On the Move

Maybe you had to be there, but one of the most poignant moments of my own excitable high-school years was seeing the Frederick Wiseman cinema verite High School, a documentary filmed in an urban Philadelphia school that plainly exposed the oppressive atmosphere of the place while unfolding slowly and unwaveringly,…

Ebert Interruptus film will be Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Although Roger Ebert’s health problems prevent him from participating in the World Affairs Conference, the annual intellectual orgy that’s coming to Boulder from April 9 through April 13, the film critic’s interruptus program is still a featured attraction — and is now named after him. This year’s film? Tinker Tailor…

Boyfriend University kicks off with Rush Week tonight

Curious to know how you could “date better”? Not sure how to talk to a new partner about safe sex? Are you clueless about the basic art of flirting? If you’re a gay or bisexual male pondering such things, Boyfriend University is the program for you. Element, the Colorado-based nonprofit,…

Reader: Get a grip, dude. Feminism is for everybody!

Feminism isn’t a ladies-only club, Bree Davies pronounced yesterday. Feminism is for everybody. Including two very supportive male friends: one of whom attended the Rally to Protect Women’s Health at the Capitol Monday, both of whom earned a shout-out in her piece…

Sandra Fettingis’s Tell Me When You Hear Me Falling opens tonight

Sandra Fettingis has been creating art for over a decade. In her new series of sketches and 3-D wall sculptures, which debuts tonight at City, O’ City, Fettingis says she “explores confusion in conversation and in life’s agendas — specifically, through the patterning and layering of the art.” The title…

Seth Lepore on his one-man show, the happiness movement and infomercials

Naropa grad Seth Lepore will bring his newest one-man show, SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious, to Boulder this weekend. The new show targets the happiness movement, humorously critiquing everything from Oprah Winfrey to those Texas megachurches that all insist we need to be constantly chipper. We recently spoke with Lepore about the happiness movement,…

Have you hugged your male feminist today?

I started writing this piece by reiterating my usual spiel about why I’m a late-blooming feminist and why it’s important for all people to be feminists. But no one wants to hear that. No one likes to be told what they aren’t doing, even if asking that all humans to…

First Lady Mary Louise Lee wants to bring back the arts

Several nationally renowned artists and musicians are Denver natives: Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire graduated from East Denver High School; The Fray’s Isaac Slade and Joe King were schoolmates at Faith Christian Academy. Now Denver’s First Lady Mary Louise Lee wants to promote Denver’s notable cultural legacy with…

Natural philosophies link three solos at Space Gallery

To make a sweeping generalization, all art has to do with nature, because it is, at its core, an extension of the human hand, eye or brain. But some artists go further in expressing this underpinning by either literally or figuratively referring to natural processes or settings. This is what…

Now Showing

Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…

On the Ice crosses River’s Edge and The Fast Runner

If I said “Eskimo hip-hop crime tale,” would that send you running to the nearest sunny beach? Shot on location in far northern Alaska with a native cast and writer/director (Andrew Okpeaha MacLean), On the Ice is a marvel of concentrated, classical storytelling. The flat, snowy landscape strips away all…

21 Jump Street acknowledges its own superfluousness

The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high-schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 — one year after the network premiered — and ran until 1991, launching the career of Johnny Depp (who cameos here along with former castmate Holly Robinson Peete). As a sign of…

Jeff, who lives at home, is a slacker who wants to stand tall

It’s obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He’s got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment, confusion and self-doubt. But as the basement-dwelling hero in the Duplass brothers’ new quest movie, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Segel works his entire posture for laughs…

Photos: Denver Comic Con’s Second Saturday at Wazee Union

On Saturday night, March 10, Wazee Union was filled with comics, art, artists, music, open studios, beer from Breckenridge Brewery and music from Little Fyodore and Black Out Beat. Photographer Javid Rezvani brings back photos from the free event at the RiNo space. More photos are below…