If you’ve finished this year’s One Book, One Denver selection and are wishing that Dashiell Hammett had set it on a planet far, far away, or if you’ve ever wondered how James Ellroy’s LA Confidential might have turned out if Ellroy grown up on a steady diet of science fiction,…
Halloween’s more elegant primo, El Día de los Muertos, is often misunderstood by those who don’t actually celebrate it: As local muertos artist Jerry Vigil notes, the true meaning of the annual and traditional tribute to the departed in Mexico is perceived by outsiders as the simple sum of its…
Just in time for one of the most important U.S. elections in decades comes a powerful, provocative documentary about one of the most important political operatives of the past thirty years. As the architect of the modern Republican Party, mentor of Karl Rove and the man who perfected the use…
Cat’s Pajamas is putting on its oh-so-fashionable jammies and taking a cat nap for a few months. During Cat’s hibernation, you’ll find regular features from this fashion blog in the Cat’s Pajama’s category of The Latest Word blog…
The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed by the…
Some parts of Tiny Alice are laughably literal. At the beginning, for instance, a Catholic cardinal in full black-and-red regalia tweets affectionately at some caged birds — cardinals, naturally. Other words and images seem to offer easy metaphoric puzzles, as when Julian, the lay brother who will emerge as the…
Making the most with the least is a specialty of Sandra Phillips, owner of her namesake gallery on Santa Fe, which opened five years ago. A tiny and cramped storefront with an almost invisible street presence, the facility has little to recommend it from the outside. Inside, there’s only a…
In many ways, magic realism anticipates conceptual realism, even though it’s not actually an early form of the cutting-edge style. Boulder has been a center for magic realism for decades (I guess art really does imitate life), in no small part because of Frank Sampson and Luis Eades, artists who…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo and Jeanne-Claude as seen through their personal print collection documenting their pioneering conceptual work that began in the 1960s. The exhibit, which includes more than a hundred works of…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues. There are sweaty flashbacks and splayed-out flash-forwards, too. The only time someone’s getting laid in a bedroom, it’s during a staged rape…
The Duchess is the best women’s movie of the summer. Don’t get too excited: Sex and the City, Mamma Mia! and The Women set the bar so dismally low that almost any film with a dame in it who doesn’t channel her identity only through buying, boogying or bedding is…
Curse of the Starving Class. The moment you walk into the theater, you know you’re in Sam Shepard country — a place suffused with memories of the mythic Old West, but where the breadth and purity of that myth serve only to underline the disappointing realities of contemporary life. You…
In comedy years, these ladies are no spring chicks. Denver’s funniest females came out of their comedic shells long before any mention of a glass ceiling, and the weapons they use with force — punchlines — have people, not glass, cracking up. Tonight, female birds of comedic feathers will flock…
Although Pecha Kucha Night is another Japanese export being embraced from Seattle to Sydney, it’s also quickly becoming a Denver art-scene tradition. Pecha Kucha (it means “chit-chat” in Japanese) is an opportunity for artistic folks of all stripes to present twenty PowerPoint slides — at twenty seconds per slide —…
First it was the prospect of a female president. Now it’s a shot at a woman veep. Many would argue that women have rarely been more empowered. But those are women with senatorial seats and pantsuits, women who eat barreled pork for breakfast. What about minority women, low-wage women, every-damn-day…
Keep the DeLorean in the garage: This weekend, time travel is as easy as a trip to the Fort in Morrison, where the Tesoro Foundation will host the 1830s Rendezvous today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. An encampment in the valley below the restaurant will house the…
Danny Bevins, Pete Correale, Michael Loftus and Bert Kreisher headline the spirited Jameson Comedy Tour. Sept. 25-28, 2008…
If you think dinosaurs are just for kids, think again. Recent discoveries such as the Liaoning Forest site plus advances in computational science have allowed scientists to re-evaluate earlier thinking. Far from presenting the usual oversized green lizards with sharp teeth and scales, modern conceptions of these extinct creatures sway…
Get your fill of giant vegetables today during the Rocky Mountain Giant Vegetable Growers Pumpkin Weigh-Off at Jared’s Nursery, 10500 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton. The event will feature various competitions ranging from the heaviest green squash to the prettiest pumpkin or squash — and, of course, the heaviest pumpkin…
Behind every great street is a great alley, at least according to Park Hill resident Jack Farrar. “I think alleys are fascinating, actually,” he explains. “When my wife, Pam, and I go for walks, we inevitably walk up and down alleys, because in some respects, they’re a lot more interesting.”…
When a revival of the Tudor style of architecture swept the country after World War I, Denver was a little bit behind the times. “Because of communication and travel, our architectural styles often came a little bit later,” notes Elizabeth Wheeler of the Denver Old House Society. “We have many…
Dames, detectives and devious plots will be on display through the end of October as the Denver Film Society presents the One Book, Many Films series. Catch up on some of the greatest hits of the film noir and detective genres every Tuesday at the Starz FilmCenter, 900 Auraria Parkway,…
