WED, 12/31 If you’re looking for an alternative to Denver’s drunken bar scene tonight, check out Brave New Year. The independent film screening/art show/ music showcase is a fundraiser for the upcoming production of 2004, which producer Doug Bohm describes as an updated take on the George Orwell classic 1984,…
WED, 12/31 New Year’s revelers may start 2004 with more than just a hangover if they party the night away at Appaloosa Grill’s first annual Great Gig in the Sky. They’ll probably have kinks in their necks, too, since the night will feature Denver alt-country rockers Oakhurst playing on a…
Cydney Payton, director of Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art, has been putting a lot of effort into expanding that plucky little institution, which occupies only limited space on a first floor and mezzanine at Sakura Square. Her plan to construct a from-the-ground-up building is unfolding, and the competition to select…
It’s always an inspired idea to do a show that pairs a teacher and a student, because the relationship provides a lot of food for aesthetic thought. But this connection, which is both personal and professional, is only one reason there’s plenty to ponder in the intriguing Luis Eades &…
Speaking as someone who was terrified of the telephone when I was a child because I couldn’t understand how the voices of people I knew could get trapped in this black plastic thing, I am very grateful to Buntport Theater Company for explaining how a television works: Little fairy people…
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove starts out well enough: A timidly conventional housewife, Eva, stumbles unaware into a secluded seaside resort that has become a lesbian summer retreat. Lusty Lil meets Eva on the beach and, before realizing Eva is straight, invites her to a party. Later, the other guests…
William H. Macy’s plain-vanilla features and hangdog screen demeanor have served him well. Who could resist him as the clueless car dealer who hatched the disastrous kidnapping plot in Fargo, or as the distraught husband of a frisky porn star in Boogie Nights? A splendid character actor with a gift…
Evidently, the French-Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand has a tremendous capacity for dividing the art-movie/film-fest crowd into enemy camps. Arcand’s fans see him as a vibrant wit with a supple mind, capable of juggling many ideas at once and spicing his quirky analyses of contemporary society with playful asides and dead-eye…
You know how it’s often the ones we love whose flaws are most apparent? Well, when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, I am smitten. This film is a miracle, an extravaganza equal to its predecessors and in some ways more stunning. It…
The third Longmont Film Festival gets under way Thursday, December 18, with Ernst Lubitsch’s heartwarming 1940 classic The Shop Around the Corner and continues through Saturday, December 20, with Billy Wilder’s favorite Some Like It Hot (recently acclaimed by the American Film Institute as the best Hollywood comedy ever made),…
Arrrrrr! Just in case you hadn’t noticed, pirates are in this year. But you won’t run into Johnny Depp or any other lonely peg-legged seafarin’ brigands at the 24th Anniversary Group Show, which opens on Friday, December 19, at Pirate: A Contemporary Art Oasis, one of the oldest cooperative galleries…
Thursday, December 18 Go ahead, take a break. The season won’t freeze and crack right down the middle if you ignore it for a few minutes, and you’ll feel all the better for it. You can avoid the crowds, the traffic and the noise, but — oh, well — not…
Naughty, naughty. You’ve been so busy — sleeping off the Thanksgiving turkey, gorging on Christmas cookies, festooning your house in a blinding tangle of watt-wasting holiday lights, wearing a lampshade at the office party — that you completely forgot to shop. It’s okay. Read the following, take a deep breath,…
Pick up a pair of knitting needles and get down to business with Knit for the Homeless, a campaign to collect handmade hats, scarves and gloves for the underprivileged.”I get the chills when I think about it,” says Shellie Lubowitz, owner of the Shivering Sheep & Coppélia’s Needlepoint. “To me,…
SUN, 12/21 They might not be hitting double axels or triple salchows, but the Summit Figure Skating Club promises to wow winter visitors with Christmas on Ice, Copper Mountain’s version of the Ice Capades led by former professional figure skater Jennifer Bradley.”It’s a Christmas medley with both group numbers and…
TUES, 12/23 For you movie fans worried that your baby’s arrival means a life trapped at home, condemned to watch reruns of Teletubbies, fear not. Madstone Theaters in Tamarac Square has come up with a brilliant plan to let you have your baby and your media, too.Starting this morning, the…
A hundred bottles of tequila at the bar, a hundred bottles of tequila.Jesse Morreale and Chris Swank, the folks behind Nobody in Particular Presents, and three new partners have given Capitol Hill/City Park residents reason to sing. A hundred and four reasons, to be exact, which is the number of…
For most people, the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year, a gloomy occasion when the sun goes down early and total darkness ensues. For others, the winter solstice marks the longest night of the year, a cause for raucous celebration and fanfare.The people behind the 18th Annual…
New Year’s Eve. Does any other holiday carry with it such high hopes — and does any other holiday smash expectations as flat? A river of disillusionment — and vomit — ran through the submissions for our first “My Worst New Year’s Eve” essay contest. Our readers recounted horrible parties,…
For most Americans, November 22 is a national day of mourning, but for me it is a day that will live in infamy. It was the day that Ray first said, “Guess what?” “What, Ray?” Looking smug. “Neil Diamond is coming to the Pepsi Center New Year’s Eve.” I, of…
It was New Year’s Eve in the late 1980s. The previous few days’ winter weather had brought over a foot of snow to the metro area. I was in my senior year of high school. As was a popular party option back then, some friends had rented a few hotel…
Several years ago, three of us took off on a road trip to Ft. Lauderdale. We started after Christmas and had no deadlines. The first day, we made it to Trinidad. We never drove more than 300 miles a day. We each took turns driving our hundred miles, then we’d…
