If Happenings bled glitz and brought art to the people, then Street Works rose from the gutters, and the people often had to be lucky enough to find them. Perhaps that’s why the latter isn’t as well remembered in Sixties lore: The conceptual-art performances of a group of poets and…
Order: Metal. Family: Swedish. Genus: Death. Species: Melodic. Just as new-wave keyboards revealed Andrew W.K. to be the complete prat that he is, a similar approach here gives Sonic Syndicate a disturbing edge into creepiness. Syndicate’s technically astute, piston-pumping axes and precision double bass give Dark Tranquility a run for…
Nothing says Colorado history like mining, and no place says it better than Georgetown, which celebrates our storied past every year with the annual Historic Georgetown Railroad & Mining Days event. Today and tomorrow, the picturesque mountain town holds a celebration on Sixth Street, featuring rides on the Georgetown Loop…
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who’s been absent from movie screens (except as an occasional actor) for nearly as long as…
CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d’Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh’s two-part, four-and-a-half-hour Che—an epic non-biopic that might well have been approved by Roberto Rossellini, envied by Francis Coppola, and even appreciated by its subject. (And the…
Once the temperature threatens to reach 80 degrees on a regular basis, I must shop. Sure, there are all those old spring and summer clothes in my closet, but to truly feel like the nice weather is here, I need to buy some new shoes (and skirts and jewelry). First,…
This past April I went to Kim’s house to do my taxes. When the process was complete I shouted, “This is horseshit! How the hell do I owe the government any money?! I’m broke as it is!!! Come to think of it, why do I have to pay taxes, at…
The concept at Positive Strokes, a Greenwood Village shop combining women’s tennis and fitness gear with wellness programs just for the ladies, was different enough to garner a Best of Denver award earlier this year (here’s what we said about it). But here’s another reason to go check it out:…
You all have one lurking in a drawer somewhere, girls: a nasty tangle of broken and knotted gold chains, mateless earrings with twisted posts and, I dunno, something made of shiny metal that might have once come out of a bubblegum machine. And you can part with this stuff, believe…
When the second season of Bravo’s “creative competition” show Shear Genius premieres in June, Denver will be represented by Charlie Price, co-owner of Click Salon, located at 231 Milwaukee Street. The first show airs on June 25, with stylists competing to “cut or get cut” (sounds violent, doesn’t it?). Should…
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though — those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema as both supplier and repository of dreams — a good movie merely sends you bounding home from…
If you read reviews the way I do, you’ve already started by checking out the score, and now you’re back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft Auto IV is a fine game, with tons of content and all the great moments you’ve come…
Many years ago — before his current incarnation as a Scientology guru-cum-acting coach in Hollywood — I took acting classes with Milton Katselas in New York. Among my classmates was a tall, dark-haired gypsy named Bea. One evening, she gave an oddly flat monologue from Romeo and Juliet, sat down…
When Donald Margulies’s Sight Unseen opens, we’re in a house in the English countryside — but this is no cozy cottage surrounded by green, sheep-dotted fields. This is a gray, damp world. It’s inhabited by Patricia, an American expatriate, and her British husband, Nick, whom she married on the rebound…
Arcadia. There’s so much richness to this play that once you’ve seen it, you want to acquire the text, ask your mathematician friends to explain the science, re-read Byron, study the history of the English garden, and generally try to plumb the ideas that Tom Stoppard has set whirling about the stage, including…
The development of abstract painting a hundred years ago can be easily explained by the rise of photography fifty years before that. Since cameras were much better than brushes at recording reality, painters moved toward new ideas, like abstraction. Given this, it’s hard to explain the continuing appeal of representational…
In the past few years, Denver’s art world has reached such a critical mass that many of our marvelous alternative spaces have been lost in the shuffle. As a palliative for that, I’ll now lead a whirlwind tour of the present offerings at two of the best. At Spark Gallery…
Berghaus, Douglas and Riverhouse Editions. In the front spaces at Sandy Carson, there’s a whimsical yet intelligent show called Clearing: The Kinetic Sculpture of Marc Berghaus. The pieces are mechanical, with the most clever use of machinery being “Freeway Chase,” in which viewers look through the frame of a TV…
The House of Yes “started with a particular house, a house I saw in an elegant suburb of Washington, D.C. There was just something about this chic, moneyed house that made me want in,” writes playwright Wendy MacLeod on her website. The plot follows fiancés Lesly and Marty; Lesly is…
Celebrate fitness with the elements of earth and water this weekend in Buena Vista. Two separate events — Paddlefest and Bike Fest — will give participants the opportunity to enjoy some of their favorite recreational activities amid the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Paddlefest kicks off today and runs through…
Giant squid lurk in the deepest depths of the oceans, doing battle with whales and mystifying scientists who have yet to observe one in its natural habitat. As big as a bus, they are one of this planet’s least understood creatures. Some say a giant squid could even take down…
Despite the presence of “Another Brick in the Wall,” a hit that featured a children’s chorus, The Wall, Pink Floyd’s 1979 opus, isn’t exactly kid stuff. Chris Soucy, general manager for the Paul Green School of Rock Music’s Denver branch, acknowledges that some tunes are “horribly depressing.” So why have…
