MOVIES
We’ll be honest: It wasn’t a great week for new movies. But there is often good material to be found even in flawed films, and Nicole Holofcener’s “Friends With Money” (at the Chez Artiste) is the kind of dark ensemble comedy that hangs with you longer than you expect when you first leave the theater. Jennifer Aniston plays an overeducated, undermotivated woman in Los Angeles who has taken to cleaning houses to make money. Meanwhile, her college friends have moved on to families, careers and inheritances, though not always accompanied by happiness. Holofcener has a great ear for modern manners – good and bad – and a poignant closing scene makes the whole movie linger in memory.| Michael Booth
POPULAR MUSIC
If you listened to rock radio (think KBPI) in the mid- to late ’90s, and you haven’t let go of some of those acts that defined that generation, this is your kind of week for live music. Rob Zombie, who plays Monday night at the Fillmore, will bring out his pop-circus-metal that made his old group, White Zombie, so incredibly popular. And Kid Rock, who will own the Lecture Hall at the Colorado Convention Center on Thursday night, will tear up the stage in honor of his new live record, “Live Trucker,” which serves as a career retrospective of sorts for the Detroit rap-rocker-crooner. | Ricardo Baca
VISUAL ARTS
Weilworks is marking National Poetry Month in an imaginative and thought-provoking way. The gallery, at 3611 Chestnut Place, invited 21 artists to create interpretations of “The Making of Dust,” a poem by Denver poet Drew Myron. Most of the participants are from Colorado and New Mexico but a few live elsewhere, including one from the Netherlands. An opening reception is set for 6-9 p.m. Friday, and the exhibition will run through May 13. 303-308-9345 or weilworks.com.|Kyle MacMillan
TELEVISION
On the National Geographic Channel, “The Great Quake,” a special about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, gets repeated showings (6, 8 and 10 tonight) on digital cable channel 273. Also at 6 p.m., on KUSA-Channel 9, NBC’s “Dateline” interviews Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali about living with Parkinson’s disease. | Joanne Ostrow
STAGE
Lillian Goag’s “The Ladies of the Camellias” imagines an 1897 day when competitive stage divas Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse meet – and are promptly taken hostage. Final performances by the Denver Center Theatre Company at 6:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Fridays, 1:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets. Tickets $35-$45 (303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org).| John Moore
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Xian Zhang was appointed associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic last year, and her first collaboration with the orchestra came during its appearance last summer at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. She returns to Colorado this week to guest conduct the Colorado Symphony in two Russian favorites: “Pictures at an Exhibition” and “Scheherazade.” Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. April 23. Tickets are $15-$65. 303-623-7876 or coloradosymphony.org.| Kyle MacMillan
DANCE
Attending a student concert can be a crapshoot, especially when it deals with a nuanced art form like dance, but CU-Boulder’s 2006 Student Dance Concert promises a diverse set of pieces from a group of passionate, aspiring dancers. Ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, dramatic and comedic narratives – all forms will be represented. The 12 pieces, choreographed by both faculty and students, run Thursday through April 23 at the Charlotte York Irey Theatre on CU’s campus. For tickets call the box office at 303-492-8181 or visit cutheatre.org.| John Wenzel
