MOVIES
If you once again find the summer’s blockbusters a disappointment, or not even remotely intriguing, then documentaries can be your refuge. “Wordplay” remains the most completely satisfying movie of the season, and now it is joined by “The Heart of the Game,” a continually surprising and rewarding look at a high school girls’ basketball team in Seattle. Director Ward Serrill set off to make a modest movie about a goofy, endearing coach, and wound up seven years later with a monumental saga about competition and emotion. It should be a must-see for all the girls’ sports teams warming up for the fall schedule.|Michael Booth
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Soprano Renée Fleming is, quite simply, one of the opera world’s great talents. The Aspen Music Festival is offering a rare opportunity to hear this glorious singer in recital at 6 p.m. Thursday – a concert that should not be missed. Fleming, an alumna of the festival’s school, is making her first Aspen appearance since 1993. She will perform vocal works by such composers as Henry Purcell and George Crumb, as well as selected arias. Tickets are $60. 970-925-9042 or aspenmusicfestival.com| Kyle MacMillan
STAGE
“The Wiz” was not a great choice for the Physically Handicapped Amateur Musical Actors League’s annual musical spectacular. At its best, PHAMALy takes sentimentality, cliché and “woe are we” and melts them like a wicked witch. “The Wiz” is a dated and schmaltzy pile of goo. But the creative team compensates with a lot of high-tech gadgetry, and several endearing performances make it impossible not to be duly impressed, if not awestruck. Final performances 2 p.m. today and July 30; 7:30 p.m. Monday, Friday and Saturday at the Denver Center’s Space Theatre. Tickets $28 (303-893-4100, phamaly.org, King Soopers stores). | John Moore
TELEVISION
Jack Nicholson leads a cast that includes Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand, Keanu Reeves (as a doctor!) and Amanda Peet in 2003’s Oscar-nominated “Something’s Gotta Give,” at 7 tonight on TBS. Nancy Meyers (“What Women Want”) wrote and directed this comedy about love and age that allows Nicholson and Keaton to show off.| Joanne Ostrow
VISUAL ARTS
Among this summer’s many fine art exhibitions, viewers should not overlook “Heaven and Earth,” continuing through Oct. 8 at the Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa Fe Drive. This small but significant offering draws from the Denver holdings of Jan and Frederick Mayer, who have assembled one of the top private collections of Mexican colonial art in the world. Included are works never shown publicly since their acquisition and a few that have probably never been on public view anywhere. 303-571-4401 or museo.org.|Kyle MacMillan
POPULAR MUSIC
It’s easy to dismiss the entire pop-punk genre as a played-out bastardization of something that was once legitimate. But it’s also easy to toss your pretensions and go to the Vans Warped Tour today in the parking lot of Invesco Field at Mile High, still the premiere showcase of pop-punk, and have a great time. The Warped Tour is a carnival, yes, with bikes, ‘boards and booths galore. But the organizers always do a pretty keen job with the music, as well. This year it’s all about Against Me! Gym Class Heroes, Joan Jett (yes, she’s back) and more. Doors open at 11 a.m., show’s at noon, and tickets are available via Ticketmaster.|Ricardo Baca
NIGHT LIFE
DenverMix.com, a night-life website and electronic handbook for the city’s club scene, has grown considerably since launching more than five years ago, boasting 60,000 page views per month. Now it’s sponsoring Way Back Wednesdays with the new Larimer Square club, Slim 7. Recalling the era of “cheap drinks and Cheap Trick,” the nights promise all the songs you know and love but never hear, including ’80s staples Digital Underground, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, Bon Jovi and others. Drink specials abound, and there’s no cover, but reservations are recommended. Slim 7 is located in the alley of the 1400 block between Larimer and Market streets.| John Wenzel
