Weekend Live!
To the moon and beyond!
Watch the stars come out tonight at 7 at DU’s Astronomy Open House at Chamberlin Observatory. View Jupiter, the moon and more through a 26-foot-long 1894 Clark-Saegmuller telescope and other scopes operated by members of the Denver Astronomical Society. $1 for Clark telescope viewing; other activities free. Info: denver or 303-871-5172.
Run for fun
Bring your costumes, cowbells, headlamps, reflective gear and glowsticks to the 2009 Run Wild tonight at Bear Creek Lake Park. This fun and challenging trail race begins at 6 p.m. and winds through hill climbs, river crossings, cargo net crawls and more. Stay for the Twilight Post-Race Party. 15600 W. Morrison Road, Lakewood. Race-day registration begins at 4 p.m. Info: Race_Information.htm.
At the Movies
Star light, star bright
Writer-director Jane Campion’s latest is “Bright Star,” a story about the unlikely love affair between English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). PG. 1 hour, 59 minutes.
It takes a village
“The Way We Get By” is an honest, big-hearted documentary about three senior citizens from Maine who’ve been greeting U.S. troops on their way to and from Iraq for nearly six years. Their emotional and uplifting story speaks to loneliness, aging, mortality and war. Not rated. 1 hour, 24 minutes.
Homebodies
They’re baaack
In “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” now on DVD, Matthew McConaughey plays a skirt- chasing bachelor haunted at his brother’s wedding by the ghosts of his former girlfriends. The ghost that got away is played by Jennifer Garner. PG-13.
Conquest or cooperation?
In the animated “Battle for Terra,” one of the last humans to survive civil wars on Earth lands on the peaceful planet of Terra, where he is torn between his order to conquer and his desire to protect a beautiful place. PG.
