California isn’t the only state that produces delicious wine, you know. Then again, maybe you don’t. “There are over sixty wineries in the state of Colorado, and I think a lot of people are unaware of that,” says Chris Lighthall Hellvig, co-owner of Denver-based Colorado Wine Country Tours. “We’ve had…
The streets aren’t safe for those of us on two wheels. Each ride a bicyclist takes — for fun or to work, the store or the bar — a potential kiss of death is always included. But ride we must. So cyclists from across Colorado will pedal out from the…
It’s been a rough winter — a rough fifty winters, really — for the Burns and Sopris Gardens at City Park. “Those gardens haven’t been fully planted in more than fifty years,” says Carissa Lester, a senior public-relations manager for Ground Floor Media. “That part of the park is pretty…
“People move into old homes because they love them and love the character,” says Elizabeth Field, community-relations and program coordinator for Historic Denver. And who wouldn’t prefer a creaky-yet-charming Victorian over the plethora of cookie-cutter McMansions that are springing up all over the Front Range? Unfortunately, older homes have a…
You don’t really need a reason to visit the Ute Mountain/Mesa Verde area; the scenery and history are enough to draw thousands of people to the region every year. But if you’re looking for a little extra nudge — and if you happen to include birding on your list of…
“I started off wanting to do a comparison between artists who moved here and started to help settle the state — the nineteenth-century artist — and contemporary artists primarily known as landscape painters,” explains Rose Glaser Fredrick, who curated Masterpieces of Colorado Landscape: A Then & Now Look at Landscape…
One of the greatest things God ever did was to give Eve boobs (Lilith probably had them, too). That was a fantastic move on His part. You can dress them up or dress them down, hide them or bring them out to play. They’re very useful to their owners when…
Thursday, May 10 Girls Night Out at Loft 22 Grab the girls and head over to this newish boutique in Larimer Square. They’re offering wine and chocolate, eye makeovers, chair massages, prizes, gift certificates and a Lizzie Sarah Jewelry trunk show. Loft 22 1410 Larimer Street 5 to 7:30 p.m…
The Chingaso Gear skull. After a spin through the local boutiques last weekend, Cat found a constant theme: skulls adorning everything. Skull boots, skull belt buckles, skull hoodies, skull camis, skull skirts, skulls, skulls, skulls. Welcome to the Day of the Dead, Denver – if only a few years late…
No, this isn’t Cat — but it’s a delightfully kitchy coffee table. Cat and Cheese Bikini spent the weekend window shopping, scouting for interesting home and fashion items for Westword’s annual Summer Guide. Cat was on Tennyson and Tejon, Larimer Square, South Pearl and South Gaylord and South Broadway, and…
Slideshow When Cat arrived in the office this morning, a sign of the coming apocalypse was sitting on her chair. In a couriered envelope — one that screams, “I’m important, the world could be ending, look at me” — was a press kit. Not just any press kit, but one…
The lovely Brandi Shigley and Cobly Bemis. The city’s fashionistas hit the town last night for Transitions: A Fashion Benefit for United Artists’ Coalition for Kids. Potential Fashions, Equillibrium Clothing, The Fabric Lab, Grae and Assemblage all sent looks down the runway. Brandi Shigley from FashionDenver.com was there, as was…
Whenever I’m having a bad couple of days, my mom sends me a grab-life-by-the-you-know-what card. Apparently, a mother’s job doesn’t end after an ungrateful son graduates, moves halfway across the country and doesn’t call enough. Suffice it to say, we owe our moms a lot. So Celebrate Mama today starting…
In the past, Walk for Israel, sponsored by the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado, and Celebrate Family!, a Shalom Family staple, took place within a week of each other. This time around, representatives of the two organizations are combining forces to put on a single affair, today’s Denver Jewish Festival,…
Is Boulder ready for a truly Europolitan experience? Italian fashionista Elena Ciccone asked herself that very question when she first opened her high-end Italian designer boutique in the West End area of the Pearl Street shopping district. As it turns out, the answer was yes: Six years later, the place…
Artist Aaron Hoffmeyer, aka “Chop,” is no stranger to First Fridays, and he has zero qualms about opining on the state of its suck-itude. “If you like Ansel Adams, it’s really nice,” he says, but pop-surrealist paintings of googly-eyed monsters are more his style. As an anecdote to the trite…
Denver’s atheists won’t be honoring any Christian or pagan gods today for the National Day of Prayer, but they will be getting together to celebrate their community by hosting a blood drive. “It’s also sending a message about separation of church and state,” says Denver Atheists organizer Abel Francisco. “It’s…
Members of the Historic Downtown Littleton Merchants association are always looking for ways to draw a crowd of shoppers, especially during the retail off-season. So last year, the HDLM came up with the Ladies Only Sample Tour. “I thought to myself, ‘What do ladies like to do?’ They like to…
“I had just met this guy who disclosed to me that he was a male escort, and I just had a million questions,” says photographer Jeff Ball. “So we did a photo shoot.” But the experience felt too far removed, too inauthentic for what Ball wanted to accomplish: “I just…
Anthony Guilbert is unhappy with the current state of poetic activism. “The image of the writer is not one that people really think of in the context of social issues,” Guilbert says. “They write things about these issues, but they don’t really go out and do anything. So I decided…
Morgan Adams died in the same month that I brought my adopted daughter home from China. She also attended the school where my kid, now a third-grader, is a student, a joyful place where Morgan’s memory still quietly walks the halls, padding through the hearts and minds of students and…
“The costumes kick ass!” says José Mercado, executive director of the Labyrinth Arts Academy. “I don’t think Romeo will ever look as good.” Mercado is referring to Zoot Suit Romeo and Juliet, which plays for one night only at the Buell Theatre and features Ugly Betty’s Tony Plana. It’s your…
