SAT, 9/25 One of the big-city touches that Denver has always had down cold is the tradition of the downtown street fair. If nothing else, we know how to throw a party. And now we can add the Festival Italiano to all of the old faves. Things begin tonight, sort…
THUR, 9/23 Ladies, the Commish is up for sale. Note his authentic Denver hipster look, complete with ’70s mesh cap and short athletic shorts. His muscular thighs toned from years of captaining the Denver Kickball Coalition. The nonchalant stare and devil-may-care attitude. For the right price — minimum $10 bid,…
WED, 9/29 Rebels Remembered, a compelling chronicle of the civil-rights movement in Denver, overflows with heroes and heartbreak. The third installment, Our Neighborhood Schools, screens today at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. In a telling bit of footage from the latest chapter, Wilfred Keyes, an African-American chiropractor who was…
MON, 9/27 In his most recent online column, “Durst Case Scenario,” comedian Will Durst offers an Onion-like article under the headline “‘Stupid People Love Bush’ New Study Proves.” Quoting a fictional think-tank member, Durst writes, “It has to do with intellectual curiosity. Folks see Bush in front of a stream…
Ronald W. Wohlauer, whom everyone called Ron, was one of those artists who always seemed to be at the top of the visual-art pyramid around here — until, that is, his untimely death earlier this year. During his long career, which began more than thirty years ago, he was a…
It’s surely surprising — if not shocking — to find one of the best ceramics shows of the year being presented at the modest and remote Lakewood Cultural Center (470 South Allison Parkway, 303-987-7876). But that’s exactly what’s going on now with Place of Mind, a solo show dedicated to…
digital.movement.04. Tracy Weil, owner of the weilworks gallery, has a passion for computer-aided art. That’s why he organized digital.movement.04: Installations in video, sound & digital animation, the first in a planned series of annuals featuring art that employs digital technologies in its creation. Weil put out a call for entries…
The more I think about The Wall of Water, currently being produced by the Hunger Artists Theatre, the more I like it. Playwright Sherry Kramer is obviously a comic talent to watch. The script is farcical, swift and funny, but it touches on all kinds of major themes: madness and…
When I was a child growing up in London, someone gave me a large red book called Sunday, published in the 1880s. On the flyleaf was written “To little Nellie, from Papa.” The book had been created for Victorian children trapped in their dark, stifling houses for a full day…
Cabaret. Cabaret is grim and distressing, and there’s not a hint of redemption anywhere in it. Quite the contrary. But this is a bloody good production, the kind of production that could — and should — attract all kinds of people who might never think of setting foot in a…
Some of the best performances of the year can be found in Mean Creek, a small independent film that marks the auspicious feature debut of 31-year-old writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes. The film, an ensemble drama with a relatively unknown cast, looks at six kids and what happens when an innocent…
If Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence were a live-action sequel, there would be a lot of gossip about star histrionics, creative conflicts and so forth. Since the original Ghost in the Shell, first released nearly ten years ago, made an anime icon out of its star, the frequently nude…
Fortune smiles on groovy egregiousness. In the case of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the filmmakers’ investment in their weird visions is wildly unorthodox, but the payoff is oddly satisfying. The movie features myriad killer robots, raucous underwater dogfights, and Laurence Olivier’s best work since he died fifteen…
Mr. 3000 has low aspirations, which suits it well. It’s about a 47-year-old baseball player trying to get three meager hits and the team for which he plays trying to climb out of fifth place and into third by the season’s rapidly approaching end. Not much to root for, is…
It’s a good bet that some of the locals are horrified, or terrified, but here you have it: the Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival, whose stated mission is “bringing quality international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender films to Colorado Springs.” That this weekend’s event is the fifth annual Lavender says…
Home/Life: 121 kids from 11 cities photograph their world is the harvest of a global photography project. In 2002, homeless children in cities around the world — including Nairobi, Moscow, Jakarta, New Delhi, Johannesburg, Paris and New York — were dispatched to their cities’ streets armed with digital cameras and…
Thursday, September 16 No doubt about it: These ladies make lovely music together. The members of the Colorado Springs-based da Vinci Quartet have the chops to play wherever they like, but they choose to serve as artists-in-residence both in the Springs and here in Denver at the Lamont School of…
Dancers have been trying to take flight since dance was created; they spring up, they sail through the air, they dive, they vault, they flip, they swing from trapezes. But alas, dancers have never actually flown, right? That’s what you think. Brooklyn-based choreographer Elizabeth Streb, a fifty-something spike-haired maverick with…
MON, 9/20 “Whether it’s good or bad, it’s always entertaining,” notes Lion’s Lair bartender Dermot Carroll about the bar’s Monday open-mike comedy nights. Dermot has been serving drinks at the Lair, at 2022 East Colfax Avenue, since the first open-mike event, and he’ll serve them again tonight for the Lion’s…
MON, 9/20 The lure of geocaching is not merely that of finding a stack of moldy CDs. Rather, the challenge is to discover hidden stuff using a Global Positioning System, better known as “GPS.” “It’s a high-techie scavenger hunt,” says Evergreen’s Mike Dyer, who recently penned the how-to book Essential…
SAT, 9/18 That Ike LaRue has such a vivid imagination. In Ike’s private world, a mild time out is a hundred-year jail sentence; the neighbor’s pet cats are really notorious, cop-evading canary burglars, and…did we mention that Ike’s a pooch? Dog or not, he’s a roguish character far too delicious…
FRI, 9/17 Strolling the Pearl Street Mall in the early 1980s, it wasn’t uncommon to come across groups of jugglers performing mind-boggling feats. Those were the golden years of busking, before outside influences intruded, when it was juggling for juggling’s sake, pure and true. But diamonds in the rough can…
