Last night’s salute to actor/director Tim Robbins, who visited the Temple Buell Theater to receive the Denver Film Festival’s John Cassavetes Award, followed the Inside the Actors Studio model. The parade of clips that opened the program focused on generally loooooong sequences from the weighty likes of The Shawshank Redemption,…
Graham Reynolds (pictured) doesn’t know from niches. The composer, pianist, drummer and leader of the Golden Arm Trio works in a montage of sound that draws its influences from everywhere: garage rock, improvisational noise, free jazz, symphonic music, hip-hop beats and the pure, thin air. His most notable project of…
You never know when or where the Invisible Museum will hit, and that’s part of the charm. But there’s nothing cutesy about the quality work displayed by the faceless, roving venue. Case in point: In response to the opening of the Denver Art Museum’s more high-profile Frederic C. Hamilton wing,…
On November 13, Chad Conrad Castagana, 39, was arrested on charges related to threatening letters sent to a slew of notables, including Senator Charles Schumer, Speaker of the House to be Nancy Pelosi, gazillionaire Sumner Redstone, MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann and yukster David Letterman. According to an article in Radar,…
When Jack Grynberg breezes through the doors of the Grynberg Petroleum Company, attention must be paid. Wearing a dark-blue pinstripe suit, dark glasses and a well-traveled Stetson, an unlit cigar scissored between the fingers of one hand, he seems like a shorter, Greenwood Village-CEO version of the Lone Ranger, come…
“The British are coming, the British are coming.” The empty bottle of rotgut might have addled his other senses — but it had spared the bum’s sense of humor. From his position on the sidewalk in front of Herb’s Hideout, the four about-to-lunch ladies marching out of LoDo and up…
Despite enormous technological advances, most TV-news operations continue to use videotape, a medium that predates the Internet age by decades. But early next year, Channel 4 will leave the clunky cartridges behind once and for all. “We’re going to these new Sony cameras that shoot on disc rather than tape,”…
I have a great idea for a T-shirt, one that I feel captures the current situation in Colorado Springs, our wacky neighbor to the south. It’s a picture of Ted Haggard, the shamed former head pastor of New Life Church, on all fours — and mounted firmly behind Haggard is…
This has been a rough fall for the Mile High City. First, Denver got a nuclear smackdown in the pilot episode of Jericho — taking a rather beautiful multi-megaton hit even before the first commercial break, seen only over the horizon from the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, where the…
The New Format Small Problems I have been a Westword reader ever since I rolled into the Mile High City eight and a half years ago. I have watched your paper change and evolve, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much. I’m not a complainer or a whiner by…
It has become obvious to me that we need to have a little heart-to-heart about what we put on our feet. Because if there’s anything The Cat’s Pajamas learned from reading Seventeen as kitten, it’s never neglect your shoes. An outfit without the proper footwear is a fate worse than…
Jocular stand-up comedian Demetri Martin looks for laughs at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, November 16, two days prior to filming a one-hour special for Comedy Central; for more on the date, click here to see the item in the latest Westword. But the former staff writer for Conan O’Brien…
Al-Jazeera’s English-language channel debuted today — not that many Americans will get a chance to check it out for themselves. Right now, the best way for the average person to eyeball what’s being offered is to visit Al-Jazeera’s website. That’s because every major U.S. cable provider is currently eschewing the…
“You had a good life. You had a good job. You had a family supporting you,” Denver District Judge Christina Habas told Natalie McFarlane yesterday. “And you threw it all away.” And then she sent Natalie to prison for twenty years. As reported in “Girl Crazy,” in August 2005 Natalie…
I’ve eaten tandoori while driving and samosa in bed. I’ve made entire meals of naan and puri and yogurt. During a brief stint as an unwilling vegetarian (I did it for a girl, mostly because the only thing on earth better than pork is pussy, and I had to give…
These days, plenty of stations use graphics displayed at the bottom of TV screens during entertainment programs to convince viewers that it’s worth sticking around for their late evening newscasts. But few of these pitches are as desperate as the one Channel 2 tossed during last night’s episode of Everybody…
Sometimes the art and fashion worlds collide — and they smacked together quite beautifully last Friday night at the Lower Highlands Fashion Show. Without even realizing it, Mona Lucero — namesake of the Mona Lucero boutique at 2544 15th Street and organizer of the show — presented a take on…
A pair of events included in Saturday’s Denver Film Festival slate ran the qualitative gamut. Things started on a positive note with a tribute to Vilmos Zsigmond, 76, a Hungary-born cinematographer who made some of the most visually distinctive American films of the 1970s, and is still active today. (Don’t…
Had former New Life Church head man Ted Haggard driven along the southern stretch of University Boulevard anytime yesterday, it’s likely he would have felt a burning sensation — in his ears — while passing Calvary Temple. The church was one of the earliest and most successful to venture into…
Alert: While in search of culottes (see below) be sure to hit Mona Lucero’s fashion show happening tonight, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at her boutique, Mona Lucero, 2544 15th Street. Cat loves her place and her beautiful-but-accessible pieces. She can’t wait to see what’s going down the catwalk tonight…
No, Cat has not been napping. But what with the election and the four hours and three voting lines she stood in this week, she hasn’t been feeling all that perky and fashionable. Cat thought about sending in a front-line report of the sartorial style at St. Charles Rec Center…
An air of anticipation hung over opening night at the 29th annual Denver Film Festival, which got under way on Thursday at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Plenty of happy socialites were in attendance, clad in the sort of costumes that are seemingly de rigueur at such events; women favored…
