After sixteen months during which it won a 2015 Best of Denver award for Best New Womenswear Boutique, Whorl Shop will close its doors at 3326 Tejon Street on March 31 — another victim of rising rents in the area. “Whorl, as a retail store, is basically done,” explains owner Megan…
#90: Charlie La Greca Charlie La Greca lives and breathes all things comic book — and then some. A comic artist and one-time inker for D.C. Comics, as well as a first-class nerd, he’s an original founder of Denver Comic Con who’s moved on the create the smaller, more artist-driven…
Oh, Colfax. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to this avenue’s spotty history, but one thing is certain: This street is home to some of Denver’s best restaurants, bars, venues and retailers. To survive and thrive along the longest main street in the country takes not…
#91: Daniel Landes A writer, publisher, restaurateur, cook, and arts and literary community-builder, Dan Landes does the Renaissance-man thing the 21st-century way: He oversees the day-to-day at his hip eatery City, O’City, which also serves as a base for the upstairs performance space Deer Pile and the adjacent 1280 Sherman…
#92: Tim Roberts Writer, editor, thinker: Tim Roberts is all of these things in his capacity as the day-to-day mover and shaker at Counterpath, the nonprofit literary press and event space that he runs with partner Julie Carr, earning a Westword MasterMind award along the way. As Counterpath starts a new…
Smash returned to Denver last Wednesday with a can’t-miss combination of ping pong, Jenga, giant cornhole and vintage video games on a wall-sized screen at the Exdo Event Center. The game-oriented club night, which features spins by DJ YoHuckleberry, will be featured every second Wednesday of the month at Exdo…
The Denver Film Society’s Women + Film Festival has set its course for another memorable trip into cinema that starts Tuesday, March 15 at the Sie FilmCenter. The festival’s focus on films “by, for, and about women” will bring everything from narrative features about women at various stages of life…
Fashion and art go hand in glove. At Michael Sullivan’s Gaia fashion show at Denver Art Society, we ran into local painter and fine artist Garrett Suydam, who embodies that theory in both his style and his work. Suydam was born in Northern California, near the Bay, but has lived in…
This weekend you can catch the obscure, drug-scare horror film Blue Sunshine — with the director in-person, no less! — at the Alamo Drafthouse, a great theater that happens to be just one of Denver’s many options for repertory, arthouse and independent film. If you don’t want to leave the…
Spring is almost here — but spring clothes have already made an appearance in stores across town. Put your best-dressed foot forward in March; here are a dozen events that are ideal spots to see and be seen, presented in chronological order and ending with a closing party for Whorl…
All eyes are on us, Denver. Much of my Facebook newsfeed last week was moan post after groan status about the fact that Denver was just ranked the “Best Place to Live in the U.S.” Plenty of “stop moving here!” sentiments were shared, if only half-jokingly. Many of us who live…
#93: Mandy Vink Mandy Vink has an eye for public art. Fresh off her work as public art project manager at Denver International Airport and public art coordinator for Denver Arts & Venues, she’s now taken a similar post with the Boulder Office of Arts + Culture. In the private…
The GLBT Community Center of Colorado just announced the results of the online poll it conducted to determine the theme of this summer’s PrideFest event, set for Civic Center Park on June 18 and 19. And the winner is: “Building Community Through Pride,” which took 51 percent of the vote,…
Live music, cosplay and nostalgic pop-culture prom tunes all played a part this past weekend at Andy Rok Guerrero’s Nerd Prom at the Summit Music Hall, where photographer Danielle Lirette caught all the party-goers getting their geek on. Were you there? Find yourself in the full Nerd Prom slide show…
Throw on some tennis shoes, grab your water bottle and get ready to earn your Sunday Funday with Brewery Boot Camp at 38 State Brewing Company. The motto of Strength Train 4 Life owners Lindsay and Paul Chavez is “train hard, play hard,” and every weekend in March they’ll push people through…
Geek culture is big, but even in the vast, loosely defined ocean of “geek” there are a few universal touchstones. That’s not to say that everyone agrees on them — hell, if you can get five geeks together in a room who agree on more than two separate geek-related things,…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community, expanding on our Diva Dozen list from 2015 and our new Freshest Faces list for 2016 by asking different queens — from established to ingénue — questions that take a peek beneath the…
Spring is almost here, but even before that (theoretically) nicer weather arrives, we’re going to see a slew of great geek events. Regardless of whether we get sun, rain or even snow, Denver’s geeks will be so busy indoors, the weather won’t matter. From three different conventions to a visit…
#94: Lanny DeVuono Lanny DeVuono draws and paints landscapes that are out of this world. Her current series, some of which is on view right now at MCA Denver, explores space and planetary terrains from points of view both hyper-real and abstracted, in a continuation of her general quest to…
Real estate is big business in Denver right now. It’s bigger than weed. I overhear the same conversation constantly, one that blames marijuana for why we can’t afford our own homes anymore. But it’s not weed. It’s real estate. And real estate doesn’t transact according to emotions — which makes…
Tonight Michael Sullivan will unveil Gaia, his new line for spring/summer 2016, at the Denver Art Society. The collection consists of 28 menswear and womenswear pieces created by designers Sullivan and Shatara Wright, both of The HAUS, the collective that Sullivan co-founded; the name stands for Honoring Art and Unifying Souls…
The 22nd annual Artopia celebrated Denver’s art scene last Saturday with an extravaganza at City Hall featuring music, art and fashion, including designs from D’Lola Couture, AnnaFesta, Gino Velardi, Denver Bespoke, Mona Lucero, Equillibrium, Elyse Rainbolt, YOCISCO and Leon Designs. But there were also some stunning outfits in the crowd,…
