A video game about birds flying biplanes makes as much sense as a game about fish captaining submarines, but there are far bigger gripes to be found in Wing Island for the Wii. “In a world ruled by birds,” explains the manual’s grim version of the future, Sparrow Wing Jr…
All That Jazz: Special Music Edition (Fox) The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (Image) Back Stage (Strand) Bong Water (First Look) The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series (Paramount) Charlotte’s Web (Paramount) Copying Beethoven (MGM) Dancing With the Stars: Cardio Dance (Lions Gate) Entourage: Season Three, Part One (HBO) Jump In!:…
Cat has been coveting this little black Rami Kashou dress for a long time. Don’t forget: April 4 is the first of the challenges being presented as part of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Last Wednesday night the twelve competing designers were asked to go forth with $15o and create…
Denver City Councilman Doug Linkhart found himself in a bit of a fashion conundrum last week. After being called a racist in a letter to the Rocky Mountain News — based on his statement about kids who wear “saggy, baggy pants all over the place” — Linhart’s campaign manager joked…
Sean Rice The very helpful Matt from Denver Bullets. Plus, we know how much Cat loves camo! Last Saturday, March 31, Cat went to check out a different kind of accessory — one that fires fifty-caliber bullets. You see, while she loves fashion and frippery, she also writes about homelessness,…
We’re almost through the full dozen designers competing in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Here’s to Alec, who loves Jackie O and Maris the Great! Brit Coleman Name: Alec Smith Company name: Aki Getsu Years designing: 10 Bio: Alec Smith’s obsession with design started when he attended Denver School of…
Nicole Popovich Can you guess, from the profiles, who made this dress? For a full slideshow of the activity on Wednesday, March 28, click here. Five minutes, a dress form, a swath of fabric, some pins and a belt. What could you make out of that? Cat’s guessing she could…
Many of you met Crystal Sharp on March 28 during the kick-off of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project, but do you know if she prefers Tim or Heidi, polkadots or camo? Keep reading to find out! Name: Crystal Sharp Company name: She She Boutique Years designing: 10+ Bio: Tucked away…
Drink specials were pretty much the best thing about college. Flip cup was a close second. Also known as “flippy cup,” “tippy cup” and “boat races,” this tabletop game of speed and agility pits two teams of up to five players against each other in what is essentially a relay…
It’ll be wall-to-wall folk in more ways than one when the Swallow Hill Music Association’s signature fundraiser, the Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival, rolls into the elegant and acoustically fine Ellie Caulkins Opera House for a night of first-class musicianship. National recording artists Bruce Cockburn and Nanci Griffith headline…
“There are only one or two people in North America who have seen more short films than I have,” says George Eldred, program director of the Aspen Shortsfest. But, he adds, his is a dubious achievement: “Some of those, nobody but the filmmakers and their mothers need to see.” Rest…
Winter Park wanted to do something a little different during Spring Blast, its annual end-of-the-season farewell to snow, skiers and riders. And the Dummy Downhill Race certainly qualifies as, um, different. Here’s how it works: Twenty teams — with a maximum of four people per team — mount a dummy…
When San Diego Padres reliever Doug Brocail plunked highly touted up-and-coming Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki on the wrist during spring training, the hearts of Colorado Rockies fans across the state collectively rose to our throats. Our boy! Our supposed phenom! Once it was revealed that Tulowitzki’s wrist wasn’t broken, though,…
The old adage is, “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” but there’s nothing docile or doe-eyed about Copper Sunsation, Copper Mountain’s three-weekend-long end-of-season bash. And how does one say farewell, Copper style? With Colorado’s Largest Easter Egg Hunt, the Peanut Butter & Rail Jam,…
Vegas just isn’t the same these days. Take the Stardust Resort & Casino — which opened in 1958, was destroyed in Mars Attacks and had its days of Mafia rule chronicled in the film Casino. That Vegas icon imploded in a barrage of fireworks and ash on March 13, disappearing…
The local branch of Dress for Success — a national nonprofit that provides appropriate business attire for low-income women with job interviews — is celebrating its tenth anniversary of do-gooding in Denver, and its staff will be tooting the organization’s horn at an appropriate place: Soulrise Gallery, a woman-centric spot…
“Sexual orientation and gender identity are core identity issues,” says Emily Fischer, a social-work intern at the Denver Veterans Affairs hospital. “It doesn’t make sense to get medical and mental-health treatment without talking about the ways sexuality and your sense of your own gender identity impact your life — whether…
Barry Ross has been illustrating other people’s experiences for 25 years; a regular column in Flying Magazine, “I Learned About Flying From That,” includes Ross’s pen, ink, watercolor and acrylic art. The stories are sometimes frightening and sometimes comical, but each one contains a lesson learned. Not everyone is familiar…
It’s just a theory, but it’s quite possible that the social upheaval among youth in the swingin’ ’60s can be directly traced to one source: MAD magazine, that slick devil’s advocate of comic books, which fed a whole generation of Cold War kids a constant diet of satire delivered on…
T. C. Boyle grew up in Peekskill, New York, didn’t go past the Hudson River until he was 21, and made his first trip “out West” — to Buffalo — to meet his future in-laws. But Boyle quickly made up for lost time; he published his first novel, Water Music,…
Hard-core phantasie geeks will relish role-playing every enemy of The Last Mimzy, a family-style sci-fi adventure whose director, Bob Shaye, is better known to them as the evil wizard — the alien executive who peed all over the Fellowship. Shaye, in his other job as New Line Cinema topper, has…
At various times over the last decade, David Fincher, Sam Mendes and Michael Mann were attached to direct Scott Frank’s screenplay for The Lookout, about a brain-damaged high-school hockey stud who’s smooth-talked by distant acquaintances into robbing a small-town bank. That Frank — best known for straightening and sharpening the…
