Now in a regional premiere at Curious Theatre Company, Maple and Vine contrasts life in modern America with life in 1955 — the changes in mores and culture, the differences in eating habits between now and a time when lattes were unknown (as were whole-wheat bread and any herb other…
For the next ten days, all Hollywood eyes — and those of many a film-goer — will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah, reportedly experiencing its chilliest winter in a decade. Their collective hope: to discover at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26) the…
We’re now a generation removed from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s brief, odd reign as the biggest star in movies. This Coppertone age lasted from 1990, when two of the ten top-grossing pictures were Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall and Kindergarten Cop, until 1993, when Last Action Hero — an attempt at a tonal gene…
When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong Il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994 until his own passing seventeen years later, was a noted…
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is no rally for yuppie trophy cars. Instead, the “beamer” refers to a projector — or, rather, a whole room full of projectors, all going at once in a dazzling DIY display of light, color and sound. Originally the concept of Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal,…
Over the last decade, the popularity of listening to people talk about standup comedy has nearly eclipsed the joys of actually listening to standup. And while this generation’s crop of indie-comedy podcasters has popularized the art of self-reflective dissection, there’s certainly some worth in letting comedy elders tell their stories…
Despite our collective relief at viewing the 2012 presidential election in the rearview mirror, stressed-out political comedian Lewis Black has yet to calm down. “Hallelujah — our long national nightmare is over. Now we face a fiscal cliff. Sounds like an event from the X Games. Here’s hoping both parties…
Whether you’re a fan of the classic Western or just want to kick back with a cocktail and a film, tonight’s screening of Open Range leads off another big year of the Movie and a Martini series at the Wildlife Experience. The evening, which includes a showing of the film…
Cancer sucks, no matter what, but it really sucks when you’re a struggling musician without health insurance. The bad news is, that’s the situation for Denver’s Mike Marchant — whose work has appeared as Widowers as well as under his own name, and who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. The…
Imagine a promising young ballerina walking home from a performance. But there’s no happy ending to her day: She’s struck by a car and ends up fighting for her life in the Denver Health ICU after suffering a significant brain injury. Three months later, she finds herself in a wheelchair,…
Elvis Presley may be dead, but his music never will be. To make sure of that, singer and fiddler Katie Glassman will bring the King’s early tunes back to life today at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret with the Elvis Sun Sessions Tribute Show, featuring songs he recorded at Sun Studios in…
It’s appropriate that the Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering — now in its 24th year — has moved from Arvada to Golden, known as “the gateway to the West,” because the gathering itself is a gateway into our Western past. “The way of the cowboy is slowly dying,” says spokeswoman Diana…
Author Luis Urrea started the fictionalized saga of his own great-aunt Teresita, a Yaqui curandera known as the Saint of Cabora, in the acclaimed 2006 novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter. More recently, he caught up with the rest of her story in a surprising sequel, Queen of America, in which the…
Storytime at the library won’t be for kids tonight when Anythink Library Wright Farms, a branch of the Rangeview Library District, and the Beyond the Bedroom sex-education group host “Orgasm…I want it…Where do I find it?…How do I get it?” Shhhhh, can you keep the noise down, please? Daka Dan,…
Photographer and University of Chicago professor Laura Letinsky’s work often portrays the leftovers of life: Orange peels, dirty cups, crumpled napkins and a cantaloupe rotting next to a half-eaten lollipop are all photographed in pristine, soft lighting. “At first glance, the colors and the emptiness of the spaces in those…
The mandate at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, as one doctor says during Pete Nicks’s attentive vérité portrait of the place, is to admit people “just as much for their social conditions as for their medical ones.” And as the same guy wearily acknowledges, “The ER’s not the place to manage someone’s…
Fashion is never finished. For many, the new year signals the start of a cycle of goals dedicated to self-improvement and personal passions. One of those individuals is Erika Gamez, a student at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and a violinist whom we spotted in Writer Square because of…
For this week’s art review, critic Michael Paglia visited the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where he took in a retrospective of pop artist Floyd D. Tunson. Tunston’s large body of work ranges from mixed-media installations to abstract paintings, and it earned high praise from Paglia, who called it one…
Running two nights only — tonight and tomorrow at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts — A Journey of the Human Spirit is an incredible three-part look at life before, during and after the Holocaust. Based on composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien’s fifty-minute opera The Emperor of…
For the third installment of “Guess where I’m skateboarding…” we reached out to a local skate company that wanted to showcase a few locals shredding a fresh spot. Now, you might have to actually be “in the know” in order to get this spot (if you can’t read, that is),…
I love that we live in a country that’s sexually open enough — not as much as some European countries, but that’s another list for another time — to allow for public education on how to have and give orgasms. Denverites, you have an upcoming class available at Anythink Library…
Sometimes the simplest concepts are the best — and you don’t get much simpler than the concept of the new podcast Bad or Not Bad. The name says it all, really — things are discussed and a verdict rendered: bad, or not bad? “That’s the short version, and what I…
