Valentine’s Day is upon us and despite our reputations as loveless losers, plenty of us geeks have to navigate the tempestuous waters of providing adequate romance to keep our sweetie satisfied. That’s never easy, but for Denver-area geeks this year, there’s a tailor made option just waiting. The Alamo Drafthouse…
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and you can knock yourself out getting those dinner reservations and then finding some kind of activity that will leave you and your loved ready for zzzzzz instead of xxx by the time the night is over. Or you can put your trust in the…
Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day are back-to-back this year. While the two dates might not seem to have much in common, artist Tom Cross is taking advantage of this opportunity to launch his new exhibit, Friday the 13th Valentine – Unlucky and Love. “Some folks talk about love and…
No matter how secure you might be with single life, Valentine’s Day always reminds you that one can be a lonely number. Rather than hosting a solo marathon of every season of Grey’s Anatomy with a two liter of Riunite California Red and a box of chocolate you bought for…
Challenged to create an art show to enhance History Colorado’s companion exhibit to 1968, El Movimiento — a straightforward visual history of the local Chicano rights movement that flourished in the barrio areas of Denver decades ago — Maruca Salazar of the Museo de las Americas came up with a street-smart answer…
“You ready for another miserable video game?” I heard one critic crack to another as I settled in for Jupiter Ascending. “Maybe in March we’ll see this year’s first good movie,” his pal said back, as if Girlhood, Hard to Be a God, Amira & Sam, Timbuktu, Joy of Man’s…
(Heavy spoilers for the pilot; very light spoilers for episodes 2 and 3.) There’s more than one way to start a revolution. You can get high off your own sense of righteousness and authenticity, as celebrity chef and Fresh Off the Boat memoirist Eddie Huang recently did by calling one…
Those more devoted to the genre can debate whether Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is the best comic-book movie of the last few years. What’s beyond argument, however, is that Vaughn has whipped up the most interesting one — and the only one to make ferocious, unsettling art out…
Love is in the air this weekend, and that’s just kind of the way it is. If you’re going to treat your sweet to a nice weekend of love, by all means save a little money on activities so you can spend the rest on chocolate. And even if you…
Even fans of Fifty Shades of Grey admit the book is a literary atrocity. Novelist E.L. James’s erotic reveries read like the rantings of a drunk yokel — less “His firm hands cupped my breasts” and more “Holy crap! He’s touching my boobs!” The story is simple: Twenty-one-year-old virgin Anastasia…
Fifty Shades of Grey is opening is nationwide, and in New York, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl connects via the magic of the Internet with LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson discuss the hotly anticipated movie starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, adapted from the E. L. James novel…
Book signings don’t always happen in book stores — this week, for instance, you can follow your literary fancy to a movie screening or a cat cafe. If you prefer the old-fashioned format, though, you can stick to the tried-and-true with the appearance of a pair of local detective-fiction masters…
There’s more than one way to start a revolution. You can get high off your own sense of righteousness and authenticity, as celebrity chef and Fresh Off the Boat memoirist Eddie Huang recently did by calling one of his Asian-American collaborators an “Uncle Chan” in the press. Or you can…
The Dardenne brothers, Luc and Jean-Pierre, are known to explore characters trapped by social and economic circumstance, challenging with curiosity and compassion the assumptions attached to the lives of less-fortunate others. With Two Days, One Night, the Dardennes turn their humanist lens onto someone in conflict with her own humanity:…
Those more devoted to the genre can debate whether Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is the best comic-book movie of the last few years. What’s beyond argument, however, is that Vaughn has whipped up the most interesting one — and the only one to make ferocious, unsettling art out…
BERLIN — Riding in a cab from the Berlin-Tegel airport to my hotel on a crisp, sunny day last week, I passed the magnificent golden angel statue known as the Victory Column, a monument erected by the city in 1874 to commemorate assorted Prussian military victories of the day. But…
I was never very good at math. I blame Mrs. Mercer, my second-grade teacher at Foothills Elementary School, who told me that “boys are good at math and girls are good at English.” It was like a pass for giving up, which is just what I did. And I take…
In 2004, I worked at a bar in Kansas City’s River Market district. One night, a woman handed me her credit card to pay her tab; I looked at it and said, “HAHA. Your name is Monica Ross!” She made a big, exasperated noise and dropped her forehead to the…
It’s hard not to take everything we see on Facebook at face value. Often, a social network is the only place we interact with an old coworker, distant relative, former classmate or less-than-close friend — and this means only experiencing a certain projection of who they are. As I was…
I had high hopes for The Aliens. The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company has been doing terrific work lately, and The Aliens had received rapturous reviews all over the country, reviews that floated the names Beckett and Chekhov. Playwright Annie Baker won a Pulitzer for…
Benediction Denver Center Theatre Company A world premiere, a tribute and a deeply affecting evening of theater: This is the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of Benediction, Eric Schmiedl’s dramatization of Kent Haruf’s novel of the same name. A much-loved and lauded Colorado author, Haruf saw two of his earlier…
Zero Spark Gallery 900 Santa Fe Drive Mark Brasuell has been creating abstract paintings for more than twenty years. For most of that time, he exhibited his work at Edge, but just over a year ago, he jumped ship and signed on at Spark, the city’s oldest surviving co-op. That’s…
