Things that go bump in the night are some of my very favorite things. My movie collection contains dozens, maybe scores of horror films. A disproportionate percentage of my reading for pleasure is horror fiction, or nonfiction about horror movies or related topics. If you look back at my writing…
#45: Alicia Bailey Alicia Bailey is an exacting artist who works in — but isn’t limited to — the book arts, which are the original focus of her Abecedarian Gallery in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. Creator and curator, Bailey displays a rare attention to detail, difficult processes and…
To hype the upcoming Passport to Paris exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, the DAM recreated a Parisian street scene in its outdoor plaza yesterday, complete with ten local artists painting that scene. One of those artists was Ron Hicks, and his fashionable wife was present as well, posing as…
In the fall of 1998, I took my then four-year old sister to the steps of the State Capitol for a memorial gathering for Matthew Shepard, not long after his death in Wyoming. Nothing makes a vicious hate crime seem more horrific and pointless than trying to explain to a…
#46: Dave Ortolano Dave Ortolano is both a theater Renaissance man and a friend of theater. Naropa-trained and a collaborating member of Boulder’s Band of Toughs company, his first love and major creative focus is his role as executive director of the Boulder International Fringe Festival, which kicks off another…
After all the flooding of the past week, it was uplifting to see the sun shining on a Monday morning. So was the sight of local student Jovan Bridges, rocking a style that could have pushed passersby out of their comfort zone. Read on to learn about who inspires his…
Looks like Kelsie Huff will be just as funny in the afterlife as she is in her real life. “My tombstone will read: Kelsie Huff. Not buried here. We decided to go in another direction,” she said in her Twitter feed last week. Huff hails from Chicago, where she’s a…
MegaFauna, the award-winning boutique/gallery/coffeeshop, is moving to a new home later this month. It’s not going far — from 2701 Larimer Street to 3102 Blake Street — but it’s upgrading quite a bit. “With the lease coming up, we had an opportunity. Do we expand? Do we consolidate? What happens?”…
For a newbie, the myriad characters portrayed by cosplayers at the anime convention Nan Desu Kan are far more esoteric than those you’ll see at a regular comic convention: Anime and manga — Japanese cartoons and serial comics — form a subset all their own, and their fans seem just…
Celebrating seventeen years as Colorado’s premiere anime convention, Nan Desu Kan opens its doors today, taking over the Marriott DTC for a cosplay-packed weekend of fun. With voice-actor guest speakers, educational panels on the industry, cosplay contests and late-night dance parties, NDK has packed Friday, Saturday and Sunday with cool…
Christie zumBrunnen and Nicole Lowery started their Hey! Party Collective business as a way to bring together fellow wedding and big-event innovators, in order to throw the perfect party. Almost two years later, the Hey! Party Collective is throwing its own party, Rebel Bells at Artwork Network on Sunday, September…
Visit Denver’s Denver.org website has inspired several recent posts saluting the city, including lists of best free attractions and tours, the top eleven hidden tourism gems, the thirteen best free day trips from Denver and the perfect gay-friendly weekend. Today, you can visit Visit Denver’s six top “Shop ‘Til You…
The X-Files turned twenty this week. Despite its somewhat advanced age, the groundbreaking series has never felt more relevant. The show’s paranoid vision of government conspiracies seems positively prescient in light of revelations about NSA spying in defiance of U.S. law and custom. Its embrace of science fiction and the…
The latest venture of Tran Wills, Base Coat Modern Nail Salon X Gallery will celebrate its grand opening this Saturday, September 14, when the combination nail salon/art gallery joins the lineup on Tennyson Street in the Berkeley neighborhood. Wills, whose name has become synonymous with style and small-business savvy in…
With all the rain pouring over Denver recently, you’d think everyone would be wearing raincoats and holding umbrellas. But Angela Heath is a refreshing exception. A Denver native who’d lived in Hawaii and recently moved back to town, Heath knows how to handle a wet climate. Keep reading to learn…
Party! Party! On Thursday, September 12, many of the town’s movers and shakers will gather on the 19th Street Bridge in Riverfront Park for the Greenway Foundation’s annual Gala on the Bridge. But that’s just the start of the fun. From 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, September 13, the…
Success is a flexible concept. When we set out to put together the first Titwrench fest back in 2009, it definitely wasn’t about success in terms of money. In fact, that’s what I see as the biggest problem with the DIY culture in which I’m involved — none of us…
#47: Charlie Miller and Emily Tarquin Charlie Miller and Emily Tarquin are multi-taskers at the Denver Center Theatre Company: Miller is a techno whiz for DCTC shows, while Tarquin coordinates new productions. But on the side — the off-center, you might say — they curate the DCTC’s underground series Off-Center@The…
Many people change their style when they change their setting. But that’s not always the case, as we noticed with DIA worker Diwas Uprepti and his American style. Keep reading to learn which states influence his look, where he shops, and what he uses as his style mantra. See also:…
#47: Street artist Gamma Acosta Gamma Acosta grew up in Longmont, another poor kid on the street, but he had a gift. The world was his painting surface, he discovered, and he had a way with a spray can that took him beyond the hardened parameters of street writing. Today,…
Geekdom has a dickwolf problem. Now, most of you — even perhaps some of the geekiest among you — are asking, “What the fuck is a dickwolf, and what kind of problem is it having?” The dickwolf got its start as a throwaway line in a comic strip from the…
#48: Andy O’Leary Andy O’Leary, a Denverite since childhood, is a poet, a DJ at KUVO and a general man of the people. But music is his mistress. Ever since he was a kid in the ’60s whose brain was split open by the Beatles and then picked up a…
