Hugh Grant wears a cape, and Cat knew immediately that she would cotton to anyone who wears a cape. But then she got the director of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art on the phone, and now she has a bit of an intellectual crush on him. He’s…
But you’re going to be cold, you say, in a strapless cocktail dress. Or maybe you need something a little edgier for that Halloween party than what The Cat’s Pajamas offered below. Problems solved: Just throw one of Lynne Bruning’s Wookie coats over your shoulders, and you’ll be ten feet…
The Cat’s Pajamas has always hated Halloween. She never liked having to dress up in some stupid-ass Tiger or Princess or Cheerleader costume. She was never much of one for make-believe, so the whole effort just somehow seemed pointless, even if candy was involved. There was this one time, however,…
Some sage advice overheard at Moontime: “These girls wear $500 shoes and $300 bags into a bar and then get mad when some guy spills a beer on them. I tell them, “Then don’t wear $800 worth of accessories into a bar.'” The Cat’s Pajamas couldn’t agree more. Because if…
Over-caffeinated? Suffering from ADD? If you have a short attention span, you’re just the person Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has in mind for her latest project, SlideSlam. Tonight, she’s giving artists five minutes each to talk about anything they want — as long as every individual talk involves no more than…
While Halloween focuses on being scared by unknown ghouls, its Mexican counterpart, El Día de los Muertos, is all about hanging out and partying with the ghosts you knew in life. Pirate Gallery, at 3655 Navajo Street, has a long tradition of honoring the holiday; soon after the art co-op…
What do Justin Beard, Kymberly Robertson, Tricia Hoke, Lillia Miller, Matt Gillespie and Everett Mansfield have in common? They’ll all show off their handcrafted masks as part of the Masquerade Ball tonight at the Oriental Theater. Also on the lineup are the Roman Numerals and Munly & the Lee Lewis…
There is nothing more adorable than a dog in a costume — except, of course, a pack of dogs in costumes, all swimming and doing tricks for treats in close proximity to one another. And when the proceeds from such dogged activity go to a non-profit organization that funds humane…
A short poem inspired by a man and his muse: Matthew Brown has a vision, an idea, a dream/The ambition to form a club based on needles and string/Likeminded men and their passion for handcrafted things/Imagine it now: just man and his (sewing) machine/It won’t be a club filled with…
I’ve encountered plenty of spirits at the Oxford Hotel, but always of the alcoholic variety. More sensitive souls, including the folks at Ghost Hunter magazine, swear that the 115-year-old building is the most haunted structure in Denver. “It’s where all the spooks and specters hang out,” says Kevin Pharris of…
Oh, yes, it’s that time of year, when girls have the freedom to sex up mundane costumes (slutty Spongebob, anyone?), goth kids stock up on summer wear, and chronic bingers are overstimulated by bashes, banquets and blowout affairs. Get on the party train tonight at The Ball, debuting at the…
Let’s see if we understand you correctly: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls have only two home bouts left in their season, and you haven’t attended even once this year to show support for your official Women’s Flat Track Derby Association team?! Well, slacker, you’re in luck, because tonight’s Spook-N-Roll is going…
“I guess it doesn’t matter where I begin,” reasons the adult narrator of Running With Scissors, the inevitable Oscar contender adapted from Augusten Burroughs’s wacky memoir of coming out as a gay teen in his adoptive guru’s carnivalesque commune. “No one is gonna believe me anyway.” No one? In fact,…
Of all the hundreds of pedophile priests to be flushed out of the woodwork in recent Catholic Church history, Father Oliver O’Grady has to be one of the most harmless-looking — and the most sinister. Wispy, unremarkable and accommodating, with an ingratiating half-smile playing permanently about his thin lips, Father…
They say youse can never go home again. Nevertheless, Queens-bred big-timer Dito Montiel revisits his old Astoria stamping grounds in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a Sundance-sanctioned testosterone indie loosely based on the thirty-something writer-director and occasional fashion model’s neo-Beat semi-autobiography of the same name. Montiel may be a…
Manufactured history guarantees a manufactured controversy: Gabriel Range’s Death of a President, which docu-dramatizes the 2007 assassination of George W. Bush, has been preceded by long, raucous fanfare. Excoriated on talk radio, damned as a snuff film, banned by two theater chains, the British production has also garnered celebrity dis-endorsements…
There’s a scene about halfway through Catch a Fire during which freedom fighters — men and women, each boasting such nicknames as “Pete My Baby” and “Hot Stuff” — are being trained at an African National Congress safehouse in Mozambique. Their ranks consist of South Africans who’ve been politicized by…
Artland: USA is a twelve-part television series that explores art and architecture across America from behind the wheel of an RV — and in the third episode, which screens tonight, hosts Charles Luxton and Mame McCutchin motor from tiny Marfa, Texas, to the Mile High City. Along the way, Luxton…
This past summer, Cydney Payton, director of Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art, put together a mini-blockbuster, Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985-Present. In that exhibit — which was displayed not only in the MCA’s own facility, but also extended to Metro State’s Center for Visual Art, to the Carol Keller Project…
The new P Design Gallery (2590 Walnut Street, 720-259-2516) adds something new to the art scene in town: a place where design is presented not only as home furnishings, but as serious contemporary art. P is partly a furniture boutique showcasing cutting-edge design and partly a proper exhibition space, where…
Emilio Lobato and Martha Daniels. The solos that open the season at William Havu Gallery combine the disparate work of two of the area’s best-known and well-regarded artists. On the walls is Emilio Lobato: Desde Siempre (Since Forever), which comprises the artist’s signature abstractions. The title refers to Lobato’s self-exploration…
It was the end of the week, and I was so tired I was leaning on my friend’s shoulder as we waited for Someone Else’s Life to start. I could tell this was going to be a classy production by Conundrum. All the signs were there: the high-quality stock on…
