Thursday, October 20 Actress Susan Lyles toiled in the theatrical field long enough to note that female roles and female playwrights are under-represented. The upshot? She formed the And Toto Too Theatre Company, dedicated to producing works by women only, an act she hopes will “level the playing field for…
Clive Barker is the Lord of Illusions. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on him, he shape-shifts. Infamous in the ’80s for hard-core horror films and fiction such as the Hellraiser and Books of Blood series, Barker turned mid-stream to produce kinder, gentler fantasy and fiction. He launched…
MON, 10/24 Though most everyone who cares knows perfectly well that Daniel Handler is Lemony Snicket, the prolific author of the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events books for kids, he still tries to pretend that he and Snicket aren’t one and the same. But no matter how bad a…
FRI, 10/21 It’s like a dropkick to your chakra, the feeling of your skateboard snapping off the concrete, locking into a long grind down a metal handrail and then riding away smooth. Hear your friends cheering? That’s what was buzzing through Glen Gillingham’s solar plexus when he jumped up from…
TUES, 10/25 When the SuicideGirls come to town, the Denver Fire Department had better be standing by. The last time they were here, the fire marshal had to be called to the Larimer Lounge because the troupe had more than sold out the show, pushing the venue past capacity. The…
FRI, 10/21 In the age of slasher films, sometimes it’s nice to reach back into the roots of horror and experience to something that is truly frightening and shakes the psyche. Edgar Allan Poe’s works come to mind. He’s considered the first master of horror because he penned works dripping…
Arrested Development: Season Two (Fox Home Entertainment) The best show on TV — which you’d know, if you actually watched the thing — also serves as one of the best reasons for the existence of DVD: No show has ever rewarded multiple viewings the way Arrested Development does. The second…
Waking from a trance, you find yourself in the restroom of a diner. You just stabbed a complete stranger to death as he urinated. Blood is on everything — including you. And to make matters worse, a police officer is sitting outside, drinking coffee. Should you take the time to…
Alicia Keys: Unplugged (J) Audioslave: Live in Cuba (Sony Music) The Best of the Chris Rock Show: Volumes 1 and 2 (Warner Bros.) Bomb the System (UMVD) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Warner Bros.) The Dresden Dolls: Paradise (Fontana) 11:14 (Warner Bros.) The Ellen DeGeneres Collection: The Beginning/Here &…
Denver artist Julie Puma is on the cusp between being an emerging artist and an established one. With her installation Letters to Stanley in the Balcony Gallery at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, she moves one step closer to the latter. The show has been very well received…
Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 303-623-1448) is one of a trio of connected art spaces; the other two are DEN Gallery (757 1/2 Santa Fe Drive, 303-507-6100), which is accessed through a passageway, and, up that dramatic staircase, KOUBOU a Deux (757 1/2 Santa Fe Drive, 720-203-1944). The three…
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…
I’m not the best audience for a scary show. At the movies, I cover my eyes during the gory parts. I also find that, for the most part, the real world provides all the grief and terror I know how to handle. Nonetheless — despite some moments spent cringing in…
For this ambitious production, Su Teatro artistic director Anthony J. Garcia has transposed the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to modern-day Mexico, intertwining it with contemporary politics and elements of Aztec myth and adding music by composer Daniel Valdez. It’s a fascinating concept, and parts of it work well, but…
Ain’t Misbehavin’. Five terrific performers and a slate of Fats Waller songs. How can you go wrong? Ain’t Misbehavin’, a jazzy, bluesy Waller showcase that brings the world of 1930s Harlem to life, is often staged in a broadly presentational style, with lots of humor, shtick, dancing and acting out,…
Good Night, and Good Luck, a riveting movie that’s as entertaining as it is socially and politically important, could not have come at a more propitious time. But more than just the right film at the right moment, George Clooney’s sophomore directorial effort is dynamic filmmaking: brilliantly conceived, visually arresting,…
It happened almost with the first step off the airplane at the Toronto airport last month. Someone, a friend or merely a concerned stranger, would stop to warn you of impending peril. They would plead with you to avoid the danger ahead in Elizabethtown, the Cameron Crowe film that screened…
It’s the cover-up, stupid! It doomed Nixon during Watergate, got Clinton impeached, inspired outrage against the Catholic Church and apparently is part of the day-to-day operations at places such as Enron and Tyco. The initial crime is bad enough, but the conspiracy to hide it always ends up hurting more…
Her name is Domino Harvey, and she is a bounty hunter. If you’ve seen even one TV spot or theatrical trailer for Domino, you’ve heard that message ground into your brain like an annoying jingle. What you might not know is that Domino Harvey was a real person, the daughter…
The anguished paintings of Edvard Munch, who was born in 1863, foreshadowed expressionism and provided uneasy visual correlatives to the horror and loneliness of the twentieth century. But it wasn’t until 1974 — three decades after the Norwegian painter’s death — that a filmmaker captured the spirit of Munch’s work…
After contractually agreeing to pen his fiction debut, The Shroud of the Thwacker, actor/comic/ writer Chris Elliott felt momentary elation followed by lingering panic. “I remember thinking, ‘I can’t fucking write a novel,'” he says. Fortunately for Elliott, who signs copies of his tome on Wednesday, October 19, at the…
Thursday, October 13 The dreadlocked, multicultural hip-hop artist/poet/activist Michael Franti (late of the Beatnigs and now fronting Spearhead) voyaged in recent years to the Middle East to film a visual diary, with music chronicling his travels through Iraq, Israel and Palestine. There, armed with a guitar, he met with people…
