The city will give new meaning to the term “bling-bling” when it flips the switches on 500,000 jewel-like lights during the Downtown Denver Holiday Lighting ceremony this weekend. But don’t worry: There’s nothing gangsta about it. The local custom, presented by the RTD, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Larimer Square,…
Thursday, November 20 Butt out: If you’re tired of your butt freezing while you’re having a smoke outdoors in the dead of January, maybe it’s time you jumped on the wagon. You can join other puffers — and plenty of sympathetic company — at the Auraria campus for today’s Great…
Better not cry. Tonight I saw a woman shake and slap her sobbing daughter, yelling, “Goddamn it, Rachel, get on that man’s lap and smile, or I’ll give you something to cry about.” Meet “Crumpet,” a thirty-something jaded mall imp clad in striped tights and a worn green polyester smock…
SAT, 11/22 A group of women frustrated with the local lesbian dating scene are reviving the flower-speckled 1960s game show The Dating Game, with a twist. The MissKiss Game Show, premiering tonight in Boulder and hosted by comedienne Edith Weiss, will feature four single gay women — one MissKiss and…
SAT, 11/22 Nothing quite says “thankful” like pitching a little poultry at a couple of placid pilgrims. Copper Mountain’s Turkey Bowling hits the slopes today and on Thanksgiving Day to scratch up a little chicken feed for charity by encouraging mountain moguls to fling frozen turkeys down an icy lane…
Belle and the Beast, an updated version of the eighteenth-century fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, has waltzed into Boulder’s Nomad Theatre. “We always try to do something classic that appeals to families during the holidays,” says Nomad resident producer Theresa Klebert. “We want you to have a lighter,…
FRI, 11/21 While his contemporaries flocked to New York and Paris, twentieth-century painter Vance Kirkland chose to spend more than fifty years living and working in Denver. He was not only an innovative artist who painted his way through five major periods, but also an educator — teaching art at…
SUN, 11/23 The image of the perfectly appointed dark-haired beauty in a pillbox hat and blood-spattered pink suit is the first picture that comes to mind at the mention of Jackie Kennedy, the princess of Camelot who sat by her husband when he was shot and killed in Dallas forty…
It was at the end of the nineteenth century that the worldwide romance with the American West first got off the ground. This happened because, even as the earliest settlers were making their way here, the dramatic scenery of the region was attracting artists, particularly photographers and painters. These artists…
Right now, in the South Gallery of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs, 1-719-634-5583), there is a very good show called Gene Kloss: Southwestern Printmaker. The large exhibit, which has been handsomely installed, showcases the artist’s famous etchings and drypoints. Kloss was born in…
John Patrick Shanley’s Italian American Reconciliation is an amiable amble of a play that revolves around the friendship of two men in New York’s Little Italy. Aldo Scalicki (Tony Catanese) is a funny, fast-talking mama’s boy who has never managed to maintain a relationship with a woman. Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano…
I haven’t seen Eric Bogosian himself perform, and I haven’t read his work, so I really don’t know if his writing is as drop-dead funny as actor Alex Ray June’s performance makes it appear, or if June is as brilliant an actor as he seems to be when doing Bogosian’s…
In the annals of fraud and fakery, a discredited ex-magazine reporter named Stephen Glass will probably end up as a mere footnote. The people who forge van Goghs and the con artists who bilk naive grandmothers out of their life savings (not to mention certain fast-dancing corporate executives) more richly…
Russell Crowe to his agent: “More Oscar bait. Now.” Agent, considering his cut of Crowe’s $20 million payday: “Yes, sir.” A possible scenario, anyway. Thus, Crowe is back in another iconic, self-serious performance, and his beefy mug will stare down upon us from this season’s heroic movie posters until Tom…
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, a collection of ten new films that address social and political unrest in Rwanda, the Middle East, Chile and Bosnia, among other places, will screen November 13-16 at the Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli Building on the Auraria campus. Co-presented by Human Rights…
Lila Downs knows no boundaries. A striking beauty with powerhouse vocals that sound as though she swallowed an entire orchestra (heavy on the oboe), Downs has been recognized across the globe both for her extraordinary singing and for her talented storytelling through song. An entirely new and younger audience in…
Thursday, November 13 The ongoing El Centro Su Teatro Visiting Artist Series brings in a little Puerto Rican spice from the Big Apple this weekend when it presents El Apagn/The Blackout, a comedy with live music performed by New York’s Pregones Theater Company. Based on the short story “The Night…
For the characters in Train, the latest book by Pete Dexter, golf isn’t a gentleman’s game; it’s an eighteen-hole lesson in existentialism. After one player loses a bet, he curses “like he just saw life’s grand design, as often happened in golf.” And later, Dexter says, “I talk about how…
THURS, 11/13 Why, exactly, does brown mustard suck? Find out tonight at the premiere of a new Denver-based sitcom, So Dope, to be screened at the entertainment extravaganza So Dope: An Evening of Comedy.”It’s a story about two lifelong friends who don’t want to work their corporate jobs anymore, so…
THURS, 11/13 At age 78, skiing and filmmaking legend Warren Miller shows no sign of slowing down: The powder runs, rail slides and freefalls are more extreme than ever in Journey, Miller’s 54th annual high-energy ode to winter sports.The filmmaker’s familiar voice opens the film with “Let’s get the freak…
THURS, 11/13 Mayor Hickenlooper doesn’t have to worry about cleaning up the city after The Day It Snowed Tortillas. Fortunately, the edible precipitation will be confined to the Denver Puppet Theatre, 3156 West 38th Avenue. The 45-minute Southwest-inspired production tells the story of a small town in which villagers save…
THURS, 11/13 When Denver resident Jason Bosch first attended the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in July 2001, he realized that knowledge, not ignorance, was bliss.”I felt kind of ashamed that I was so ignorant about the world,” says Bosch, adding that the New York-based festival “gives people the…
