We haven’t heard much from Chris Tucker in the last few years. After his arresting performances in Friday, The Fifth Element and the Rush Hour franchise, he took an extended break from Hollywood, only recently reviving his name in celebrity circles with a role in the Oscarific Silver Linings Playbook…
First gaining national attention in 2006 with his Senior Youth Correspondent appearances on The Daily Show, Demetri Martin has developed a multi-layered persona that includes both long-form, TEDTalks-style commentaries, and Mitch Hedberg-inspired micro-jokes aided by a guitar, a harmonica, and a few campy visual aides. One of the most unusual…
Denver film fans can officially start their love affair with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema today when the theater kicks things off with its grand-opening event, An Evening With Pam Grier. It’s a great way to introduce the Drafthouse brand to local cinemaphiles, infusing the chain’s embrace of genre film and…
Since 2004, The SFJazz Collective has been taking the classic work of musicians like Ornette Colman, John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk and reinterpreting it for modern audiences. This time around, the international collective of celebrated musicians is putting the music of Chick Corea through its sophisticated machinery. “Making something that…
The Stanley Hotel, the historic and supposedly haunted lodge in Estes Park that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining, has always embraced its association with the chilling story, even if it wasn’t actually used as the set for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film of the same name. So there’s no creepier…
Since her suicide half a century ago, Sylvia Plath has been the subject of many biographies, a Hollywood movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and even a song by alt-country rocker Ryan Adams. But Carl Rollyson’s new book, American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, takes a different approach to…
In 1988, the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler’s Do-you-like-me? note. A referendum, demanded by international pressure, offered citizens a simple choice: a “yes” for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another eight years, or a “no”…
In an age of increased cynicism about the supernatural, Source Theatre Company has assembled a series of stories by authors who bring sincere tales of spirituality to life. In the Presence of God, which was two years in the making, includes seven vignettes that touch on issues of body image,…
Adrienne Rinaldi writes a beer blog (beersnobchick.com), and when she got her yoga certification last June, she started teaching yoga in the park. “I noticed that I’d attract people if I had beer,” she says, “and people in Colorado love their beer and their yoga — so why not combine…
Fashion is cyclical and moves in and out in waves. For example, the looks of the 1990s are making a fashion comeback in 2013. For visual evidence, look no further than Monique Trejo, an Austin native and Colorado transplant who takes inspiration from the feminist punk-rock movement, riot grrrl, and…
For this week’s art review, Michael Paglia visited RedLine to take in a group show celebrating the city-wide Month of Photography. The show, titled The Reality of Fiction, tackles the notion that photos can fool the eye, making them both true depictions of reality and false ones. With only a…
Comedian Mara Wiles hasn’t had it easy the last few years. After establishing herself as an intelligently goofy performer on the local comedy scene, she was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening kidney disorder that, to say the least, interrupted her ascending career as a standup. And Denver’s comedy community, which…
Dedicated fans and curious cinephiles alike don’t have much longer to wait — the Denver area’s own Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is opening in a matter of days. The storied theater chain officially kicks things off Monday, March 25, with a grand-opening event honoring Pam Grier, who grew up in Denver;…
Feminist scholar/fighter L.A. Jennings has seen her share of gender bias in the competitive arena. Now a retired a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Sanshou and MMA fighter, Jennings spends most of her time training both men and women at her Denver gym, Train. Fight. Win. But she’s also a scholar working…
Five years ago, Denver filmmaker M Van Michaels (then working as Mike Olafson), released a documentary, Gears, Grease and Guitars, that traced the intertwined cultures of hot-rodders, rockabillies and, eventually, ’60s garage rockers, all from a local perspective. The fun flashback is packed with interviews and archival footage, and just…
When Herbert Siguenza was seven years old, he saw a book by photojournalist David Douglas Duncan called The Private World of Pablo Picasso. Although today Siguenza is perhaps best-known as a founding member of the Latino troupe Culture Clash — the company’s American Night was shown at the Denver Center…
A priest walks into a bar. This isn’t beginning of a joke. On Monday night, Reverend John Riley walked into Katie Mullen’s Irish Restaurant and Pub for the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver’s monthly Theology on Tap gathering. On loan from the Archdiocese of Arlington, Virginia, Reverend Riley, a Guinness drinker,…
Remember Lisa Frank — the designer behind all those technicolor stickers and binders and backpacks that achieved a cult status for girls raised in the ’90s? Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta certainly does. Last night, the burlesque troupe performed a tribute to the love of all ’90s girls at Voodoo Comedy…
From the moment we stepped out of the car last Friday night, we were three girls looking for a fight. Being in LoDo will do that do you: There’s an air of misbehavior that must be half the appeal of the place. My mom’s been an ER nurse for close…
document the everyday struggles of people trying to eke out a living from performing stand-up.
#83: Anthony Garcia Tony Garcia, who turns sixty this spring, has spent his entire adult life with Su Teatro, the region’s primary Chicano theater group, which itself just celebrated forty years. He was just a kid from the westside who played in a rock band when he joined Su Teatro…
St. Patrick’s day weekend has come to a close, ending the sea of green on the streets. Many people went over the top, drowning themselves in the emerald hue (and beer), but a few sported green subtlely. This week we spotted Community College of Denver business student Jiadong Qiu rocking…
