No, Cat has not been napping. But what with the election and the four hours and three voting lines she stood in this week, she hasn’t been feeling all that perky and fashionable. Cat thought about sending in a front-line report of the sartorial style at St. Charles Rec Center…
Boulder has had first-rate restaurants for years — and lately, such eateries as Frasca Food & Wine and the Kitchen have brought the town national attention. Now an equally first-rate publicist is determined to further increase Boulder’s visibility. Kate Lacroix returned to town from New York two years ago and…
The thirtieth Starz Denver Film Festival (formerly the Denver International Film Festival) starts tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex with a red-carpet screening of the Tamara Jenkins film The Savages, starring the lovable Laura Linney and the perpetually misanthropic Philip…
The Athena Festival was so named because “Goddess Festival” sounded a little too creepy, says founder Dana Cain. A few years ago, the Littleton woman was looking to create an event with meaning and depth — something spiritual, but not another dime-a-dozen psychic fair. Thus was born a fest celebrating…
Upper 15th Street is changing fast: Places like Lola and Karma opened in the last year, and the new Highland Bridge and long-awaited Vitamin Cottage are both about to. But in the midst of all that change, designer/boutique-owner and neighborhood veteran Mona Lucero has been keeping stride, stocking her shop’s…
It’s getting harder and harder for Denver audiences to see their hometown hero and Last Comic Standing winner Josh Blue, as he’s booked solid through June 2007, headlining rooms all over the nation. Sure, those glued to the city’s comedy scene can catch him every now and again when he…
Time perhaps scrambling it’s for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu to stop his narratives. After making an exciting debut in 2000 with Amores Perros — a movie whose gimmicky Tarantino-esque tinkering with structure seemed fresher en español and grounded in gritty Mexico City location shooting — Gonzalez Iñarritu apparently decided to devote…
Pity Max Skinner, emasculated over his lamb chops. On a gray afternoon, at London’s hotspot du jour, his gloating superior unveils a plot to poach his most lucrative client, divesting him of a six-figure (pounds sterling) bonus in the process. Fuck it. The bummed-out bond trader hands in a resignation…
Once an actor gets big enough to take whatever kind of role he wants, it makes sense that the biggest stretch imaginable, given his current situation, is the part of a powerless man with no control over the world around him. Call it a “nice” movie — a vehicle designed…
Among documentary muckrakers, Kirby Dick may not be as righteously indignant as Michael Moore or as brilliantly droll as Nick Broomfield, but say this for the maker and star of This Film Is Not Yet Rated: He’s not afraid to soil his hands to get the story. Rummaging through the…
Fine-art videos have been playing a larger role in the contemporary realm in recent years, but I have a hard time understanding why. And a significant group exhibit with the clever title What Sound Does a Color Make? , on view through the weekend at the Center for Visual Art,…
John Matlack: Bridges, Fishes, and Boats
Of the various alternative spaces in Denver, Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) has more than its share of established artists as members. Surely this explains why Spark is a flagship of the Santa Fe Arts District. It is one of only a handful of places along the row…
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…
With its battered floors and bright galleries, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is an unusual venue for theater, but in some ways a very fitting one for Lee Kalcheim’s Defiled, or the Convenience of a Short-Haired Dog. In the first gallery — which you must pass through to reach…
The Big Bang. Sometimes it’s nice not to have to think too much, to just settle back and watch a couple of frenetically energetic guys working really hard to earn your good will — and your entertainment dollars. Oh, and to make you laugh. The Big Bang posits the following…
The Junky’s Christmas (Koch) They just aren’t cranking out claymation Christmas specials like they used to, which makes this a welcome one. Nicer still, it’s got heroin! A mixture of stop motion with a little puppetry and live-action shots of William Burroughs (who may himself have been a Muppet), this…
In the gangsta pantheon, nobody gets more respect than Tony Montana. Consider all the homages: Not one, but two rappers have named themselves after Montana (Scarface of the Geto Boys and Tony Yayo of G-Unit), and Nas borrowed Montana’s slogan for his breakout hit, “The World Is Yours.” Indeed, the…
Anna Karenina (Kino) Arrested Development: Seasons One-Three (Fox) The Best of the Scripps National Spelling Bee (ESPN) Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Cinema Paradiso (Weinstein) The Fallen Idol (Criterion) Freak Out (Anchor Bay) Jag: The Complete Second Season (Paramount) The James Bond Collection: Volumes One and Two…
Jack Finlaw, the director of Denver’s Division of Theaters and Arenas, has a handsome collection of cufflinks. He should — he’s been collecting since he was a boy. “I got my first pair when I was nine or ten,” Finlaw says. “I wanted to copy my grandfather.” When he landed…
Skinnies or boot-cut jeans? Is black really the new black? Getting stylishly dressed in the morning is hard enough, but what do you wear on election day if you’re vying for Colorado’s top job? The Cat’s Pajamas decided to help Bob Beauprez and Bill Ritter out with that pressing question,…
Constance Eaton-Brown owned an antique store on the East Colfax Avenue strip for years and years. Old-timers will remember Eaton-Brown’s shop, Collector’s Choice, as a cramped, dark and musty antique store that specialized in costumes and even won some Westword Best of Denver nods back in the ’80s. Eaton-Brown was…
You can’t see Happy Feet at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. As with Narnia — the movie that inspired last year’s holiday display — Happy Feet won’t be showing at the Colorado Cinemas Cherry Creek 8, because the independent chain doesn’t have the pull of a giant, five-billion-screen multiplex. Pity…
