As the Columbia Pictures logo looms large on the screen until its torch becomes the focal point, we find ourselves in what appears to be a tent full of sweaty medieval warriors forging axes. We have to wonder: Did they already make another Scorpion King movie and not tell us?…
Norma Desmond would love it. This summer, the Chautauqua Silent Film Series will once more bring to Boulder a broad array of classics from Hollywood’s silent era, along with a touch of vintage Fritz Lang, complete with live musical accompaniment. If some rude blabbermouth in the row behind you disturbs…
“I’ve never thought of my own show as raunchy,” hard-edged comic Sandra Bernhard says by phone from her office in L.A. “I’ve always thought of it as pretty reflective of our times. There’s always sexuality and stuff that I think is relevant. And I still have deep concerns about our…
Thursday, June 26 There’s nothing in the world quite like shmoozing and boozing lakeside at sunset. It’s a stolen pleasure offered annually at Sunset in the Park, a unique outdoor fundraiser for the ALS Association. The benefit, which features a cocktail buffet and auction, is especially poignant in 2003, which…
In 1998, a group of Colorado College students got together to put on a play called Quixote, a retelling of Cervantes’s famous tale, with chalkboard and erasers. They later toured it to fringe festivals in Philadelphia and in Canada. After graduating, they created a piece based on James Thurber’s short…
SAT, 6/28 Pink and white cherry blossoms no longer line the banks of Cherry Creek, but that doesn’t stop Denver’s Japanese-American community from celebrating its culture each June at the annual Sakura Matsuri, otherwise known as the Cherry Blossom Festival. Now in its 31st year, Denver’s Cherry Blossom Festival takes…
FRI, 6/27 Robbie Morales’s crucial transformation took place when he was thirteen, astride a banana-seat bicycle. The Long Island teen popped a wheelie, and the move — front tire airborne, merely decorative — quickly became his passion. Soon baseball faded in favor of a new sport, BMX bicycle competition. The…
TUES, 7/1 For children, the life-sized elephant puppet may be the highlight of Walden Family Playhouse’s Toby and the Big Top. But adults will be amazed by the sense of nostalgia for an old-time circus re-created by internationally accomplished artists. “We’re kind of re-creating the turn-of-the-century circus that stopped a…
SAT, 6/28 Can’t afford a European adventure this summer? Here’s how to enjoy a Roman holiday without ever leaving the comfort of your own scrappy little American city: Be transported by Sargent and Italy, a traveling exhibit from the Los Angeles County Museum and Italy’s Ferrara Arte Museum that opens…
Comets on Fire rescramble reality SUN, 6/29 Do you remember that one time Alice Cooper was a guest star on The Jetsons? No? How about when your MC5 Kick Out the Jams eight-track got twisted up in your stereo and started playing backward, forward and sideways all at the same…
The Center for the Visual Arts in LoDo is currently hosting a large and important show. Tamarind: Forty Years documents some of the many accomplishments achieved over the decades by the legendary New Mexico-based printmaker. The title is somewhat misleading, since Tamarind was founded in 1960, making 2003 the 43rd…
It’s unusual for a juried show to have a coherent theme, because there’s no controlling what artists will submit. Yet Interior Spaces, a sculpture show in the North Gallery of the Lakewood Cultural Center (470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7844), was juried and is coherent. So how did artist-jurors Patricia…
There’s a lot of excitement surrounding the production of The Elephant Man at the Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. The playhouse didn’t exist until recently. What existed was the Morrison Theatre Company, which, under the direction of Rick Bernstein, mounted performances and offered acting classes in Morrison for over a…
When Mark Lundholm appeared at the Ricketson Theatre in Addicted: A Comedy of Substance last year, I was blown away by his talent as a performer but had mixed feelings about the material. It was often hilariously funny and sometimes insightful, but it was weighted down — particularly in the…
He’s twelve feet tall. He’s ripped. He’s quick as a tiger and fierce as a dragon. Lit to a dull green glow by his fury, the guy is sheer, boundless power. Any NFL team you can think of would love to start him at middle linebacker. But as art-house director…
The hero of Ken Loach’s Sweet Sixteen is an isolated teenager mired in a gray Scottish slum with only a vague dream of family life to sustain him. Like previous Loach heroes — the impoverished boy who finds hope training a falcon in Kes, say, or the downtrodden working stiff…
Cult director Trent Harris, whose bizarre and challenging films have thrilled cutting-edge cineasts the world over, will appear in person Friday and Saturday nights as a guest of the International Film Series at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Harris will screen two of his most renowned works, Beaver Trilogy…
Graffiti and tagging may be on the rise in Denver, but don’t worry if you stumble upon dozens and dozens of artists scrawling all over the pavement in Larimer Square this weekend. They’ll be taking part in Denver’s first Italian street-painting festival, La Strada dell’Arte. “Nothing like this has ever…
Thursday, June 19 Summer has come to Aspen — a fact made obvious by this weekend’s blossoming of cultural events in the high-country playground of the rich and famous. One of the mountain town’s most enduring traditions, the Aspen Music Festival, begins today, boasting a nonstop, summer-long paean to classical…
If it’s early on Sunday morning and you see bright-pink woolly gorillas whipping up raspberry fuzzy navels in blenders along Colfax Avenue, then either you have just surfaced from a three-day bender or you’re witnessing the countdown to the June 22 PrideFest 2003 parade. Perhaps it’s both. PrideFest, organized by…
SAT, 6/21 The recent news that the last of the old-style Volkswagen Beetles will trundle off the assembly line this summer at VolkswagenMexico in Puebla, Mexico, may be just a blip on the radar of Gens X and Y as they whiz by with daisies in their dashboard vases. But…
WED, 6/25 You should bike to work more often. Really — get some exercise. Get your car off the street. Heck, maybe you’ll love the fresh air so much you’ll sell the car. If you cycle in on today’s Bike to Work Day, you might even get a free breakfast…
