What makes Johann run — and rob? Benjamin Heisenberg’s second feature is as taut, lean and fleet as its title character, played by Andreas Lust and based on the real-life Johann Kastenberger, who was both Austria’s most-wanted bank robber of the 1980s and a champion marathoner. Writing the script with…
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!/With his features of clerical cut/And his brow so grim/And his mouth so prim/And his conversation so nicely/Restricted to What Precisely/And If and Perhaps and But./How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!/With a bobtail cur/In a coat of fur/And a porpentine cat/And a wopsical hat/How unpleasant…
A man with no sense of smell named Shakespeare Williams returns to his familial home on the eastern plains of Colorado to find his senile father living in filth and disarray and his finances even worse, and so he hatches a plan to rob a bank. Intrigued? That’s the plot…
There’s a new gay theater in town, created by Steve Paulding and Preston Britton. We haven’t had one since Theatre Group, which at its height served a lively mix of raunchy, campy spoofs and serious gay-themed plays, so this new entry is welcome. But the first show indicates the Presteve…
Whether you spend the morning of Memorial Day nursing a three-cumulative-day hangover or getting up early and running a perverse distance in the Bolder Boulder, chances are, by Monday afternoon, you are going to need something low-key — and preferably free, since you spent all your money on booze/paying to…
Denver is one slammin’ town, and that’s to our advantage: It means we’re not under the radar of the national slam poetry community. Rather, Denver is a destination: Touring poets make it a point to stop over here, say “hey” to their Denver brothers and sisters and perform for them…
I completely adore John Doe and cherish every word that comes out of his mouth; his 1990 album Meet John Doe was a life-changer for me and still remains among my favorites. He’s at the Lion’s Lair tonight, in a trio that includes X cohort DJ Bonebrake on drums, for…
It’s a telling fact about We are the Night that about forty other things just from the last five years share its name (it’s at 2007 movie starring Joaquin Phoenix, for example, and also a Chemical Brothers album) — from its premise right down to its title, there is absolutely…
A new exhibit is opening at the Wildlife Experience Museum tomorrow: Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived. The exhibit includes a life-sized replica of megalodon (pictured above) and comparisons with other sharks we think of as scary-big, like the Great White, along with explanations of what might have caused…
Road trip! The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival gets into full swing today at 9 a.m. with opening remarks from filmmaker Tom Shadyac and a Moving Mountains “Awareness into Action” symposium. The first screenings start tonight at 6:30 p.m. See our previous posts for the must-see action sports…
It’s Memorial Day weekend, which for some people means a three-day party. For others it means celebrating veterans and for another set it means extra-long work hours. For most of us, it means we’ll be able to drink an extra mojito on Sunday morning and not have to worry about…
During the summer, one of the coolest features of the 16th Street Mall downtown is the painted pianos, those randomly placed sets of 88 keys that anyone can just sit down and play for a while — they’re not the fanciest and they’re not the best-sounding (temperature fluctuation and the…
Harry Shearer may be best known as the comedian who voices a litany of characters on The Simpsons and makes mockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind, but his new documentary is completely serious. The Big Uneasy, which screens tonight at the Denver FilmCenter at 7 p.m.,…
If you’ve ever wanted to be a comic artist, you should probably reconsider because there’s no money in it. But if you’re anything like a comic book artist, you’re stubborn and you will not listen, so you might as well get off on the right foot — and Illiterate’s Talk…
What exactly is a Maker, anyway? Obviously, it’s someone who, well, makes stuff. But a Maker is more specifically an inventor of sorts, who works in cross-disciplinary realms where technology and the arts collide. There’s a fierce DIY spirit among Makers, who tend to surf and hack their way across…
Tattoos are dumb. Ask my mom. Don’t ask her, actually, because it isn’t all tattoos that are dumb in her eyes, just my little girly clip art pieces and that giant weird dead cat thing my neighbor got tattooed on his calf. My brother has a whole arm full of…
John Sayles is best known as a cult-director and script doctor, but apparently all that time spent writing and directing his own movies isn’t enough for him, as he’s also an accomplished novelist. Sayles will be hanging out at the Tattered Cover on Colfax this weekend to answer all your…
There really is no comparison between Martin Lawrence and Candy Darling, né James Slattery, an actress and fixture of the Warhol Factory/late ’60s downtown New York scene who happened to be technically male. One was beautiful as a woman, talented and funny; the other is hideous as a woman, and…
Solitaire, the new backcountry skiing and snowboarding film from Colorado-based Sweetgrass Productions and director Nick Waggoner, isn’t scheduled for its Denver premiere until September 16 when the Fall flick frenzy gets into full swing. That hasn’t stopped the company from dribbling out sweet little teaser tastes: On the Road with…
There is perhaps no other place in the world so constantly put-upon has Haiti. It was already the most poverty-stricken country in the western hemisphere even before it was beset by one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded in human history with the 2010 earthquake, and a year and…
For more than thirty years, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council has been a cornerstone of the local Latino community and culture. “Metarealist” painter Stevon Lucero has been there from the beginning. Along with a few other artists — Al Sanchez, Jerry Jaramillo — who still show at CHAC, once…
Ballet-loving boys still face some stigma, but there’s precedent for the story of Billy Elliot, a kid raised in a rough-and-tumble English coal-mining town who longs to dance. Edward Villella, once America’s most powerful and masculine ballet star, a sex symbol before Baryshnikov reached our shores and now director of…
