Like the wounded nation that loved him, he was uncertain and half crippled. So in the depths of the Great Depression, when a knock-kneed thoroughbred named Seabiscuit rose up to outrun the elite racehorses of the day, he became a folk hero suited to his moment and a fixture in…
Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos’s infamous collection of shoes — over 1,500 pairs, some never even worn once — forever branded her an abomination when the revolution came a-knockin’ in 1986. Thank your lucky loafers, then, for Buckner Orphan Care International’s Shoes for Orphan Souls, a charity that has…
Thursday, July 24 Did you ever wonder what kind of artist will sit for hours, painstakingly reconstructing a fly’s eye or a parrot’s foot in super-real detail? It’s kind of like spending an afternoon counting the pores in your skin or snapping a slow close-up with nothing but your own…
“I don’t do standup,” Andy Dick insists by phone from Los Angeles. “Please! I stand there. I’m up on stage. But that’s about as close as I get to anything that’s called ‘standup.'” Best known from prime-time shows like Less Than Perfect and NewsRadio, in which he plays accident-prone dweebs,…
FRI, 7/25 Downtown Denver will be buzzing today as the streets are infiltrated by a swarm of scooter enthusiasts participating in this year’s Shopping Ride, a highlighted adjunct event in the sixth annual Mile High Mayhem scooter rally. “Still pushing junk” is the theme as the two-strokers take the road…
SAT, 7/26 Bringing frog racing to Empire required a real leap of faith. After all, the tiny mountain town is far from any lily ponds. Still, two decades ago, a farsighted mayor decided that a Frog Rodeo would be just the thing to put Empire on the map, and he…
SUN, 7/27 Now is the time for some testifying on the merits of hip-hop life by brother KRS-One. The performer (born Lawrence Parker but known professionally as Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone), is in town to headline the July 26 Elemental Flavas show at Universal Lending Pavilion. But that…
SUN, 7/27 Although it’s a bit of a sideshow to the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver’s diverse Colorado Biennial showcase, the Colorado Film Biennial: 10 by 10 has also turned out to be its own three-ring circus. The ten finalists, chosen from nearly fifty entries in three categories, including narrative, avant-garde…
SAT, 7/26 After years of tolerating male-dominated music charts and watching mass-marketed boy bands hog the stage, female performers are giving the finger to the audition couch and bustin’ out on their own. National tours such as Lilith Fair and Ladyfest have set the precedent that chicks can riff, and…
The Colorado Rockies — the mountains, not the baseball team — have attracted painters for more than a hundred years. But it’s the period between 1900 and 1950, without question, that is the most significant for Colorado landscape painting, with scores of accomplished artists working here at that time. It’s…
The truly wonderful summer show at the Robischon Gallery (1740 Wazee Street, 303-298-7788), Divining: Art and Water in the West, provides Denver gallery-goers with some badly needed psychological refreshment on these hot, dry days. It’s water, water everywhere — at least by implication, because there’s not a real drop in…
One of the things that distinguish Shakespeare from all of the playwrights who preceded him (and almost all who followed) is the emotional complexity of his characters — and, indeed, of his entire worldview, in which comedy and tragedy are inextricably intertwined. Some of the characters in his comedies are…
The outline of a black eagle on a red background painted on banners and signs dominates the action of Su Teatro’s Papi, Me and Cesar Chavez. This eagle is the symbol of the United Farm Workers, founded by Chavez in the 1960s to improve the lot of the men, women…
I purposely avoided reading anything about Capturing the Friedmans before seeing the film, which was no easy task. Andrew Jarecki’s documentary — about a Great Neck, New York, family torn asunder in the late 1980s by allegations of kiddie-porn possession and the horrific sexual abuse of numerous children — has…
So much for those crackpot theories about flighty teenagers and their short attention spans. For four long years now, the bland pop star Mandy Moore has stuck in the brainpan of white adolescent America like a wad of bubble gum, and there’s no sign that she will loosen her grip…
“Callin’ out around the world/Are you ready for a brand new beat?/Summer’s here, and the time is right/For dancin’ in the streets.” Particularly in the Ballpark neighborhood, where the eleventh annual AT&T LoDo Music Festival hits the pavement this weekend. The two-day, four-block street party between Blake and Larimer and…
Thursday, July 17 The global village comes to Boulder this weekend when Bantaba World Dance and Music hosts African Festival 2003, an event now in its third year that combines daytime classes and evening performances of drumming and dancing by African members of local faculties representing Ghana, Guinea, Mali and…
Dina Castillo found the perfect job at Denver’s Th’Ink Tank Gallery, as gallery curator for a venue where lowbrow art and tattooists mingle freely. But Castillo can still dream, can’t she? Th’Ink Tank is already booked up through 2004 with shows featuring national talent from the underground pop-art arena, and…
SAT, 7/19 There’s something that everyone from gearheads and grease monkeys to Snoop Dogg and Ice-T can agree on: The hottest way to blaze around town is chillin’ in a lowrider. So cruise on over to Six Flags Elitch Gardens today for the 2003 Lowrider Invitational. “These are the top…
SAT, 7/19 Imagine yourself cycling merrily through trendy LoDo, the Ballpark neighborhood and the Platte River Valley one Saturday morning. Where do you stop down there during the day, before the area’s nightlife heats up? If you’re certified, cultured city folk, you go to galleries. If you’re bohemian, perhaps you…
SAT, 7/19 Kids stretch themselves every which way at KidSpree 2003, which is dubbed A Kid’s Eye View for all the obvious reasons. The annual event, hosted by the city of Aurora, is designed exclusively for the junior set and is one of the best available adventures for kids around…
MON, 7/21 Hold on to your helmets, because tonight Mr. Pacman, those intergalactic video-game playboys and local Atari rockers, unleash the PacFashion show on Panopticon, 60 South Broadway. Like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets Tron, PacFashion is a full-contact show of primitive punk-entangled astrowear, with the models engaging the Mr…
