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 lobby hero of the play’s title is Jeff, a security guard for a Manhattan apartment building, and the title — as you might guess — is ironic. As Lobby Hero opens, Jeff is engaged in conversation with his supervisor, William. The two men could not be more different. Jeff…
By some miracle, Ireland’s long agony seems to have ended with the current power-sharing agreement between Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, a former commander in the Irish Republican Army. This deal, achieved in the last days of Tony Blair’s government, may be the British prime minister’s best and most enduring…
Dead Man Walking. We are one of the last Western nations to retain the death penalty, but you don’t hear much about it these days. Where executions were once front-page news, they’re now relegated to single paragraphs far back in the paper — if they’re mentioned at all. In an…
Porky’s: The Ultimate Collection (Fox) When writer-director Bob Clark was killed by a drunk driver in April, the obits trumpeted his holiday classic A Christmas Story . . . but were somewhat reluctant to mention that, oh, yeah, he also wrote and directed Porky’s. But there’s no question which is…
There’s a unique challenge in designing superhero games: How do you make it fun to play a character who, by definition, is vastly more powerful than his opposition? Hulk encounters a purse-snatcher: Hulk smash! Hulk win! Hulk bored. With battles that one-sided, the thrill of being superheroic quickly wanes –…
Afro Samurai (Funimation) Airwolf: Season Three (Universal) Alone With Her (IFC) Breaking Point (Fox) The Complete Matrix Trilogy (Warner Bros.) Epic Movie (Fox) Escape to Canada (Disinformation) Fay Grim (Magnolia) The 40-Year-Old Virgin: Unrated 2-Disc Double Your Pleasure Edition (Universal) The Good German (Warner Bros.) The John Wayne Collection (Paramount)…
CANNES, France—The world’s preeminent film festival celebrated its 60th birthday party — the opening banquet catered by the world’s hippest, or is that once-hippest? — filmmaker. Hardly the disaster many feared, but far from the triumph others anticipated, Wong Kar-wai’s first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights — starring Norah Jones…
CANNES, France—The Cannes Film Festival is chiefly revered as a showcase for prolific, careerist auteurs, so the appearance of Savage Grace, the first feature in 15 years by New Queer Cinema co-instigator Tom Kalin (Swoon), was certainly striking — not that a film in which Julianne Moore stars as a…
I think Bill Graefe Jr., with the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs convention, put it best when he wrote in his newsletter that this is the “gayest Memorial Weekend Denver has ever seen.” Not only are the square dancers do-si-do-ing over at the Convention Center Hyatt this weekend,…
There’s still time for a road trip this holiday weekend. Head up I-70 to the Buffalo Bill Museum on Lookout Mountain, a Denver facility that features not only fascinating displays devoted to William F. Cody’s life and times, but a terrific gift store and a spectacular view of the plains…
In my humble, jam-band-loving opinion, all tickets to the Beer Show should come with a warning label that reads: This product contains potentially unstable elements that may explode when mixed together. Not that there’s anything wrong with ten metal bands and all-you-can-drink microbrews. Au contraire: Either one sounds like a…
A party to celebrate Memorial Day weekend for gays — players with the North American Gay Volleyball Association receive $10 off the cover charge…
Dewey Paul Moffitt is somewhat of a tribute giver extraordinaire. The co-owner of the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, Moffitt has paid homage to Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and the Band. But last year’s Bob Dylan tribute, Dylan65 (dubbed so because it was held on Dylan’s 65th…
Ah, the joys of bargain hunting! Two of the most avid collector communities in the universe — bookworms and music lovers — come out of their lairs and collide this weekend at the Twisted and Tattered Tent Sale. But there should be plenty of room for everyone when the Tattered…
Naturally, an experiential artist like Denver live art maverick Eric Matelski would be fascinated by the city’s bountiful network of community gardens. Gardening is a little like being an artist, after all, and galleries are like gardens. But how could Matelski blend the two separate communities? “I really wanted to…
Homer Simpson might have once called them “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” but let’s face it: When it comes to cuisine, the French blow the rest of the world — with the possible exception of the Italians — completely out of the water. My most memorable meals have been almost exclusively consumed…
“It’s snowing right now. It has been since about three o’clock yesterday,” Kristin Lee, marketing manager at Arapahoe Basin, said from her office last week. A-Basin is the only ski area still open, and it expects to stay open into June this year. Even the new Montezuma Bowl, which was…
As one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, Lower East Highland possesses a personality as fluid as the Platte River it sits above. Once the province of Italian immigrants, then Latino families, the area is now as known for its hipster hangouts and high-priced eateries as for its Queen Anne cottages…
I’m not thirty — yet. I’ll soon be passing from my mid-twenties into my late twenties, and I have a feeling that unlike eighteen or 21 or even 25, thirty is gonna sneak up on me and slap me upside my head. Then comes forty, then fifty — so, essentially,…
Film critic turned novelist Sara Voorhees honed her love of cinema in these parts, as she notes in quirky fashion at the conclusion of The Lumiere Affair: A Novel of Cannes, which she’ll spotlight at a book signing event today. The tome’s acknowledgement section features her thank you to “the…
You’re scared and confused. The world spins queasily out of control, terrible menaces loom all around and you can’t remember who you’re supposed to be. No, you haven’t suffered a brain injury or even smoked too much pot: You’re going through a quarter-life crisis. An angst-ridden post-adolescent phase that’s seeming…
