Photos: Pin-ups and Pasties celebrates the burlesque of yesteryear

The art of burlesque comes with a long (and sexy) history, from pin-ups to pasties. Over the weekend, Tatiana Tata and her troupe performed a glamorous tribute to the burlesque styles of yesteryear, at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret with performances from Orchid Mei, Midnite Martini, Honey Touche, Veronica Von Tassel, Peggy…

100 Colorado Creatives: Good Thieves Press

#79: Good Thieves Press The grassroots of any art community? That’s easy. Artist cooperatives and the newer model of studio communities like Wazee Union provide both a supportive camaraderie for artists just starting out and a launching pad for adventurous and creative ideas that might fall outside the requirements of…

The Wire‘s Wendell Pierce on Sterling Farms and the economics of food

Wendell Pierce is best known for starring in two of the best television shows ever made: as Detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire, and now as trombonist/teacher Antoine Batiste on Treme, a cinematic and music-filled character study of post-Katrina New Orleans. Like The Wire, Treme explores a constellation of factors…

100 Colorado Creatives: Keith Garcia, Denver Film Society

#80: Keith Garcia For a certain cross-section of local cinemaphiles, Keith Garcia is a beloved figure. The longtime program director for the Denver Film Society and its commercial film venue, the Sie FilmCenter, he knows his medium backwards, forwards and inside out, from the revered classic canon to the outer…

Menswear Mondays: Spenser White on his classic rock-and-roll look

Some gentlemen put a great deal of effort into making their fashion look effortless, while for others style seems to come naturally. This is the case with sociology major Spenser White, who is studying at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Continue reading to find out what instrument he plays, which…

Denver’s ten best comedy nights

We thought 2012 was a banner year for comedy in Denver — but only three months into the new year, comics like Ben Roy, Adam Cayton-Holland, Sam Tallent and Kristin Rand are setting the stage for this once-intimate scene to be blasted into national recognition. With so many great comedy…

Neon signs and Colfax Avenue: The beauty and danger of nostalgia

I drove by Smiley’s Laundromat last night and felt one of those annoying sighs cross my chest — a chest pain caused by the sight of possible improvement to a place that I used to enjoy for its utter sketchiness. Smiley’s is closed right now for “remodeling,” its windows papered…

Photos: Behind the scenes — and the costumes — at AnomalyCon 3

AnomalyCon, Denver’s steampunk- and anachronism-themed festival, is more than just the (awesome) costumes. The third annual convention this past weekend attracted hundreds of science-fiction fans across genres for role-playing tournaments, contests, games and even high tea. Photographer Danielle Lirette captured a behind-the-scenes look of of the alternative-history event’s setup; continue…

Reader: It wasn’t cute to vandalize the Big Blue Bear

One of Denver’s most beloved pieces of public art, “I See What You Mean,” better known as the Big Blue Bear, got hit by a big smear of green paint over the weekend. There have been other pranks involving Lawrence Argent’s sculpture of a giant bear peering inside the Colorado…