Westword July 29, 2010 : Page 27
Night+Day continued from page 26 Haim and Feldman, co-starred in the 1987 blockbuster, the story of the new kid in town who winds up taking on the local vampire population with nothing but wits, guts, good friends, and a little technique called “death by stereo.” Perfectly suited to the ’80s but in no way reliant on nostalgia, The Lost Boysis one of the few teen movies that havetranscended the decade, and in doing so influenced everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayerto today’scur-rent hormonal-bloodsucker trend. Twilight, eat your heart out. The Denver Film Society presents Film on the Rocks: The Lost Boys — with pre-movie music by Denver’s aptly dark and sinuous indie-rock sensation Snake Rattle Rattle Snake — tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Red Rocks Amphi-theatre.Admission is $10; $60 gets you a Party Bus package that includes dinner, drinks, transportation and VIP seating. For tickets and info, call 303-595-3456 or visit denverfilm.org. — JASONHELLER [FILM FESTIVAL] DENNIS HOPPER, REVISITED A major exhalation of grief rippled through the fi lm world on the day that Dennis Hop-per died, and it must have been because he was a rebel, a troubled one molded by the infl uence of classic anti-hero James Dean. On screen, he fascinated people, and it was a characteristically crooked look in his eye that gave life to so many of his roles, from the maverick stoner Billy in Easy Rider (which he also directed) to the alcoholic coach in Hoosiers or the gas-sucking psychopath of Blue Velvet, a permanently skewed gaze that was just part of the package. With that in mind, choosing to memorialize the counterculture symbol with a month-long series is a no-brainer for the Denver Film Society, which will host Hopper, a mini-fest featuring five of his best fi lms, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in August. Hopper will don Billy’s buckskins and straddle that big hog one more time when the series begins tonight at 7 p.m. at Starz FilmCenter with a screening of EasyRider, an era-defi ning landmark work that broke tradition with Hopper’snaturalistic, impro-visational direction, sweeping vistas and profound performances. In the following weeks, come back to see Colors, Hoosiers, River’sEdgeand Blue Velvet.Starz is in the Tivoli building on the Auraria campus; visit www.denverfi lm.org for information. — SUSAN FROYD WEDNESDAY|8.4 [PERFORMANCE] ADVANCED IMPROV Denver actor/comedian/poet Matt Zam-brano is the free spirit behind 10 x 10: De-viations on aTheme, a new variation on the open-mike concept that began two weeks ago at BINDERY | space, 770 22nd Street, home of the Lida Project and other left-of-kilter visiting performance groups. But in the hope of setting it apart from other open-mike events in town, such as the Bug’s Freak Train, Zambrano and Lida’s Julie Rada determined | that this one would be themed and would feature ten performers or teams — some invited and some who sign up on a lark — for ten minutes each session. “The idea is to let people who’ve given a lot to us artistically a chance to take a night and run with it, but we want it to happen in a more controlled way,” Rada says. “The goal is to be as ‘cross-genrefi ed’ as possible, with more of a cross-section of artists in the Denver area coming in to hang out, have some beers and share some work.” That, she adds, might include poetry, visual art, fi lm or other disciplines. For a sense of where things might go in the coming months, the inaugural theme was “Sex, Drugs and Bossa Nova”; tonight’s is an ambiguous “Undercover.” “The per-formers can interpret that however they like,” notes Rada. “It could be about what happens in the shadows and underneath things. Or it could be more of a film noir thing — detective novels, Mickey Spillane, those sorts of things. Itcould be about cover tunes or cover artists.” The only way to fi nd out, of course, is to be there when the cabaret-style fun starts at 8 p.m. 10 X 10 runs the fi rst and third Wednesday of the month at Bindery; admission is $5 at the door, and performer sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. See http://www.facebook.com/ event.php?eid=141699725841313 for details. — SUSAN FROYD [ART EXHIBIT] PERSONAL VISIONS Judy Hagler, owner of Translations Gallery in LoDo, has made a specialty of present-ing contemporary work byartists active in the Western U.S. The venue’s new shows, which open tonight, pairs an Arizona artist with a Colorado one. The former is Sandhi Schimmel Gold, made up of portraits con-structed from cut-up scraps of junk mail, and the latter is Laura Carpenter, which comprises abstracted landscapes done in oil and glazes. “We chose to exhibit both of these artists together because their personalities shine through their artwork,” says Hagler. “San-dhi’s approach to the contemporary portrait is truly unique, with a combination of paint-ing and mosaic tiles from recycled materials, while Laura is a talented emerging artist who captures the Colorado landscape with a unique style and color.” Translations has shown Gold’s pieces before,but this is Carpenter’sfi rst outing in Denver.An emerging artist, she is currently fi nishing up her MFA at Colorado State University. Both Gold and Carpenter will be in attendance at the opening reception on Friday, August 6, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Translations, 1743 Wazee Street; both shows run through August 31. For details, go to www.translationsgallery.com or call 303-629-0713. — MICHAELPAGLIA For daily updates on Denver’s arts and culture scene, see Show and Tell, our new blog at www.westword.com. To be considered for Night & Day, information must reach us three weeks before the event; send material to 969 Broadway, Denver CO 80203, fax to 303-296-5416, or e-mail to editorial@westword.com. 20% OFF ALL C.A.P. CONTROLLERS FRIDAY, JULY 30 ONLY! C.A.P. and Nutrifi eld reps will be present at Boulder store in the a.m. and Denver store in the afternoon. Drawing to win a C.A.P. Controller or Digilux Bulb. ($100 purchase req to participate in drawing) Denver 303-650-0091 6810 N Broadway Unit D 303-415-0045 1630 N 63rd Unit 5 “A Bit Of Brigadoon In Your Own Back Yard” The New Colorado Scottish Festival featuring Seven Nations Celtic Rock Sat. Aug 14 • 9-10pm & Sun. Aug 15 • 9-5pm Highland Heritage Park Highlands Ranch Adults: Saturday $17/day, $30/2days Seniors (60+) & Children (7-12): $12/day, $20/2days Children 6 & under: Free Group discounts available Free parking with shuttle bus service to field Discount tickets available online www.scottishgames.org For information call: 303-238-6524 +Day continued from page 26 Haim and Feldman, co-starred in the 1987 blockbuster, the story of the new kid in town who winds up taking on the local vampire population with nothing but wits, guts, good friends, and a little technique called “death by stereo.” Perfectly suited to the ’80s but in no way reliant on nostalgia, The Lost Boysis one of the few teen movies that havetranscended the decade, and in doing so influenced everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayerto today’scur-rent hormonal-bloodsucker trend. Twilight, eat your heart out. The Denver Film Society presents Film on the Rocks: The Lost Boys — with pre-movie music by Denver’s aptly dark and sinuous indie-rock sensation Snake Rattle Rattle Snake — tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Red Rocks Amphi-theatre.Admission is $10; $60 gets you a Party Bus package that includes dinner, drinks, transportation and VIP seating. For tickets and info, call 303-595-3456 or visit denverfilm.org. — JASONHELLER [FILM FESTIVAL] DENNIS HOPPER, REVISITED A major exhalation of grief rippled through the fi lm world on the day that Dennis Hop-per died, and it must have been because he was a rebel, a troubled one molded by the infl uence of classic anti-hero James Dean. On screen, he fascinated people, and it was a characteristically crooked look in his eye that gave life to so many of his roles, from the maverick stoner Billy in Easy Rider (which he also directed) to the alcoholic coach in Hoosiers or the gas-sucking psychopath of Blue Velvet, a permanently skewed gaze that was just part of the package. With that in mind, choosing to memorialize the counterculture symbol with a month-long series is a no-brainer for the Denver Film Society, which will host Hopper, a mini-fest featuring five of his best fi lms, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in August. Hopper will don Billy’s buckskins and straddle that big hog one more time when the series begins tonight at 7 p.m. at Starz FilmCenter with a screening of EasyRider, an era-defi ning landmark work that broke tradition with Hopper’snaturalistic, impro-visational direction, sweeping vistas and profound performances. In the following weeks, come back to see Colors, Hoosiers, River’sEdgeand Blue Velvet.Starz is in the Tivoli building on the Auraria campus; visit www.denverfi lm.org for information. — SUSAN FROYD WEDNESDAY|8.4 [PERFORMANCE] ADVANCED IMPROV Denver actor/comedian/poet Matt Zam-brano is the free spirit behind 10 x 10: De-viations on aTheme, a new variation on the open-mike concept that began two weeks ago at BINDERY | space, 770 22nd Street, home of the Lida Project and other left-of-kilter visiting performance groups. But in the hope of setting it apart from other open-mike events in town, such as the Bug’s Freak Train, Zambrano and Lida’s Julie Rada determined | that this one would be themed and would feature ten performers or teams — some invited and some who sign up on a lark — for ten minutes each session. “The idea is to let people who’ve given a lot to us artistically a chance to take a night and run with it, but we want it to happen in a more controlled way,” Rada says. “The goal is to be as ‘cross-genrefi ed’ as possible, with more of a cross-section of artists in the Denver area coming in to hang out, have some beers and share some work.” That, she adds, might include poetry, visual art, fi lm or other disciplines. For a sense of where things might go in the coming months, the inaugural theme was “Sex, Drugs and Bossa Nova”; tonight’s is an ambiguous “Undercover.” “The per-formers can interpret that however they like,” notes Rada. “It could be about what happens in the shadows and underneath things. Or it could be more of a film noir thing — detective novels, Mickey Spillane, those sorts of things. Itcould be about cover tunes or cover artists.” The only way to fi nd out, of course, is to be there when the cabaret-style fun starts at 8 p.m. 10 X 10 runs the fi rst and third Wednesday of the month at Bindery; admission is $5 at the door, and performer sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. See http://www.facebook.com/ event.php?eid=141699725841313 for details. — SUSAN FROYD [ART EXHIBIT] PERSONAL VISIONS Judy Hagler, owner of Translations Gallery in LoDo, has made a specialty of present-ing contemporary work byartists active in the Western U.S. The venue’s new shows, which open tonight, pairs an Arizona artist with a Colorado one. The former is Sandhi Schimmel Gold, made up of portraits con-structed from cut-up scraps of junk mail, and the latter is Laura Carpenter, which comprises abstracted landscapes done in oil and glazes. “We chose to exhibit both of these artists together because their personalities shine through their artwork,” says Hagler. “San-dhi’s approach to the contemporary portrait is truly unique, with a combination of paint-ing and mosaic tiles from recycled materials, while Laura is a talented emerging artist who captures the Colorado landscape with a unique style and color.” Translations has shown Gold’s pieces before,but this is Carpenter’sfi rst outing in Denver.An emerging artist, she is currently fi nishing up her MFA at Colorado State University. Both Gold and Carpenter will be in attendance at the opening reception on Friday, August 6, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Translations, 1743 Wazee Street; both shows run through August 31. For details, go to www.translationsgallery.com or call 303-629-0713. — MICHAELPAGLIA For daily updates on Denver’s arts and culture scene, see Show and Tell, our new blog at www.westword.com. To be considered for Night & Day, information must reach us three weeks before the event; send material to 969 Broadway, Denver CO 80203, fax to 303-296-5416, or e-mail to editorial@westword.com. 20% OFF ALL C.A.P. CONTROLLERS FRIDAY, JULY 30 ONLY! C.A.P. and Nutrifi eld reps will be present at Boulder store in the a.m. and Denver store in the afternoon. Drawing to win a C.A.P. Controller or Digilux Bulb. ($100 purchase req to participate in drawing) Denver 303-650-0091 6810 N Broadway Unit D 303-415-0045 1630 N 63rd Unit 5 “A Bit Of Brigadoon In Your Own Back Yard” The New Colorado Scottish Festival featuring Seven Nations Celtic Rock Sat. Aug 14 • 9-10pm & Sun. Aug 15 • 9-5pm Highland Heritage Park Highlands Ranch Adults: Saturday $17/day, $30/2days Seniors (60+) & Children (7-12): $12/day, $20/2days Children 6 & under: Free Group discounts available Free parking with shuttle bus service to field Discount tickets available online www.scottishgames.org For information call: 303-238-6524 ADIUM ADIUM 12 ADIUM 12 Boulder ight+Day continued ght+Day continued from page 26 Haim and Feldman, co-starred in the 1987 blockbuster, the story of the new kid in town who winds up taking on the local vampire population with nothing but wits, guts, good friends, and a little technique called “death by stereo.” Perfectly suited to the ’80s but in no way reliant on nostalgia, The Lost Boysis one of the few teen movies that havetranscended the decade, and in doing so influenced everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayerto today’scur-rent hormonal-bloodsucker trend. Twilight, eat your heart out. The Denver Film Society presents Film on the Rocks: The Lost Boys — with pre-movie music by Denver’s aptly dark and sinuous indie-rock sensation Snake Rattle Rattle Snake — tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Red Rocks Amphi-theatre.Admission is $10; $60 gets you a Party Bus package that includes dinner, drinks, transportation and VIP seating. For tickets and info, call 303-595-3456 or visit denverfilm.org. — JASONHELLER [FILM FESTIVAL] DENNIS HOPPER, REVISITED A major exhalation of grief rippled through the fi lm world on the day that Dennis Hop-per died, and it must have been because he was a rebel, a troubled one molded by the infl uence of classic anti-hero James Dean. On screen, he fascinated people, and it was a characteristically crooked look in his eye that gave life to so many of his roles, from the maverick stoner Billy in Easy Rider (which he also directed) to the alcoholic coach in Hoosiers or the gas-sucking psychopath of Blue Velvet, a permanently skewed gaze that was just part of the package. With that in mind, choosing to memorialize the counterculture symbol with a month-long series is a no-brainer for the Denver Film Society, which will host Hopper, a mini-fest featuring five of his best fi lms, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in August. Hopper will don Billy’s buckskins and straddle that big hog one more time when the series begins tonight at 7 p.m. at Starz FilmCenter with a screening of EasyRider, an era-defi ning landmark work that broke tradition with Hopper’snaturalistic, impro-visational direction, sweeping vistas and profound performances. In the following weeks, come back to see Colors, Hoosiers, River’sEdgeand Blue Velvet.Starz is in the Tivoli building on the Auraria campus; visit www.denverfi lm.org for information. — SUSAN FROYD WEDNESDAY|8.4 [PERFORMANCE] ADVANCED IMPROV Denver actor/comedian/poet Matt Zam-brano is the free spirit behind 10 x 10: De-viations on aTheme, a new variation on the open-mike concept that began two weeks ago at BINDERY | space, 770 22nd Street, home of the Lida Project and other left-of-kilter visiting performance groups. But in the hope of setting it apart from other open-mike events in town, such as the Bug’s Freak Train, Zambrano and Lida’s Julie Rada determined | that this one would be themed and would feature ten performers or teams — some invited and some who sign up on a lark — for ten minutes each session. “The idea is to let people who’ve given a lot to us artistically a chance to take a night and run with it, but we want it to happen in a more controlled way,” Rada says. “The goal is to be as ‘cross-genrefi ed’ as possible, with more of a cross-section of artists in the Denver area coming in to hang out, have some beers and share some work.” That, she adds, might include poetry, visual art, fi lm or other disciplines. For a sense of where things might go in the coming months, the inaugural theme was “Sex, Drugs and Bossa Nova”; tonight’s is an ambiguous “Undercover.” “The per-formers can interpret that however they like,” notes Rada. “It could be about what happens in the shadows and underneath things. Or it could be more of a film noir thing — detective novels, Mickey Spillane, those sorts of things. Itcould be about cover tunes or cover artists.” The only way to fi nd out, of course, is to be there when the cabaret-style fun starts at 8 p.m. 10 X 10 runs the fi rst and third Wednesday of the month at Bindery; admission is $5 at the door, and performer sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. See http://www.facebook.com/ event.php?eid=141699725841313 for details. — SUSAN FROYD [ART EXHIBIT] PERSONAL VISIONS Judy Hagler, owner of Translations Gallery in LoDo, has made a specialty of present-ing contemporary work byartists active in the Western U.S. The venue’s new shows, which open tonight, pairs an Arizona artist with a Colorado one. The former is Sandhi Schimmel Gold, made up of portraits con-structed from cut-up scraps of junk mail, and the latter is Laura Carpenter, which comprises abstracted landscapes done in oil and glazes. “We chose to exhibit both of these artists together because their personalities shine through their artwork,” says Hagler. “San-dhi’s approach to the contemporary portrait is truly unique, with a combination of paint-ing and mosaic tiles from recycled materials, while Laura is a talented emerging artist who captures the Colorado landscape with a unique style and color.” Translations has shown Gold’s pieces before,but this is Carpenter’sfi rst outing in Denver.An emerging artist, she is currently fi nishing up her MFA at Colorado State University. Both Gold and Carpenter will be in attendance at the opening reception on Friday, August 6, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Translations, 1743 Wazee Street; both shows run through August 31. For details, go to www.translationsgallery.com or call 303-629-0713. — MICHAELPAGLIA For daily updates on Denver’s arts and culture scene, see Show and Tell, our new blog at www.westword.com. To be considered for Night & Day, information must reach us three weeks before the event; send material to 969 Broadway, Denver CO 80203, fax to 303-296-5416, or e-mail to editorial@westword.com. 20% OFF ALL C.A.P. CONTROLLERS FRIDAY, JULY 30 ONLY! C.A.P. and Nutrifi eld reps will be present at Boulder store in the a.m. and Denver store in the afternoon. Drawing to win a C.A.P. Controller or Digilux Bulb. ($100 purchase req to participate in drawing) Denver 303-650-0091 6810 N Broadway Unit D 303-415-0045 1630 N 63rd Unit 5 “A Bit Of Brigadoon In Your Own Back Yard” The New Colorado Scottish Festival featuring Seven Nations Celtic Rock Sat. Aug 14 • 9-10pm & Sun. Aug 15 • 9-5pm Highland Heritage Park Highlands Ranch Adults: Saturday $17/day, $30/2days Seniors (60+) & Children (7-12): $12/day, $20/2days Children 6 & under: Free Group discounts available Free parking with shuttle bus service to field Discount tickets available online www.scottishgames.org For information call: 303-238-6524 ADIUM 12 ADIUM 12 Boulder 27 27 westword.com | WORST-CASE SCENARIO | CONTENTS | LETTERS | ¡ASK A MEXICAN! | OFF LIMITS | CITY LIMITS | NIGHT+DAY | MOVIES | THEATER | ART | CAFE | BACKBEAT | WESTWORD JULY29-AUGUST4, 2010 Seven Nations Celtic Rock! In concert: Saturday 8-10pm
