FRI, 8/29 “The main code of the tango is that you dance as you are feeling today,” says Nina Pesochinsky, artistic director/instructor/performer of the Denver-based Tango Mujer Dance Company. “The same two people can dance the same song a thousand times, and they will have a thousand different dances. It’s…
The summer will be over sooner than we think. Culturally speaking — though not in terms of the weather — it’s set to end with Labor Day weekend. Everyone knows what Labor Day means in America: Halloween candy is in the stores, new episodes of The Sopranos are scheduled for…
Andenken Gallery (2110 Market Street, 303-292-3281) is hosting its Fourth Annual Summer Group Show, which is made up of works from artists represented by the gallery and by those who rent the studios on the lower level. Though Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is the new director of Andenken, she inherited this…
On Sunday, HBO will air the final episode of what has been the most consistently entertaining–and aggravating–show of the summer television season. Project Greenlight will fade to black, and the people who populated the series–the first-time screenwriter who’s had the optimism beaten out of her, the rookie directors who’ve had…
The last thing the Roman Catholic Church needs at this point is another exposé of its misdeeds. The shock of the pedophilia scandals and of the official coverups isn’t going away anytime soon, and when last we looked, the former bishop of the Phoenix Diocese was out on $45,000 bail…
Deck. Wheels. Attitude. This is the stuff of Grind, a new comedy about skateboarding and its effects on the human psyche. Neither young dawgs nor old poops will be surprised that the movie is about friendship, competition, product placement and, like, chasing one’s dreams. Yet Grind craftily sidesteps the obvious;…
Always the keen-eyed social agitator, Stanley Kubrick found in the dystopian fantasies of novelist Anthony Burgess material akin to his own bleak view of the world. In his corrosive film version of A Clockwork Orange (1971), the director let out all the stops — dramatic, visual and satirical. This is…
The Amtrak train from here to Glenwood Springs must be one of Dante’s levels of hell. Making the eight-hour trek (sorry — six, on a good day) is akin to watching paint dry. But there’s still a certain romance to rail travel that keeps me searching, whether on the Ski…
Thursday, August 21 Party on: The Mi Casa Resource Center for Women celebrates its 27th anniversary with tonight’s Fiesta 2003: Carnival!, a party featuring cool cocktails, spicy food and sizzling hot entertainment, including performances by guitarist Manuel Roybal, Miss Gay Colorado Sasha High and Extasis. The annual fundraiser for Mi…
Once Lorenzo discovered he had HIV ten years ago, after a friend suggested he should be tested for flu-like symptoms, he began coming to grips with the AIDS virus and the role it would play in his new world. “Life goes on…and it doesn’t have to be a totally negative…
FRI, 8/22 A mighty wind will be blowing in Denver this weekend at the annual summer strumming extravaganza known as the Swallow Hill Folk Festival. Music will be played continuously on two stages from 5:30 to 9 p.m. tonight and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at…
SAT, 8/23 There are plenty of myths surrounding the Old West. One of them is that, apparently, Kevin Costner lived and died in these parts many times. But one serious omission in the history of the West is the role that African-Americans played in settling it. Promoter Lu Vason was…
In the beginning, there was Spago, and it was good. If you were a 76-pound Hollywood starlet, that is. Or one of those power-lunch types. Or Harvey Weinstein. After Spago came more Spagos, and more Spagos. Then there were cookbooks, the Food Network shows, the lines of frozen foods and…
THURS, 8/21 Just outside Santiago, in the lush jungles of Guatemala, rests Lago Atitlán, a lake of crystalline waters and ancient mythical lore. The Maya believe this sacred site is the literal belly button of life and the very center of all creation. Indeed, it was the perfect inspiration for…
SAT, 8/23 Denver improv-comedy trio A.C.E. is on the move again with its fourth annual “go show,” a summer tradition of taking comedy to the streets. “It’s really fun to do a moving show, because you can be totally spontaneous,” says A.C.E. co-founder Linda Klein. The destination for today’s show…
The Denver Art Dealers Association, which uses the marvelously arty DADA for short, came up with the idea of having members present coordinated exhibits in August featuring new art and new artists. Officially known as the “Introductions” series, the idea was predicated on the fact that nothing happens in the…
Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1088) usually has a group show, but right now there’s a group of shows — a pair of solos up front and a painting quartet in the back. First up is LuCong: Figurative Realism, which is hung in the north half of Space. The…
The Paragon Theatre Company originally scheduled Michael Frayn’s Alphabetical Order as the last show of the 2002-’03 season. Instead, the company is showing a piece by David Sedaris and his sister, Amy, called The Book of Liz. I have no idea why Paragon’s plans changed, but as Hamlet so memorably…
He knows there are people, too many, who do not like him. He has to know. They’ve told him to his face–the studio executives who slice and snip the scenes he loves the most and suffer his outbursts for it, the directors he’s pushed out of the way so he…
Kevin Costner appeared in his first Western when he was thirty and looked to be in his early twenties. He was a slender, restless actor in Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado, the 1985 film in which Costner played the blithe brother of a somber Scott Glenn — all giggles and gunshots, a…
Ah, Paris: City of Light, of Love, of Liver Damage and Lung Cancer. C’est formidable, non? Who in need of a posh vacation would turn down the opportunity to luxuriate in its finest hotels, stuff themselves with sumptuous snails and work on a terribly flat romantic drama called Le Divorce?…
Every Christmas Eve, my family watches home movies from Christmases past, remembering fondly the year my brother thought he was Luke Skywalker and waved around his new light saber, or the time we built a windsurfer in the living room for my mother. But by far, everyone’s favorite is 1981’s…
