Led by a short, rotund man who carries a briefcase and speaks as if conserving his last reserves of emotion, the heroes of Army of Shadows engage in little of what counts for action these days. And yet, as directed by WWII veteran and gangster-movie master Jean-Pierre Melville, this long-unreleased…
It feels as if Boulder’s Dinner Theatre has opened the doors and let in a great whoosh of invigorating air. Sure, the blocky old interior is the same, and the food hasn’t changed in decades. And yes, many of the cast members are familiar, because BDT is perhaps the last…
The premise of Frame 312 should be fascinating. Playwright Keith Reddin postulates that the 22-second Abraham Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy’s assassination that was minutely examined by the Warren Commission had been edited, and that an excised frame — frame 312 — shows the president’s head slamming backward, indicating…
Historic preservation in Denver is really in trouble right now, despite its many successes. The easy-to-understand community benefits of landmark protection are all over the central part of the city — lower downtown, Country Club, Seventh Avenue Parkway, Potter-Highland, Montclair, Larimer Square and on and on — and they make…
Western art and contemporary art would seem to be mutually exclusive, but they’re not. There are many artists in the area who combine the two sensibilities to create what’s called — you guessed it — contemporary Western art. This type of work has gotten a big boost from the Denver…
Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to the Denver Art Museum. For one of the special shows inaugurating the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Native Arts curator Nancy Blomberg has selected over a hundred works for the…
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.) Ed Zwick’s Blood Diamond, about the civil war over diamonds that devastated Sierra Leone in the late 1990s, plays like a guilt-ridden Jerry Bruckheimer movie. It’s little more than action-adventure pulp drenched in someone else’s blood — which it tries to wash off by proselytizing to…
There’s one similarity between Ghost Rider and most video-game movie tie-ins: Get too close to either, and your ass will probably get burned. Though it stars goofy Nic Cage and Sam Elliott sound-alikes, Ghost Rider claims only to be an offshoot of this year’s soul-sucking blockbuster — not a direct…
Batman Beyond: Season Three (Warner Bros.) The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sony) Burning Annie (Warner Bros.) The Caine Mutiny (Sony) The Care Bears Movie: 25th Anniversary Limited Edition (MGM) Come Early Morning (Weinstein) Eragon (Fox) The Guns of Navarone (Sony) JAG: The Third Season (Paramount) Justice League Unlimited: Season…
The profiles continue of the twelve designers selected to complete in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. The winner scores two tickets to New York Fashion Week this fall — which would better than sex for most of the competitors. Name: Kandyce Hudson Company name: Kandyce Kreations and the KMH8 Custom…
Meet our second victim in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project rundown. Name: Stephanie Ohnmacht Years designing: Sewing since I was seven. Bio: At seven I was given a beat-up sewing machine, scrap fabric and a license to sew anything I could dream of. Since my sisters on the farm were…
Shawn Reinoehl In preparation for the March 28 kick off of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project, The Cat’s Pajamas got in touch with each of the finalists and asked them a series of questions about themselves, their views on fashion and random other must-knows (red chili or green chile; Ritter…
Fashions by Gino Velardi. Cat didn’t think it was possible, but she is judged out. She has nothing snide or snarky left to say. At least for a few days. It wasn’t Fashion Week, a trip to Coyote Ugly or even her brother’s upcoming nuptials that finally wore her down…
Psst. Want to hear a secret? Frame 312 wasn’t Next Stage Theatre Company’s first choice to open tonight at the Phoenix Theatre. Match, the previously slated production, hinged on cast members smoking on stage. Extinguished in the aftermath of the smoking ban, it was replaced with Frame. “We wanted to…
“It’s going to be a visual banquet,” promises Nada Diachenko, director of DanceWorks 2007. She’s not kidding: This year’s installment of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s annual faculty dance concert is a night of guaranteed booty-shaking. “Three of the six pieces have video projections,” Diachenko continues. “All of the…
Ever have that dream where all your teeth fall out? What about the one where you look in the mirror and your hair is gone? Make the latter a reality — and show solidarity for children with cancer — by shaving your head this morning during the St. Baldrick’s Event…
Stefan Veltri says the indoor-football experience is like watching an NFL game on a postage stamp. “It’s fast,” he says. “It’s the fastest game you’ll ever see.” And it’s rough, too, adds the assistant general manager for the Colorado Ice. “These guys are out to blast each other.” The Ice,…
When Cathie Quigley-Soderman finished reading Leonard Peltier’s story, she wanted to spread it across the nation. Peltier has been surrounded by controversy since 1975, when FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler were shot and killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Native American activist and member of the…
What does a filmmaker do when the most devastating hurricane in American history is heading straight for the set? Keep rolling. “We set out originally to tell the story of a future, hypothetical hurricane and how the rapid erosion of the wetlands left New Orleans more vulnerable to flooding,” says…
Apparently, St. Patrick isn’t the guy who invented green beer. (I’m as shocked as you are.) Honestly, the beer thing is way more interesting than just driving some serpents out of Ireland. Hell, one time I chased a garden snake out of my yard with a hoe, and I don’t…
Everyone knows that First Fridays on Santa Fe Drive are for people-watching, not art-buying. Sure, there are a dedicated few who aren’t afraid to throw a subtle kidney punch or let their shoulders do the talking in their quest to see the writing on the wall — but, in general,…
The space-time continuum smacks the shit out of Sandra Bullock in Premonition, the latest in non-linear nonsense, but the fun really gets going when she starts to smack back. As Linda Hanson, humdrum mom of Anywhere, USA, Bullock sets things up by doing her thing, effortlessly establishing the girl next…
