When thirteen-year-old LeAnn Rimes entered the pop consciousness years ago with the hit song “Blue,” she was just a little country girl with a big voice, pure as good corn liquor. But Rimes has grown up, as evidenced by the skin she’s showing in videos and photo shoots these days,…
Valentine’s Day is almost here, guys, so what are you gonna do? If you’re smart, you’ll heed these tips on how to treat your girl like a lady. To start, retail entrepreneur Robin Lohre says she’s going all out for the holiday this year at her two eclectic shops. At…
SAT, 2/7 Sled-dog racing isn’t quite Dogs Gone Wild!, but it’s close. Hook a team of huskies to a sled with a yapping human, point them toward an open snowfield, and brother, stand aside. To see for yourself, haul your wagon to the seventh annual Colorado Blue Ididarace, today and…
SAT, 2/7 Will the speaker yield to a two-part question? Is it true that if a black hole’s mass is more than a billion times that of the sun, the tidal gravitational forces are weak enough that a star could pass across the Event Horizon without shredding? And, if so,…
WED, 2/11 Michael Heralda is a Los Angeles-based storyteller, musician and poet dedicated to reviving and reinterpreting stories of the ancient Aztecs. The indigenous people ruled large parts of Mexico before their conquest at the hands of Hern´n Cortés in 1521. Heralda will weave his Aztec Stories and ballads together…
SAT, 2/7 The word “ballet” often conjures up images of traditional Degas-like ballerinas in pretty pirouettes, but the Colorado Ballet will defy convention tonight when it tosses out the tutus and presents Rodeo/Rubies/A Little Love. The tippy-toed triptych will guide patrons through a post-modern plié of contemporary ballet. “We love…
It’s surprising, yet it’s all but official: Walker Fine Art has established a place for itself at the main table of contemporary art in Denver. True, it hasn’t quite reached the top tier of local venues, but it’s only one level down from it — pretty impressive for an operation…
Mark Sink, who runs Gallery Sink (2301 West 30th Avenue, 303-455-0185), has organized Staged Fantasy, an exhibit of posed photos by an assortment of contemporary photographers. A lot of the work relates to Sink’s own efforts, which, though not included in the show, are highly visible, as they are hung…
Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Art from the Logan Collection. The normal stock in trade for the Denver Art Museum’s Asian-art curator, Ron Otsuka, is traditional styles, but he’s been drafted into doing contemporary duty by a gift that includes more than a score of pieces by Asian and Asian-American artists…
What keeps a man alive? He lives on others. He likes to taste them first, then eat them whole if he can Forgets that they’re supposed to be his brothers That he himself was ever called a man. — Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera Suzan-Lori Parks has set Fucking A…
Meshuggah Nuns is the kind of show that seems to have no real reason for being. It’s inoffensive and even amusing in spots, but it also feels like something created for the sole purpose of filling up time on stage. And in a world full of musicals with witty scripts…
Almost Heaven. Director Randal Myler has assembled a group of terrific musicians and a winning, uniformly strong cast. Each member brings a distinct and interesting sensibility to the music. The show is intelligently written and directed, and the production values are impeccable. A large screen at the back of the…
Two years ago, Harvey Weinstein, who runs Miramax Films with an iron fist that no doubt smells of cigarettes and meat, bought a Hong Kong-made movie called Hero for $20 million. That is an extraordinary amount of money for a foreign-language film made by a director, Zhang Yimou, relatively unknown…
Surf’s up. Palm trees sway invitingly in the breeze. The sparkling beaches are amply decorated with bikini babes and hard-body surfer dudes. Everybody has a nice cold drink with a wedge of fresh lime in it. Viewed that way, The Big Bounce is as alluring a midwinter pitch for the…
Behold a tale of true love (between a boy and a bicycle), of tireless courage (from a bitty grandmother with a clubfoot) and of a very shocking new definition of “sexy” (three wizened matriarchs who ravenously slurp down frogs). This is The Triplets of Belleville, an animated extravaganza of Gallic…
The great silent comedian Charles Chaplin’s political troubles with the United States government probably didn’t begin with the release of Modern Times in 1936. But this brilliant satire of American factory automation, the depersonalization of workers and the social ills of the Depression got a cold reception in the U.S…
When local businessman Chris Frésquez opened his first Palabras Con Sabor Coffeehouse, at 22nd and Welton streets, in 2000, it was something to be proud of. First and foremost a bilingual bookstore dedicated to promoting Latino authors, it grew into something more: a coffeehouse/Internet cafe/meeting place to provide a safe…
Thursday, January 29 Performances by the Takács Quartet, resident string quartet at the University of Colorado for a good twenty years, are still among the toughest tickets to come by in Boulder, where their annual series sells out season after season. It’s because the ensemble is no well-kept secret: Acclaimed…
I like movies as much as the next person, but I’m not certain how I’d fare in next month’s Independent Film Channel’s Ultimate Film Fanatic competition. After all, I enjoy watching Ben Stiller, but don’t ask me his shoe size. Still, this trivia tussle is tempting. The champ will earn…
SUN, 2/1 Joe receives a ticket to the Super Bowl, but when he arrives at the stadium, he discovers he’s in the last row. Then he spies an empty fifty-yard-line seat. After getting past security, he sits down in the choice spot and asks the gentleman next to him if…
SAT, 1/31 Talk about your frosty al fresco. Folks in laid-back Crested Butte will bundle up tonight against the midwinter Rocky Mountain twilight, ski along luminaria-lit trails from bonfire to bonfire and sample some of the finest offerings from the town’s best restaurants. It’s called the Progressive Bonfire Dinner, and…
SUN, 2/1 Ask any griot: Stories and drums have a history together. Before people wrote stuff down, they not only talked and sang about it, but they often beat it out in rhythm. So the combo seemed like a perfect fit for Sondra Singer, a Lakewood storyteller and drum enthusiast…
