When it comes to new releases, fall is about preparation for Christmas. As consumers get their shopping lists ready, they’ll be slammed in the face with awesomeness for weeks upon weeks in a row, whether it’s with games, moves, books or other forms of entertainment. Which is why we’re helping…
Seems like just yesterday — February, actually — when the last round of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, with the winners for 2010, was announced. But 2011 will see another group of honorees, because the next awards presentation has been moved up to November 3, the start…
How did Ietef Cavem Vita, otherwise known in these parts as DJ Cavem Moetavation, spend his summer? Under the sun, it turns out: shoveling dirt and planting seeds, growing greens and teaching kids. A food-justice advocate and proponent of mixing up the beats of hip-hop with the kind of backyard…
Poor Boyz Productions’ 2011 ski epic The Grand Bizarre got its Colorado premiere over the weekend in Aspen at The Meeting ski and snowboard film festival; it comes to the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, tonight at 7 p.m. with featured skiers Bobby Brown, Nick Martini, Simon Dumont, Matt Walker…
Americans are accustomed to paying for our entertainment by purchasing something, and then enjoying that product later. There are exceptions, of course, like broadcast television, which is free but supported by ads. We don’t usually associate this model with games, but Backflip Studios in Boulder is changing that with its…
If you’re kind of nerdy, which is totally fine, you’re probably already thinking about what you want to wear for Halloween, whether you sport your costume at a party or at home on your sofa while you wait for packs of eight-year-olds to knock on your door. As a public…
I’m not a photographer. I don’t even own a camera. But that’s not going to stop me from participating in Colorado Mills’s “Week of a Woman”photo contest, going on now through October 9. The contest works like this: Anyone with the plausible means to “capture everyday women on film” can…
We know what side our bread is buttered on. Gimme Gimme Pillow toast is returning to Mod Livin’ this month, and its fans are pretty sure the organizers — including Andrew Novick, shown above — know how to cure what ails them…
You’ll never look at an urban tree in quite the same way after you’ve been on the Fall Tree Walk offered annually on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus by the CU Museum of Natural History. That ‘s because it’s leaf-peeping with a purpose, a serene evening stroll led…
The recent work of a pair of longtime members of Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173, http://edgeart.org) is on view in the co-op’s front and middle spaces through this weekend. Both artists are abstract painters. In the front is Mark Brasuell: The Second Chance, made up of acrylic and mixed-medium…
Bonny Lhotka & Norman Epp. This duet, the full title of which is Horizons: Bonny Lhotka & Norman Epp, brings together the internationally known Boulder-based digital artist with an up-and-coming Denver sculptor. Though to a great extent their individual bodies of works have decidedly different aims — Lhotka is technically…
Clybourne Park. Racism persists, but the ways in which we feel and express racism change with the times. Bruce Norris’s brilliant Clybourne Park was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, at the end of which the Youngers, a struggling black family, are about to move into a…
“Want it…and watch out,” ruthless corporate veep Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) instructs younger associate Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) in Love Crime, a silly tale of boardroom humiliation. The final film from Alain Corneau, who died last year and is best known for 1991’s All the Mornings of the World, Love Crime…
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a two-bit trainer traveling the state-fair circuit in a not-too-distant future. His line is robot fighting, a sport that has absorbed the audience for boxing, MMA and, apparently, demolition derby. After a tough match leaves Charlie ‘bot-less, he gets news that his ex-girlfriend, with whom…
A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op prepping. In the first, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), a thirty-year-old campaign advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Mike Morris (Clooney), fills in for his boss at the sound check for…
When Mary Shelley — poet, essayist, novelist and, most famously, the creator of Frankenstein — lost one of the four babies she conceived with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (only one child ultimately survived), he placed her in a tub of ice water to stop the hemorrhaging that threatened her life…
At the beginning of Parlour Song, demolitions expert Ned is showing videos of his work to his neighbor, Dale, owner of a car wash. Dale is polite but uninterested — he’s seen these many times before, though Ned seems to have forgotten showing them to him — but for the…
Have you seen those YouTubes of twin babies talking to each other, and it doesn’t make any sense but they’re communicating?” Corey Knapper asks. He and his brother, Jesse, are like that. At 24, they still have a secret language of gasps and glances, as well as a secret gang…
To introduce its month-long “Celebrating Women” event, Colorado Mills hosted a “wellness” expo at the shopping center on Saturday, October 1. The expo was positioned at the end of the food court, where two rows of tables stocked with brochures allowed women to contemplate everything from Colorado Service Dogs to…
At the height of fall in Colorado, as the leaves mature from sun blazed umbrellas into a landscaped rug, Colorado experiences a glowing transformation. Aspen Mountain, in particular bursts with an electric glaze, one that was too bright to ignore over the weekend when I was in Aspen to cover…
You know the town’s about to get weirder when Denver’s Japanese-street-fashion-obsessed couple Andrew Novick and Janene Hurst bring back their Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast pop-up shop, which is filled to the rafters of Mod Livin’s upstair gallery with Asian pop goods you won’t find anywhere else in these parts. And…
Before you could see them, you could hear it: that wet, phlegmy sound of air sucked into fatty passages made too tight through centuries of inbreeding. Of all the dog breeds, pugs are, bar none, the most grotesque, with their weird, punched-in ewok-looking faces and their constant breathing difficulty (which…
