Karen Moore is a walking fashion statement, the keeper of a personal style so strong that she’s managed to shape it into a local retail temple of rich, delicious, quirky interior design. And when her business, DjUNA, a two-story tribute to shabby chic and modern vintage style, first hit Cherry…
Before every performance of their Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, members of the Chicago-based theater troupe The Neo-Futurists make name tags for audience members. This gesture might seem welcoming — if said badges didn’t brand recipients with labels like “Dog Breath.” Still, in the context of such…
FRI, 6/18 Last New Year’s Day, while the rest of us were watching Bowl games or trying to figure out where, exactly, we lost that tooth the night before, Emily Blong and Natalie Taylor were frolicking together on a dump truck in north Denver. Summoned to the strange locale by…
THURS, 6/17 Prepare for a wet and wild weekend at the 56th annual FIBArk Whitewater Festival, held on the mighty Arkansas River in Salida. The festivities get rolling today at 5:30 p.m. with the Bryan Dreher Pro Raft Race, followed by an opening party at Riverside Park, featuring live music…
TUES, 6/22 Watch out, Denverites: A new beast has roared into town. The Predator Ridge exhibit, modeled after the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, opens today at the Denver Zoo. The eight-acre display, which comprises fourteen species of mammals, birds and reptiles, will house over fifty animals, including lions, spotted…
TUES, 6/15 Menopause The Musical ain’t your daughter’s Vagina Monologues. Currently heating up theaters in eleven cities, the saucy show, set in a Bloomingdale’s department store, follows four forty-something women as they bond over their change-of-life experiences and a Bloomie’s black-lace bra. The score includes 26 popular baby-boomer tunes; audience…
SAT, 6/12 Driven by the slogan “A day in the saddle, a world of good,” more than 500 riders will strap on helmets and pedal toward progress at today’s fourth annual American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure bike race. “Not only have we seen a rise in awareness since we…
SAT, 6/12 Back in 1979, the art of home brewing was just a bit of foam with possibilities, relegated to the garages and basements of plebeian beer tinkerers in such forward-thinking towns as San Francisco, Seattle and Boulder, where fermenting experiments bubbled forth from primitive barrels and jugs. Most of…
SAT, 5/29 The universal struggle that women face in trying to balance a career, family and friendship is highlighted in Saints and Hysterics, a new work by local playwright Tracy Shaffer Witherspoon and performed by the Paragon Theatre Company. The play opens tonight with a world-premiere presentation at Denver’s Phoenix…
