Eleanor Gehres, who spent 25 years as head of the Denver Public Library’s Western History/Genealogy Department and made it the institution it is today, is gone — but very far from forgotten. Before her death from cancer last year, she had almost finished a massive mission: determining the “best” fiction…
How much do we love the Tattered Cover? We don’t have enough time to count the ways. And now this Denver institution has given us yet another reason to give thanks. Not content with bringing in an impressive lineup of national authors for readings and signings on an almost-daily (and…
As part of the Denver’s Public Library’s Special Readings Project, children’s librarian Heath Rezabek held a birthday party last fall for Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two of the heroes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterful books on Middle Earth, followed by a ten-week reading of The Fellowship of the Ring, book one…
When an epic like The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring comes to town, a typical suburban-style multiplex simply won’t do. Most movie buffs are going to want a wide screen with a booming sound system in order to appreciate Gandalf in all his wizardly splendor. In…
Featuring six screens and a policy of booking foreign, independent and classic films 365 days a year, the new Starz FilmCenter in the old Tivoli Theaters on the Auraria campus represents a major advance in Denver’s cultural life. Operated by the Denver Film Society, which produces the Denver International Film…
Since 1941, cinephiles have been showing classics and contemporary art films on the Boulder campus, and the schedule in Muenzinger Auditorium this spring is as strong as ever, ranging from Takashi Miike’s Audition, which addresses marriage and sexuality in contemporary Japan, to Together, a smart ensemble comedy that won four…
For those who missed the Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There the first time around or who feel the urge to watch Mulholland Drive again on the big screen to try and figure out what the hell happened and sort out who all those women really are, Tiffany Plaza…
Let’s go to the cine! These days in Colorado, you can rent lots of movies with Spanish subtitles or voice-overs. But finding a Spanish-language movie theater is rare. In Aurora, though, you need look no further than the King Soopers shopping center at 6th and Peoria, where Cinema Latino offers…
It was at a Harry Potter screening that we began to feel the magic: The seats at the Westminster Promenade 24 seemed to enhance the viewing of the sorcery-soaked tale. Maybe it was the seat backs, which created a feeling of privacy — a nice trick in a room filled…
Operators of the Mayan Theatre have long known that the art house crowd likes specialty snacks, something beyond the realm of a crusty Milk Dud. But those who think the Mayan has grown stale should sink their teeth into some of these recent additions: an expanding collection of Ben &…
There aren’t many drive-ins left in the Denver area, but judging from the lines that snake out from the entrance to the Cinderella Twin on weekend nights during the summer, there’s still plenty of demand. This south metro area drive-in boasts two screens, each showing a double feature — PG…
It’s too bad that most drive-ins are only open in the summer; otherwise, they’d be the perfect year-round cheap date for the starving — and horny — college student. As it is, only students attending Colorado State University’s summer session get to make out at the Holiday Twin Drive-in. Although…
These are rooms with a view — of the motel’s giant outdoor movie screen. The sound is piped into your room, and you can watch the show from the comfort of your own bed through huge picture windows. Don’t get the wrong idea, though: The Star shows only G, PG…
Colorado’s Drive-In Theater Guide, www.carload.com, lists features and showtimes for all twelve of the state’s active drive-ins, plus drive-in news and links to plenty of other drive-in-related sites. It hasn’t been updated since the end of August, but Web master Michael Kilgore plans to start up his labor of love…
Film is an art form, one that Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art recognizes with Reel Love. Curated by Denver Art Museum film curator Tom Delapa, the current series traces the history of avant-garde filmmaking in this country…
The reputation of late New York artist Alice Neel has been on the rise for decades, and her work became especially important to expressionists and to women artists beginning in the 1970s. It was then that Dianne Vanderlip, living in Philadelphia, organized the first-ever retrospective of Neel’s career. In so…
Letters of the alphabet — painted ones, wooden ones, mirrored ones — made up a total environment for Between the Lines: Word Works by Roland Bernier at the Denver Art Museum. They climbed the walls and were stacked on pedestals covering the floor. Some were arranged into short words, though…
When the well-known and highly regarded Cydney Payton took the helm of Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art last year, the art world held its breadth and waited for the unveiling of one of her signature shows. The wait ended with 5 Abstract, a look at five of the state’s most…
The smart-looking Clark Richert: Recent Paintings, at Rule Gallery on Broadway, showcased a small but significant group of the latest geometric pieces by Clark Richert, a former hippie and current art guru. Richert first came to fame in this area in the 1960s, when he designed and helped start Drop…
The three well-known artists in Martha Daniels, Amy Metier, Betty Woodman represent three distinct generations of Colorado artists, even if the show’s title listed them out of order. Woodman is the elder stateswoman, having lived in Boulder from the 1950s until a few years ago, when she retired to New…
Combining materials traditionally associated with sculpture, including steel and wood, with some untraditional ones, in particular a Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, upstart artist Zach Smith was the subject of the magical Internal Automata this past winter. The wonder-filled show marked Smith’s formal introduction to Denver’s art world. It makes…
The inner workings of the art world are hard to explain. Consider last winter’s 32/26, at the Andenken Gallery, which paired 32-year-old painter Karen McClanahan with 26-year-old sculptor Jonathan Stiles. Though neither artist had a familiar name, the show somehow generated a tremendous buzz. In fact, the word on the…
