While the UMS weekend was packed with sexy locals flaunting their primal lust for aesthetics and scenester flirting on and off the stage, on Saturday afternoon I was part of a significantly geekier and less arousing event: the UMS Funny Face Off, a panel of comedians debating comedy journalists at…
Jim Hunt is one of the most respected, well-reviewed and best-loved actors in the Denver area. He has given memorable performances as a wheedling tramp in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker; a foppish musician in Bach at Leipzig; the loving, baffled father of Eurydice, who has passed into the land of…
Last week, the second iteration of the Denver Biennial of the Americas came and went, but its two main exhibits will continue through the beginning of September. Draft Urbanism is made up of architectural intrusions downtown and billboards throughout the city; First Draft, in the McNichols Building, is dominated by…
Catalyst. The beautiful grounds of the Denver Botanic Gardens are the ideal place to mount an outdoor sculpture show, and over the past few years, there has been one such presentation after another. This year, the theme is contemporary sculptors in Colorado. The pieces are picturesquely sited throughout in clearings…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). The Colorado Shakespeare Festival staged a pretty good version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)five years ago, so we’re not sure why the CSF decided to bring it back this season. The show, written in 1987 by Adam Long, Daniel Singer…
Like first sex, writer-director Maggie Carey’s debut feature, The To Do List, is quick and messy, fitfully pleasurable, full of promise, but not quite adept at getting everyone off. It’s an impossibly huge deal, yet also a modest achievement, something we have to go through that will no doubt be…
There’s no real hero in Richard II. In fact, everyone in the play is pretty wicked. Watching the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production, I remembered a historian’s comment after a corpse assumed to be Richard III was found under a parking lot in Leicester. Richard’s indefatigable defenders had hoped this corpse…
With an offhand precision that suggests he might prove to be one of his generation’s major actors, Michael Cera lays bare two specific human weaknesses in writer-director Sebastián Silva’s altered-states/group-dynamics road drama Crystal Fairy — weaknesses you’re likely to recognize from life rather than from other movies. The first is…
In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, on a platform of Oakland’s Fruitvale BART Station, a young man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a transit officer. The officer later claimed that he meant to reach for his taser and not his revolver, but…
Rob InderriedenSan Diego Comic-Con is a lot of things to a lot of people. You can bemoan the commercialization and curse the movie studios, but while you’re doing that, be sure to appreciate the magic of thousands upon thousands of super-fans dressing up as their favorite characters for no other…
Liz OhanesianWhen religious protesters showed up at Comic-Con, attendees responded with absurd signs. Comic-Con packed in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian covered the action for L.A. Weekly, one of our partner papers; here’s her fourth report. In Southern California, you can be certain that…
Punk street style can mean many things. For local student Rajiv Clark, it means not being afraid to embrace color or style. Keep reading to learn more about his fashion icons, where he shops and his favorite accessory. See also: – Menswear Mondays: Mechanic James Hill on his royal fashion…
Finding a wall in the city and making it his own is how Gamma Acosta began his career in art. Since then, he has become one of the best-know street artist in the Denver/Longmont area. But it didn’t happen overnight. “It was just through word of mouth,” he says. “I…
There’s no shortage of local entrepreneurs who are tapping into yoga and nutrition. That’s why Kate Coleman, founder of Biophilia, wanted to carve out her own special niche. The certified-yoga-instructor-slash-nutritionist has been backpacking for nearly a decade, since a University of Iowa school excursion first sparked her interested in the…
A couple wants a kickass wedding with all the trimmings — full band with the saxophone player, twenty-tier French cake with custard filling, individually plated sashimi selections, and a photo booth that takes those old-fashioned sepia pictures — all in an urbane, affected, pastoral setting complete with white ponies. But…
Long before the Kardashians and the advent of shock-reality television, there was Network, the whip-smart 1976 satire that predicted the tactics TV stations would one day use to attract viewers. That’s just one of the free events in Denver this weekend — all opportunities to get out and do something…
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Comic-Con has been packing in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian is covering the action for our media group; here’s the third of her reports. Twenty years ago, Emily the Strange first appeared on T-shirts and other odds and ends. Now, the thirteen-year-old girl with…
Courtesy of ArchaiaComic-Con has been packing in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian is covering the action for our media group; here’s the second of her reports. Ben Blacker had just arrived at San Diego Comic-Con when we met. The writer was preparing for a…
Liz OhanesianJ.G. Quintel, creator of Regular Show, left, meets Muscle Man come to life. Comic-Con has been packing in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian is covering the action for our media group; here’s the first of her reports. J.G. Quintel has been going to…
The floating hotel room art installation, “the hotel rehearsal,” was on display Friday morning in the heart of downtown Denver. Created by architectural artist, Alex Schweder, the installation is described as “a floating bounce house”; the inflatable room has a couch that folds out into a bed and a small…
After a decade with the Denver Fim Society and the Sie FilmCenter, programming manager Keith Garcia is saying goodbye. Beginning August 2, Garcia will become creative manager for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, overseeing the programming for the chain’s newly opened Littleton location. But he’s far from cutting ties with his cinematic…
