Forget about the buzz over Whatchamacallit Stadium. Ignore the pull toward The Can where the Avs will see if they can once again win the Stanley Cup. And gaze not at the melancholy of Coors Field, where the Rockies are having a rocky time of it. Now it’s the time…
The modern and contemporary department at the Denver Art Museum has essentially been on a forced retreat for the last year or so. Pushed out of the spacious Stanton rooms on the first floor in order to make room for various traveling blockbusters, the department has had to deal with…
Lisa Spivak, director of the Phillip J. Steele Gallery (6875 East Evans Avenue, 303-753-6046), has long made an art form out of getting the most from the least. You see, until a month or so ago, the Steele was little more than a corner of the lobby in the design…
The Everyman Theatre Company’s production of Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz reminds us that theater isn’t necessarily about expensive sets and whizbang lighting, lavish costumes, a full orchestra or a plush auditorium. All it takes is ingenuity, talented actors and the right words. Everyman has colonized what must once have…
Rene Balcer, like you and everyone you know, can’t stop talking about what we now refer to simply as The Attack. We may resume our lives, fall back into our routine until it again feels mundane and comforting, but sooner or later, The Attack becomes the only topic of conversation…
The cynic may notice only how Hearts in Atlantis plays like a Stephen King best-of compilation, a reheating of familiar stories and favorite themes. At times it feels so much like Stand by Me — with its nostalgic flashback tale of cherubs and bullies accompanied by sad and weary narration…
If you were to hear that Our Lady of the Assassins is one of the most genuinely shocking films you’ll ever see, what would that suggest to you? Some new level of extreme violence and explicit sex, no doubt. But that’s not what’s at play in this eerily cool melodrama…
The Denver gay-and-lesbian community will take a giant step with A Weekend in Oz, a circuit party produced by and benefiting The Center, a local gay-services nonprofit. The gathering couldn’t be timelier, says Center event director Michael Beatty. “It’s about community building together. I think we all need that in…
Just as they did in the weeks prior to his eleventy-first birthday, “the history and character of Mr. Bilbo Baggins” have again become a topic of conversation among those who pay attention to the world of Hobbits. But as September 22nd, the date of Bilbo’s birthday and that of his…
When I first got word of Soon Come: The Art of Contemporary Jamaica, a traveling group show now at Metro State’s Center for the Visual Arts in LoDo, I thought to myself: “Soon Come? Ho hum.” Rum’s what I think of when I think of Jamaica, not credible contemporary art…
There are four interesting shows going on right now at Edge Gallery, 3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173, and each is utterly distinct from the others. In the front space is I am not the same person that I was before, featuring a group of recent abstract paintings by Edgester Mark Brasuell…
The Curious Theatre Company’s Coyote on a Fence is an artful, high-minded attempt to address the issue of the death penalty. As I watched the play last Saturday, at the end of a week filled with fear and confusion, sodden with grief, it was comforting to be in a place…
On September 13, at 11:30 a.m., Bryce Zabel was to have met with USA Network executives about a miniseries he was pitching to the cable outlet. Zabel, creator of such television shows as Dark Skies and The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, had the conference on his calendar for weeks. But,…
Filmmakers don’t get any more sensitive than Paul Cox. When it comes to jerking a tear or tugging a heartstring, this Dutch-born, Australian-raised veteran is a master. Just ask anyone who saw My First Wife (1984), in which a workaholic disc jockey falls to pieces when his neglected wife has…
The beautiful little conceit at the heart of Brad Anderson’s Happy Accidents is that audiences will sit still once more for the crackpot notion of time travel — and in a movie that’s not science fiction. To his credit, and with an implied bow to Back to the Future and…
Together is the second feature from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson, whose 1998 Fucking Amal was shown in the United States two years ago under the title Show Me Love, renamed for obvious reasons. Together is an ensemble piece — a sharp, perceptive look at a Swedish commune in a suburb…
Forget Julia. The heck with Angelina Jolie. Modern-day Hollywood may boast its fair share of sculptured and big-lipped babes with personality to spare, but these girls don’t know the meaning of glamour. And if the film world is given to comic-book views, so are its actresses: Rather than appearing larger…
Capital punishment: yes or no? It’s a hot issue that’s not likely to cool down soon. But one important consideration is often missing from all the fiery dialogue, notes local director Chip Walton of the Curious Theatre Company: the human element. “It’s easy on either side to forget that you’re…
After moving three times in only two years, Hyland Mather and Malia Tata appear to have finally found a promising spot for their Andenken Gallery and Design, which combines fine-art sales with a graphics studio. Andenken originally opened in the Raven’s Nest studio complex. But despite a spectacular gallery space…
Preservationists statewide took an interest this past summer in the old Cragmor Sanitorium (seen above in its original condition) in Colorado Springs. And who could blame them? Originally built as a luxurious treatment facility for those who suffered from tuberculosis, the 1914 Spanish Colonial-style building is an important landmark. Designed…
Glengarry Glen Ross has been hailed as a blistering critique of American business practice, but in fact, it explores a very small segment of the business world, and its principals’ maneuvering takes place far below the sightlines of the genuine corporate fat cats. In contrast to the genial, glossy executives…
The Galleria at the Denver Center is a cabaret space; audience members sip or snack while, on a small stage, charming and energetic young people sing and dance for them. It’s rather like being at an Irish party, where, amid general merriment, one guest after another stands up and performs…
