The current show at the Camera Obscura Gallery, Christopher Burkett: Intimations of Paradise, is a surprise, because all of the photographs are in color. Even more surprising is that unlike most color photos, these are really good. Since a great majority of the serious work in fine-art photography is in…
When last we encountered Peter and Bobby Farrelly, they were pelting moviehouses with industrial-strength jokes about retarded kids, lost semen, found excrement and exploding house pets. Good plan. There’s Something About Mary turned into last summer’s surprise hit and catapulted the brothers to the top of Hollywood’s A List –…
It seems like only yesterday that movies dealing with gay and lesbian life were synonymous with extravagant displays of gloom and doom. From the suicides of The Children’s Hour and Advise and Consent to the serial killers of Cruising and Basic Instinct, same-sex sexuality was no fun — in the…
Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams…
It sounds like a gala event for a frog, but the Parade of Ponds is designed more for parched humans — not amphibians — who are eager for a little waterfront property close to the homestead. Sponsored by BR&D Landscape as a fundraiser for Hudson Gardens, the parade gives attendees…
When Colorado’s Ocean Journey co-founders Bill Fleming and Judy Petersen-Fleming moved to town in 1992 with an idea for an aquarium in the Platte Valley, they appeared to be a couple of pipe-dreaming flakes. The very idea of a facility devoted to marine life seemed absurd in landlocked Denver –…
ILK, at 554 Santa Fe Drive, is a raggedy, upstart co-op that nonetheless frequently displays some of the most original art around. It is currently presenting a pair of intriguing solo shows. In ILK’s south gallery is New Works by Victoria del Carmen Pérez; in the north gallery is Size…
What is it they say? That even a flea can reach Mount Olympus riding in Pegasus’s mane? Well, in the case of the new Albert Brooks comedy The Muse, Brooks is the flea and Pegasus is his delectable co-star, Sharon Stone. But I get ahead of myself. In The Muse,…
There is something fairy-tale-like, but also deeply human, about Twin Falls Idaho, a gentle, beautifully realized tale of love and intimacy that marks the feature-film debut of identical twins Mark and Michael Polish. Michael directed the film, and both brothers wrote the script and star in it. It is what…
Shifu Howie Solow would shrug off the notion, but he’s easily the Boulder Baryshnikov of Shaolin Hung Mei Pai Kung Fu. Wiry and hard, with poised muscles, Shifu Solow is an ordained martial arts master, and it shows in the fluid snap, crackle and pop of his artful movements. Every…
Imagine yourself on the banks of the South Platte, lifting a Zang’s brew with one furry-tongued William McGaa — Denver’s actual founder, or at least that’s what he said — as the sun sinks below the Rockies skyline. Never mind that this McGaa, in the company of his three Indian…
The Center for the Visual Arts is celebrating its first anniversary this summer in an expanded space on Wazee Street. The CVA, which operates under the auspices of Metropolitan State College of Denver, was originally located around the corner on 17th Street, in the building that is now occupied by…
Big-time local ceramics talent Rodger Lang is currently the subject of Lines & Space & Time at Artists on Santa Fe, 747 Santa Fe Drive. Though it’s economical for a solo exhibit, with only a few groupings of pieces, the show does lay out examples of each of the major…
If Kevin Williamson has anything to say about it, the good works of noble movie schoolteachers like Mr. Chips and Miss Dove and Mr. Holland will be wiped out in one fell swoop. In their place, the creator of TV’s hormonal Dawson’s Creek series proposes an unmitigated horror: a high…
As a filmmaker, actor John Turturro clearly believes in drawing from personal experience: His directorial debut, the 1992 Mac (which won the Camera D’Or at Cannes), was avowedly based on his father’s life. For his second feature, Illuminata, Turturro takes a look at the theater, showing us the ambitions, fears…
Lo and behold the plight of the American gangster. John Gotti, the Dapper Don, has been sent down the river. His big-time heavy, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, is famous and face-lifted for being a no-good dirty-rat stool pigeon. And Robert De Niro, the reigning deity of hoodlum heavies in films…
Thursday August 12 Author Patricia Hersh doesn’t just report on American teens in her book A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence–she quietly weaves herself into the fabric of their lives, the result of which is a fascinating, immediate cultural study that reads like an especially…
When it comes to television, no one’s ever gone broke taking the low road. And when it comes to the Web, let’s face it: Taking the low road may be the only way to make a quick buck (we’ll be impressed with our Amazon stock when the company actually starts…
If you believe that “the truth is out there” but that it’s being smothered by diabolical forces, Dean Stonier can help you. Since 1980, Stonier, a congenial retired nutritionist, has served as the director for Global Sciences Congress, a Thornton-based collaborative that gathers the kind of inside-out info that Scully…
Well, it’s that time of year again–late summer, when the art world, which is centered in New York, essentially shuts down, with many galleries actually closing for the entire month of August. This hiatus is a response to the stifling heat and high humidity that engulfs the East Coast this…
If you’re tired of being bombarded by wall-to-wall news coverage of heinous crimes, tragic accidents and inane controversies, or of slogging through the nightly prime-time lineup of hospital dramas (in which half of the characters die), crime movies (in which the characters commit the acts that send their victims to…
Larry Kramer is perhaps best known as a pugnacious sort who regularly vilifies the editors of the New York Times and intimidates genteel talk-show hosts like Charlie Rose. In 1985, though, the gay activist and co-founder of ACT-UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) became famous for writing The Normal…
