WEEKEND LIVE!
“Bucket n Slide Rock n Roll”
Junk-box blues. “After Two But Before Five” is the latest album from the Portland, Ore., band Hillstomp, which plays 3 Kings Tavern tonight with Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. Their rowdy live show incorporates vintage mics, buckets and cans. $10-$12. .
Graphic design for our times
California cool. Rex Ray is a San Francisco collage artist whose Denver exhibit opens this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Ray’s eclectic work fuses “lowbrow” art and pop culture with fine and applied art. Admission is $5-$10. .
AT THE MOVIES
Cool kid flick
Take me to your leader. Disney’s resurrection of the sci-fi adventure “Race to Witch Mountain” features Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and two wholesome-looking aliens facing off against the government, gangsters and an extraterrestrial bounty hunter. If they don’t win, planet Earth sizzles. Rated PG. Visit . for theaters.
Cinemantic state
“Ink,” filmed entirely in Colorado, is the story of a man and his daughter as they battle their way through a strange, fantastic dream world. “On Golden Pond” it ain’t, but it is being hailed as the new “it” movie. Showing at Starz FilmCenter. Not rated. .
HOMEBODIES
Worth a second screening
Got “Milk”? Whether or not you appreciate Sean Penn’s notorious bad-boy antics, rent “Milk,” out now on DVD. The film is a stylish portrait of Harvey Milk, the nation’s first openly gay male elected official and a lightning rod in the gay rights movement. Rated R.
Pass the Vegemite, mate
Get Down … Under. Looking for a swashbuckling epic adventure? “Australia,” starring the ubiquitous Nicole Kidman and People magazine’s 2008 Sexiest Man Alive, Hugh Jackman, is now out on DVD. Can you say “Giddyup!” with an Australian accent? Rated PG-13.
