Photos: Cut-and-Paste Fantasies at the ADCD Paper Fashion Show

Imagination and a lot of fancy folding, fitting and old-fashioned cut-and-paste make the annual Art Directors Club of Denver’s Paper Fashion Show a true art experience, and this year’s event, which raised funds for Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, was nothing less than fabulous. Here’s a peek down the runway from…

The Ten Best Things About Elitch’s, Old and New

“Not to see Elitch’s is not to see Denver.” This slogan, coined a century ago, was true: For decades, Elitch Gardens was Denver’s family entertainment center, a bright, noisy oasis where kids from toddlers to teens could have fun all day, in safety. In 1890, Mary and John Elitch created the…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Sean O’Meallie

To call Colorado Springs artist Sean O’Meallie’s work playful is an understatement — his brightly colored wooden sculptures are toys wittily transformed into fine art and dimensional cartoons. O’Meallie’s affinity for toys led to an early career as a toy inventor in New York; now he’s a full-time artist, channeling…

Repo Man Saved My Life — See the Film Friday

Call it coincidence or kismet, but sometimes life gives you what you need. Sometimes what you need is a job repossessing cars to break you out of your teenaged ennui, and sometimes what you need is a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a trunk full of god knows what. More likely,…

Peak Thrift Is Packed With Surprising Finds — Including Its Mission

If you peak into Peak Thrift in northwest’s Denver Chaffee Park neighborhood, you may be rewarded with a cool, unexpected find: a hip vest, some DIY crafting tools, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl. But what’s perhaps coolest about this store is its social mission. All proceeds support Peak Thrift’s parent…

Odd Molly Sets Up Shop in Denver’s Blue Ruby Boutique

Blue Ruby, a boutique located at 1428 Larimer Street, has carried the Swedish-based fashion brand Odd Molly for eight years, and now Odd Molly has an official shop within the shop. “I look for different stuff that is not being sold in other places,” explains Blue Ruby owner Julie Watson. “I hunt for smaller…

The Beauty of Making an Old Building New Again — as Seen at Snarf’s

“An ornate and decorated building on the outside says the people who walk by matter, that the public space matters, right?” That’s what history professor Bryant Simon said during “Going for Broke: Atlantic City Falls On Hard Times,” a conversation broadcast on Fresh Air a few months ago. Though the piece revolved…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Roseanna Frechette

#83: Roseanna Frechette Roseanna Frechette dons more hats than she has fingers to count them on: Writer, poet, publisher, dancer, creative youth programs director and yoga instructor are just a few of the titles she wears with aplomb. Then there are her efforts on behalf of bohemian Denver — as…

Five Mysteries for Season Six of Game of Thrones, Premiering Sunday

The return of everyone’s favorite gritty, blood-soaked fantasy series is imminent, and boy, am I eager to see where things are going on Game of Thrones. This season is particularly intriguing for pre-TV fans of the series, because it’s the first season that covers chronology past what’s found in the…

Photos: Manly Feats and More at the Inaugural Man Challenge

Denver overdosed on muscles, facial hair and fortitude last Saturday at the city’s inaugural Man Challenge, where super-dudes went head-to-head in tests of strength, agility, cunning and quick thinking. Photographer Miles Chrisinger caught all the action at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Now see men at work in the full Man Challenge…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Corrina Espinosa

#85: Corrina Espinosa “I came up from a hard-knock North Denver life, but I’ve never had a shortage on dreams or haikus!” That’s the long and the short of how artist Corrina Espinosa, an expansive lover of life, introduces herself. Now working toward fulfilling those dreams as an MFA candidate…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Jaime Carrejo

#86: Jaime Carrejo Fine artist, mentor to students at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and former RedLine resident Jaime Carrejo grew up in the borderlands of El Paso, a region — and state of mind — that he still explores explores conceptually in interdisciplinary work that’s been exhibited…

Tattoo Artist Milo Alfring Has Made His Mark

Kneeling on the floor of his Steamboat Springs shop, Atlas Tattoo Studio, artist/owner Milo Alfring wades through pages of slightly crumpled, brightly colored drawings. The images, usually residing in an unassuming black filing cabinet, now spread almost halfway across the floor. “I don’t usually get to look at these,” Alfring…

The Ten Best Stores on Broadway

The Broadway/Baker neighborhood has become trendy, but it hasn’t lost its eclectic charm. The storefronts lining what used to be known as Denver’s “Miracle Mile” are full of miraculous finds, whether it’s a toy from the past, magic tricks, boutique clothing, craft supplies or a display of “perverted” coloring books…