With March 17 falling on a Friday, Denver’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations have already stretched a week, and people will be partying again through this weekend. But before you drink your next green beer, consider this message from Denverite Joseph O’Dea, an Irish immigrant who does not understand this city’s celebrations.
To understand how Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending might disappoint you if you’ve read the suspenseful, tear-jerking Julian Barnes novel on which it’s based, you should think back to Batra’s much-lauded debut feature The Lunchbox (2013). In that humanistic film, a young woman trapped in her marriage falls…
Having now reached the age of its wayward protagonist, Donnie Darko is once again being tasked with forestalling the end of the world. Richard Kelly’s sleeper first opened almost two years after screening at Sundance, and a month after 9/11, becoming an early example of a trend that scarcely exists…
The antagonistic atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair relished it when Life magazine called her “The Most Hated Woman in America” in the 1964 profile that only heightened her notoriety. That designation followed the 1963 Supreme Court ruling on Murray v. Curlett (and another lawsuit) that ended Bible-reading in public schools. Director…
For those bookish types who prefer a quiet and contemplative St. Patrick’s Day weekend reflecting on Irish culture and history without public displays of emerald insanity, we’ve drawn up this list for you.
Backstory: Western American Art in Context, a collaboration between History Colorado and the Denver Art Museum, not only tries to fill in our understanding of the West, but marks the start of a new chapter for History Colorado.
St. Patrick’s Day falls on Friday, and even if you try to dodge the shamrock madness, there are plenty of things going on besides drinking green beer until you spew.
Mainstream awareness of Breitbart, Infowars and other unsavory conservative “news” outlets has skyrocketed, as millions suddenly found themselves needing to know who Steve Bannon et al. were. For me, none of these outlets or talking points were news: I’m Texas born-and-raised — there, free-floating libertarian paranoia is a standard component…
In case anybody’s wondering after the recent Saturday Night Live skit about a Denver Zoo animal pornographer…no… photographer, the actual Denver Zoo does not support animal porn.
At the thirtieth annual Colorado Business Committee for the Arts awards luncheon — yet another sold-out event, which filled the Seawell Ballroom with over 700 arts enthusiasts on March 15 — the CBCA honored arts organizations, companies and individuals. And also hosted an array of acts that showed just how wide-ranging this state’s cultural scene can be: At how many business luncheons can you have your photo taken with a polar bear or a viking? Or Mayor Michael Hancock, for that matter.
“Women need to hit shit,” says Christoph Clarke, known as Master Clarke, the mind behind a modern wave of feminist ass-kicking reminiscent of…
Millions of people carry portable filmmaking devices in their pockets; with a smart phone, they can shoot, edit, color-correct and distribute a film with a few finger taps. Thinking about the old days — when people shot on film, sent their footage by mail to be developed, and cut-and-spliced their…
#26: Jim Milmoe Just weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday, Golden photographer Jim Milmoe is deservedly basking in the 2017 Month of Photography limelight with two shows of his work running concurrently at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Pattern Shop Studio. It’s a fitting topper to a…
Director George Mendeluk has stated that he wanted to make Bitter Harvest to bring wider attention to the Holodomor, the forced famine imposed by Joseph Stalin that killed between three and seven million ethnic Ukrainians in the early 1930s. That’s certainly a subject worthy of a film, but the question…
Let’s say you had to make up a list of historical moments that might serve as grand backdrops for sweeping, old-fashioned, Hollywood-style romantic dramas. How high would you rank the Armenian Genocide? How high would you rank any genocide? Watching Hotel Rwanda, you probably never hoped that, amid the carnage,…
Even if it were not for the fact that Mean Dreams has become Bill Paxton’s penultimate picture, Nathan Morlando’s thriller would be worth recommending entirely on its own merits. Start with cinematographer Steve Cosens (The Tracey Fragments), who uses sharp focus and the occasional faded Polaroid-style filter to lovingly caress…
With the Month of Photography flooding city venues this month, Denver is drowning in photo shows. Among the standouts in this more intimate category are the conjoined solos at Goodwin Fine Art, Brenda Biondo: Paper Skies and Alpert + Kahn: Of Progress.
The Alamo Drafthouse Littleton is enjoying a glut of films celebrating International Women’s Month, with a diverse selection of titles celebrating women in acting, writing, directing and more. One of those films, the 1916 silent classic Shoes, will screen this Thursday, March 16, courtesy of the theater’s Colossal Women series, with a live…
Pigs might not fly at Cochon 555, but they certainly sing. Speaking of singing, go highbrow for St. Paddy’s day at the Céad Mile Fáilte performance. These are just two of the delicious, delectable, wildly entertaining events in our list of the 21 best events of the week. Tuesday, March 14…
Painter Don Coen spent roughly twenty years working on a series of fifteen paintings of migrant workers, on display at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center through May 14. The artist, who entered his career as a non-objective painter, shifted toward depicting landscapes and ultimately portraits based on photographs. While…
Nick Payne’s Constellations, now in its Denver premiere at Curious Theatre Company, got raves in New York — but we’re having trouble getting beyond the fake British accents.
It’s the take as old as time. Yes, Beauty and the Beast’s love story can be read as a tale of abuse and brainwashing, of a woman imprisoned by a tyrant until she starts chatting with the table settings — and then, as seasons pass, chastising herself in song for…
