Everyone knows turkey sucks. It’s dry, it’s boring and the only reason people eat it is because it conveniently feeds a lot of people at the same time. That is a stupid reason to eat anything. And it’s especially stupid on a holiday whose entire purpose is to eat as…
The Handsome Little Devils’ efforts to bring old-fashioned Vaudevillian melodrama to theatergoers in New York City has caught the attention of town’s snootiest critics. Earlier this year, the local troupe took their “Squirm Burpee Circus” act out east after securing a spot at the New Victory Theater off-Broadway, and the…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts (1311 Pearl Street, 303-832-8576, www.kirklandmuseum.org) is a collecting institution with three areas of focus: the work of Colorado’s premier modernist, Vance Kirkland, the work of other Colorado artists, and international design. It’s this third category that’s on view now in The Furniture…
archiTECHtonica. This is one of several shows put together by CU Art Museum director and curator Lisa Tamiris Becker to herald the opening of the institution’s new building. It’s paired with a show made up of related objects from the permanent collection. Becker invited an international cast of artists who…
Astronomical Sunset. Jim is a man destroyed by guilt because a social-networking site he created led to…actually, it’s not quite clear what, but it had to do with a teenage boy posting compromising photographs of his girlfriend, and the boy is now in prison. The plot doesn’t make a whole…
The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German shepherd, My Dog Tulip, is one of the finest, most insightful chronicles of inter-species devotion. The writer’s empathy and wit are mostly well served in Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s adaptation…
She doesn’t sing that way because she’s had it easy.” This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the nightclub at the center of Burlesque, defends her new star, Ali (Christina Aguilera), to the club’s jealous, deposed marquee attraction, Nikki (Kristen Bell). The same phrase could substitute as a…
Great,” sighs the wicked witch in Tangled, a CG-animation spin on the Rapunzel story, “now I’m the bad guy.” Mother Gothel, the frizzy-haired, sharp-featured enchantress with the inimitable voice of Donna Murphy, is Disney’s first villainess whose chief crime is being an underminer, and the heroine of Disney’s fiftieth animated…
Rachel, a housewife, is having what she characterizes as “one of my euphoria attacks,” babbling ecstatically to her depressed husband, Tom, about snow, their two sons, festive television shows and how much she loves Christmas. He interrupts to tell her he’s taken out a contract on her life. We never…
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and with it, the blessed weekday off where not only is your pre-noon drinking non-problematic, it’s downright acceptable. But Thanksgiving on Thursday won’t help you get away with being drunk at work today — and to that end, we’ve got you covered with all…
The challenges of independent filmmaking are many, from scriptwriting to planning around multiple people’s schedules to finding funding and finding distribution, the list of hurtles to jump goes on and on. In fact, it’s rather amazing when a film is actually made. The Bug Theatre, a venue for local indie…
As projected, the crowds came out for this weekend’s premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, to the tune of $125.1 million, the most ever for a Potter flick. That included my family’s little donation to the total weekend box-office; we caught Deathly Hallows Saturday at the…
Alright, so the original title of Sugar Cane Alley is Rue Cases-Nègres, which means it’s French — so the fact that the film swept the César Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars) when it was released in 1983 might not mean that much, because French people are snooty and…
Loveland, A-Basin, Wolf Creek, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Vail were all open this weekend, so why were most of the top snowboarders in Colorado and from around the world hanging out in downtown Denver? SixEleven Productions has the video recap from the 2nd annual Backyard Bang in case…
Sandra Wong made a bold claim as she held the elaborate wooden instrument, an alien-looking contraption with 16 strings and a dense thicket of white keys: “Personally, I think if Bach had known about the nyckelharpa, he would have written unaccompanied sonatas for it,” Wong told the small crowd gathered…
Warning: This article contains spoilers concerning the entire plot of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Normally when I sit down to watch a new Harry Potter movie in theaters, I’m excited to see how the story plays out on screen. But after director Daniel Yates’ criminal bungling of Harry…
Sarah Vowell is in town tonight for The Denver Post Pen & Podium lecture series at Newman Center for the Performing Arts, following the success of her book The Wordy Shipmates. We caught up with her for a quick interview just after she’d put the finishing touches on her next…
Ah, the holidays, that special time of year when we turn on a ridiculous amount of very small light bulbs to comfort us, because it gets dark too early, and also because this is America, and by gum, we can. Still, there’s no denying the austere beauty of the snow…
In what is possibly the most egregious use of an Internet poll to date, a couple from Minnesota is allowing people to vote on whether or not the woman should have an abortion. The simple fact that this couple is holding this poll, on the site birthornot.com, already places them…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, we’re finding out, hitting the streets to talk to one person who catches our eye and makes us look twice…
Oh, that Chris Loffelmacher. He promised a spectacle and, by god, he delivered. Last night’s Frock Out 2010 fashion showdown at the Denver Central Library rocked it hard, baby, interspersing a drop-dead battalion of strutting models with sideshow curiosities both real and imagined on the runway that stretched through the…
Finding the mayor of Shotgun Willie’s wasn’t easy. In spite of the fact that Foursquare enables oversharing (I’m at the grocery store! I’m at the gynecologist! I’m at the grocery store, and so is my gynecologist!), the program does a fairly good job of protecting users’ identities. Users go solely…
