When artists and roommates Laura Conway and Anna Winter started talking about curating their own gallery show in their home, it was crucial to challenge the traditional format of a place for art. “While subverting the white wall gallery model isn’t new, we wanted to experiment in our own alternative…
Some people get off to porn, other people get down to BDSM role play. And then there are those people who are turned on by bicycles. Bike Smut is a collection of short erotic films that have everything to do with bikes. This DIY bicycle-themed festival has been traveling across…
Halloween is over. Boo! And not “boo” like a ghost says, but “booo” like when your team gets buried by an avalanche of scoring from the other team (goddamn Patriots…). Still, just because the calendar says the spooky time of year is over is no reason you have to listen…
#45: Darrin Alfred As associate curator of architecture, design and graphics at the Denver Art Museum, Darrin Alfred — who cut his teeth at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before landing in Denver — keeps the museum’s design collection up-to-date, while curating such shows as 2009’s popular poster…
Last night, as I sat inside a packed 1STBANK Center with a bunch of ladies who looked like my mom, I waited for Theresa Caputo to appear and wondered what exactly I was going to see. How does someone like Caputo, known to the world as the Long Island Medium,…
With fall in full swing, boots are hitting the streets. This week we spotted Dr. Marten on trend for both guys and girls. Read on to find out about the street styles of Max Jackson and Piper Shepherd, who’re both rocking Dr. Martens. See also: On Trend: Sweater Weather Brings…
So, you’ve got a kid? Whether it’s your own rambunctious preschooler or the bratty nephew you’ve been charged with keeping alive for the next five hours, the most important thing is leaving your house where valuables are liable to be destroyed and seeking refuge on somebody else’s property. In this…
There are many places where you can give thanks for Denver’s growing fashion scene this month. Get an an early start on gift-buying at Fancy Tiger’s employee showcase, Fancy Made, or at the new L.L. Bean outlet. And you can also give back by shopping at Dress for Success Denver’s…
Peter Fatianow first became interested in the possibilities of a retail store focused on sleep while working for an integrated delivery system in the Midwest that was acquiring sleep labs. “I was fascinated about what was going on in that business,” he says, and although he wasn’t working directly with…
Kork-Ease platform shoes — particularly the iconic Ava style — became wildly popular in the United States in the 1960s, “at the time when everything was colliding in this country,” explains Kathy Teter, the event’s media representative. “It was the beginning of the youth cultural movement, and everything was happening…
The mad composer’s voice cuts in over the intercom, taunting us. He’s placed a time bomb somewhere backstage at the performing arts center, and I and two other detectives have just an hour to find and disarm it. A clock in the corner of the room ticks down the time…
#47: Kara Duncan Through the ’90s, Kara Duncan went the art-school route, finally ending up at Cranbrook, where she earned an MFA in ceramics under the tutelage of Tony Hepburn. But in 2004, the artist began a new journey, when construction began on Vertigo Art Space, the gallery she’s run…
By the time you read this, I will be 29 movies deep into my seventh annual zombie movie marathon month. This year, in defiance of both common sense and my own advice, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and clear out my backlog of unwatched zombie movies,…
Costumed geeks roamed the city as MileHiCon blasted off at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center for its 42nd year this past weekend. Cosplay specialist and photographer Danielle Lirette was there to document some of the sci-fi con’s best-dressed; keep reading for a sampler. See also: Zombie Apocalypse at Roll…
I didn’t want to start this conversation with what could be construed as the opening of a screaming match. Even if it is on a virtual page, when a woman is perceived as raising her Internet voice, she is accused of being hysterical, overreactive, agitating, bitchy, bossy, pushy, too assertive,…
#48: Jill Hadley Hooper The work of artist/illlustrator Jill Hadley Hooper can be seen nationally in the pages of the New Yorker and the New York Times, but here in Denver, she’s just one of us. Hard-working and community-minded, the 2007 Westword MasterMind in the fine arts category helped found…
With fall in full swing and temperatures changing by the hour, it’s prime time for cardigans. We noticed retailer Mario Charleston sporting a layered look in an all-natural palette at the Denver Pavilions and Lindsey Jackson sporting her layered look near the State Capital building. Read on to learn where…
Brothers Cody and Joey Sudmeier used their experiences as shoppers to create All The Above Clothing. Since they believe that fashion is the truest form of expression, each piece in their ATA line is inspired by a quote, lyric or phrase that’s printed inside the completed design. To find out…
The inner circle of Denver’s fashion scene turned out Thursday for Local Lounge, a networking event hosted by Ryan Alexander Creative that was intended to showcase some of Denver’s fashion designers to the media and to each other. “We started this event is to bring awareness to Denver’s weird underground…
With No Shave November just around the corner, celebrations of Colorado’s best beards and mustaches are already under way. The Boulder Facial Hair Club will be hosting its second annual Beard and Moustache Contest in Longmont tomorrow, October 25, at Dickens Opera House; this year’s competition will feature eight categories,…
The first Bro Show – billed as “everything a man needs, all in one place” – filled the Denver Mart with classic cars, mixed-martial-arts contests, beer pong, guns, food, women in tight T-shirts, and beer, lots of beer, over this past weekend. But amid all this manly merchandise, one thing…
John Carpenter is a goddamned genius. Throughout the late ’70s and well into the ’80s, the best B-movie director to ever live cranked out a startling number of classic films. Not everything he touched during that period turned to gold — his adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine is pretty mediocre,…
