Why is dance such a hard sell? There’s a stigma attached to the whole idea of beautiful, thin waifs whirling about to a different drummer under the faraway lights. Sometimes it seems like you have to drag people by the ear to go see dance — although they might just…
Love was in the air on Friday night at Zip 37 in the Navajo Street Art District, where the show LoveSick opened to the public. The exhibit, which features nine artists contemplating the meaning of being lovesick, was curated by artist Katie Hoffman, who unveiled her own piece, Heloise and…
While writing this column over the years, I have frequently thought about how my chief calling is to compose a rough first draft of the art history of Colorado done right as it races by. This kind of instant historicizing has a following in the scholarly world, and someone who…
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…
9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the Triangle of Death entered the nearby home of a fourteen-year-old girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza. Steven Green, a private, took her parents and six-year-old sister into…
Hit men have bills to pay, too, and sometimes a kid to feed and an anxious wife to placate, even as they worry that their reputation in the bad-guy underworld is slipping. In the suburbs of Sheffield, England, a former soldier named Jay (a superb Neil Maskell) is stressed to…
Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is Lauren (Reese Witherspoon), a product tester who decides to apply comparative shopping techniques to dating. Her would-be beaus, FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), are best friends…
In Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian’s worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence (and downtown loft) when a reckless night with shlubby photographer flame Franklin (John C. Reilly) results in an accidental pregnancy, free-spirit travel writer Eva becomes an…
David Mamet wrote Glengarry Glen Ross in 1984, and by now it’s just so familiar. The play is about a group of small-time salesmen peddling worthless tracts of land, all of them pathetic, creeping, conscienceless creatures, jostling for power like rats in an overcrowded cage and willing to betray anyone,…
“A tigalo is what happens when a tiger and a buffalo get funky together,” explains Matthew Brown, owner of Fancy Tiger Clothing (and the partner of Jaime Jennings, who runs Fancy Tiger Crafts), which recently settled into new digs on Broadway alongside the craft store and Buffalo Exchange, which has…
Colorado has starred in hundreds of movies — and more recently, watched as filmmakers pass up the Centennial State for cheaper locales, even if their films are set here. (Thanks for nothing, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.) But lawmakers and industry folks have a plan to change that, a plan that…
Last night the Bar Car on Colorado Boulevard was again invaded by Amberama Martinez and her Bar Car First Sunday Art Show, which featured voodoo dolls and bracelets made from Scrabble squares, among other works for sale…
Saturday night’s Scorned Lovers Art Show and Event at the Art Salon was a revenge-laden success. The evening’s anti-V-Day theme came through with humor (and minimal bitterness) as party-goers gathered around the low stage for some erotic poetry and selected excerpts from the My Teenage Angst diary readers. Voodoo Comedy…
The first annual Winter Teva Mountain Games went down this weekend at Vail, and some of the first video edits are already popping up. Not surprisingly, the flashiest are from the Telemark Big Air & Biking Best Trick contests. Chad Kagy — a BMX star best known for dominating events…
The American Theatre Critics’ Association had chosen the New Play Summit at the Denver Center Theatre Company as the site of its winter meeting, and a group of critics compared notes one morning. We had all seen the same plays; on some we agreed; now and then someone pointed out…
We’ve reported on the Denver Zine Library’s fundraising campaign and what a little extra cash will mean to the volunteer crew that maintains this Denver treasure, located somewhat obscurely at 27 Social Centre in Jefferson Park. And though the DZL is already more than halfway to its goal of raising…
Here’s a tempting pre-Valentine’s Day possibility: sipping wine while being serenaded by some of Denver’s best musicians and most appealing actors. Rachel Fowler, Jeff Roark, Leigh Miller, Gabriella Cavallero, Mark Rubald, Jim Ruberto and the recently married Mare Trevathan and Eryc Eyl will perform scenes, songs and poems about love…
Just as white stars occasionally show up sporting dreads, like Crystal Bowersox at the 2011 Grammys, our post on white people with dreads keeps popping up, with yet another group googling it during last night’s awards ceremony. The hairdo is woven into the histories of many cultures, notes one of…
It’s ten at night, and the Jones Theatre is thronged with bodies, and smells of beer, wine and popcorn as the Playwrights’ Slam — a regular part of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit — is about to begin. “My woman wants your head to make a…
Whether they want to wow women with their poetic prowess, find the perfect insult to highlight their intelligence or tame an unruly “shrew,” people have long been adapting Shakespeare’s stories to their own lives. And, of course, savvy marketers have been retooling the playwright’s classic plots to create their own…
Get ready to place your paws on DIBS, or Denver Independent Boutiques, this Saturday. Because come sunshine or snowfall, DIBS creator and Rakun owner, Meghan Throckmorton, along with her contemporaries, will host an event called Sweetheart Boutique Crawl. “This event is one way that we can encourage shoppers to buy…
Colorado has a rich film history. Nearly 400 movies have been shot here in more than 100 years. But, as explained in this week’s cover story “The Reel West,” Colorado is experiencing a bit of a film drought lately, something that lawmakers and industry folks hope to reverse. Instead of…
