Andy Warhol’s Dream America. Hot on the heels of its smash hit, Chihuly, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is presenting yet another blockbuster devoted to the work of a household name in contemporary art: Andy Warhol’s Dream America. The exhibition was curated by Ben Mitchell of Wyoming’s Nicolaysen Museum…
Shadowlands, currently being produced by Bas Bleu, is a dignified, classy play, but for the most part, it’s oddly lifeless. Set in 1950s England, it begins as C. S. Lewis, the creator of Narnia and author of a series of deeply Christian books for adults, gives a lecture on the…
Bug. At the beginning, Bug seems hyper-realistic. We’re shown a drink- and drug-addled woman, Agnes, living in a motel room, which we learn is on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. We have been here before. It is — among other things — Sam Shepard country. A quiet young man, Peter,…
Deception, betrayal and revenge. In his film directorial debut, acclaimed playwright/screenwriter/theater director Craig Lucas is done in by his own script, which becomes so excessively icy and cruel that it breaks, rather than solidifies, any bond it could hope to establish with its audience. A modern-day Greek tragedy — complete…
Sometimes a movie just works, despite its many mistakes: It might not be particularly original or smart, it might wobble on shaky legs and feel familiar in all the wrong ways — and yet it reaches us. Witness Dorian Blues, a coming-of-age coming-out story featuring nearly every convention of its…
What the hell happened to director Ron Underwood? Not that he was ever a master of the craft, but his City Slickers and Tremors were fine pieces of entertainment. And thenPluto Nash? Maybe the guy should only make films about wannabe cowboys, because In the Mix, while not the financial…
Trekkies — and mere mortals — will argue endlessly about the best movie of Star Trek’s big-screen franchise, but in the end, most aficionados settle on Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982). It’s a relentless stem-winder featuring everyone’s heroes from the original TV series — William Shatner, Leonard…
“Have something funny for lunch,”0 suggests Dave Johnson, managing director of the Avenue Theater, 417 East 17th Avenue. How, you ask? Simply spruce up your brown bag of leftovers with Laughs for Lunch, a weekly $5 comedy blast taking place between 12:15 and 12:45 p.m. Today, acclaimed performer Edith Weiss…
I don’t know how to assess John Orlock’s Indulgences in the Louisville Harem, currently playing at Germinal Stage Denver, because I don’t begin to understand it. Sometimes when you see a play that makes no literal sense, you still feel caught up in it, still find some recognizable emotional or…
Bug. At the beginning, Bug seems hyper-realistic. We’re shown a drink- and drug-addled woman, Agnes, living in a motel room, which we learn is on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. We have been here before. It is — among other things — Sam Shepard country. A quiet young man, Peter,…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is a unique aesthetic resource that’s filled to the rafters with interesting things to see. The Kirkland is a collecting institution; its impressive holdings, in a variety of aesthetic categories, are permanently displayed in a series of large rooms on two floors…
Twenty-something artist Jenny Morgan is surely one of the most serious and ambitious young painters around. She’s practically right out of school, having graduated only a couple of years ago from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. There she was a protegée of Irene Delka McCray, and, like…
Andy Warhol’s Dream America. Hot on the heels of its smash hit, Chihuly, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is presenting yet another blockbuster devoted to the work of a household name in contemporary art: Andy Warhol’s Dream America. The exhibition was curated by Ben Mitchell of Wyoming’s Nicolaysen Museum…
Most movies intend to entertain or inform us, or even momentarily take our minds off personal problems — that bullet-riddled body in the trunk, say, or Aunt Edna’s arrest for shoplifting doughnuts. Presumably, no picture really means to make an airtight case against children. But after sitting through the witless,…
Ever since its Broadway debut in 1996, Rent has generated a loyal, almost cult-like following. Showered with praise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical touched a nerve among the young, artistic, gay, urban and alternatively dressed people who identified as outsiders and wondered how they would make their way in the world…
For those of us who dug Rob McKittrick’s recent comedy Waiting…, Just Friends offers up some good news: Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris are together again as a dysfunctional couple. He’s a slick music executive named Chris Brander, still traumatized at having gotten the “Let’s just be friends” speech from…
A few weeks ago, Harold Ramis was sitting in a hotel conference room discussing the subtext of The Ice Harvest, his new film based on the novel by Scott Phillips and adapted by Robert Benton and Richard Russo. Ramis explained that he took the project, which Benton (Nobody’s Fool, The…
Science fiction films come and go, but Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, endures as an epic of the genre. From its mysterious black slab to its defiant computer, HAL 9000, the iconography of the piece has become part of our cinematic and cultural heritage; it continues to…
There’s something wonderfully odd and mysterious about the mind of the miniaturist; it takes a certain kind of person to spend so much time around small things, to appreciate the exacting elegance of a tiny table or an itty-bitty bed. Whether it’s a simple dollhouse or an extravagant diorama, creating…
Thursday, Novmeber 24 No one truly intends to end up looking like that borbous turkey gracing the Thanksgiving table, but, hey, fat happens. It’s only once a year, though, so pack it in: Pile on the buttery mashers and say yes to the extra piece of pumpkin pie, especially if…
Tamdin Wangdu was a student at CU in 2000, finishing work on a degree in business administration, when he heard the news that his father had died. But unlike most people caught in such a tragic circumstance, Wangdu couldn’t rush home to comfort his family. Ten years earlier, at the…
Christopher Kimball teaches America to cook. MON 11/28 Christopher Kimball’s Cook’s Illustrated magazine and the offshoot TV show, America’s Test Kitchen, answer the question “What if nerds cooked?” Kimball and his team of kitchen scientists thoroughly test appliances, make and remake recipes until they’re perfect, compare and contrast food brands…
