Weekend Live!
Something to do at the zoo
Christmas is over, but the week-long Kwanzaa celebration is just starting. The Denver Zoo is hosting its fourth annual Kwanzaa event with education stations, up-close-and-personal animal visits, African dance performances, drumming, storytelling and more. The Denver Zoo Gates Center, 2300 Steele St., from 5 to 9 p.m.; tickets: adults $8, kids $4, under 2 free. Prices include the Zoo Lights display. Info: denverzoo or 303-376-4800.
Critters come out to play
Get out and enjoy the Denver Art Museum’s “Winter Break: Western Animals” and search throughout the museum complex for all of the animals that live there (in the artworks, of course). Find cows and birds and critters galore. This program is included in general admission, which is $10 for Colorado residents. Youths 18 and under get in free. 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. Info: 720-913-0048 or
At the Movies
The more things change . . .
Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep star as a formerly married couple who start an affair in “It’s Complicated.” And it’s complicated in more ways than one: He’s married — to the woman who destroyed his marriage to her — and she’s busy dating an architect (Steve Martin). R. 2 hours.
Homebodies
Holiday stalkings
The ubiquitous Sandra Bullock stars as Mary, an eccentric, funky crossword junkie who is convinced that Steve, a CNN photojournalist, played by Bradley Cooper, is “the one.” To prove it, she stalks him all over the country in “All About Steve,” now out on DVD. PG-13. 1 hour, 38 minutes.
Extracting a toll
Jason Bateman is Joel, the owner of a cooking “Extract” plant and who is having trouble holding it all together in the face of uncooperative employees, his flagging marriage and an attractive employee who’s trying to use him. Ben Affleck also stars. R. 1 hour, 32 minutes.
