John Waters is the guy who came in from the cult. In advance of his visit to Denver next month — for an event aptly titled An Evening With John Waters — we’ve been wondering what questions to ask him about his formidable movie career. So we asked readers to…
Impossible Winterbourne knows the importance of public art. “It gives the public a voice, inspires people, makes people happy, makes rundown buildings beautiful, and does all this while asking nothing in return,” he told Tiffany Fitzgerald for this post. And this Denver artist is putting up his unauthorized, steampunk art…
Goodwill Industries of Denver is opening two new stores this spring — one a major store in Longmont, which will hold a job fair to fill thirty positions starting tomorrow. Good idea. But that boutique store in Cherry Creek? Says Rockdove: Stupid idea.I can’t even believe that they don’t get…
I’m not a blonde anymore. That fantasy has officially ended. After spending the better part of a year transitioning from dirt brown to Michelle Pfeiffer’s off-yellow Scarface bob to accidentally sea green to Gwen Stefani white, my hair is now a pleasant rich-chocolate color. So my mother can stop thinking…
Goodwill has plans to open two stores this spring, one in Longmont and a boutique in Cherry Creek, which will be do-good organization’s 25th and 26th stores in the metro area…
People are still comparing notes on how long they tried to log on to buy tickets for The Book of Mormon when they were available for a few brief hours on Sunday, January 22. Those who gave up on technology and simply went to the ticket windows at the Denver…
Fashion Denver owner Brandi Shigley encourages others to do just as she is doing: “Focus on your focus.”…
Is it possible that last Tuesday’s casting call at Suite 200 for The Real World wasn’t, well, real? It certainly wasn’t crowded when Claire Delahorne left at 11 p.m.: “In 2012,” she wrote in her Real World blog post the next day, “a major cable network casting for an insanely…
On January 5, 3,000 excited students at the Junior Theater Festival were eagerly awaiting the arrival of a few actors and executive producers from the new NBC drama Smash. They weren’t waiting to bombard the stars with autograph requests or to blind them with flashing cameras; nor were they waiting…
When it comes to fashion, winter gets a bad rap — often because of bad wraps. After all, even the cutest outfit gets covered up with a coat. But the third annual Winter Wonderland Goggles and Bikini Fashion Show is proof that even in the coldest months, fashion can be…
Meghan Throckmorton, who opened Rakun at 1147 Santa Fe Drive last June, has designs on Denver: She’s holding a fashion competition for students, asking them to create a woman’s look. “As long as you’re in school and sew your own clothes,” she says, “we want your submissions!” But you’ll need…
There’s an art to putting people in the right jeans, which Bree Davies revealed yesterday in her Fitting Room Confidential post. People who want flare jeans, for example, have no flare. And then there are those deadly Dad denims… What do your jeans say about you? Not much, in Cory’s…
For a brief and beautiful moment in time, I lived in New York City. During that year of boot camp for life, I learned a few things — like, there is no such thing as privacy, the only scary part about the subway is that sometimes it smells like human…
Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in…
Denver is full of amazing artistic visionaries who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And each year for the past seven years, we’ve been awarding five of these creative geniuses with MasterMind awards. Members of each class of MasterMinds have done amazing things with their awards, frequently using…
The Wildlife Experience’s Extreme Screen Theater is one of two advance screening locations for The Grey, the film opening nationwide on January 27 in which Liam Neeson plays an unlikely hero who leads a group of roughnecks in their fight to survive after their plane crashes the remote Alaskan wilderness…
When I was growing up, everyone had birthday parties at Skate City. Like, everybody. My mom was more of the “let’s roll the Slip N’ Slide out on our dead lawn and make Kool-Aid (because it’s cheap)” kind of party-thrower, but I really just wanted to celebrate with a wax…
Every TEDx event is many things, and all of them are happening at once. A cross between a theater and a lecture hall, the discussion series follows a creative combination of performance and insight, becoming a circus for the mind. And tonight, local chapter TEDx Mile High will reinvision an…
Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, eight years ago Westword created a program to honor the visionaries — artists and organizations alike — who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And we decided to not just honor these…
Phil Bender was a famous artist long before he won the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts this fall — even if he was the one who hung himself with the “Famous Artist” tag. So is it possible that the Piratical, tech-phobic Bender put up the Phill Bender Facebook…
Tim Tebow has inspired more than sports fans. He’s inspired artists, too. And the folks at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, who produced two posters of the Broncos quarterback that borrowed the imagery and words used by artist Shepard Fairey in his now-iconic depiction of Barack Obama. Do you still hope…
Update, 2:53 p.m., January 16: We’ve picked a winner! Check your e-mail to see if you’ve won. Thanks for playing along.Of course you watched the Broncos beat the Steelers on Sunday. And if you watched the CBS broadcast of the game, you saw footage of Loveland Ski Area on Saturday…
