Thursday, August 28 Word is, you don’t have to give a hoot about professional wrestling to appreciate Mick Foley (aka Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love), one of the sport’s toughest survivors (he’s missing an ear and most of his teeth) and author of two memoirs so insightful that they’ve…
Imagine it’s 50,000 years ago. You live in France, paint oxen on cave walls, start fires and sharpen arrows, which you, a clever Cro-Magnon, just invented. You’re accustomed to the big, silver circle that lights the sky at night, but one day you see something that blows your prehistoric mind:…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is a Denver artist with a mission: to stop the commercialization of America. “You can drive across the entire country, and every place has an Applebee’s and a Chili’s,” she says. “I just felt like local art was getting lost.” So earlier this summer, Murphy opened Pod,…
FRI, 8/29 Speed freaks don’t have a very good reputation these days. But the backers and fans of the Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver may be exceptions to that rule. After all, Mayor John “Vespa” Hickenlooper has signed on as grand marshal for the second annual spin on 1.65…
SAT, 8/30 It’s good old country fun with a metropolitan twist: This year’s Chatfield Nature Preserve Corn Maze, created by the Denver Botanic Gardens, will promote the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). Every year, DBG staff and volunteers submit design ideas for the maze, and this time around, public-relations…
SAT, 8/30 The Council Tree, once a gathering place for people of the Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes, has been replaced by a stretch of I-25. But people of all backgrounds are reclaiming northern Colorado as a place to exchange cultures and ideas. “Over 21 different tribes considered northern Colorado their…
FRI, 8/29 “The main code of the tango is that you dance as you are feeling today,” says Nina Pesochinsky, artistic director/instructor/performer of the Denver-based Tango Mujer Dance Company. “The same two people can dance the same song a thousand times, and they will have a thousand different dances. It’s…
The summer will be over sooner than we think. Culturally speaking — though not in terms of the weather — it’s set to end with Labor Day weekend. Everyone knows what Labor Day means in America: Halloween candy is in the stores, new episodes of The Sopranos are scheduled for…
Andenken Gallery (2110 Market Street, 303-292-3281) is hosting its Fourth Annual Summer Group Show, which is made up of works from artists represented by the gallery and by those who rent the studios on the lower level. Though Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is the new director of Andenken, she inherited this…
On Sunday, HBO will air the final episode of what has been the most consistently entertaining–and aggravating–show of the summer television season. Project Greenlight will fade to black, and the people who populated the series–the first-time screenwriter who’s had the optimism beaten out of her, the rookie directors who’ve had…
The last thing the Roman Catholic Church needs at this point is another exposé of its misdeeds. The shock of the pedophilia scandals and of the official coverups isn’t going away anytime soon, and when last we looked, the former bishop of the Phoenix Diocese was out on $45,000 bail…
Deck. Wheels. Attitude. This is the stuff of Grind, a new comedy about skateboarding and its effects on the human psyche. Neither young dawgs nor old poops will be surprised that the movie is about friendship, competition, product placement and, like, chasing one’s dreams. Yet Grind craftily sidesteps the obvious;…
Always the keen-eyed social agitator, Stanley Kubrick found in the dystopian fantasies of novelist Anthony Burgess material akin to his own bleak view of the world. In his corrosive film version of A Clockwork Orange (1971), the director let out all the stops — dramatic, visual and satirical. This is…
The Amtrak train from here to Glenwood Springs must be one of Dante’s levels of hell. Making the eight-hour trek (sorry — six, on a good day) is akin to watching paint dry. But there’s still a certain romance to rail travel that keeps me searching, whether on the Ski…
Thursday, August 21 Party on: The Mi Casa Resource Center for Women celebrates its 27th anniversary with tonight’s Fiesta 2003: Carnival!, a party featuring cool cocktails, spicy food and sizzling hot entertainment, including performances by guitarist Manuel Roybal, Miss Gay Colorado Sasha High and Extasis. The annual fundraiser for Mi…
Once Lorenzo discovered he had HIV ten years ago, after a friend suggested he should be tested for flu-like symptoms, he began coming to grips with the AIDS virus and the role it would play in his new world. “Life goes on…and it doesn’t have to be a totally negative…
FRI, 8/22 A mighty wind will be blowing in Denver this weekend at the annual summer strumming extravaganza known as the Swallow Hill Folk Festival. Music will be played continuously on two stages from 5:30 to 9 p.m. tonight and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at…
SAT, 8/23 There are plenty of myths surrounding the Old West. One of them is that, apparently, Kevin Costner lived and died in these parts many times. But one serious omission in the history of the West is the role that African-Americans played in settling it. Promoter Lu Vason was…
In the beginning, there was Spago, and it was good. If you were a 76-pound Hollywood starlet, that is. Or one of those power-lunch types. Or Harvey Weinstein. After Spago came more Spagos, and more Spagos. Then there were cookbooks, the Food Network shows, the lines of frozen foods and…
THURS, 8/21 Just outside Santiago, in the lush jungles of Guatemala, rests Lago Atitlán, a lake of crystalline waters and ancient mythical lore. The Maya believe this sacred site is the literal belly button of life and the very center of all creation. Indeed, it was the perfect inspiration for…
SAT, 8/23 Denver improv-comedy trio A.C.E. is on the move again with its fourth annual “go show,” a summer tradition of taking comedy to the streets. “It’s really fun to do a moving show, because you can be totally spontaneous,” says A.C.E. co-founder Linda Klein. The destination for today’s show…
The Denver Art Dealers Association, which uses the marvelously arty DADA for short, came up with the idea of having members present coordinated exhibits in August featuring new art and new artists. Officially known as the “Introductions” series, the idea was predicated on the fact that nothing happens in the…
