Thursday, May 5 The first step toward a successful career might be lookin’ good, but it don’t mean a thing without presentation skills to bring. That’s the message of the My Career Day suit sale and job-readiness day, an annual event hosted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at…
Most armchair historians know that American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark weren’t the first folks to roam the American West. Their famous Shoshone Indian guide, Sacagawea, contributed immeasurably to the expedition’s accomplishments with her knowledge of the territory, interpretation and survival skills. Still, their journey did make life as…
SAT, 5/7 Move over, brainiacs, new bookworms are taking over the library: metro-intellectuals. Offering experimental-film and creative workshops designed for “urbane urban dwellers,” The Creative Life is the latest installment of Fresh City Life at the Denver Public Library — and this series is straight-up phat. “A paradigm shift in…
THURS, 5/5 That warm feeling in your heart on Cinco de Mayo doesn’t have to stem purely from Cuervo. Join mountain-lovers tonight at the Fiesta for the Peaks, an annual fundraiser for the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, and go home feeling good about protecting the mountains. A partnership of nonprofits, public…
FRI, 5/6 Boulder Arts and Crafts Cooperative exhibit coordinator Ellen Spiller didn’t have a feminine theme in mind when she asked eight Colorado women to take part in the new metalwork show Women of Steel — but that’s what she got. “It turns out that a lot of women are…
SAT, 5/7 The avant-garde classical music of The Experimental Playground Ensemble saunters somewhere between the grit of punk rock and the order of a traditional orchestra. The Colorado composers clash cellos, electric guitars, accordions and video manipulation on music sheets that look so artistic and abstract they could be hung…
It’s hard to think of James McKinnell, whom everyone called Jim, without also thinking of his wife and artistic collaborator for more than fifty years, Nan McKinnell. Nonetheless, we are going to have to get used to the idea of one without the other, because on April 13, Jim died,…
Currently, there are three shows at Pirate: a contemporary art oasis (3659 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058) that have an after-dark character. In two of them, it’s because the galleries themselves have been shrouded in darkness, but in the third, which is well-lit, the nighttime feel has to do with the adults-only…
Balance. Rarely has Walker Fine Art come up with an exhibit as successful as Balance, which pairs recent abstract paintings by Denver artist Don Quade with abstract sculptures by Colorado Springs-based Bill Burgess. Quade was formerly at Fresh Art Gallery, but Walker picked him up when Fresh Art closed last…
I think of Alan Bennett as a chronicler of the lives of those inhabiting a certain stratum of British society: lonely, middle-class people, conventional, self-conscious and always slightly embarrassed at themselves, like the monologuists of Talking Heads or Bennett’s self-depiction as the unwilling host of The Lady in the Van…
In a culture where popular definitions of manhood are as rigid and narrow as they are in the United States (real men chop down trees, play sports and don’t drink lattes), the age-old ideal of the warrior-poet seems a contradiction in terms. Without question, however, this mythic figure was in…
Cats. This company does as good a job with Cats as one can imagine. The dancing, choreographed by Stephen Bertles, who also directed, is seamless. The cast is lithe and graceful. They slither like snakes. They leap high and land without a sound. They’re wonderfully into character, batting at each…
Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a thoroughly professional, frequently spectacular piece of muckraking. But any American who hopes to watch this portrait of unfettered corporate greed, cynical power-lust and outrageous deception without going postal about an hour into the thing would do well to bring…
Agent Fox Mulder, the coolly instinctual sleuth of The X-Files, got pretty good at unraveling paranormal mysteries. If only the actor who played him were as adept at solving the riddle of his movie career. David Duchovny’s new vanity project, House of D, is the tortured tale of a thirteen-year-old…
It seems unlikely that any American outside of a cloistered, sports-averse, PBS-watching film reviewer would have failed to notice the 2002 arrival of Yao Ming, the 7’6″ gentle giant also known as China’s national basketball hero and, in the U.S., the number-one pick in the NBA draft — especially since,…
One attraction of foreign films is the glimpse they provide of exotic lands. But after viewing a startling coming-of-age drama called Schizo, you probably won’t call the travel agent to book ten days in Kazakhstan. Or ten minutes. As revealed by first-time director Guka Omarova and cinematographer Khasanbek Kydyraliyev, this…
Author Douglas Adams died at age 49 on May 11, 2001, of a heart attack suffered during a workout at a Santa Barbara, California, gym. His biographer, M.J. Simpson, blamed Adams’s demise in part on his unending battle to get The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on a big screen,…
Can eleven years really have passed? Quentin Tarantino cultists own it on DVD (or at least VHS), and they’ve all watched it nineteen times. But there’s something special about seeing Pulp Fiction again on the big screen, in the company of your yawping, warped, movie-crazed fellow enthusiasts. Where do you…
Boulder’s Nomad Theatre, a converted World War II Quonset hut, has a long history. In 1951, the owner of the land on which the building stands deeded it to the Nomad Players — so called because their first-ever production took place in a tent furnished with chairs from a local…
Thursday, April 28 Being charitable has never been easier: All you have to do to participate in today’s Dining Out for Life event is eat at any of nearly 300 metro-area restaurants — not just the ritzy places, either — and at least 25 percent of your meal ticket will…
The next time the old-boy network starts casting about for a female entrepreneur to elevate to Colorado’s Business Hall of Fame, they should take a look at Marilyn Megenity. They won’t find her in some power- and fuel-mad Lexus: She’s retrofitted her car to run on vegetable oil, and drives…
MON, 5/2 Bush bashers refer to the powerful triumvirate of George W., Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney as the real “Axis of Evil.” In her best-selling book, Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, Laura Flanders regards the women in and around the White House as an equally diabolical force. Combining…
