Cabaret. Cabaret is grim and distressing, and there’s not a hint of redemption anywhere in it. Quite the contrary. But this is a bloody good production, the kind of production that could — and should — attract all kinds of people who might never think of setting foot in a…
It should go without saying that when one goes to see a movie about giant killer snakes, the main point of the whole endeavor is to watch people get eaten by giant killer snakes. Hardly rocket science, that. But while Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid does feature a…
Some of the people who helped bring you dank, morose amusements such as The Crow, Dark City and The Matrix have a new movie to offer. Like The Matrix, it features a dork who flies through the air. As in Dark City, we witness the protagonist’s world radically changing shape…
The 12th Annual Denver International World Cinema Independent Fall Film Festival — quite a mouthful, no? — will feature three days’ worth of feature films, documentaries and shorts from around the globe at downtown Denver’s Acoma Center. British actor/director Leon Herbert will appear in person with his new feature, Emotional…
Here in the metro area, where small theater troupes tend to crowd the cultural landscape, even the staunchest supporter of independent theater must give little thought to the Bas Bleu Theatre Company. Based in downtown Fort Collins, the ensemble has performed in its tiny salon-style space since 1992. But the…
Thursday, August 26 This is one girl with credentials: Brazilian vocalist Bebel Gilberto carries on the samba-riffic dynasty begun by her father Joo, mother Micha and stepmother Astrud, all bossa nova icons whose cool voices, bittersweet lyrics and gentle rhythms defined the genre that caught fire internationally in the 1960s…
Some people consider them only half a step above the Hell’s Angels. To others, they look pretty damn cool with their cut-off pants and messenger bags. They’re bicycle couriers, those misunderstood and vilified daredevils who dart around downtown in flagrant defiance of the laws of both traffic and physics. But…
TUES, 8/31 Americans are so darned smug. They think they own the world. But set foot into the University of Denver’s globally conscious language program, and you’ll begin to see a different picture, reflective of DU’s cosmopolitan student body and business-minded international bent. The school gladly shares its strengths in…
SAT, 8/28 There’s probably no better locale for a cheerleading competition, an event that’s generally full of perky preps, than a suburban mall that pulls in the same demographic. That’s why the location of today’s New Spirit Cheer/Dance Championship — a fenced-in, bleacher-equipped space in a parking lot at Park…
THURS, 8/26 It was August 26, 1964, general-admission tickets were $6.60 apiece, and parents feared the worst. They were utterly certain that when the Beatles took the stage at Red Rocks forty years ago today, the crowd, high on that mysterious evil force called rock and roll, would surely riot,…
SAT, 8/28 “There ain’t much time left,” poet Jim Carroll once said. “You’re born out of this insane abyss and you’re going to fall back into it, so while you’re alive, you might as well show your bare ass.” In a life of mythic proportions, Carroll has followed his own…
On the morning of August 9, Mayor John Hickenlooper stood on the front steps of the City and County Building and made a stunning announcement: The City of Denver had formally committed to building a museum to house the work of abstract-expressionist giant Clyfford Still in exchange for a promise…
Walking into the front space at Pirate: a contemporary art oasis (3659 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058) is like stepping back into the early ’90s when half the shows at the alternative galleries were installations of questionable quality. There’s a reason for this: Wake Up Little Susie: Pregnancy & Power Before Roe…
Colorado Clay. Colorado has been a regional center for ceramics for just over a century. The reason is obvious, at least to gardeners and structural engineers: It’s all that darned clay. This sets up Colorado Clay, which has been held at Golden’s Foothills Art Center since the ’70s, to be…
Bovine Metropolis is a fine, cozy venue, the people who run it are lively and friendly, and I’ve seen good comedy there. But The Mammas & the Papparazzis is simply not ready for prime time, either in terms of material or performance quality. Each and every one of the six…
A year or two ago, the Industrial Arts Theatre Company took over an old movie house on Federal Boulevard. It’s always a good thing when artists move into a funky neighborhood, and the Industrial group is no exception. But the company needs to put more thought and care into the…
Cabaret. Cabaret is grim and distressing, and there’s not a hint of redemption anywhere in it. Quite the contrary. But this is a bloody good production, the kind of production that could — and should — attract all kinds of people who might never think of setting foot in a…
Summer movies don’t get much sillier or more empty-headed than Without a Paddle, and that includes Catwoman and King Arthur. What we have here is a low-wattage buddy flick proposing that a trio of boyhood friends, now thirty years old, can shed the last vestiges of their adolescence by traipsing…
Although most people in the moviegoing universe by now know the differences between an “Alien” and a “Predator,” putting the two beasties together in one movie really ought to necessitate more specific species names for each, since both are technically aliens and predators (they’re from outer space and they hunt…
Until now, the landmark creature feature Godzilla (1954) has never been shown on this side of the Pacific in all its high-budget (but still cheesy) glory. The uncut version, in a new 35-millimeter print straight from the lab in Japan, restores forty minutes of previously unseen footage just in time…
There’s a great door-sized poster of Joe Montana and John Elway from the time the two met in Super Bowl XXIV. The quarterbacks stand back to back, helmetless, clad in old-school 49ers and Broncos uniforms. Though each player cradles a playbook in his arms, both Montana and Elway surreptitiously look…
Thursday, August 19 The folks at Backpacker magazine hit the fourteener right on its tippy-top with their Get Out More! In 2004 Tour: The traveling showcase throws just about everything to do with camping, hiking and adventuring in the great outdoors into its old kit bag. Laura and Eric Poole…
