The 2003 Jack Black film School of Rock presented a fictionalized spin on a real phenomenon: Paul Green’s School of Rock Music, which debuted in 1998 and inspired the 2005 documentary Rock School. The first institution of higher shredding, based in Philadelphia, has gone national, and tonight’s concert will introduce…
If you need to jump-start your Christmas spirit this season, a visit to WinterWorld may be in order. On a five-acre spread in Greenwood Village, a group of “imagineers” have realized a vision of Christmas that blends the familiar and traditional with some unusual additions to create an over-the-top winter…
Bedazzler be damned! The kids over at the South Broadway boho boutique Fancy Tiger have grabbed more than thirty local crafters to peddle their homespun handiwork at the first annual Holiday Handmade fair — and this ain’t your grandma’s craft bazaar. There will be potential gifting goods such as Vital…
When you live in the city, you can’t always just up and take off over the river and through the wood to Grandmother’s house or whatever when the holidays are nigh. But you can get a facsimile of the pastoral — all while shopping ’til you drop, urban style —…
About fifteen years ago, Charles Phoenix discovered a box in a thrift store; written on the box were the words “trip across the United States 1957.” He opened the box of slides and held a couple of them up to the light. “I said, ‘This is a treasure with my…
Lest you think today’s Iron Chef Latke Cook-Off & Judaica Auction is all fun and games, know this: Arthur Rosenblum (co-editor of the Greater Park Hill News) has already challenged his friend and neighbor, Dr. Jacob Schor, to a duel. A latke duel. Because contrary to popular belief, latkes aren’t…
The folks at Vail sure know how to throw a party, and they prove it every year with Vail Snow Daze. The 2007 version will be no exception, with live musical performances by Ludacris and the Roots, for starters, as well as special guest appearances (Ziggy Marley is on tap…
With an artistic legacy built around the Campbell’s model of instant recognition, mass production and self-conscious kitsch, isn’t a roomful of Andy Warhols just life imitating art? If you’ve ever longed for a taste of Factory superstar chic, then put on your silver wig, black turtleneck and dark glasses, because…
Who couldn’t use a new red chair? And could there possibly be a better place to get said chair right now than the Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa Fe Drive? The answers to those questions (respectively) are nobody and absolutely not. So slip on your best cocktail attire and…
Tonight’s second-annual Art Bash at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design can take a licking and keep on ticking. That’s because participating RMCAD students, alumni, faculty and guest artists have fashioned a wide array of decorative clocks as part of a fundraiser for the Philip J. Steele Foundation,…
Most people would agree that domesticated animals such as cats and dogs experience emotions and possess a capacity to think that we don’t quite understand. My dog dreams, as many dogs do, growling and barking in his sleep. But what’s the difference between my dog and a rat, rabbit, mouse…
NBC’s Chuck was picked up for the back-nine of a full-season order on November 26. That’s a very good thing, because it’s the best of NBC’s new shows this season. As part of TV Nerd-Rush 2007 (other notable entrants in this category include the CW’s Reaper and CBS’ The Big…
Let’s give thanks that this past holiday weekend, Denver International Airport proved that it could handle crowds. (And what, exactly, was the airport waiting for? An engraved invitation from Mary Peters?) But for once, I was sorry that I wasn’t stuck in an endless line while waiting to go through…
Something about that movie, though, well I just can’t get it out of my head/But I can’t remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play. — Bob Dylan, “Brownsville Girl” Literally speaking, Bob Dylan isn’t “there” in Todd Haynes’s staggering mix-tape biopic I’m Not…
As one of what novelist Stephen King calls his Constant Readers, I was as jazzed as every other monster-lovin’ geek when word came that filmmaker Frank Darabont was making a movie of King’s classic novella The Mist. Adapting King’s The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Green Mile (1999) brought the…
Hard to believe that it’s been twenty years since the release of The Princess Bride, if only because it hasn’t aged a day — the mark of something truly, blessedly timeless. Bereft of the pop-culture gags that curdle the Shrek movies and absent the cynicism of most other kids’ films…
The unsettling tone is established early in Call of Duty 4, when the president of a Middle Eastern nation is publicly executed on the world stage, and you, the player, experience the deposed leader’s final minutes through his own eyes, witnessing — through the rear window of a car —…
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse(Paramount) At last available on DVD, Eleanor Coppola’s 1991 documentary about her husband’s tumultuous trek downriver remains, easily, the best film ever about the making of a movie and unmaking of a man. Francis Ford Coppola thought he was going to spend 16 weeks in…
Angel-A (Sony) The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season (Warner Bros.) Bill Maher: The Decider (HBO) Broken (First Look) Chappelle’s Show: The Series Collection (Paramount) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Complete Seventh Season (Paramount) Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 (Rhino) Gene Simmons Family Jewels: The Complete Season 2 (A&E) Hairspray…
Forget the 1950s play and movie about Anne Frank’s diary, the generations of schoolchildren assigned to read the book, the myths that have arisen around the image of Anne Frank herself, the controversies about the way she’s been represented. Just focus on Anne Frank’s words. After all these years —…
Sometimes I wonder if there’s a kind of thespian hell, in which actors who are clearly capable of so much more are stuck forever in stale shows as punishment for being bad in some way. If so, Plaid Tidings definitely qualifies. There are a few good things about this holiday…
For Better. Karen has just become engaged to Max. She’s met him face-to-face only once, but they’ve conducted a three-month relationship via cell-phone conversations, texting and instant messaging. Everyone in Karen’s small circle —- sister Francine, brother-in-law Michael, old friend Stuart (who’s secretly in love with her) and Francine’s best…
