The Oscar-nominated animated musical Chico & Rita opens with a jaw-dropping swoop over modern-day Cuba, a well-grimed and bustling island of densely packed buildings that, here, is immaculately detailed and tinted just so as to make it beam even in squalor. Chico & Rita deserves credit for being the rare…
As Southern Baptist Sissies begins, a preacher is delivering a sermon while a young man comments on it: “What a crock of shit,” Mark exclaims. Having silenced the preacher, who exists only in his memory, he tells the story of four choir members — himself included — who grew up…
The foundations of Silent House are laid atop La Casa Muda, a nil-budget 2010 Uruguayan horror film that enjoyed an afterlife in international film festivals. It is not surprising that La Casa Muda was hastily snapped up for an English-language remake, for the concept is the sort of low-overhead, trend-conscious…
In the opening scene of Friends With Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion on the bedside table of Jason (Adam Scott) marks him as a non-believer. His doubt also extends to conjugal matters, for he is unconvinced that married parents could ever be happy. Sharing…
The ecologically minded SustainAbility hosted Recycled Runway, a fashion show Friday night at the Sherman Events Center that attracted an unpretentious collection of hippies, fashionistas, press, parents and those who aren’t a typical presence in the fashion world, creating an “awesome mix” of people and fashion, in the words of…
Mythica von Griffyn says her connection to the person she paints goes deeper than some people may think. “It’s a spiritual process,” she explains. “I follow the same principals of Dr. Emato, who found that by writing words on jars of water, the water would form different crystallized compounds at…
When Laura Bauer took over the Prom Dress Exchange from its previous organizer, she hoped to make the 2011 event a big success. And although only eighteen girls walked out of her makeshift door outfitted with gently used gowns, she was happy with the results. In contrast, this year’s edition…
At Big Time, there are big chances taken. There are also live commercials for some of the freshest performances in the region, charming emcees, and a sense of something happening, really happening. Just like its parent organization, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Big Time is dedicated to the extraordinary –…
People had a lot to say about Shit Girls in Denver Say, a video created by 25-year-old Erin Streets, a local designer and stylist. And we’ll give the last word on the three-minute video to her:…
Adam Lerner, billed as “Director and Chief Animator, Department of Fabrications” on his business cards, and his creative crew at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver rate a rave in the New York Times this week. The March 1 piece titled “Puppies, Paintings and Philosophers” focuses on the Mixed Taste programs…
Vintage Theatre Productions has found a new home: In April, it will move into the Dayton Street Theatre at 1468 Dayton Street in Aurora, which will be renamed Vintage Theatre. “This is an extremely exciting move for us in our tenth anniversary season,” says executive producer Debbie Laureta. “Our new…
Last night’s episode of Project Runway All Stars was brought to you by a Deadhead near you. Or it might as well have been. The challenge asked the designers to create a look that would pop under a black light and impress guest judge Pharrell Williams…
Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza’s Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he uses two criteria in making his selections: “I need to be moved intellectually and not just emotionally, provoked as well as…
Nerds are powerful, according to Chris Hardwick. And he should know. The self-proclaimed nerd has started a whole podcast and entertainment website based on nerdiness. He’ll bring his popular podcast, Nerdist, live to the Boulder Theater tonight complete with stand-up performances, an interview with Colorado-based astronomer Phil Plait, and a…
Tonight, photographer Terri Bell opens her tbellphotographic studio & gallery up to a group of seventeen Colorado artists she met, quite by chance, after issuing an open call and inviting Mark Sink to serve as juror for a show celebrating “the art of being in the right place at the…
When you think of fighting pollution and harmful waste, the images that come to mind are often of oil spills, nuclear meltdowns and bottle-nose dolphins caught in tuna nets. Typically, you don’t think of hair salons. “The salon industry has a great deal of waste,” says SustainAbility co-owner Melissa Kraai…
While First Friday is synonymous with the Art District on Santa Fe for some people, there are events in other districts as well. Here’s a selection of happenings tonight — from the Navajo, Tennyson, River North and, yes, the Santa Fe art districts…
It looks like March is roaring in like a lion just in time for the weekend, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a ton of things to do for fun. From Johnny Depp’s classic bad-boy role in Cry-Baby to a whole slew of art openings, we’ve got plenty of interesting…
It’s First Friday, and you might already have plans to be out and about. Here’s one more wonderful event to add to your itinerary, if you happen to be heading toward the Art District on Santa Fe or Gildar Gallery on Broadway: Welcome to Tomorrow, an informal unveiling of spring…
The KinkforAllDenver event on February 25 may have left a few people out of that all. A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the conference, criticizing the organizers — Rebecca Crane of Boulder and Maymay, formerly of New York and the co-founder of KinkForAll — for censoring presentations…
Alison Greenberg was a producer for Saving Face and is manager of foundation and donor relations for the Denver Film Society. She wrote this first-person account of her trip to the Oscars with the crew of Saving Face, a documentary which won the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short. BY…
If you’re wandering through Santa Fe’s First Friday Art Walk, be sure to stop at 747 Santa Fe Drive and take a look at the words “Clown Town” in bright blue L.E.D. lights up in a second-floor window. That’s the home of the Side Show Studio, an out-of-the-way gallery that…
