Cars, the latest vehicle to roll off a Pixar assembly line that has thus far yielded nothing but spit-shined classics, answers that age-old question: What would Doc Hollywood have been like had it been populated entirely by, ya know, cars? If the promise of that particular premise — in which…
With ice caps melting, sea levels rising and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie — particularly a real one — to take our interest for granted. Thus An Inconvenient Truth, named for the super-bad news of global climate change, isn’t just another lefty doc for…
Mel Brooks, the goofy great mind behind Broadway’s comic smash The Producers, may never direct another movie — the poor guy’s eighty years old, after all — but that’s okay, as long as we get to watch Young Frankenstein once in a while. The masterpiece of the Brooksian ouevre, this…
You’d think that by now artists would have tired of recording the sights of the world in the tried-and-true mediums of painting and drawing. For heaven’s sake, representational art has been done for the past 15,000 years. Just thinking about it makes me drowsy. But, no. Despite the rise of…
It may seem like there’s a new gallery opening in town every day, but it’s actually only about one ribbon-cutting per week. One of the latest to open its doors is Translations Gallery (773 Santa Fe Drive, 303-629-0713), which specializes in contemporary textiles. This makes Translations unusual in Denver –…
Apparition. The brand-new Gallery Severn, which is owned by art collector and retired executive Andy Dodd, aims to be what he has called a “launch pad” for emerging artists. This specialty in fresh faces instantly makes the place interesting. Also interesting is Dodd’s decision to feature only one artist at…
Before the action begins, you contemplate set designer David Lafont’s rendering of a grimy one-room flat, filled with papers, boxes and mismatched bric-a-brac. There’s a rolled-up carpet, an unusable gas stove, a toilet seat hanging below the ceiling and a porcelain toilet back leaning against a wall. A tennis racket…
Andrew Jorgenson — whom everyone calls “Jorgy” — has been running his New England Wire and Cable Company with integrity for decades, avoiding debt, providing decent jobs and helping keep his community vital and solvent. He’s supported in this by his loving longtime companion, Bea. Enter the vulgar, doughnut-craving Lawrence…
Crowns. The music in this piece– gospel songs and spirituals, church music with a touch of rap — includes such well-known pieces as “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” and “When the Saints Go Marchin’ In,” as well as several less familiar songs, and it is just as lively, moving,…
Face paint? Check. NoDoz? Check. Deep wellsprings of violent nationalistic pride? No doubt, mate. Yes, it’s time for the World Cup, that quadrennial spectacle that consumes the globe for a month of TV marathons, street parties, and patriotic gestures by men with shaved skulls. That means it’s also time for…
The John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Featuring the most epic pairing of director and actor in Hollywood history, this 10-disc box spews machismo all over. Wayne and Ford defined not only the western and war-movie genres, but also our culture’s image of rugged manhood. Among the highlights is…
Black Hawk Down: Extended Cut (Sony) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector’s Edition (Fox) Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount) Dumbo: Big Top Edition (Disney) Entourage: The Complete Second Season (HBO) The Fast and the Furious: Franchise Collection (Universal) Firewall (Warner Bros.) Garfield: The Movie — The…
“It doesn’t matter how many left feet you have. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had many years of dance experience or zero. The program is set up so that total neophytes can come in and have a fun evening.” So says Tom Masterson, coordinator of Dances From Around the World,…
Back in 1986, City Park wasn’t the recreation destination it is these days. “The park was facing hard times,” says City Park Jazz boardmember Susan Klann. “There’d been an uptick in criminal activity nearby, and people weren’t going there as much.” To reverse this trend, Klann notes, a group of…
The two-bit towns of Colorado’s eastern plains — Arriba, Hugo, Limon, Flagler, Burlington, Cheyenne Wells and all the other dusty, agricultural burgs that time forgot on the way to Kansas — don’t seem to have much to offer, on the surface. Citified folk whiz past on the interstate, never bothering…
Some historians have grave reservations about the stories that rapscallions wanted to steal the body of Buffalo Bill Cody. But then, there’s that mysterious photo of a tank guarding Buffalo Bill’s burial plot on Lookout Mountain back in the ’20s. And in the 1940s, when a major American Legion convention…
Q: What does a lesbian bring on the second date? A: A U-Haul. If you haven’t heard the world’s oldest lesbian joke, then you’re probably not a lesbian. But you don’t have be a lavender lover to lay down the levity at the Dyke Mic, which starts tonight and every…
The heat is on, gardeners, so it’s time to pull on your muddy gloves and dig in before it’s too arid to plant. In preparation, you’ll be able to find all the last-minute bedding plants, perennials and veggie starts you need, along with more advice than you can possibly use,…
The weather is getting too pleasant to ignore, and those ’70s rockers in Queen had the right idea: “I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike!” So go ahead, strap on those cycling shoes and strut like Freddie Mercury today at the City Park Criterium. The…
The Old West has vanished, John Wayne is dead and — this just in — the two most famous ranch hands in America are gay. But there would be no point in telling any of that to Harlan Fairfax Carruthers, the deceptively charming protagonist of Down in the Valley. Like…
You know how in most romantic comedies, the best friends are nearly always more interesting than the actual leads we’re supposed to care about? The Break-Up doesn’t play that game. Vince Vaughn is the focus and the primary source of entertainment, which is all the more impressive when you consider…
There was a time when people moaned whenever Hollywood would remake — and thus suck the life out of — a classic movie. These days, Hollywood just sucks the life out of movies that weren’t that great in the first place. Ah, progress. Well, June 6, 2006, is upon us,…
