Host Professor Phelyx and a bevy of the beautiful ladies of Crème de Luxe brought back the classic art of burlesque at the Oriental Theater on May 28, with classy routines, Ziegfeld-worthy costumes, a live jazz band and a good helping of the old bump and grind. All photos by…
In Diva Watch, we profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community, expanding on our Diva Dozen list from 2015 and our new Freshest Faces list for 2016 by asking different queens — from established to ingénue — questions that take a peek beneath the…
Every year when we choose our picks for Best of Denver, we’re celebrating everything the city has to offer, from the best banh mi sandwich to the best all-day happy hour. If you’ve managed to make your way through even a portion of the Best Food and Drink awards in…
#80: Michael Henry New York native Michael Henry shuffled off from Buffalo, got an MFA at Emerson College and eventually ended up in Denver, where he and partner Andrea Dupree founded Lighthouse Writers Workshop in 1997, promising the community a beacon of literary arts where authors at all levels and…
At this point in film history, the slasher is firmly entrenched as one of the core horror genres. It’s been around seemingly forever. It’s been refined, perfected, deconstructed and reinvented multiple times. Even casual horror fans have seen enough slasher films to recognize the typical story beats and tropes that…
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Our Journey is back with suggestions for what to do “off the beaten trail” on Colorado’s central plains, “just outside your back door,” says the site. “Whether you enjoy photography as an artistic medium or as a hobby, there are plenty of subjects for…
It seems odd at this late date to think about seeing new silent films, but that’s what happening. “People are finding them everywhere,” says Tom Hart, program development coordinator for Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium and curator of the Chautauqua Silent Film Series. One rediscovered feature, Daughter of Dawn, will be featured…
Whenever I travel to a different city, I can’t seem to get Denver out of my mind. It’s like clockwork: Since I began documenting the changes to my hometown over the last half-decade, I have become obsessed with how other cities operate and treat their citizens. Last week I visited…
Fashion writer Mauricio Rocha regularly roams around Denver with his camera, spotting people who show off impressive fashion sense. Last week student Nicole Ault caught his eye, and he profiled her street style. But not everyone appreciated her look — or the fact that Westword was looking at fashion at…
Denim is a staple of any American wardrobe — but it can be a challenge to pair denim with denim without committing fashion faux pas. On a recent sunny day in Cherry Creek, we ran into Jacob Saraff, a Denver fine arts student who attends the Cornish College of the Arts…
The glitter hasn’t been swept up yet from Monday’s grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race — spoiler alert, Bob the Drag Queen took the crown, leaving Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls in her rearview — but today tickets go on sale for “Season 8: The Queens,” a touring revue starring…
Video-game movies suck. I can’t think of another sub genre that has such a tremendously consistent record of shit as movies adapted from video games, although it’s possible that video games adapted from movies come close. If that is ever going to change, we need to own up to the…
The 16th Street Mall may be considered a “tourist trap” by some Denverites, but other residents regularly head to this mile-long strip through the heart of downtown, dodging petition carriers and out-of-towners gathering by every Free Mall Ride stop to shop and enjoy the sights. Although souvenir stores seem to…
Burlesque isn’t just a heterosexual female art, as evidenced by last weekend’s International Queer Burlesque Festival, which combined male and female performers of every persuasion on stage at 3 Kings Tavern, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Now see the full Fierce! International Queer…
Looking for something to keep your kids occupied — or just feeling like a kid yourself? This summer the Denver Film Society and Tattered Cover Bookstore are joining forces to bring the works of author Roald Dahl to the big screen with the series Welcome to the Dahl House. Starting…
Denver’s street-style scene is heating up. This week we spotted Nicole Ault, a student at Metropolitan State University of Denver, in Five Points, and chatted with her about her striking silhouette, where she shops, and what inspires her fashion sense. Her favorite accessory? “Sunglasses or shoes,” Ault says. “I never own…
Spring is definitely here, bringing with it not just flowers and showers, but a new season of fashion — and fashion events are popping up all over. This month you can learn how to dress for every event, buy fashions that benefit good causes, and celebrate stores new and old…
The arcades were my first video game love, but we were not monogamous. Like most kids, I didn’t have an unlimited supply of quarters to drop into the arcade machines, and as with many kids of my generation — and every generation that’s followed — my parents made the cost-efficient…
It isn’t every day that you see stormtroopers and superheroes sauntering around Boettcher Concert Hall. But that’s what happened last weekend, when the Colorado Symphony Orchestra hosted a cosplay-friendly “Symphonic Tribute to Comic Con,” featuring theme music from Star Wars, Dr. Who and other pop-culture, cult-fare favorites. All photos by…
Washington Park went to the dogs on Saturday, May 7, for the 23rd annual Furry Scurry, a two-mile walk and fun run for pups and their people that benefits the Denver Dumb Friends League. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Were you there? Find your pup in the full 2016 Furry…
The Grammy award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, a family folk duo with Colorado roots, release their debut picture book through Sterling Publishing on May 17. Can You Canoe? is named for the acoustic adventure album that launched the Okee Dokee Brothers’ career in 2012; the book takes readers on a cross-country…
I like robots. That’s probably no surprise, if you’ve read this column once or twice. I like art, too. That might be a surprise, I suppose. But even if you were a little surprised at that, I bet your surprise would quickly evaporate when I told you the art I…
