Koffi Toudji is a welcome,well-known face around Denver: He’s the founder of a traditional West African drum-and-dance ensemble, leader of Koffi Togo Vibe Band and a teacher and performer at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. But Toudji also arranges summer tours from the U.S. to his native Kpalimé in…
Summer is all about festivals: There’s no better way to get away for a day without ever leaving town. International fests take you to faraway places right in your own back yard, others celebrate ethnic cultures, urban enthusiasms, arts-and-crafts, the joy of eating or just being yourself in a judgmental…
#64: Betsy Tobin Betsy Tobin’s multidisciplinary theater works unfold unlike just about anything you’ve seen before, blending offbeat techniques with an old-world aura. With her Boulder-based Now or Never Theatre, she produces visually stunning pieces that incorporate puppets, live actors, dance, shadow theater and video in a sophisticated way. Some…
It’s time to gear up for the third annual Denver County Fair, which is aiming to make its trifecta year the best ever. Got a cherry pie to die for? An elegantly stitched quilt? A hen that struts like nobody’s business? You have until midnight on July 26 to enter…
This year’s Denver Comic Con took over the Colorado Convention Center last weekend, and thousands of costumes filled the huge arena. Amid the superheroes and fanboys were pop-culture references from the 1980s, including at least one Mr. T doppelgänger. Information technologist Andy Gray dressed up as the television icon. Read…
As I sat in a coffee shop yesterday, camped out with my laptop and a mission to actually get some writing done, I knew full well that I wouldn’t really get anything accomplished. Not because I’d be distracted with the mundane cruising of Facebook for hours at a time like…
The Phipps IMAX Theater at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science officially replaced the old Phipps Auditorium thirty years ago this summer, and quickly became a must-see addition to the museum experience. Over the years, even IMAX technology has reinvented itself, amplifying the already-dizzying visuals on the four-and-a-half-story screen…
Earlier this year, Marion Street Tattoo was officially certified as a green business by the Denver Department of Environmental Health. The only tattoo shop in the city to currently hold the title, the business hopes to set an example for other tattoo shops. Owner and artist Ryan Willard and says…
This year’s Denver Comic Con returned to the Colorado Convention Center Friday through Sunday with thousands of people in glorious costumes. The week before the con, ticket holders were hit with sad news — that Marvel mastermind Stan Lee would no longer be appearing — but those frowns turned upside…
In Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s — opening tonight at the Sie FilmCenter — the story of a colossus retailer of couture is told from many angles. Famous customers, fashion designers, critics and Bergdorf’s own employees help frame the New York department store’s tale, through a mix of lore and…
#65: Amber Cobb We asked artist Amber Cobb to answer the 100CC questionnaire as a tie-in to a couple of shows the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design instructor and current RedLine resident has coming up this weekend, but she was a little late getting back to us with…
When people dress for work, sometimes they sacrifice their personal style in the process. Luckily, that’s not the case with Kelsey Peoples, a local lease analyst who adds personal touches to her timeless Texan belle theme. Read here to learn her style mantra, style icons, and where she shops. See…
#66: Francis Roces Last week, we introduced Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program fine-art resident Charlie Boots; now meet his fashion-designing counterpart, Francis Roces, a familiar face to those in Denver’s fashion scene. He’s been plying the needle and thread for nearly thirty years, and is best-known around here for his clothing…
When you accidentally sign yourself and your 29-year-old husband up for a YogaDates event for singles in their thirties and forties, you quickly realize it could be bad for the relationship. After our incredible YogaDates sunset yoga hike, I know that if my sweet Ben ever mysteriously “vanishes” (and I’m…
#67: Emily K. Harrison Emily K. Harrison is a theatrical powerhouse: In addition to guiding and directing Boulder’s inventive square product theatre, she’s an actor, teacher and booster of alternative theater along the Front Range, forever advocating for her own company and others engaged in the same kind of newfangled,…
I’ve seen it happening already: the premature revealing of skin not quite ready for the summer sun. Considering that the summer solstice isn’t until June 21, shirtlessness is really, really hitting park paths and pedestrian thoroughfares early this year. But for me, the problem with all this skin isn’t not…
Yesterday, a group of Larimer Square boutiques hosted a summer fashion show featuring models from the Central City Opera, Opera Colorado, Denver Marquee Club and other young professional groups atop the Westin Hotel pool deck. The evening’s fashions included names such as Apricot Lane, Blush, Blue Ruby, Cry Baby Ranch,…
#68: Charlie Boots Who is Charlie Boots? Yesterday you might not have known his name, but today Boots is ready for his closeup. The young artist will make his public debut this weekend as the first-ever visual-arts fellow of the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program at Powerhaüs Studio, a three-month studio…
As the late spring days begin to heat up in Denver, so does street style. This week, we spotted Nada Alhajji, a fashion student at the Art Institute of Colorado, rocking a string of top American designers put together in an interesting way. Continue reading to learn where she shops,…
So. What’s the deal with religion? Do we have it? Do we need it? Are we slaves to it? What’s moral, and what’s immoral? When Warm Cookies of the Revolution’s bastard child, Sunday School for Atheists, is called to order, everything is fair game. That’s right: Evan Weissman’s civic health…
#69: Bruce Price A painter who started out as a musician, Bruce Price learned from his mentor, the pattern painter Clark Richert, at the Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design, and eventually stretched and bent those lessons into something that suited him better. The resulting work, abstractions expressed in…
Nothing has been the same since the accident. Okay, that’s not true — I’ve just always wanted to start a piece that way. But really, after a car accident in February 2012 that followed a disappointing faux-tryst with Demetri Martin put me out of commission, my world — which revolved…
