Before Olivia was a cruise and Lilith was a fair, Kate Clinton was doing standup, working as one of the first and very few out lesbian comedians. Now she’s on the last leg of her It’s Come to This! 25th-anniversary tour, and things have definitely changed since she was the…
Over the years, the University of Denver has played host to a number of artist-instructors, from DU School of Art founder Vance Kirkland to present sculpture professor Lawrence Argent. But surprisingly, there’s been no real catalogue of their collective artistic contributions as DU faculty members— at least not until a…
For Little Leaguers everywhere during the 1980s, Darryl Strawberry was the model of raw athletic perfection. We dreamed of matching the posterized profile of Strawberry in his pre-swing coil: thin 6’6″ frame, right knee tucked nearly to the waist, hands cocked level with the blue-and-orange letters stamped across his gray…
You might think you’ve seen everything that Seed — Fashion Denver’s quarterly showcase of, well, Denver fashion — has to offer. But you’d be dead wrong. For starters, today’s installment takes place at the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, a virgin venue for Seed. Second, DJs will be supplemented…
For the past three years, eight students at the National Theatre Conservatory have studied as apprentices at the Denver Center Theatre Company. And after 35 classes, 1,095 days and countless peripheral roles in such DCTC productions as King Lear and The Pillowman, they’re finally getting an opening night of their…
I’ve got a theory about Grindhouse, and it goes like this: At some point during the brainstorming/beer-bonging process by which Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino developed their multimillion-dollar ersatz-exploitation double feature, the boys finished off the super nachos, sparked up a spliff and said, “Dude, let’s just motherfucking bring it.”…
No director works closer to his unconscious than David Lynch, and, stimulated by the use of amateur digital-video technology, his latest feature ventures as far inland as this blandly enigmatic filmmaker has ever gone. A movie about Lynch’s obsessions, Inland Empire is largely a meditation on the power of recording:…
Lest we imagine that the publishing industry went to hell only after James Frey and J.T. Leroy clambered on board, here comes Lasse Hallström to remind us of a literary dustup emblematic of a much earlier nadir for American mendacity. The Hoax parses the rise and fall of faker Clifford…
Nothing is too crazed, corny or freakishly florid for Tears of the Black Tiger. The debut of writer-director Wisit Sasanatieng is a delightfully unembarrassed affair; conceived in such good, giddy spirits, it might have been called Blissfully Yours. A flamboyantly kitschy mélange of genre anachronisms and new-school ‘tude, this super-duper…
As I watched The Light in the Piazza, I momentarily stopped being a critic. I didn’t try to assess what I was seeing; I just sat back agog — and yes, that funny old word fits exactly — and entranced, letting this marvelous musical happen to me. There’s so much…
Although it’s filled with George Bernard Shaw’s usual spot-on analysis, as well as a fair share of his parody and wit, Mrs. Warren¹s Profession is an early and far-from-perfect piece of theater. It’s talky — that goes without saying — and peopled by characters who seem intended more to illustrate…
A House With No Walls. There’s a special category of pundit: the black conservative, those darlings of the Republican Party who profit hugely by attacking other African-Americans. The protagonist of Thomas Gibbons’s play is a more thoughtful and credible version of this kind of talker, a brilliant historian named Cadance…
I was talking with an artist friend the other day, and as usual, the topic was current aesthetic trends. He told me how tired he is of all the art that looks like minimalism but actually isn’t. Sometimes this kind of thing goes by the name of post-minimalism, which is…
Frequently the alternative art spaces in town feature work that only a mother could love, but every once in a while they feature a show that’s as good as anything else around. That’s the case with the stunning exhibit now at Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173), the city’s front-running…
Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to the Denver Art Museum. For one of the special shows inaugurating the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Native Arts curator Nancy Blomberg has selected over a hundred works for the…
Twin Peaks: The Second Season (Paramount) So, here it is: perhaps the most infamous shark-jumping in TV history. The first season of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s comedy-horror-mystery-soap opera caused a cultural frenzy of “damn good coffee” quips and questions over who murdered prom queen/town doorknob Laura Palmer. It’s also…
A video game about birds flying biplanes makes as much sense as a game about fish captaining submarines, but there are far bigger gripes to be found in Wing Island for the Wii. “In a world ruled by birds,” explains the manual’s grim version of the future, Sparrow Wing Jr…
All That Jazz: Special Music Edition (Fox) The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (Image) Back Stage (Strand) Bong Water (First Look) The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series (Paramount) Charlotte’s Web (Paramount) Copying Beethoven (MGM) Dancing With the Stars: Cardio Dance (Lions Gate) Entourage: Season Three, Part One (HBO) Jump In!:…
Cat has been coveting this little black Rami Kashou dress for a long time. Don’t forget: April 4 is the first of the challenges being presented as part of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Last Wednesday night the twelve competing designers were asked to go forth with $15o and create…
Denver City Councilman Doug Linkhart found himself in a bit of a fashion conundrum last week. After being called a racist in a letter to the Rocky Mountain News — based on his statement about kids who wear “saggy, baggy pants all over the place” — Linhart’s campaign manager joked…
Sean Rice The very helpful Matt from Denver Bullets. Plus, we know how much Cat loves camo! Last Saturday, March 31, Cat went to check out a different kind of accessory — one that fires fifty-caliber bullets. You see, while she loves fashion and frippery, she also writes about homelessness,…
We’re almost through the full dozen designers competing in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Here’s to Alec, who loves Jackie O and Maris the Great! Brit Coleman Name: Alec Smith Company name: Aki Getsu Years designing: 10 Bio: Alec Smith’s obsession with design started when he attended Denver School of…
