Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: “It’s now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman.” Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and…
Judy Blume’s first novel, The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969, yet it’s only now, 44 years later, that the first big-screen adaptation of her work—Tiger Eyes, based on 1981’s novel of the same name—finally opens in theaters. This is a disgrace. One can…
For artist Gemma Bayly, the mandala is a key to self-awareness that inspires an infinite mirroring of life energies, as tied to metaphysics as it is to quantum physics. The intricate, penciled mandalas featured in Bayly’s solo show Mirrors, which opens today at Hinterland Art Space, are evidence of this:…
The comedians performing in The Duel: An Improv Cagematch may not be fighting to the death, but they are fighting to stay alive into the next round of this improvisational showdown, which pits two comedy teams against each other every Saturday night at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse. “Each team is…
Yes, there will be pro Halo players and fanatical Street Fighter fans jockeying for the top spots at today’s C3 Fighter Frenzy Campus Tour — but even if gamers only touch their PlayStations when it’s time to belt out “Don’t Stop Believin’” for Rock Band, they’ll find something to love…
First Class Fashionista maven Lonza Dennis had a personal stake in mind when she put together tonight’s Denver Paint the Runway at the Denver Art Society. “My two oldest daughters excelled in math,” she begins. “My youngest struggled throughout high school, but she was a talented artist. She had been…
Just like a summer blockbuster film, the open-entry exhibition Let’s Pretend We’re Robots, opening tonight at Good Thieves Press, is meant to be a double dip of summer fun. But it’s completely serious, too, notes Good Thieves member Corrina Espinosa. “We genuinely love robots, and we are not the only…
The LIDA Project was named for a Soviet device that was supposedly capable of manipulating human brain-waves through the use of low-frequency radio, and for nearly two decades, this innovative theater company has offered productions that often incorporate technology in unusual ways. It latest effort is a modernized version of…
After more than 25 years in the comedy industry, Dave Attell has witnessed a lot of changes. “Everyone’s on camera today,” says the comic, who worked with the best in the New York club scene before improvising on the streets with his bar-hopping travel show, Insomniac. “Everyone wants to be…
The complexities of human relationships weave a tangled web. Director Betsy Tobin has always been fascinated by interpersonal inter-action, and her newest performance, METAPHOR, uses strong visual metaphors to delve into the patterns that occur between people in love. “I’ve always been kind of fascinated by just how intricate human…
“Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale, thorough flood, thorough fire/I do wander everywhere….” Take it from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Exercise and Shakespeare go together. The Denver Botanic Gardens and Theatre-Hikes Colorado will prove it this summer with their second season of themed Sunset Strolls…
Treating teenage growing pains with a sensitivity that frequently trips into singer-songwriter-ish mushiness, Tiger Eyes nonetheless stands as a respectable first cinematic adaptation of a Judy Blume novel. Directed and co-written by the author’s son, Lawrence, Blume’s tale follows fifteen-year-old Davey (Willa Holland) as she relocates, in the wake of…
Montbello High School’s drumline will be flying high next week, when its members take one of the first Dreamliner trips to Tokyo in order to visit Denver’s sister city of Takayama, Japan. In preparation for the trip, on Saturday the students went through an orientation organized by the Japan Exchange…
Denver Comic Con was filled with characters, each embracing their own theme and costume. One of the more creative characters we spotted was teacher Rebecca Haines, a Denver native, dressed up as Hawkeye. Keep reading to find out how she made her costume, which comic-book title inspired it, and what…
Mestre Acordeon brought capoeria, an Afro-Brazilion form of martial arts, to America from Brazil decades ago. Starting in September, three days after his seventieth birthday, he’ll undertake a journey to spread capoeria around the world, on a year-long, 14,000-mile bike ride from Berkeley, California to Bahia, Brazil that’s been dubbed…
Brad Wilson had exactly one week to finish his custom-design guitar for a commissioned birthday present and, at that moment, he was thinking about starting over. The guitar still needed a camouflage paint job, a Colorado design for the pick guard, a painted neck and all the wiring — basically,…
Sarah Kate Baie has seen Mixed Taste — the recurring lecture series kicking off tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver — grow exponentially over the last nine years, from its early days at Belmar to its current, summer-season mainstay status at the MCA. Programming curator Baie and her…
For any local comic who has yet to appear on Conan or negotiate a sitcom, the New Faces Competition at Comedy Works is the ideal way to gain recognition and earn some cash with your humor. Winning first place in the four-month tournament not only puts a thousand bucks in…
Fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones could use some levity right now: The latest episode, “The Rains of Castamere,” was rough in the way that a bunch of beloved characters were completely and utterly slaughtered in such a shockingly revolting manner that fans who haven’t read the books are still…
#64: Betsy Tobin Betsy Tobin’s multidisciplinary theater works unfold unlike just about anything you’ve seen before, blending offbeat techniques with an old-world aura. With her Boulder-based Now or Never Theatre, she produces visually stunning pieces that incorporate puppets, live actors, dance, shadow theater and video in a sophisticated way. Some…
It’s time to gear up for the third annual Denver County Fair, which is aiming to make its trifecta year the best ever. Got a cherry pie to die for? An elegantly stitched quilt? A hen that struts like nobody’s business? You have until midnight on July 26 to enter…
This year’s Denver Comic Con took over the Colorado Convention Center last weekend, and thousands of costumes filled the huge arena. Amid the superheroes and fanboys were pop-culture references from the 1980s, including at least one Mr. T doppelgänger. Information technologist Andy Gray dressed up as the television icon. Read…
