Space. The final frontier, and perhaps my very favorite setting for any and every kind of media. Big adventures in an almost limitless universe. Exploration, contact and conflict with aliens, rebel alliances versus evil empires — I love it all. Give me a spaceship, a crew — ragtag or highly…
If you’ve never been to the Colorado State Fair, it’s time. And if you go every year, it’s time to start planning the annual trek to Pueblo, which still hosts the Fair despite occasional attempts to move it. (Extra points if you pronounce the city’s nam properly: Pee-EBB-low!) Why? First…
#14: Jason Coates Jason Coates carries a camera wherever he goes — but he also wears his heart on his sleeve. The Denver entrepreneur, videographer/photographer and world traveler not only runs his own production company, Collective-Culture, but also documents and shares the underbelly of global cultures through his social networking…
In the last half-decade, Denver has lost quite a few places where our counterculture once thrived. Paris on the Platte, Gabor’s, Cafe Netherworld, Unit B, Old Curtis Street, even Smiley’s Laundromat and so many more places I could name (and I list quite a few in a love letter to…
This summer continues to sizzle with style. We spotted Maia Parish, certified sommelier and owner of The Wine Suite, a wine event and education company, in Cherry Creek North this month. Parish promotes a complete wine lifestyle, including tastings, classes, educational support, product reviews and wine-related events. “I do trade…
Kids today have it too damn easy. I’m not talking about the prevalence of iPads and Xboxes, or the fact it takes fewer than ten seconds to look up any fact known to humanity. I’m talking about the fact that kids today aren’t traumatized by pop culture. Consider The Dark Crystal:…
What do disco, a dress made out of condoms and Celia Cruz have in common? They are all part of COLOR’s seventeenth annual Viva la Diva fundraiser this Friday. COLOR, short for Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, hosts this event each year to raise awareness for reproductive…
Jillian and Sam Liebl have headed into the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area in Idaho, leaving their gadgets in their car and society at the trailhead, and plan to stay in the wilderness for a month with four other primitive-skills practitioners. For the Liebls, this trek is part…
It’s difficult, maybe impossible, for small, local bookstores to compete with the Amazons of the world. It’s just as hard for local authors with a smaller audience to compete in those marketplaces against the Stephen Kings and Dale Carnegies. Faced with those realities, Longmont based author and financial professional Ron…
When I read about plans to demolish the 115-year old building currently housing the Tavern Uptown, I had to drive by and see the structure again for myself. It is a stately piece of real estate on East 17th Avenue — one that I had walked, biked and driven by hundreds…
The big fashion event of not just this month, but perhaps this decade is the Nieman Marcus Denver 25th anniversary celebration, Then, Now, Next, which runs from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, which is also turning 25….very, very quietly. The bash…
Cherry Creek North is making a stylish splash. At last Saturday’s Cherry Creek North Food & Wine bash that filled a block of Fillmore with tables from more than twenty local restaurants and other food-friendly ventures, we spotted a globe-trotting trendsetter sporting a paisley-printed look. And it turned out that businessman…
If you know of the CW show Supernatural at all, you probably have a pretty low opinion of it: “What, that trashy CW monster show with the two pretty boys? Do I look like a teenage girl to you?” (No disrespect to any teenage girls who might be reading.) But I’m here…
It stands alone, surrounded by a parking lot at the corner of Leetsdale and Exposition in southeast Denver. The little, tan-colored building is squatty and fairly nondescript — well, save for a big sign on its roof that says Planned Parenthood. Across the street is George Washington High School, my…
#15: Trine Bumiller Colorado artist Trine Bumiller, who’s originally from Cincinnati, schooled at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a member of the Robischon Gallery stable in Denver, has earned a national rep for her abstractions — or “distillations,” as she describes them — of images from nature…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. The 9 p.m. Sunday slot at Charlie’s has been…
In the beginning, George Romero said, “Let there be ambulatory corpses hungry for the flesh of the living!” And there were, and it was good. No, forget that. It was fucking great. When Romero dropped Night of the Living Dead on audiences back in 1968, he didn’t know he was…
A new variety of animal will officially pop up at the Denver Zoo when Nature Connects, a collection of creatures constructed from LEGO blocks opens to the public on Friday, August 7, for a wild run through November 1. Here’s a sneak peek from photographer Brandon Marshall — can you tell the real animals…
For the last five years Diva Dozen member Ginger Douglas (aka Briceson Buck-Ducharme) has produced the party to end all parties: The Apocalyptic Ball, an annual fundraiser that raises much-needed money for the AIDS Walk Colorado. This Saturday, the sixth and final go-round, The Apocalyptic Ball: The Regression, will fill…
Skin Holistic Dermagraphic Clinic is trying to bring tattoo art back to one of its ancient uses: wellness and health. While today a tattoo is generally considered an artistic expression, clinic co-founders Gwynn “Wolf” Wolfstar and Tara Gray-Wolfstar believe it goes beyond the surface and can help heal external and…
The image I had in my mind of Las Vegas before I visited the city last week was a very different one from the city I actually saw. The strip isn’t really a glamorous walkway of lights and people like it’s presented in movies and popular culture; it’s more like…
#16: Toluwanimi Obiwole In Denver, we raise poets. Toluwanimi Obiwole is one of them: As a member of Minor Disturbance youth slam poetry team, she took the Denver city slam and became a Brave New Voices international slam champion; now a student in architectural engineering at the University of Colorado,…
