Mom always says that videogames rot your brain. Hell, some say that Grand Theft Auto trains kids to kill. So Nintendo’s claim that its new portable offering, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, actually makes players smarter has been received with a mix of curiosity, cynicism, and…
Winter Passing (Fox) Try this, should you be inclined to rent this downer from writer-director Adam Rapp: Skip from chapter to chapter and see whether they all don’t begin with exactly the same image, accompanied by exactly the same sound. There is always someone (usually Zooey Deschanel as a would-be…
All You’ve Got (MTV) American Soldiers (Velocity) The Big Valley: Season One (Fox) Con Air: Unrated Extended Edition (Buena Vista) Crimson Tide: Unrated Extended Edition (Buena Vista) Doogal (Weinstein) Duma (Warner Bros.) Funny Games (Kino) Garon Stupide (Picture This) Hill Street Blues: Season Two (Fox) My Mother’s Smile (New Yorker)…
“I was playing ‘Murderer Number Two’ in a production of Macbeth in Montreal in 1992,” says Toronto’s Rick Miller, “and I had a little too much time on my hands.” Between slayings, he worked out a skit that combined the words of William Shakespeare with spot-on impressions of characters from…
For many Coloradans, bicycles are a way of life. But for 39-year-old Denver real-estate agent Brad Evans, who rides a stealth-black, single-gear Schwinn Panther reissue, cycles and summer simply mean one thing: cruising. When Evans lived in Boulder, he regularly rode with the Thursday-night Boulder Cruzer Club. But eventually, Evans…
Spring has sprung, and that can only mean one of two things: Either your allergies are acting up, or you’re horny. For the former, we recommend Allegra; for the latter, the Locality Spring Fashion Show. The event won’t satiate any carnal yearnings, per se — although it might, you sicko…
Paul Weiss knows a thing or two about community-boosting. The mastermind behind the City Park Festival of the Arts (canceled this year due to a timing conflict, but in the works again for next year) and co-director of the popular Uptown Sampler restaurant crawl, Weiss likes to create the kind…
Mother’s Day seems to be all about food. Bringing Mom breakfast in bed, taking her out to brunch — anything to help keep her out of the kitchen for at least one day. Denver Cooks!! continues that tradition with its Great Big Mother’s Day Bash from 1 to 4 p.m…
Are the Colorado Young Democrats and the Denver Young Democrats sponsoring tonight’s Celebrity Poker match to prove what a gamble politics is these days? Not at all, insists the DYD’s Dan Pabon. “We wanted to create a non-traditional political event,” he says. A $10 donation will get folks a chance…
Remember when flea markets were as scarce as, well, fleas, around here? Now you can hardly step outside your house on a summer weekend without stumbling into one. But when the trendsetting Ballpark Market opened years ago at the intersection of 22nd and Larimer streets, it brought a whole new…
So you’ve always wanted to go to Rio de Janeiro for Carnaval, but never had the time, the cash or the costumes. Well, Estrojam is presenting the next best thing tonight with Burlesque Carnaval, a samba extravaganza that includes aerial acrobatics, burlesque performances and dancing to the sounds of Daniel…
The lovable hero of Goal! The Dream Begins is the kind of guy some Americans don’t find very appealing these days — a Mexican immigrant who’s trying to make a better life in East Los Angeles. Little matter that young Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker) busts his butt working two crappy…
Art School Confidential is very much like every movie pilfered from the Saturday Night Live playbook, in which the slight giggles of a four-minute sketch are wrung into two-hour yawns. The work upon which it’s based is a four-page excerpt from a fourteen-year-old comic book called Eightball, written and drawn…
Our anemic movie industry recycles so relentlessly that even our complaints about such plasticized repackaging comes off as recycled product of its own, offered primarily to draw the line between concerned aging cinephiles and the target consumers who don’t care a whit. Still, we’ve become a culture not merely tantalized…
Mission: Impossible III finds Tom Cruise downplaying the world’s single greatest piece of action music in deference to an Age of Fear vibe that’s a lot more grueling than rousing. Seems Lalo Schifrin’s adrenaline-pumping “dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum” is now as dated as the Cold War from which it sprang; maybe the star-producer…
If that plucky seeker of bliss Bridget Jones lived in the Czech Republic, she might be something like Laura (Zuzana Kanoczova), the 23-year-old heroine of Filip Renc’s spirited comedy From Subway With Love. When Laura discovers that the billboards on her commuter train have been replaced by overheated love letters…
On the morning of Monday, May 1, throngs of Mexican-Americans, most of them young, marched through downtown Denver — and cities across the country — in support of the rights of undocumented immigrants. The story of these Mexican exiles is well known, with many of them toiling in the unforgiving…
During the groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Denver Museum of Contemporary Art last week, executive director Cydney Payton addressed the crowd (see “Next Up”). In her remarks, she pointed out that the MCA was “not a hundred-million-dollar project,” since it’s projected to cost only $15 million. Though she didn’t say…
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…
Dear God, but I am sick of Death of a Salesman, which I’ve now had to see three times in the past year. Despite the play’s ahead-of-its-time dramatic devices and portentous poeticizing, it continues to strike me as an endlessly protracted whine. And a verbose and dated whine, at that…
I’m sitting at a small table at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre with my friend Robin Haig. A one-time dancer with the Royal Ballet, Robin has just retired from the University of Colorado Dance Department and is talking about Margot Fonteyn and the Bumptious Colonial, a one-woman show she plans to take…
Chess. The Cold War serves as a frame for Chess, the musical account of a match between a Russian champion, Anatoly, and his petulant American counterpart, Freddie. The action takes place in 1989, in the weeks before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Florence is Freddie’s second, coaching…
