Sandy Skoglund’s installation “Breathing Glass” is a thing of shimmering beauty. Its meticulously hung yet precarious blue-glass panels quiver in a sixteen-square-foot space, embedded with a grid of hundreds of glass dragonflies intermingled with mini-marshmallows that fall like snowflakes amid the sparkling insects. An intricate glass mosaic glitters on the…
If you’re looking for shamrocks and leprechauns, follow the rainbow (or maybe just the blaring bagpipes) to LoDo for the 41st annual Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Because of construction around the Golden Triangle neighborhood and changes in the Denver Municipal Code regarding parades, organizers decided to return to their…
Say you were throwing a dinner party for a group of your favorite hobbits. What would you whip up? Marinated goat cheese, maybe, with tangy apple soup, a garden salad and a chicken pot pie? That’s exactly what local storyteller and chef Carol Hampson will be serving this Saturday, March…
Think you’ve got skills gnarly enough to hang with the big dogs? On Friday night, forty of Colorado’s best riders will shred, slash and slide at Boulder’s first annual Heavy Metal on the Hill, a rail jam competition sponsored by the 150-member University of Colorado snowboard team. “We’re going to…
Daniel Libeskind, an architect with a Denver connection, made a worldwide stir a couple of weeks ago when he was chosen to design the replacement for New York’s World Trade Center. And you saw it predicted here first, weeks before the decision was made — and without the use of…
Robin Schaefer, at Ironton Studios & Gallery (3636 Chestnut Place, 303-297-8626), is an intriguing show spotlighting a group of crisply rendered portraits. Schaefer, who maintains a studio at Ironton, has taken grade-school photos and translated them into oils on canvas. The resulting paintings, which are done in muted colors verging…
Comic Potential, now at the Aurora Fox, takes flight on the performance of Jessica Austgen as robot JCF 31333 — or Jacie Triplethree. Alan Ayckbourn’s play is set in the near future, when the entertainment industry has descended even further into chattering idiocy than it has today. In a third-rate…
What more can go wrong in suburbia? Director Rose Troche (Go Fish) wants us to know, and to that end, she has recruited another army of wounded parents, troubled children and broken dreamers, then marched them all into a whirlpool of dysfunction on the quiet, tree-lined streets just minutes from…
Being of the minority who did not worship Schindler’s List (vital message, tedious movie), it’s easy to feel skeptical of the preachy delivery of Ararat, which concerns not the Jewish Holocaust but the Armenian one, its genocidal forebear of 1915-1918. Armenian-Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan (The Adjuster, The Sweet Hereafter) has…
If you have a taste for really vile, totally degenerate bad guys, the late John Frankenheimer’s neglected crime thriller 52 Pick-up may be the movie for you. Adapted in 1986 from one of Elmore Leonard’s more perverse potboilers, it’s a sleazy tale of sex and revenge in which a Los…
When the people of Nederland say that Grandpa is out back in the shed, they don’t mean he’s out there tinkering around with the snowblower. No, they mean that Bredo “Gramps” Morstel, a Norwegian who passed away in 1989 and was cryogenically frozen by his grandson, Trygve Bauge, is just…
Thursday, March 6 Denverite Terry Rosen grew up in a unique and definitive twentieth-century time and place: Los Alamos, New Mexico, ground zero for the Manhattan Project, where his scientist father Louis helped build the A-bomb in the mid-Forties. A war baby who spent his first twenty years in Los…
Describing Soul Circus, the latest book by George P. Pelecanos, as a crime novel is like dismissing the Mercedes-Benz piloted by one of its seamiest characters as basic transportation. The story intersperses vividly realized action sequences with passionate social commentary — epitomized by its metaphorical title, which is credited to…
Has this buttoned-down new millennium got you down? Need a jolt of that good, old refreshing Front Range bohemian culture? You’ll find it at Wine, Art and Revoluciones, a multimedia evening hosted monthly by Revoluciones Collective Art Space, (719 West Eighth Avenue), a hole-in-the-wall along the Santa Fe Drive corridor…
Hearts were broken when retailer Carolyn Fineran closed her Cherry Creek North store Tapestry three years ago: A sumptuous trove of unique women’s clothing and jewelry handcrafted in a folkloric, gypsy spirit, there’s never been anything quite like it in town before or since. But Fineran didn’t want to be…
Bill Nye the Science Guy’s motto is, “Leave the world better than you found it.” He owns approximately six dozen bow ties, and he advises kids interested in science to “try things, then clean up after yourself.” Nye had a mechanical-engineering degree from Cornell University and a long career in…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French culture was really something — and there are all those pictures to prove it. There are the Manets, the Monets, the Van Goghs, the Gauguins, the Toulouse-Lautrecs, the Cézannes, the Matisses and the Picassos, as well as others by the all-time…
If you’re crazy about mid-century modernism — and let’s be honest, who isn’t? — then you’ll want to catch Werner Drewes: A Bauhaus Artist at the Lakewood Cultural Center (470 South Allison Parkway, 303-987-7876). Oh, true, it’s installed with no apparent rhyme or reason — I had to restrain myself…
I don’t know about you, but I worry when I read this kind of thing in the notes a theater provides about a playwright — in this case, Caridad Svich, in the program for Alchemy of Desire/Dead-man’s Blues: “Svich sees Alchemy/Blues as an ideal example of her visceral connection to…
I know times are tight, but this won’t do. Watching Saturday Night Fever at the Buell, it was hard to remember that the auditorium had hosted such scintillating musicals as Kiss Me Kate, Swing and The Full Monty in the past couple of years. Saturday Night Fever feels grubby and…
This is a story with a happy ending, because, so far, nothing bad has happened to indicate otherwise. There are no ratings to sweat over, no network executives to fight with, no cancellations to suffer through. The rough territories lie ahead, over the horizon of 8:30 p.m. this Sunday, when…
John Shaft went to Africa, so why shouldn’t Die Hard’s John McClane? In the new action romp Tears of the Sun, Bruce Willis undertakes a jungle-rescue operation on the Dark Continent, and it’s a McClane adventure in camouflage, minus all the sass and most of the spectacle. As Navy SEAL…
