When Boulder photographer William Corey died of cancer in the spring, he left behind a beautiful legacy few can claim: hundreds of detailed images of gardens in Japan and other places in the world, many of them taken with an early-twentieth-century, wide-angle banquet camera of the kind once used to…
With a Barnes & Noble or a Borders in just about every neighborhood, it’s not every day that you can wish a local bookstore a happy 35th birthday. But the Boulder Book Store — with its massive selection of wonderful reading material at very reasonable prices — is giving us…
Tony Clifton & the Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra is a revival of deceased comedian Andy Kaufman’s classic alter ego: the obnoxious, mustached-and-side-burned anti-lounge singer. But who is Tony Clifton? The question is more complicated than it sounds. “I know, being an Andy Kaufman fan, that Tony always wanted to…
In the true spirit of EcoArts, a co-sponsor of its performance here, Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company will blend art and issues of global ecology in Reign Forest, a new short work commissioned by the month-long arts/science series (along with the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins and the University of…
Still suffering from post-party depression now that the Democratic National Convention is over? Listen Productions has just the cure: DNC Mediamockracy, a multimedia production that combines original video footage from the convention with scripted satire and audience interaction. There’s been lots of action just getting the script together; producer/director Mitch…
Facing History is one of those nonprofits that work behind the scenes, without much notoriety or time in the limelight. But Denver is lucky to be one of eight cities in the nation with a full-time Facing History office, which trains teachers in many Front Range schools to introduce issues…
The first humor book I ever read was called Dave Barry Is NOT Making This Up. It was a collection of columns by funnyman Dave Barry (who else?), and I laughed until I cried reading about exploding cows, snakes in toilets and Barry’s long-suffering teenage son, Robert. Or maybe it…
If Carrie Bradshaw thought New York City was all about sex, the characters in Candace Bushnell’s latest novel, One Fifth Avenue, think it’s all about real estate. In a time when most people are worried about making the payments on their median-priced $200,000 home, the characters who live at (or…
In Anathem, author Neal Stephenson, who’ll share his new book with the public tonight, presents a cadre of teenage monks on the fictional but notably Earth-like planet of Arbe who live outside the rush and bustle of normal society — and their essential separateness allows them to filter out what’s…
Because music journalist Tom Moon shares my kind of pan-musical taste, his new listening guide, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (a companion of sorts to Patricia Schultz’s enormously popular 1,000 Places to See Before You Die), had me hooked from the first page: A well-thought-out crazy quilt of…
The acclaimed documentary DiG! spotlighted the late 1990s ascent of pretentious psych-lite outfit the Dandy Warhols, but by the time the film hit theaters in 2004, the band was on a slippery descent. Having alienated fans with the new-wave redux of Welcome to the Monkey House, the group was gearing…
The history of film adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft is almost universally atrocious, so understand that saying Cthulhu is among the best movies based on his work is damnation by faint praise — like saying someone is the kindest of serial killers. Set in the very near future,…
The history of film adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft is almost universally atrocious, so understand that saying Cthulhu is among the best movies based on his work is damnation by faint praise — like saying someone is the kindest of serial killers. Set in the very near future,…
While reading Seventeen’s latest issue, I found out about a website that has everything from apparel to costumes. The best part…great prices! We would all love to have the time to go out to shop, but with school, homework, studying, and jobs, it can be hard to find the extra…
My obsession with vintage clothing has been a large part of who I am for about as long as I can remember. Sure, some could interpret such an obsession as my just being superficial, but I like to think of myself as someone who has an eye for quality and…
Melissa May, one of Denver’s most talented local fashion designers, will be premiering her retro beach inspired Spring 2009 line tonight at 9 p.m. at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway. Followers of the Denver fashion scene will no doubt have seen May’s work by now, but this is her…
Over the last quarter-century, old-fashioned representational imagery has supplanted abstraction, which had dominated most of the cutting-edge art of the twentieth century and become the preeminent expression in the fine arts internationally. It’s not that abstraction is passé; it’s just that more and more artists have embraced the figure to…
Last week, the Colorado Historical Society announced that Steven Turner will become the director of the State Historical Fund. That means that Turner is resigning as the director of Historic Denver. The promotion is good news for those of us who appreciate the old buildings of Denver. Not because Turner…
Bubs. This is a play accompanied by songs, a concert yoked to a narrative, with the elements held together by the talent and energy of actor-singer Erik Sandvold. Writers Cy Frost and Doug Olson came up with the idea of showcasing a slew of different performers, all played by one…
The movie Starship Troopers is an utter failure as an adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s revered classic science-fiction novel, which is enough to damn it in the eyes of many fans. But if you can get past that, you’ll enjoy the film on its own merits. Like director Paul Verhoeven’s first…
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais. During the opening minutes of Ghost Town — an occasionally effective mash-up of Ghost, The Sixth Sense and The Frighteners — Gervais, as Bertram…
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed reality-TV producer from the bedroom community of Altadena. During the jury-selection process, when the judge asked if we had…
