It’s no coincidence that one of the only words you can form from the letters in booze is zoo. No, really, it’s totally deliberate; people love to get liquored up around caged animals. And the Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele Street, is only too happy to provide them the opportunity. That…
“It is going to be the event of the century!” Dana Miller promises of the 2007 Krisana Park Modern Green Home Tour and Parade, which runs from 1 to 5 p.m. today. Better make that the event of the mid-century, because the houses in this charming pocket in southeast Denver’s…
Jazz has inspired many iconic photos, as anyone who owns classic Blue Note albums of the ’50s and ’60s understands. No wonder the shutterbugs at Working With Artists, a nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about photography, decided to combine the forms at this weekend’s Workshop Sample Days 2006. The…
If Superman Returns attempted to resurrect the Man of Steel as mythic hero, the season’s other Superman movie wants to disabuse us of any such childish illusions. Glamorously adult, Hollywoodland purports to part the veil on the circumstances by which George Reeves, the actor who embodied the superhero on ’50s…
When we first see Ellie (Diane Gaidry), the younger of two damaged heroines in Jacques Thelemaque’s The Dogwalker, she’s the picture of unhinged desperation. Ill-concealed by big sunglasses, her heavily battered face features a recently split lower lip, one so swollen that she can barely make herself understood when requesting…
A number of pregnant mysteries arise with the new remake of Robin Hardy’s 1973 cult-remembered genre work. Namely, what’s in this kind of malarkey for gender-combat provocateur Neil LaBute, and why was such a high-profile film tossed into theaters last Friday without letting critics see it first? The two simple…
Director Claude Chabrol’s fascination with the pathologies submerged in middle-class life takes a vivid and scary new turn in The Bridesmaid, the second film he’s adapted from a Ruth Rendell novel (following La Cérémonie). This time, an unsuspecting young man (soulful Benoit Magimel) falls into the clutches of a seductive…
44T ARTSPACE, the exhibition end of Metro Frame Works (4400 Tennyson Street, 303-433-0335), is a smart-looking miniature sales room with extensive show windows that open the place up to the street. The gallery is one of only a handful participating in this year’s Denver Art Dealers Association series highlighting talent…
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…
The subject of I Am My Own Wife is German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde in 1928 Berlin, a collector of antiques who survived both World War II and the Communist years in East Germany. But the play is as much about author Doug Wright’s relationship with von…
Aldo and Huey are friends. Huey is divorced, and Aldo — who never gained his father’s affection and is unable to sever the link with his overpowering mother — is unmarried. Huey has been behaving oddly since the divorce, wearing poetic, frill-sleeved shirts and unflatteringly tight black pants, mooning around…
The mall in Dead Rising is pretty much like any other you’ve visited. There’s a bunch of women’s clothing stores, a movie theater, and of course the obligatory food court. The only real difference is that it’s teeming with enough zombies to fill a stadium. Dead Rising opens with freelance…
United 93 (Universal) A suggestion to those who’ve put off watching the year’s most wrenching and essential film: Before rolling the feature, first watch the documentary in which the families of those who died on the plane give the filmmakers their blessing, without reservation. If the mother, father, and sister…
The Abbott and Costello Show: 100th Anniversary Collection, Season One (Passport) Ace Ventura Deluxe Double Feature (Warner Bros.) Amarcord: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Anne of Avonlea (Koch Vision) Blade Runner: Director’s Cut (Warner Bros.) Broken Trail (Sony) Clive Barker’s The Plague (Sony) Commander in Chief: 2-Disc Inaugural Edition Part 2…
About 400 expert tango dancers will dance the day into night this evening as the sun sets on the Cheesman Park pavilion. And while tango may not be as popular in Denver as its cousin, salsa, it’s worth getting a peek at the classy steps as the seventh annual Labor…
The Taste of Colorado may celebrate its 24th anniversary this year, but the Festival of Mountain and Plain originated in 1895, when Denver’s Chamber of Commerce conceptualized the Festival to raise morale after a silver shortage. The carnival-style celebration included a parade, a masquerade ball, fireworks from the D&F Tower…
Beginning in 1993, Avenue Theater owners Dave Johnson and Bob Wells starred in a news-based comedy program heard weekends on Clear Channel-owned KHOW radio. But in 1998, “we got fired,” Johnson says, “because Clear Channel realized they could make more money off of people selling stuff than by producing their…
You probably won’t spot Bob Beauprez’s running mate, Janet Rowland, at the twentieth annual Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials. After all, ever since Rowland blurted out that blessing gay marriage might lead to “a man marrying a sheep,” it’s been obvious that she’s got a serious case of the sheepy…
If, at this remove, we can imagine Vienna in the late 1890s, we behold a great imperial capital in ferment. Gustav Mahler is not only reinventing the harmonic structure of serious music, but he is getting his head seriously shrunk by Sigmund Freud. Arnold Schoenberg takes painting lessons from the…
By the time Trust the Man opens this weekend, it will have been nearly a year since it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight. Forget that it’s a year old; this thing tastes a good decade past its expiration…
After declining an invitation to “embed” with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq, film director Deborah Scranton went the military one better by supplying Sony miniDV video cameras to members of Charlie Company, 3rd of the 172nd Infantry (Mountain) Regiment. The result is the most compelling Iraq documentary to date…
August is typically a dead time in the Denver art world, so the Denver Art Dealers Association came up with DADA INTRODUCTIONS, a way for members to present shows by artists whose work has not previously been shown in town. Robischon Gallery (1740 Wazee Street, 303-298-7788) is just about the…
