The Aspen Art Museum will unveil its “Levitating Mass” float, featuring the work of Los Angeles-based guest artist Mungo Thomson, in Aspen’s Fourth of July parade tomorrow. Thomson’s “Levitating Mass” is a playful take on artist Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” installation, a 340-ton granite megalith at the Los Angeles County…
The tiny town of Glendale has been doing a bang-up job of celebrating July 4th for years — though its festivities never a actually fell on Independence Day, since that would have competed with other municipalities that shot off their own spectaculars on the holiday proper. And a few years…
Talk about hot! We posted a slide show of the 2013 Colorado Firefighters Calendar photo shoot yesterday, and most readers appreciated the effort. But where there’s smoke, there’s ire…
“Welcome to the recession, boys,” says John Travolta’s DEA-double-agent profiteer in Oliver Stone’s Savages, based on Don Winslow’s novel. Savages is a movie of its moment, though both its good guys and bad guys (if there’s really even a difference) are unquestionably the 1 percent of their industry — that…
In Woody Allen’s new film, To Rome With Love, people — like, really young people — still talk, improbably, about “neuroses.” Horny middle-age businessmen actually stand around the water cooler and ogle the hot secretary, as in the Playboy cartoons of the ancients. In the Allen Legendarium, Freudian psychiatrists never…
The first film from emigré director Pawel Pawlikowski since 2004’s dreamy My Summer of Love, this thoroughly odd and brooding psycho-puzzle trains in on Ethan Hawke’s displaced American writer-academic, arrived in Paris to see his ex-wife and young daughter despite a restraining order, a recent hospital stay and a history…
The theater world is full of Richard IIIs quipping, posturing, lying and murdering their way through thickets of bodies to the English crown. The role is catnip to actors because it’s juicy and bigger than life, and the bloody monsters of twentieth-century history — Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet…
Summer is the time for group shows, especially those with a touch of whimsy — which is something that perfectly describes Dimensional Shifts, at the William Havu Gallery. For this thematically organized exhibit, gallery director Bill Havu selected artists who play with three-dimensional space, either by foreshortening it, elongating it…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
1979. Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular city, a romantic celebration of its timeless urban landscape set in a nostalgic-fantastic present, culminating in the gut-punch realization that what’s past is irretrievably past. Manhattan’s $39 million take…
Despite wildfires in the region, organizers of the Colorado Renaissance Festival assured that the festival would be open last weekend (June 29-July 1). We’ve hand-picked our favorite wenches (wench: a young woman, girl; or a female servant, according to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) of the Ren Fest — which goes on…
Retired Marine sergeant Christian Ellis has turned his tour of duty in Iraq and the aftermath of returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder into an opera titled Fallujah. This is the first opera based on the war, and offers startling, musical insight into the mind of a vet struggling with…
The 2013 Colorado firefighter calendar photo shoot went down last week, and photographer Nathan Federico brings back these photos from the June 29 shoot, held at one of the metro area’s training facilities. “Everybody has to remember, (firefighters) have off-days too, and they are using their off-days — one of…
Take a look at these cats: These are the Amazing Acro-Cats, which have skills that make even the cutest of house cats look like Garfield’s fatter, more sarcastic cousins. The second I saw this photo, I wondered (and then doubted) whether my cat has similar chops — whether she’s secretly…
With fires raging across Colorado, many artists are putting their talents by holding fundraisers or using events to simply send good vibes to those affected by the fires. Tonight Denver’s youth slam team, Minor Disturbance, a 2012 MasterMind winner, will use what it’s got to bring awareness (and raise some…
It was a dog-gone good time at the Purina Pro Incredible Dog Challenge Saturday in City Park, where canine athletes competed in a variety of events. Check out photos of the event after the jump…..
Dozens of art admirers gathered at the Delgany bridge by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Friday night to view “Virga: The Sound Performance,” a work that featured sound designed to complement Virga, the art piece on the bridge…
The Denver County Fair — version 2.0 — is coming back to the National Western Complex on August 10, just over five weeks from now. We’ve just come from a mind-blowing powwow with DCF masterminds and will soon share all the fair’s new twists and turns. But first, there’s news…
Just in time to help you get out and celebrate the 4th in this beautiful state, our list of the “50 reasons Colorado is the best state in America” is getting a reprise around the country. And so are comments from Colorado haters and lovers alike…
Only a few hours after the Supreme Court declared Obama’s health-insurance mandate constitutional, we spoke with Washington Post columnist and NPR commentator E.J. Dionne, who was at the Aspen Ideas Festival promoting his book, Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. “I…
Denver police officer Celena Hollis, who was killed at last week’s City Park jazz concert while trying to break up a fight, will be honored at this Sunday’s concert. A silent vigil is scheduled for 5 p.m. on the west side of Ferril Lake; the concert will begin at 6…
The Colorado Renaissance Festival in Larkspur is safe from wildfires and will be open with free admission for children 12 and younger this weekend only. We’ll be there photographing our favorite costumes and chowing down on our latest obsession, turkey legs. Festival-goers can enjoy a 16th century marketplace with over…
