Over the last decade or so, Colorado has seen an incredible museum-building boom that is completely unprecedented in the state’s history. New structures include the Kirkland Museum, the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum, and MCA Denver. In addition, a substantial yet subdued addition was made to the iconic…
Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
Horses make lousy protagonists, what with their inability to speak, emote, or do much of anything other than run or stand around. No surprise, then, that Secretariat employs its subject as merely a vehicle for a human-victory-over-adversity story, which, in this based-on-real-events case, involves owner Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) triumphing…
A film seemingly designed to get every New York City honors student face-punched at college, It’s Kind of a Funny Story chronicles a privileged Brooklyn high-schooler’s super-cool institutionalized mental-health break. Hot for his best friend’s girlfriend, stressed out over an application to a prestigious summer school and audaciously neglectful of…
A quartet of uneven TV pilots posing as a full-length documentary, Seth Gordon’s anthology Freakonomics pulls case studies from Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s best-selling book of pop math and hands them over to famous doc filmmakers to make their own. Gordon (King of Kong) knits together the resulting shorts…
There’s far more playing area than there is room for the audience: We’re seated on a few rows of chairs at each end of the space, while the wide floor between is marked out like a Pacman game. On the opposite wall from where I sit, a screen shows a…
The 39 Steps is uninhibitedly silly — a romp, a trifle, a takeoff on a 1930s Hitchcock film (which, in turn, was based on a novel by John Buchan) The plot, which didn’t make much sense in the previous versions, has something to do with an attempt by foreign spies…
Art. Yasmina Reza’s cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it’s more about friendship. At the center of the action is an all-white painting, purchased by Serge, a dermatologist, for a huge sum of money. Perhaps he feels a genuine affinity for the piece, perhaps he’s…
Cultural programming at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities has long been the product of partnerships with other arts organizations, something executive director Gene Sobczak credits with the center’s growth over the past couple of years. “So I wanted to see if the same model could fit with…
Andrew Novick is known in this town for many singular reasons — a big one being his artfully out-of-control need to collect things, any things, nay, all things, and another his involvement with the legendary band the Warlock Pinchers — but his spot-on fashion sense is probably not one of…
Because it’s a slow news day, each Wednesday, we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a collection of loosely related items about whatever topic we happen to come up with. Today, we’re bringing you Kitler: Cats that look like Hitler, because animals that look like people…
A recent national study of sexual behavior conducted by Indiana University concludes that American men think they are better in bed than they actually are. The study claims that 85 percent of men reported that their partner had an orgasm during their most recent sexual event, while only 64 percent…
In celebration of 100 years of being an auditorium, the Macky Auditorium at CU-Boulder will unveil on Friday at 4 p.m. a time capsule that was buried at the time of construction exactly 100 years to the day before. In an interesting twist, CU officials were able to surmise from…
The Mile High Club — the all-star team of the Denver Roller Dolls roller derby league — and the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls traveled to California over the weekend of October 1-3 to play in the WFTDA (Women’s Flat Track Derby Association) 2010 championships. Rocky Mountain defeated Oly Rollers (Olympia,…
Do you like words? What about word games? If just thinking about Scrabble makes you hot, you might want to check out our browser game of the week, Word Bubbles. It doesn’t have anything to do with Scrabble or words inside bubbles, but it is a word game that gives…
Last week, we told you about MaryJanice Davidson’s new Me, Myself and Why? a veer into left field from an author noted for veering into left field. The self-proclaimed “inventor of paranormal chick-lit,” Davidson made her name with her Undead and Unwed series about a vampire who’s also into shopping…
The Poor Boyz Productions Triple Threat Tour comes to Boulder Theater tonight with the local premiere of the 2010 ski film Revolver (trailers after the jump) and an autograph signing with featured athletes including Simon Dumont, Nick Martini, Matt Walker, and Dane Tudor, followed by an afterparty with music by…
There are a lot of great jazz musicians in Denver, but perhaps none so acclaimed as trumpeter Ron Miles. Internationally noted for inventive compositions that stay well enough within the bounds of convention not to alienate, Miles also boasts considerable chops as an arranger (his credits include an adaptation of…
Cultural programming at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities has long been the product of partnerships with other arts organizations, something executive director Gene Sobczak credits with the center’s growth over the past couple of years. “So I wanted to see if the same model could fit with…
I’m supposed to know everything that goes on in town, but here’s something that passed me by completely: For the last five years, the local firm BurstMarketing has been recording and posting podcasts of Tattered Cover book events, as many as three or four a week, online for free at…
Hunter S. Thompson could have been a Canadian. Sort of. In 1958, the then-struggling New York City reporter applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun newspaper in British Columbia. According to an entertaining story by Canadian Postmedia News, he was inspired by a Time magazine profile of the paper’s…
A solo show by artist Michael Whiting, known for his sculptures of large painted steel squares combined to create iconic “pixilated” forms of animals or figures, opens later this month at Plus Gallery. And if all goes well, the show will coincide with the unveiling of “Rhino,” a self-explanatory, large-scale…
