The Full Monty. The Full Monty follows a group of men who are out of work in Buffalo, New York. Amazed to discover that the women of the town are willing to pay high prices to watch a Chippendale-style strip show, the men decide they have nothing to lose and…
The last few months have been pretty tough for the Center for Visual Art, the LoDo mini-museum operated by Metropolitan State College of Denver. In a shocking move this past spring, the school’s Republican-dominated board of trustees cut the center’s funding in half (“New Directions,” May 5). No surprise there:…
There’s a funky new art spot in town that has the ridiculous name of Rhinoceropolis (3553 Brighton Boulevard, no phone). The venue recently opened in the old Wheelbarrow space, another funky art spot with a ridiculous name that closed some time ago. Like its predecessor, Rhinoceropolis is held together with…
2005 Biennial BLOW OUT. This is the third in a series of biennials presented at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In the past, participation in these biennials was limited to artists from around here; for the 2005 version, it’s been expanded to include artists working in most of the Western…
If the Navy is looking for splashy recruiting tools, it could do worse than Stealth, a zillion-dollar action movie stuffed with futuristic jet fighters, glamorous carrier pilots and an overload of explosive (mostly digital) derring-do. Here is Top Gun revised and updated, complete with a new array of enemies –…
Hit me,” Mark Zupan says — begs, actually, like a kid clamoring for a new toy. “I’ll hit you back.” He means it, too, and his ripped pecs and buzzed scalp and tattooed back and arms and bushy gangster goatee promise just as much menace. The dude’s bad and doesn’t…
Toward the end of Saraband, the uneven new film from legendary director Ingmar Bergman, a character sits down with his daughter, a taut girl who is obviously undergoing emotional distress. “I have the feeling that some sort of discussion is coming on,” he says. Indeed it is — as it…
Remember the scene in X2 where Wolverine grabs a Dr Pepper and enlists the aid of Iceman to make it cold? Take the tone of that scene and stretch it out to feature length, and you’ve got Sky High, a less angsty, more kid-friendly movie about teenagers attending a school…
Must Love Dogs, it should be clearly stated, is not the greatest romantic comedy ever made about a quirky couple who meet at a dog park. That honor goes to Dog Park, the oddball 1998 flick starring Luke Wilson and Natasha Henstridge, written and directed by former Kids in the…
The Flashback Wednesdays series at the Regency Tamarac Square is a movie nostalgiaphile’s delight, not least because the fare tends to go easy on the cerebral cortex while providing a maximum of entertainment value. That’s the appeal of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Amy Heckerling’s terrific 1982 feature about Southern…
Mike Miles tried to be the change in last year’s U.S. Senate race, but he was thwarted in his effort by Colorado attorney general Ken Salazar. Advocates of the Fountain-based educator and former military man are keeping his spirit — and campaign slogan — alive, however, with Be the Change…
Thursday, July 28 Metro-area scooter boosters have one last chance to buzz through town en masse on their shiny Vespas, Lambrettas and Aprilias: This year’s Mile High Mayhem event, titled Eight Is Enough, will be the last. That said, the gathering conceivably could get downright weepy, were it not for…
“Thunderdome,” says the man, grim-faced, caked in dust. “How do I get in there?” “That’s easy,” comes the crossbow-wielding woman’s retort. “Pick a fight!” Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the final installment of Mel Gibson’s futuristic film franchise, appeared in 1985 and symbolized every prejudice and paranoia of that decade –…
Booze and boats hit Sloan’s Lake. Sat 7/30 I figured if I’d seen one Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, I’d seen them all. Well, I was wrong. For this year’s fifth annual Dragon Boat Festival at Sloan’s Lake, 25th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, organizers have put together a party that’s bigger…
Training camp lures true Orange and Blue fans. Fri 7/29 For years along the Front Range, sports nuts have had little diversion from the summer doldrums. With no major-league baseball team here until 1993 — and not much of one since then — fans have often taken this time to…
A freewheeling benefit ushers in Ladyfest. Sat 7/30 In the five years since its inception, Ladyfest has blossomed into a bona fide international phenomenon. Humbly conceived in Olympia, Washington, as a showcase to celebrate and encourage the artistic, organizational and political work and talents of women, Ladyfest has gone on…
Guitar Town has Copper strumming. Sat 7/30 It’s dog-eat-dog in the summertime for all of Colorado’s mountain resorts, big and small. But at least one of the underdogs, Copper Mountain, took a dilemma by the horns this year by rolling out an entire season of special events, many of them…
Local troupes help raise funds for a future festival. Thurs, 7/28 “We felt like the Denver improv community was a bit fragmented,” comments Linda Klein, founding member of the local improvisational comedy troupe A.C.E. “We wanted to bring it together because there are a lot of fun and great things…
The second quarter of the twentieth century can be described as a golden age for Colorado art. Right after World War I, the Broadmoor Academy opened in Colorado Springs, developing a reputation as a nationally significant art school. But this was not the first aesthetic outpost in the Colorado wilderness;…
As I wandered through the Bethany Kriegsman solo, aptly named Treasure Island, at the William Havu Gallery (1040 Cherokee Street, 303-893-2360), it occurred to me that the Golden-based artist just might be the most overlooked first-rate artist in the region. As evidence of this, despite the fact that her show…
2005 Biennial BLOW OUT. This is the third in a series of biennials presented at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In the past, participation in these biennials was limited to artists from around here; for the 2005 version, it’s been expanded to include artists working in most of the western…
Central City Opera’s Madama Butterfly is beautifully sung, if a little over-directed. First performed in 1904, Puccini’s opera tells the story of an American officer, B.F. Pinkerton, who is stationed in Japan and enters into an exploitative union with a teenage geisha. Such fake marriages, which the groom could leave…
