Denver Life

It is in Denver, which has been trying to bring new retail downtown for decades.

Machado is figuring out life after Melon.

#13: Mai Wyn Schantz As a painter, Wisconsin native and Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design graduate, Mai Wyn Schantz can boast placement of her artwork – woodland landscapes and creatures painted on stainless steel – in numerous collections both corporate and private. But in spite of her own…

The Denver Escape Room has a novel new campaign.

Be flexible this weekend.

Annie Carlson co-founded the alternative house venue Melon Gallery with partner Victor Machado, which went swimmingly until, in a predictable Denver-style turn of events, the couple is being forced out of their space by rising rents.

The opening has been moved up from July 22 to July 18.

The team behind the fashion magazine will celebrate on July 20 at Melon Gallery.

Jessica Forrestal’s work is about stuff—and what happens to it after we’re done with it.

There’s no beating the heat this summer, so you may as well continue sweating with this weekend’s workouts.

Printmaker and artist Emi Brady is known for her beautiful album covers with themes from nature, and delicate wall installations comprising printed and handcut birds.

Here’s what you’ll find at each attraction.

Kaitlyn Tucek’s work is built on a basic foundation of intensive mark-making: lines amassed into loose organic shapes and crossed by swashes of color, sometimes with one thematic foot in the real world – a swatch of land or drawings of the human heart – and sometimes not.

This Illinois designer brought style to the Westword Music Showcase.

Get your fashion on.

Summer may be heating up, but that shouldn’t be an excuse to stop sweating during workouts.

We spotted the kindergarten teacher in a sea of spectators at the Westword Music Showcase.

Alexander Ablola Photography and fashion shape Alexander Ablola’s world, a crossover milieu that he navigates from behind the lens and, as a design-savvy artist and costumer, behind the scenes.

Author Catlyn Ladd went from exotic dancer to college professor.

Denver’s losing cultural institutions to Lakewood. The Colfax Museum is the latest to go.

It’s rare for the fashion world to represent with a DIY outlook, but Denver stylist Meredith MacNicholas, who launched the underground fashion magazine collective Soft and Shallow in 2016 with photographer Alexander Ablola, is crossing that line.