Strange bedfellows: tyranny and humor
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator isn’t as transgressive as his best comedy, but it’s not laugh free, either.Sacha Baron Cohen has a genius for turning inappropriate remarks and vulgar behavior into transgressive social critiques. Daring as he is dirty,…
Wonderful programming marks the Final Season Performance of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday night, May 12, was the final performance of this season given by the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra. Throughout this season, this orchestra has truly led the way in innovative programming. They performed works which are excellent, but which no …
Pipes, Voices, and a World Premiere: The Ars Nova Singers
The renowned Ars Nova Singers will present their final season performance on Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2. If you have never heard them perform before, I would strongly suggest that you attend one of the two performances listed below in their p…
‘Dark Shadows’ casts too small a spell
It’s not exactly cursed, but this Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration is as dramatically flat as it is visually elaborate.I can’t say I was overjoyed when I first heard that Johnny Depp planned to reunite with Tim Burton for a movie in which Depp woul…
Is she savior or menace?
Losing our moorings inside a Los Angeles-based cult.Brit Marling starred in and co-wrote last year’s Another Earth, an emotionally devastating bit of sci-fi built around real human emotion, namely the guilt experienced by a young woman who caused a fat…
Great person, not a great movie
Bio-pic about a Nobel prize winner needed more interpretive spark.The Lady is a big-screen biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese leader who spent 15 years under house arrest for opposing her country’s brutal military regim…
The Colorado Chamber Players: All Schubert
Sunday evening, the well-known Colorado Chamber Players performed at Bethany Lutheran Church on East Hampden and Happy Canyon Road. This performance included guest artist Mary Artmann, a fine cellist from San Francisco. The regular members that perform…
The DYAO gives its final season performance. They are better than ever!
Sunday afternoon the Denver Young Artists Orchestra performed their last concert of the season with Guest Conductor, Adam Flatt. Maestro Flatt conducted the DYAO for seven years and certainly helped cement its reputation as an outstanding youth orchest…
