If you ask Denver milliner Susan Dillon, it’s okay to want to get a good price on a new TV — but is it really worth camping out in front of Best Buy for two days? Dillon’s all about thinking small, local and handmade this holiday season, and she’s put…
When the Red Ball fashion show started out in 2009, it was a much smaller affair, recalls Jeff Trujillo of the Denver branch of the Colorado AIDS Project. But its intent remains the same. “This year’s show, being the fifth anniversary, happens to fall on World AIDS Day,” he notes…
The pairing of clay artists Gayla Lemke and Marie EvB Gibbons goes back more than twenty years; friends and colleagues, they met at the old Off-Center co-op in Arvada and have since shown work side by side many times, in various settings. Now the two ceramic wizards will again get…
Hosted by local comic Ben Roy and featuring a performance from Jonny 5 of Flobots, tonight’s Raise Your Glass, Raise Your Voice fundraiser benefits the Denver Voice, a nonprofit newspaper that works to end the stigma of homelessness: Not only is the newspaper a method of communication for the community,…
It’s that time of year when every stage in town begins to haul out its treacly family-friendly holiday fare, which is nice…but maybe redundant. Fa la la la la, ho-humbug. If yet another round of A Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life doesn’t put the schnapps in your hot…
“I had a dream, as a young person, that there was somebody burying humans, upright, in their garden,” recalls Cruel Autumn horror-movie series host Theresa Mercado. “Their heads were above the ground, but they couldn’t talk, for some reason.” It wasn’t until years later, while working in a video store,…
Ringing in the eighth and final night of Hanukkah, this evening’s Festival of Lights is a party tailor-made for everybody. A BYO-menorah lighting celebration is just one part of the Colorado Hebrew Chorale’s annual interfaith gathering of song, dance and generous servings of latkes. Joined by the Rocky Mountain Ringers,…
RedLine Gallery has a reputation for housing exhibitions with a global stretch, but once annually, it shines the spotlight on its greatest asset: its own diverse group of resident artists, who paint, sculpt, install and create on the premises in studios awarded for two-year terms. For this year’s resident-artist exhibition,…
Whatever happened to the days when someone said, “Hey, gang, let’s put on a show!” — and things happened overnight, just like that, to rave reviews? Outside of a few summer-break escapades in the rec room, it’s not so common an occurrence these days, at least not until now. Boulder-area…
Michael Paglia visits Denver Art Museum in this week’s review, taking in the three-part exhibit, Passport to Paris. The shows feature work by big names ranging from Toulouse-Lautrec to Monet. Continue reading for photos from all three exhibits…
Photo by Hilary Bronwyn Gayle – © 2012 – OB Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. “I was appalled and disappointed,” says Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek of Spike Lee’s Oldboy on this week’s Voice Film podcast. “I love [Park Chan-wook’s] original and watching Spike Lee’s version, there were big…
Ah, the blessed holiday known as Black Friday. It’s the day we celebrate what it means to be an American consumer. The doors to most stores will open at the crack of dawn and the deals will roll out, giving shoppers unbridled access to cheap stuff that will become our…
On Capitol Hill, we often see a particular blend of fashion: part-professional, part-funky. This week on the Hill we spotted Einstein shift manager and college student Ashley Tate, referencing her style icon, Audrey Hepburn. Keep reading to learn where she shops, her favorite accessory and her style mantra. See also:…
If all the pressure to maximize your gastro capacity isn’t bad enough this week, try explaining why you’ll need to wait 77,798 years — until after Voyager 1 passes Alpha Centauri — to again use the menurkey. In the meantime, you have to navigate the explosion of mediocre Thanksgivvukah mashups…
#30: Jaime Kopke Jaime Kopke hails from Massachusetts, but ended up in Colorado, bringing cultural gold in her pocket. She’s helped spark more than a few creative projects here, from the city’s ongoing Pecha Kucha series to the Denver Community Museum, a short-lived but brilliant pop-up people’s reliquary that threw…
With the holiday devoted to overeating upon us, we’re looking down at a full day of stuffing our faces, participating in awkward family interactions and probably even a little Tryptophan-induced napping. But since the extended Thanksgiving weekend technically begins tonight, there is still plenty of time to get out of…
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow geeks. Yes, it’s a day early, but you’d rather read this while you wait for work to end today than tomorrow while you could be eating, watching football or MST3K, or whatever it is you do on Thanksgiving. Still, day early or not, I’m going to do…
On Tuesday, November 26, NV Boutique opened its first-ever brick- and-mortar location in the Vistas at Park Meadows. Store manager Lisa Shipman gave us a guided tour of the store’s interior, decorated in subtle muted tones, chandeliers and soft light. The combination of upscale, elegant boudoir decor and the latest…
No Shave November has become a cult-classic in our chilly city. If you’re male, chances are you’ve participated at least once or twice — it’s an excuse not to shave for a whole month, so why not? But while the hair apparent is all over Denver this month, most people…
With Thanksgiving just days away, it’s time to think of all those other traditional activities of the season — like football watching and shopping. But if you’d rather avoid contact sports when you get your exercise, strap on a pair of skates and chill instead. Here are our ten favorite…
Knitting projects don’t have to be ugly sweaters or grandma scarves. Annie Watts, creator of Wattsolak Designs, brings new ideas to this ancient craft with knitting patterns that include mythological figures, mythical creatures and robots. She designs hats, mittens, scarves, soft toys and more, and shares the patterns with knitting…
Last month, Denver DIY house venue and show space Mouth House was shut down by the cops for good. As far as house venues go, it had a good, three-year run. Undaunted by surrounding gentification, Mouth House sat in the midst of Five Points, minding its own business in a…
