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…
As I was going up the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away. — Hugh Mearns In Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, an unworldly young governess is employed by a wealthy Londoner to…
Amadeus. The Denver Center Theatre Company’s glittering, sumptuous version of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus focuses more on a clean, elegant delivery of the text than on the passion at the play’s core. The central figure, Antonio Salieri, was the best-known composer of eighteenth-century Vienna, an upright man dedicated to serving his…
Viewed from an airplane high over the islands of San Esperito, the land seems to stretch out endlessly. The sun slowly rises over the ocean, bathing the clouds in ochre and throwing stark shadows on the lush jungle below. If only there were something worth doing down there. Welcome to…
Reservoir Dogs: 15th Anniversary(Lions Gate) Quentin Tarantino’s first film shows its age these days, mostly because we’ve seen all its tricks done far better by now. From the nonlinear storytelling to the pop-culture gabfests to the shameless cribbing from obscure films, everything that once seemed so shockingly fresh has since…
The Addams Family: Season One (MGM) An American Haunting (Lions Gate) Astaire and Rogers: The Complete Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Freak-Out (Anchor Bay) Greg the Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies (Shout!) Justice League Unlimited: Season One (Warner Bros.) La Commune (Paris, 1871) (First Run) Looking for Kitty (Velocity/ThinkFilm) The…
It’s official: Denver has reached the top. The good people of Wolford — the Netherlands-based company best known for sexy legwear that can va va voom up any outfit — also have a line of body-conscious tops named after famous places worldwide, such as “Arizona,” “Long Island,” “Jakarta,” ” New…
