure and the open road. Be ready to embark at a moment’s notice with a whimsical tote bag and a pair of go-with-anything, go-anywhere Frye wedges. You’ll always arrive in style, wherever the pavement leads. — Amy Haimerl Top photo at left: Inner…
Q: What books are you looking forward to reading this summer, and what is your literary guilty pleasure? “The books I recommend are all serious and sometimes dark. I can’t help it; I like it that way. This summer I’ll be reading Snow, Ashes, by Alyson Hagy; Spring Tides, by…
Idle Wild It’s patio season again, and Denver has a bevy of beauties. So whether you’re whiling away a morning, noon or night, grab a book or just your best people-watching goggles and set up camp. Just remember to order often — and tip your waitstaff. Gaia Bistro on Old…
Growing up in Fruita, I hated summer. It was hot and miserable. There was no air- conditioning in my father’s old Ford truck, and I’d either stick to the vinyl seats or itch for days if we put on the covers. My mother liked to call the area the “lunar…
Colorado Springs is overlooked as a travel destination, its charms overshadowed by Focus on the Family, tales of Ted Haggard and the suburban sprawl along Academy Boulevard. But the downtown and west side make for a delightful two-day getaway that doesn’t require breaking the bank for gas. Day One No…
When it’s hot out, there’s nothing so refreshing as a dip in 104-degree water. Afterward, the air feels cooler, tensions are gone, and the world seems an altogether better place. Whether for an afternoon splurge or a weekend of play, Colorado has plenty of hot springs ready and bubbling. Indian…
Ever since I read Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture, by Roberta Price, I’ve been obsessed with the south-central portion of our state. Her experiences living in a hippie commune deep in the Huerfano Valley, outside of Walsenburg, fascinate me. So whenever I get out of town for…
A few weeks ago on The Colbert Report, my favorite faux anchorman reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star. A professional devil’s advocate, Colbert saw this as (I’m paraphrasing) a reason to gas up the SUV, because there’s another friendly rock out there. Joking aside, is…
Jim Ruel joins forces with a trio of fellow Native American funnymen: Vaughn Eaglebear, JR Redwater and Marc Yaffee, who describes himself as a “Mex-i-jo” — Mexican, Irish and Navajo…
At present, the New York Yankees are practically cellar-dwellers. But back in the day, pinstripers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig established legends that live on in Capturing America’s Game: Photographs of Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig, a showcase that steps to the plate today at the Denver Art Museum. For…
