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5280.com | Best Bets Our picks for arts, entertainment, and more. 6 Stage Performances to See NowWednesday, March 10, 2010The House of Yes, Bug Theatre Jackie-O, an unbalanced young woman obsessed with the real Jackie Kennedy Onassis, goes over the edge when her brother arrives home for the holidays with a surprise guest—his fiancée. Turns out, the siblings’ relationship is more affectionate than most. This play inspired the 1997 cult-classic film of the same name. More: The Goodbye People | Mary Poppins | Postville | The Enlightenment | Thumbelina
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer How Local Filmmakers Fared at the OscarsMonday, March 8, 2010Two films with Boulder connections bagged Oscars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards last night. Although the film “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” which was co-produced by Boulder native Sarah Siegel-Magness and her husband Gary Magness, failed to reap best picture, Boulder-based photographer Louie Psihoyos’ film “The Cove” won the Oscar for best documentary. “We’ve had great success with Boulder rallying around these two movies,” Megan Siegel Jansen, Siegel-Magness’ sister, tells the Daily Camera. “We’re just really proud.” While “The Hurt Locker” took the best picture award, “Precious” won two of six possible awards, including best supporting actress (Mo’Nique) and best adapted screenplay (by Geoffrey Fletcher). Denver filmmaker Daniel Junge and his former Just Media partner, Henry Ansbacher, were also up for best documentary short with “The Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” but they lost out to “Music by Prudence.” Meanwhile, musical celebrities are once again gracing the stage of the remodeled 1st Bank Center (formerly the Broomfield Events Center), notes The Denver Post, which reviews Friday night’s performance by Further, a band comprised of former Grateful Dead members.
Posted at 10:06 am by Michael de Yoanna This Week’s Best Film BetsFriday, March 5, 2010Red Riding Trilogy, Starz FilmCenter The true-life terror wrought by England’s “Yorkshire Ripper” could easily become fodder for cliché horror directors. But in the hands of three award-winning independent filmmakers (each one responsible for a different piece of the trilogy), the story is instead given a “neo-noir” treatment that examines the psyche of a community rather than a killer. More: Party With Oscar | Women Avant-Garde Filmmakers Screening
Posted at 9:30 am by Vanessa Martinez How High Is the Royal Gorge Bridge?Thursday, March 4, 2010
“‘Awe’ doesn’t begin to describe what you’ll feel when walking or driving across the Royal Gorge Bridge, the highest suspension bridge in the world and an unforgettable quarter-mile journey through the clouds,” reads the official Royal Gorge Web site. Unfortunately, Cañon City’s famed suspension bridge hasn’t been the highest in the world since 2003, according to calculations by an Arizona man armed with a laser range-finder and a lot of time. Moreover, the bridge, built in 1929 to span the Arkansas River as a tourist destination, apparently isn’t 1,053 feet above water either, as has long been advertised. It’s 955 feet, Eric Sakowski tells the Colorado Springs Gazette. Suspension bridges in China today rise higher from the ground, including the current world champ at 1,550 feet over China’s Siduhe River (via Sakowski’s site, HighestBridges). Royal Gorge officials measured the bridge after hearing about Sakowski’s findings and came up with a new number themselves: 969 feet to the water. The 1,053-foot claim probably resulted from measuring to the top of the bridge’s towers, explains a spokeswoman who says there are no plans to take down the “highest bridge” advertisements, although she can “imagine we can still call ourselves the highest suspension bridge in America, and North America, and one of the highest in the world.” Sakowski predicts a bridge in Mexico, when completed in 2012, will reach 1,280 feet into the sky, making it the highest on the continent, reports The Arizona Republic.
Posted at 3:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna This Week’s Best Cultural BetsThursday, March 4, 2010BaoBao Festival, Multiple Locations The Baobao tree has served as a gathering place for the people of Ghana for generations. Experience the African tradition for yourself during the seventh-annual BaoBao Festival with West African dancing (performed by former members of the Ghana National Dance Ensemble), drumming, music, and storytelling. The three-day soiree will hit Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs. More: Dave Eggers | Reza Aslan
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer Tonight’s Best Music Bet: Los Lonely BoysMonday, March 1, 2010Los Lonely Boys, Boulder Theater Chicano rockers Los Lonely Boys are known for marrying blazing, classic-rock-inspired guitar heroics with body-quaking Latin rhythms. On this tour—with first-wave punk turned singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo—the Lonely Boys are playing acoustic renditions of songs from their latest EP, 1969, which features covers of hippie heroes like The Doors and Santana. Tomorrow Night: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Posted at 9:30 am by Elliott Johnston Springs Advertising Company Censors Avenue QWednesday, February 24, 2010
“We were in the process of putting it on the presses when one of the top execs saw it and said, ‘I don’t think it’s appropriate for the Colorado Springs market,’” Kristy Maple, marketing director for New Space Entertainment, which produces the Broadway show in the Colorado Springs series, tells the Gazette. As Lamar’s Jeff Moore confirms, “I just know in this market, we prefer to walk a little more conservatively.” The risque show bills itself as “60 percent adult situations and 40 percent foam rubber,” writes the Los Angeles Times, featuring the adventures of both humans and puppets in New York. Westword chimes in, “Thank goodness Lamar Advertising is safeguarding the morality of Colorado Springs residents. Otherwise, chaste locals might be caught in the embarrassing situation of sprouting an erection caused by a puppet.”
Posted at 12:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna Four Performances to See NowMonday, February 22, 2010
Agnes and Peter meet in a rundown hotel room outside Oklahoma City. As they bond between hits from a crack pipe, their paranoia (and love) intensifies. But is someone—or something—out to get them? This acclaimed psycho-thriller exposes the gritty side of love, as experienced by two people at rock bottom. Mature audiences only (17+). More: Beauty and the Beast | Zora | Chicago
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer This Weekend’s Best Music BetsFriday, February 19, 2010Mid-Winter Bluegrass Festival, Ramada Plaza Denver North While most of Colorado’s banjo-pickin’ fairs are held in the sweltering heat of summer, the Mid-winter Bluegrass Fest has helped stave off the cold season’s blues for 25 years. This year, the three-day party features plenty of home-state talent in addition to touring headliners the Lonesome River Band, The Lost and Found, and April Verch Band. More: Young Coyotes | Laura Goldhamer and the Silver Nail | Joe Pug | Galactic
Posted at 9:30 am by Elliott Johnston Tonight’s Best Culinary BetsTuesday, February 16, 201027th Annual Great Chefs of the West, EXDO Event Center Sixteen of the region’s finest chefs prepare a smorgasbord of hors d’oeuvres, entrées, and desserts, while celebrity judges determine the best appetizer, entrée, dessert, and restaurant. Proceeds benefit the National Kidney Foundation, serving Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. More: Beads, Beignets & Babies
Posted at 9:30 am by Emily Dougherty Two Great Reasons to Get Outside This Valentine’s Day WeekendFriday, February 12, 2010Valentine’s Day Celebration, Colorado Wolf & Wildlife Center Get wild this Valentine’s Day with wolves, coyotes, and foxes. Set off on a short trek down Chinook’s nature trail while listening to “The Lovers,” a tale of two rescued wolves, Chinook and Nikita, who became an inseparable pair for 14 years. Hot chocolate, spiced apple cider, and a love-inspired dessert await you at the end. More: I (heart) Cruisers
Posted at 1:30 pm by Daliah Singer This Week’s Best Music BetsFriday, February 12, 2010St. Vincent, Bluebird Theater Honey-voiced Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) finds an absorbing tension between witty sophistication and raw emotion, between carefully crafted, orchestral indie pop and thorny rock ‘n’ roll. Come see why Clark’s towering musical chops and endearing stage presence are creating a burgeoning, smitten following. More: Les Claypool | Eyedea & Abilities | Gov’t Mule St. Vincent “The Strangers” from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.
Posted at 9:30 am by Elliott Johnston This Week’s Best Film BetsThursday, February 11, 2010
From the many selections at this year’s festival, don’t miss Academy Award nominees Ajami and The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Another highlight: Alec Baldwin will be honored with BIFF’s Award of Excellence in Acting on the festival’s closing night. More: Harmony and Me | Skin | North Face | Police, Adjective
Posted at 9:30 am by Emily Dougherty Tonight’s Best BetMonday, February 8, 2010Béla Fleck and the Africa Project, Boulder Theater Banjo master Béla Fleck explores his instrument’s African roots in the documentary film and soundtrack Throw Down Your Heart. Witness Fleck continue his musical journey onstage as he picks along with some of Africa’s finest musicians.
Posted at 9:30 am by Elliott Johnston 4 Films to See This WeekendFriday, February 5, 2010Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress, Hyatt Regency Denver In the midst of the 2010 Colorado Preservation Inc. Saving Places Conference, and on the brink of the 207th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, celebrate the legacy of Denver and the past and future of Union Station as a transit hub with the premiere of Jim Havey’s Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress. Proceeds will be used to distribute the film to public schools and libraries across Colorado. More: Mine | North Face | Storm Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress – USA Trailer from Havey Productions on Vimeo.
Posted at 9:30 am by Emily Dougherty This Week’s Best Theater BetsThursday, February 4, 2010Conviction Benefit Performance, Theatre O, Boulder Madrid, 1960s. An Israeli scholar is interrogated by a Spanish officer for pinching a confidential Inquisition file. But both are drawn to the tale they discover inside: A doomed romance between a converted Spanish priest and his Jewish wife. This play about history, love, religion, and identity is brought to life by Boulder’s newest theater. Help them raise needed funds while enjoying wine, dessert, and a talk-back. More: The Barber of Seville | The Foreigner | The King and I | Special Performance: Colorado Ballet’s Beauty & the Beast
Posted at 9:45 am by Daliah Singer A Look at Colorado’s Proud Oscar NomineesWednesday, February 3, 2010Come Oscar night (March 7), Colorado—”Holy cow, Colorado!” as producer Sarah Siegel-Magness tells The Denver Post—will have a stake in several awards. Siegel-Magness and her husband, Gary Magness, will lead the way with their powerful effort, Precious, which has nabbed several Academy Award nominations, including one for best picture. A similar sentiment was expressed by Denver filmmaker Daniel Junge after learning he and former Just Media partner Henry Ansbacher have been nominated for their documentary short The Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner. In an e-mail Junge sent me yesterday, he simply writes, “It’s truly surreal.” Documentary director Louie Psihoyos of Boulder is also nominated for The Cove (trailer below). The locals are in good company amid names like George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, James Cameron, and Kathryn Bigelow. Precious—the story of a girl facing abuse at the hands of her parents as she struggles with illiteracy—is leading the charge for Colorado-based artists. It was not filmed in the state, but the film has also received notable nominations for best actress (Gabourey Sidibe), best supporting actress (Mo’Nique), directing (Lee Daniels), and adapted screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher), notes the Denver Business Journal.
Posted at 10:30 am by Michael de Yoanna 7 Performances to See This WeekendFriday, January 29, 2010Eventide, Stage Theatre This sequel to Plainsong—the popular play based on Kent Haruf’s novel about intersecting lives in small-town Holt, Colorado—continues the story several years later. Life on the Eastern Plains comes vividly alive as both familiar and new characters weave in and out of each others’ narratives. More: A Man for All Seasons | MOMIX | Legally Blonde | The World Is Mine | Barefoot in the Park | A Picasso
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer This Week’s Best Outdoors BetsThursday, January 28, 2010
Catch exceptional snowboarders, skiers, and snowmobilers as they throw their biggest tricks, attend mad parties, and have a grand time in this run-up event to the Vancouver Olympics. Can Shaun White defend his historic, back-to-back superpipe golds? Be sure to hoot and holler for hometown heroes like JJ Thomas and Gretchen Bleiler (right). More: Vail Gay Ski Week | Full Moon Snowshoe Tour | Governor’s Cup | Burton AM Series and Super Demo Tour
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer 6 Stage Performances to See NowTuesday, January 26, 2010Pilobolus, Newman Center for the Performing Arts Bodies merge then detach. Shapes develop then break apart. The athletic, über-flexible dancers of this Connecticut-based group promise a mind-bending show that’s sure to transform your ideas of what dance is—and what it can be. More: Sweeney Todd | The Phantom Tollbooth | New Shanghai Circus | When Tang Met Laika | Legends
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