When the words “true story” appear twice in a film’s opening disclaimer, it’s a guarantee that what follows will include at least one questionable fiction. The Impossible is inspired by the Alvarez Belons, a Spanish family of five who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed almost 300,000 lives;…
Rock and roll proves the coming-of-age crucible in Not Fade Away, Sopranos creator David Chase’s semi-autobiographical feature debut of shaggy hair, shagadelic beauties, and the joy and sorrow wrought from chasing, and failing to achieve, one’s dreams. Chase’s tale of showbiz striving has, in its basic form, been told before:…
Diana seems like a typical middle-class wife and mother: smart, energetic and ironic, waking her sleepy son and teasing her daughter. That is, until she begins making sandwiches for everyone’s lunch — a maneuver that involves tossing dozens of slices of bread onto the floor, then sinking down and dabbing…
“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” says screenwriter Will Beall of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood’s A-list. Unexpected, because just five years ago, Beall was busy working for Tinseltown’s second-most famous employer, the Los Angeles Police Department, where he served…
David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-age guy with the bad dye job a few tables away from us in the Library Bar of the Regency Hotel. “Hiya!” bellows the dye job into his phone. “I’m sittin’ here watchin’ the…
Beaver Creek – home of the Birds of Prey World Cup ski race and famed double-black runs with names like Golden Eagle, Peregrine and Osprey – gets literal with its raptor motif today, offering up a free interactive exhibit hosted by Nature’s Educators starting at 3:30 p.m. in Beaver Creek…
For the Harlem Globetrotters, basketball is more than just a game; it’s about connecting with a global audience. In 2012, the team went to Afghanistan to play for the troops for the first time in its eighty-year-plus history, and the ballers will play two games today in Colorado, where they’ll…
How does a local independent theater deal with translating a Broadway show to the small stage? When the touring drama Next to Normal came to the Buell Theatre nearly a year ago, it arrived with a state-of-the-art, multimedia set. Ignite Theatre has had to build its production of the groundbreaking…
Wooden Snowflakes offers a new interpretation of the timeless holiday tale: A grumpy character with a hardened heart meets someone who helps him or her believe in the magic of Christmas. Rather than Scrooge or the Grinch, however, the non-believer in Catherine Bush’s play is a woman named Eve Lawson…
The abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood was a wreck. But artist Candy Chang decided to give it new life, by turning it into a giant chalkboard and stenciling the words “Before I die I want to…” onto the side, then encouraging people to write their own end to…
When the words “true story” appear twice in a film’s opening disclaimer, it’s a guarantee that what follows will include at least one questionable fiction. The Impossible is inspired by the Alvarez Belons, a Spanish family of five who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed almost 300,000 lives;…
Always adventurous and always ambitious, Floyd Tunson is high on the list of Colorado’s top contemporary artists, and he’s being feted with a well-earned career retrospective, Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop, which opens to the public today at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. “It’s an expansive look at…
The Clyfford Still Museum might just be jumping on the bandwagon by presenting its new show, Vincent/Clyfford, as a prelude to the Denver Art Museum’s Van Gogh blockbuster, which opens in October. But Still Museum director Dean Sobel thinks viewers will find that the connections between the work of Vincent…
Welcome to Hogwarts, post-Voldemort: The mythical school has been rebuilt, and the children of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy are now learning about wizardry and witchcraft themselves. This is the setting for Bovine Metropolis Theater’s popular series, a futuristic fan-fiction parody called The Heirs of Hogwarts: An Improvised…
Colorado is full of people who love the outdoors and chock-full of people who love their dogs. So when they can take their dogs with them outdoors, well, that’s the gold standard — and that’s exactly what today’s Skijoring Clinic at Devil’s Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa in Tabernash is…
It’s a common tradition to dress up on New Year’s Eve, but the hundreds of Nan Desu Kan fans who visited the Denver Renaissance Hotel on the final night of 2012 took that to another level. The anime and science-fiction enthuiasts dressed up as their favorite characters — heroes, villains…
Show and Tell has created a new weekly feature that we’re excited to share with you: Spot of the Week. Every Wednesday, we’ll post a short clip of a local skateboarder shredding at a local spot. And you can win skate swag as a result: All you have to do…
For our New Year’s guide that was inserted in the issue of December 13, we asked thirteen of the town’s cultural tastemakers several questions — and the answers were entertaining, informative and, in many cases, enlightening. Although we posted their individual Q&As on Show and Tell last month, we’re doing…
One of the aspects of Twitter I love more than any other social-networking site is its actual ability to connect you with people with whom you might otherwise not cross paths. (I also like that 140 characters limits the amount of proselytizing one can do at friends and strangers, unlike…
New Year’s resolutions are typically useless; they’re often way too ambitious and usually forgotten by February. But there’s value in the ritual of taking stock of the past year and making goals for the year to come. When I was asked about my resolutions, I said couldn’t think of a…
The Denver Art Museum was on a roll in 2012 and it isn’t slowing down in the new year, with exhibits showcasing Georgia O’Keeffe and Nick Cave’s Soundsuits on their way. At MCA Denver, the Ladies Fancywork Society will soon have its day in the sun its own exhibition. The…
Despite the cold on New Year’s Eve, downtown parties were hot. And the sight of revelers running from one event to another gave one reader the best laugh of the new year… See also: – Slide Show: People of Decadence on New Year’s Eve – Reader: We pros stay at…
