MOVIES
Still feeling a little bruised after filing your taxes? Salve your wounds by watching what happens to big-time cheaters in the terrific documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” Director Alex Gibney, working from the book of the same name, deftly tells the amazing tales of how Enron fooled stockholders, regulators, bankers, Congress and the White House. Former chief executive Jeff Skilling spends the riveting movie paddling himself way, way up De-Nile; other villains abound. It’s a vital story for understanding our economic system, and our democracy. -MICHAEL BOOTH
VISUAL ARTS
Colorado and New Mexico can lay claim to something that few other states can match – not just a movement but a distinctive, indigenous style of art with more than a 300-year history. Known today as contemporary Spanish colonial art, this predominantly religious work traces its roots to Spanish-controlled Mexico. “Santeros y Santeras: Expanding Traditions,” a free exhibition continuing through May 8, pays tribute to this appealing style and highlights some of its principal exponents. It can be seen at the Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., in Golden. Call 303-279-3922 or visit www.foothillsartcenter.org.-KYLE MACMILLAN
TELEVISION
Back-to-back episodes of “The Simpsons” (7 p.m., KDVR-Channel 31) feature guest voices Ray Romano as Homer’s new best friend and Albert Brooks as the director of a fat farm where Bart finds himself incarcerated. Amazingly, the long-running animated gem remains fresh in its 350th episode. -JOANNE OSTROW
POPULAR MUSIC
Sold-out shows abound this week – Bright Eyes/The Faint, The Killers, Jimmy Eat World/Taking Back Sunday/Mates of State, Moby and two nights of Nine Inch Nails – but here are two shows, big and small, that won’t sell out. Elton John will bring “Peachtree Road” and his vast catalog of pop standards to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday (Ticketmaster). And Kasabian, one of the new English bands riding the current Brit-wave madness, will take on the Bluebird on Wednesday (TicketWeb).-RICARDO BACA
STAGE
The ’60s musical-revue “Beehive,” a longtime hit a decade ago at the Galleria Theatre, has been brought back to life, again under the direction of Rick Seeber, at the Country Dinner Playhouse. With the exception of a harrowing “The Beat Goes On,” the show has been stripped of what political relevance it once had, but it’s an awful good time listening to a first-rate cast, including Lisa Payton, Mary Louise Lee and Sarah Rex zip through “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “One Fine Day,” “Where the Boys Are” and many more. Performances are at 7:45 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays, and 1:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays (dinner 90 minutes prior), through May 8 at 6875 S. Clinton St., Greenwood Village. Tickets $34.95-$39.95 (303-799-1410). -JOHN MOORE
CLASSICAL MUSIC
The Friends of Chamber Music will conclude its 2004-05 season with a performance by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the University of Denver’s Gates Concert Hall in the Newman Performing Arts Center, 2344 East Iliff Ave. The longtime group brings together three veteran musicians with respected individual careers. The event is sold out, but returned tickets are often available at the door for Friends’ concerts. -KYLE MACMILLAN
NIGHT LIFE
As if Nine Inch Nails fans weren’t already dark and cynical, dozens of them missed out on buying tickets to this week’s sold-out dates at the Fillmore. Leave it to the goth- and industrial-music devotees behind the long-running “Unscene” party on Sundays at Rock Island, 1614 15th St., to come to the rescue. Tonight a handful of people who turn up to hear DJs IX and MFR will win tickets to see Trent Reznor and company on Tuesday or Wednesday, along with Rasputina on Friday and Assemblage 23 on May 12. Free before 10 p.m.
– ELANA ASHANTI JEFFERSON
