A shout out to Dusty, who was spinning fire at Confluence Park on Sunday night with Maquette and the rest of the tribe who meet there to hang out, play with matches and enjoy each other’s company. We here at The Cat’s Pajamas love Dusty because the twelve-year-old already has…
Try this blog on for size: It’s the first installment of The Cat’s Pajamas, Amy Haimerl’s blog on fashion. The best part about fashion is its magic, its power to transform. To make you taller, stronger, smarter, wittier. The right dress, the sharpest heels, and you feel larger than life…
In 1990, Gregory Hines sat with Sammy Davis Jr. as Davis lay on his deathbed. Unable to speak, Davis tossed an imaginary ball at Hines, bequeathing the title of most-beloved American tap dancer. When Hines died in 2003, all eyes turned to Savion Glover, Hines’s former pupil and co-star in…
How do you make graffiti a collectible art form? By using magnets. They allow the Magnet Mafia to deftly straddle the street and gallery worlds, keeping the public-art aspect of tagging while creating something fans can collect. Tonight at the Fabric Lab, 3105 East Colfax Avenue, the Mafia hosts Magnet…
As a 23-year-old, Joe Thomas isn’t terribly interested in the death tax or Social Security — and he doubts his peers lie awake at night worrying about such topics, either. That’s why the Colorado Young Democrats are organizing an Ask the Experts educational forum that delves specifically into issues that…
Stephen Tebo’s garage is a veritable cornucopia of collector automobiles. More than 300 of them sit inside, gleaming with the sheen of pride that only a true car lover can apply. A triple coat of wax doesn’t hurt, either. Get a close look at the goods under Tebo’s hoods today…
What if everyone reading this sent me random words to incorporate into next week’s piece? Maybe “pimply chickens,” “East L.A.” and “diamond-studded toilet plungers” could define my day at the computer. Sounds tough, right? How about filming, acting, scoring and editing a movie in front of a live audience, or…
Executive director Anton Villatoro pulled out all the stops for the inaugural Denver Marathon. “Dave McGillivray, our race director, designed the course,” enthuses Villatoro. “He wanted to design a course that would highlight all of Denver’s major landmarks.” And how: McGillivray, director of the Boston Marathon, starts the course at…
The annual Westword Menu Affair is always a party. And I don’t say that lightly: The food is free, the booze flows freely, and at least one inappropriate pass is always made. The sixth edition, happening tonight, promises to be no different, with more than thirty local restaurants — including…
Everyone has a bad-date story. Some of us have lots of them. And singles coach Carolyn Ferber confesses that after her divorce, she “experienced a number of dating relationships in which lying on a bed of nails would have been more comfortable and less painful!” Last month, Ferber solicited bad-date…
The sad news is that tickets to Rojo, mi amor, tonight’s $100-a-head benefit gala at the Museo de las Américas, are scarce, if not completely gone. But the wonderful news? You can still get in on the less expensive and more youth-oriented Rojo, mi amor…the After Party at 10 p.m.,…
It’s time for Denver’s arts institutions to take a bow in the glow of Daniel Libeskind’s crazy new museum building. And three in particular — the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Opera Colorado and Colorado Ballet — are taking a joint one today with Monsters in Art. The…
There is no way of sidestepping the issue, so why not jump right into it: Infamous, this year’s retelling of how Truman Capote wound up in Kansas writing his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, never comes close to approaching the quiet, devastating brilliance of Capote, last year’s retelling of how…
The sex is real in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus; only the setting — an animated New York cityscape, benignly overseen by a fluorescent Statue of Liberty — is fake. To an extent, that describes the movie: a sexually daring, dramatically timid roundelay that employs unsimulated twosomes, threesomes and even solos…
Barry Levinson hasn’t made a movie of note in almost a decade — since 1997’s Wag the Dog, to be precise, and even that was less a work of substantial relevance than a bit of lucky timing based on someone else’s better novel. Granted, it had its moments — at…
“This is a curated program of the best of the best — lefty video nonsense, fun and frolic,” says Scott Beibin (right), host of the Lost Film Fest, which makes three local stops this week. Philadelphia-based Beibin, who also runs Bloodlink Records, co-founded the fest in 1999 and began taking…
The daring Frederic C. Hamilton Building created for the Denver Art Museum by Daniel Libeskind and the Davis Partnership became an instant Mile High landmark when it opened last week. The same thing happened 35 years ago when what is now called the North Building, by Gio Ponti and James…
The often overlooked Emmanuel Gallery (Auraria campus, 303-556-8337) is currently hosting an important show called Treasures Revealed: The Art of Hungary, 1890-1955. To give you an idea of the significance of this particular exhibit, not only did the Hungarian ambassador come out from Washington, D.C., for the preview, but so…
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…
Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, first published in 1890, is a play about the havoc wrought by an out-of-control woman, a woman who’s torn and driven by impulses she herself cannot understand or control. Hedda combines a certain romantic magnificence — think Shelley and Byron, think Emily Bront’s wild, wild Cathy…
The Denver Center Theatre Company has staged a glittering, sumptuous version of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus that focuses more on a clean, elegant delivery of the play’s text than on the passion at its core. The central figure, Antonio Salieri, was the best-known composer in eighteenth-century Vienna, an upright man dedicated…
Cabaret. This musical follows a very young English chanteuse by the name of Sally Bowles, who sings in a seedy Berlin nightclub called the Kit Kat Klub in the early 1930s and meets up with an aspiring American novelist — the usual innocent abroad — named Clifford Bradshaw. She’s a…
