Denver Life

Touted quite correctly as a “cycling circus,” New Belgium Brewing’s annual Tour de Fat is a moving fashion show of bikers who bring their wheels and don costumes to raise money for Bike Denver and the Denver Cruisers. From Book of Mormon enthusiasts to Flintstones fans, this year’s attendees raised…

Want to see Nick Urata and DeVotchKa at Red Rocks on September 20 with the Colorado Symphony and the Airborne Toxic Event? Of course you do…and we have a way you might be able to do it for free. To enter our contest to tickets for the event, all you…

Five years after Paul Thomas Anderson released his Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood, he finally has another movie coming out — and this time, he’s ready for what will follow. “I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Anderson…

The comments keep coming about the disgruntled fellow who moved to Denver in July and doesn’t like it: “It is very Yuppified and tries to be all in the now, when it is really stuck somewhere in the 90’s and is about as fake as a city as a city…

Denver will be all about fashion during today’s Fashion’s Night Out. But as we continue to move toward fall, more and more people are bringing out new fashions every day. Here for your viewing pleasure is a double dose of menswear that emphasizes the DIY punk-rock aesthetic. Meet Slug and…

A reader who moved to Denver in July is ready to leave — and none too soon, judging from both his comment and the dozens that have been posted in response. Among greylopht’s complaints? There’s “no culture.” Denver is… Extremely consumer oriented. Strip mall on every corner with the same…

Fashion’s Night Out began in New York City in 2009, the brainchild of couture-culture queen Anna Wintour as a way to reignite consumer interest in fashion. Now Colorado is getting in on the party, which has become an international celebration; various boutiques across the state go big tomorrow night, September…

We love our dogs in Denver, but few local pups have stirred up as much heart-thumping love and attention as house corgi Denver Picard Schimek, the I Heart Denver Store’s animal ambassador. His owner (and I Heart Denver entrepreneur) Samuel Schimek says the precious pooch turns one this month. See…

Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, was laid to rest yesterday, with a memory-filled ceremony. “He always said he couldn’t wait to see who was going to be at his funeral,” Shannon Schrum told Michael Roberts. “And one of the requests he had is that everybody wear a red clown…

I don’t recall my exact age when I started checking my horoscope, but I’m sure it correlates with my reading of the newspaper, a routine that started when I was about eight. (I had been drinking coffee every morning long before that, because apparently, I was a tiny, grumpy preschool-sized…

The Book of Mormon has left town, but as Josiah Hesse shows in his pop history of religious satire, the world’s religions have long served as inspiration — whether the mockery involves Mormons or Scientology…

Bree Davies does not think she’s the best bass player in the world. But nor did she think she deserved this sidewalk comment from someone who had just heard her play at last Friday’s Too Much Funstival: “You know, I can play bass way, way better than you can.” Really,…

In the midst of our current zombie renaissance, we’ve just about seen it all: running zombies, Nazi zombies, classic-lit zombies, even singing and dancing zombies. It seems like every day a new wrinkle is added to the zombie canon. Today’s innovation: the zombikini car wash. See also: – Slideshow: Zombie…

The sad news came down this week: Blinky is gone. Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, spent more than three decades on Denver TV, where he hosted Blinky’s Fun Club, a Channel 2 kiddie program, for 33 years — until the plug was pulled in 1998. Blinky died Monday at…

Fall is coming, slowly but surely. And while leaves aren’t yet turning in Denver, you can see the season shift in the clothes people are wearing. This week we present a double dose of women’s wear. One woman is dressed for a ball, the other for business. Keep reading to…

When you love something with your whole heart, your desire to defend it at every possible chance is unrelenting. This is how I feel about Lakeside Amusement Park. Not that this magical place needs any more positive public words from me, but it still feels like each summer, I hear…

Edward Cullen and his sparkly friends have made vampires very popular today. But for a modern take on vampires with real bite, Cory Casciato suggests you check out Jeanne Stein’s Anna Strong vampire series. If you want to read about vampires at all, that is…

Standing behind City, O’ City last Friday, my friend Sam Tallent and I drank our water and beer and shared a rad moment, peering out at a sea of mutual friends as the sun was just setting, weed smoke wafting through the air. Total Ghost had just taken the stage…

The Book of Mormon is so good that we posted Juliet Wittman’s review of the August 19 opening night performance at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House the next day, rather than save it a few days for the print edition. Although tickets sold out within hours of going on sale…

The fashion event of the summer came down Friday night when Fallene Wells introduced her Modern Nouveau collection at Fall Friperie, a show at Walker Fine Art. The line received a rave review from its audience, which appreciated Wells’s concept of mixing and matching separates and fun patterns. The show…

For Jeanie Peterson and Cindy Johnson, opening SOL: Store of Lingerie was the natural combination of one sister’s business savvy and the other’s long-running experience in the lingerie business. And this Wednesday, August 29, the internationally-recognized Cherry Creek North boutique will celebrate fifteen years in the business with a party…