I wasn’t interested in the discussion about the uses and abuses of cell phones in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. To begin with, the theme is dated. Most people don’t use their phones to talk these days; they’re too busy checking e-mail, playing games, counting calories, perusing their calendars…
I’d been enjoying Cavalia all along, but the moment that won me over completely came during the second act, in a piece called “Carousel.” To an exotic beat that sounded rather like Ravel’s “Bolero,” a group of robed people rode white horses through misty silver light, the white-lit outline of…
The tip came in the form of a note, evidently a page torn from a Bible, with only a black spot drawn on it, left mysteriously in my mailbox. Well, really, somebody just told somebody else who told me — but it’s confirmed: This March, an exhibition about pirates, curated…
Alternative art will bloom tonight in unexpected places when the Denver Theatre District hosts Illiterate Gallery at Primebar, 1515 Arapahoe Street, for one of its periodic salons in downtown locations. “They approached us to hang artwork on the wall there for two hours,” says Adam Gildar of Illiterate. “We’ll have…
Like the dough-faced nerd in middle school who becomes visibly upset when you explain your theory about the homoerotic undertones of the relationship between Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, Glenn Beck is basically incapable of taking a joke. That’s why it was only a matter of time before the tandem…
The Aspen Filmfest kicks off tomorrow night with a sneak-preview screening of the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and a concert by Lennon’s pre-Beatle cohorts in the Quarrymen. But, hey, if your pocketbook is just not tony enough for Aspen, you can get the same package tonight at the Boulder…
The media of today is hard to keep up with: It comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things each…
Kelly Shortandqueer is small in stature but big on words, especially when it comes to the Denver Zine Library, which he co-founded with Jamez Terry in 2003. Over the past seven years, the library, a herculean underground effort to cataloue a variety of zines, from independent music chatter and literary…
There is only one real rule in life: When things are free, you must take them. And so it is with Remains of the Day, an Anthony Hopkins vehicle the Starz FilmCenter is showing tonight as part of a tie-in with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ One Book, One…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that make it through the brainstorming sessions of the world’s copywriters…
The Motocross of Nations has only been staged in the United States three times in its 64 year history, but Lakewood’s Thunder Valley Motocross Park had the honor this weekend, hosting 32,000 spectators and top riders from around the world. Team USA went big for the occasion, beating out Belgium,…
Denver’s Tanner Gun show has been around since 1964 and is now one of the largest gun shows in the western part of the United States. Through the years, the Tanner Gun Show has grown from humble beginnings in hotel banquet rooms to its current home at the Denver Merchandise…
This past weekend over 400 Coloradans got their solar on at the Denver Area Solar & Green Homes Tour. It’s easy for us to get caught up in our daily lives and forget that most of our energy still comes from coal-fired power plants in Colorado, but the folks on…
You might have read about it on Friday — you know, Running of the Gays — here on Show and Tell, when Jef Otte previewed the event with the news that he would be running with the gays — yesterday, he won that race. Congratulations, sir. We sent photographer Aaron…
When I got up Sunday morning, zipped up my skirt, slipped into my lacy stockings and sensible black pumps, did 50 one-armed pushups and ate a raw steak, I had one objective, and one objective only: to win. Sure, Running of the Gays was a jokey charity event to benefit…
In the Grant-Humphreys mansion at 770 Pennsylvania Street yesterday, Denver fashion designers sold their styles in between three fashion shows. Photographer Hunter Stevens was there and brings back these photos from the event…
It’s shortly after sundown, and the growing crowd is getting impatient. I’m standing with a friend at the head of the VIP line for “Bloodlust,” one of the two haunted houses that debuted over the weekend at Elitch Gardens as part of the park’s annual “Fright Fest.” We’ve been waiting…
The Top 10 films of the 7th Annual Shoot Out Boulder Film Festival were shown to an enthusiastic house at the Boulder Theatre yesterday afternoon, and when the dust settled it was “Hippie Go Yuppie” that won best film and the the $2,000 prize money…
From live game shows in the elevator to an elementary-school librarian reading children’s stories — also in the elevator — to an ambient violin performance by Frieda Stalheim of Munly fame and retro DJ’s on the rooftop balcony, the MCA is offering something fresh on Friday nights for Denver’s abundance…
Somehow, the joke snowballed out of control. We were in a meeting, talking about Art from Ashes’ “Running of the Gays,” a hilarious transsexual charity event to benefit The Center’s Rainbow Alley, and I said I would go to report on it. “Shit,” I cracked, “I might even run in…
Lots of authors dream of their books scoring glowing praise from the New York Review of Books, topping the bestseller lists, getting optioned for a Hollywood movie. But getting turned into a musical? How often does that happen? That could be the fate for Nine Lives, a nonfiction account of…
Why people love to disappear, like Shoeless Joe in Field of Dreams or Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire, into the depths of a cornfield is hard to ascertain. One supposes it has to do with our overall love of fresh air and mystery, especially when accompanied by the crispy…
