Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt streams on Netflix Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s disparate obsessions form an unwieldy constellation, like a winged horse with three eyes and a blobfish for a tail. Tina Fey’s Netflix comedy mines one-liners from doomsday cults, parenthood, the gig economy, 1990s pop culture, feminine accommodation and the Upper East…
If it has to do with sound and music, Gary Grundei’s done it: As a performer, composer, music director, sound designer, pianist and teacher, he’s stitched together a creative career in stage and theater, right up front and behind the scenes — when he’s not performing his own songs as part of the duo High Fiction.
Memorial Day 2017 is coming right up, and there’s not a moment to waste. Get ready for the three-day weekend ahead by enjoying some of the great free entertainment offerings in Denver, starting with a yoga event that should put you in the right frame of mind for surviving the rest of the week. Namaste.
Last year’s Cannes Festival seemed to be all about the past, trauma, and the persistence of memory. It’s too early in this year’s festival to suss out any broad themes, but the one-two punch of Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, the first two Official Competition titles to screen,…
Yoga and barre and cycling, oh my! It’s no secret that Denver is home to an abundance of gyms and workout studios, but finding the right fit can be overwhelming due to both the volume and often the cost. That’s where FitLo comes in, a Denver-based company dedicated to “providing the low-down on where to get fit in Denver,” and helping people find their home gym or studio. With the launch of the new FitLo Denver Fitness Passport Program, Passport holders can explore new gyms within the community at deep — and for a limited time, free — discounts.
Ratio Beerworks, which opened at 2920 Larimer Street in February 2015, earned two Best of Denver awards this year, including top honors for Best Brewery Entertainment. And thanks to some fast work by the RiNo Art District, the City of Denver, the State of Colorado and Ratio itself, the shows will go on this weekend, despite a liquor license snafu that had the taproom at the brewery closed for ten days.
On the night I watched Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a musical based on the 1994 Australian movie, the audience was irrepressible.
Reddog Rudy’s grandmother gave him his first lowrider car, a 1969 Chevrolet Impala, when he was about to learn to drive at 15.
It might be surprising to realize that David Lynch has only ever made one period piece: The Elephant Man (1980), set in the Victorian era. The rest of the director’s films, save for his 1984 sci-fi disaster Dune, take place in what presumably is the here and now. Or, more…
As if hunting wild jungle pig in the Amazon wasn’t enough adventure, Matt Wright had to go and contract an extremely rare flesh-eating bacterial infection. Actually, Wright met up with four different kinds of flesh-eating bacteria while he was a contestant on Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid spin-off series, Naked and Afraid XL.
Despite my fondness for Quentin Tarantino, I’ve never been a Reservoir Dogs fan. Back in 1992, the writer-director’s feature debut seemed to me little more than a clever and grotesquely violent one-act play, gussied up with structural whimsy. Yes, the opening scene — black-suited crooks bantering about Madonna and the…
The tagline for David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006), which he has avowed is his final film, is a four-word fragment: “a woman in trouble.” However simple, the phrase hypnotically evokes the sinister, insoluble mysteries that have been at the core of many of his ten features and especially in Twin…
Heavyweight almost-champ Chuck Wepner was a character long before he inspired Sylvester Stallone to pen Rocky. But Wepner is no Rocky Balboa. Sure, he comes from a working-class town (Bayonne, New Jersey), and when he boxed, he took a good punch, bled like a hemophiliac and dreamed of taking home…
However you look at Julian Assange — radical hero, martyr, Trumpist sell-out, probable rapist, victim of his cult of personality — there’s something in Laura Poitras’ documentary Risk to confirm your point of view. You might not think there would be much left to say on this subject, particularly after…
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts, which houses live and recorded musical performances in an abandoned water tank in western Colorado, won the first ever Preservation Edge Award from Denver-based Colorado Preservation Inc.
Bored and broke Denverites needn’t hide away. Fun can be had for $10 and under all weekend long.
Artist residencies inspired two back-to-back solos at Michael Warren Contemporary.
In Montana, where writer-director Sarah Adina Smith filmed her small-town sci-fi flick, Buster’s Mal Heart, the winter-inversion clouds hang heavy in valleys, trapping the sunlight that bounces off the snow. The effect is a perpetual, sullen twilight. Smith embraces that between-light-and-dark aspect of Big Sky Country to tell the story…
Pour one out for the summer movie season, which was once Memorial Day till Labor Day but now has spread like a self-replicating, geometrically evolving A.I. determined to cleanse the Earth of human vermin. Around the turn of the century, the summer movies started showing up the first weekend in…
Chris Gethard, the comedian and talk-show host, has the look of his own comic-strip avatar. Those black glasses, that elfin, upright forelock, the eyebrows that dance in alarm and amazement: Onstage, in his one-man show, Career Suicide, Gethard could be Charles Schulz’s sketch of Chris Gethard, a work of cartoon…
A recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Denver artist/activist Cory Feder brings an intensely personal point of view back to her home town of Denver, where she now supports and works among the city’s close-knit DIY community.
Newly restored, James Ivory’s elegant and passionate 1987 film, Maurice, adapted from the posthumously published novel by E.M. Forster, is being rereleased. Last year, I had the chance to discuss this film and some of Ivory’s other works with the director. Here is some of our conversation. I remember the…
