When you love shopping for vintage clothes as much as I do, the quest for new/old pieces burrows deep into your subconscious and manifests in the realm of dreams. Like the thrift store that I visit time and again in my sleep, pulling incredible relics off of the shelves—each one…
Slide show The Cat’s Pajamas was at last night’s final installment of the Riverfront Park Fashion Show at the foot of the Millennium Bridge keeping an eye toward the hottest looks for late summer and fall. Check out the slide show with photos by Aaron Thackeray…
If this woman doesn’t scare you, enter to win a lunch with her in Stapleton. Given the hordes of celebs poised to descend on Denver in the next couple of weeks, a Martha Stewart appearance hardly seemed worth mentioning. But then we heard about the cupcake contest… Stewart is slated…
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s 39th film as writer-director, will do little to endear itself to the happily-ever-after crowd or those who consider acts of infidelity punishable by impeachment. Leave it to Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the…
Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its audience feel great! Only, sadly, it’s far, far from a great movie — a little too sweet to the taste, almost sickly so. Indeed, it’s…
One of the things I love about Buntport is how the company comes at a subject from a genuinely original, sideways angle. Dramas based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers are usually romantic swashbucklers. But the Buntporters, who create their scripts through a collaborative process, were more intrigued by news…
The Hot L Baltimore. Director Terry Dodd has arranged one of the sweetest, smartest, loveliest evenings of theater you’ll ever have, by staging Lanford Wilson’s The Hot L Baltimore in the lobby of the Barth Hotel. The play is a kind of extended tone poem about life in a seedy hotel filled…
Don’t count me among the biggest fans of what’s called “street art,” a loose category that runs the gamut from graffiti to wall murals, with the former often being used to vandalize the latter. Vandalism isn’t the biggest problem with street art, though; the key issue is that it almost…
The one thing about Denver that I really can’t stand is the relentless lack of support for local artists among the entities that could make a difference. Not only does this wrongheaded approach cheat the artists, but it shortchanges the city, too. The latest affront is Dialog:City, which is being…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
As landlocked Denver swelters under the oppressive, dry heat of summer, my fantasies begin to turn ever more frequently to white-sand beaches cooled by an ocean breeze and frozen drinks served in a coconut shell. I don’t have the means to make that real, but the Voodoo Spells and Tiki…
We’re a dog-loving bunch here in Denver, and I’m not ashamed to say that my own pooch is spoiled rotten — although he’s still well behaved and sweet as can be, which is more than I can say for some children. Vain Salon contains canine devotees after my own heart;…
The duality behind creativity goes something like this: The inexplicable craziness forcing creative folks to write or sculpt or draw is often hindered by the procrastinator’s need to do the dishes or read old e-mails when it’s actually time to work. That’s why it’s good to have deadlines. Luckily, the…
After a ridiculous affair — one that was fantastic and completely absurd and ultimately not what she wanted — Shana Cordon sat down and wrote the proverbial list of every single person she’d ever been with. In looking at her own love life, she found something tragically gorgeous and funny…
In 1994, just before getting her master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dixie FunLee Shulman performed her thesis concert, titled “The Thinnest Woman With the Fewest Wrinkles Wins,” in Boulder. It was a 25-woman show whose participants included members of the community — all of whom had…
When Thomas Frank decides to write an election-year book about Republican misrule, you should probably pay attention. What’s the Matter With Kansas?, which came out in 2004, correctly predicted the rise of “moral values” voters before they walked out of the polls that November. It sparked a rush of critical…
Word on the street is that skateboarding is still cool. And depending on whom you ask, Tony Hawk may or may not fit under that umbrella, but he sure keeps on trying his darnedest. This evening, the small-wheel monster-truck rally known as Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom HuckJam will visit Fiddler’s…
Rhubarb? An acquired taste that sometimes needs doctoring up before it’s palatable. So is Garrison Keillor. NPR listener or not, you either love or hate the guy, but it’s his entourage that tips the scale in his favor: The laconic denizens of Lake Woebegone, fictional gumshoe Guy Noir, the stellar…
There appears to be no shortage of organized urban adventures to keep you in an alt-athletic state of wonder, proving that the scavenger hunt-style fun need not stop with your loss of innocence and taking on of responsibility. Today, Denver will witness yet another group of grownups remembering how to…
When Thomas Frank decides to write an election-year book about Republican misrule, you should probably pay attention. What’s the Matter with Kansas? which came out in 2004, correctly predicted the rise of “moral values” voters before they walked out of the polls that November. It sparked a rush of critical…
Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan, a Colorado native who grew up in Oklahoma and now teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a quintessential writer’s writer and thinker whose works often intermingle environmentalist concerns and respect for nature with historical Native American and feminist perspectives. It’s an…
“I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.” — Derek Zoolander There’s a lot more we can learn from Zoolander besides the fact that Derek Zoolander is ridiculously good-looking. For example: “A male model’s…
