#10: Jennifer Garner A printmaker and dedicated faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Jennifer Garner honed her curating chops over ten years at Auraria’s Emmanuel Gallery and Metro’s Center for Visual Art. Now she’s on board at Denver International Airport, curating changing exhibits that give thousands of travelers…
The scary season returned to Denver this past weekend, when Asylum and the 13th Floor opened their doors. Celebrated by media ranging from MTV to USA Today to Fangoria, these two hair-raising fright-fests fuel our city’s nightmares. From its Denver base, the 13th Floor Entertainment Grouphas expanded over the years…
Feast your eyes on this spectacular look we spotted at Westword’s DISH celebration last Sunday. While the focus was on the food — signature dishes from more than forty of our favorite restaurants — there was also plenty of fashion on display at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex…
Fall is here, which means football season is here, which means fantasy football is back! How’s your team? (Just kidding: No one who’s not in your league cares.) Sadly, it also means the tired, lazy comparisons between fantasy football and Dungeons & Dragons are back. Whether it’s a meme like…
Traffic in Denver sucks. If you drive along Speer Boulevard after 3 p.m. on any given day, you have to battle not only congestion, but new development construction that is apparently permitted to stop traffic whenever it pleases. Then there’s the nightmare known as Colorado Boulevard, a street where no…
If you are not a season ahead, you are a season behind. We learned this basic rule of fashion while at New York Fashion Week, which showed work from designers’ Spring/Summer 2016 collections. On September 13, we attended the Essence Street Style Block Party, which went down in DUMBO. The acronym stands…
Anyone can make a zombie movie. All you need is some buddies, a camera and a few gallons of fake blood. An idea or two helps, and a little talent can go a long way, but plenty of these low-to-no-budget backyard zombie epics get made without either. Sometimes — very…
Glob turned ten this month. As the sister DIY venue to our city’s flagship all-ages spot, Rhinoceropolis, Glob often doesn’t get the same kind of credit for its existence. But like Rhino, Glob is an all-ages, all-welcome, donation-based music and performance venue that has been providing Denver with some of…
#11: Jerry De La Cruz Artist Jerry De La Cruz, who nows splits his time between studios in Denver and Miami, has been a force in the local Chicano art movement for more than forty years. His signature magic realism is all his own, sometimes tapping into cultural roots and…
Fantasy, as a genre, can feel pretty tired after a while. The same themes — prophesied heroes saving the world, ancient evil uniting reluctant warriors to a common cause — crop up again and again. The same mythology — elves and dragons, swords and sorcery, knights and kingdoms — is…
“We have bears, we have mountain lions and guess what? We have Bigfoot,” says Michael Johnson, a founding member of Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies who just opened the Bigfoot, Yowie and Yeti store. Johnson’s fascination with Bigfoot started 25 years ago. “I found some footprints out by Pikes Peak on a…
Nerd-core, geek-chic, pop-culture couture. Call is what you will. It is a real trend happening and we spotted someone doing it right this week. A prime example of stylish nerd-chic occurred when online entertainer, Audrey Madison, wore a R2D2 printed dress while browsing books at Capital Hill Books on Colfax…
The universe of action movies is a strange and magical place. Good guys never miss. Bad guys never hit (or when they do, it’s always a flesh wound with less effect than a hangnail). Explosions liquefy bystanders and bad guys, but merely leave the heroes smeared in soot and sweat…
Imagine taking a trip to a beautiful, secluded yoga retreat in the mountains of Colorado. Picture walking through the lovely setting, heading to your comfortably rustic cabin room, meditating…and then lighting up a joint. Twisted Sister invites you to do just that at Align With Your Heart, a cannabis-friendly mountain yoga retreat…
Tacti-con is a fan convention that focuses on games — from old-fashioned board games to the vast universe of the gaming cyberworld. And for those who tired of sitting around tables and staring at screens, Tacti-con also offered zombie-hunting and cosplay diversions. Photographer Danielle Lirette got into the game this…
While I was sitting in the hair salon getting my own bangs trimmed the other day, the woman in the chair next to me remarked that she was getting a bang trim just in time for Burning Man. Of course, I relayed this humorous social tidbit to Facebook via a…
Some fashion students are not waiting for graduation before they get their names out there. Nicole Marsch, a student in the fashion design program at the Art Institute of Colorado, is one of these gifted individuals: She designed a swimsuit that will be featured in the 2016 Denver Broncos Cheerleaders…
The local anime and fantasy convention Nan Desu Kan moved to downtown Denver in 2015, bringing some of the region’s most stunning cosplayers along to strut their stuff onstage and on the 16th Street Mall. Danielle Lirette brought back these images of the con’s ongoing costume show. Now see the…
#12: Kent Thompson In his ten years of working magic as director of the Denver Center Theatre Company, Kent Thompson, who came here after years with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, has seen — and exacted — change in how the DCTC and regional theater in general present work both immediately…
We spotted designer Cassie Herzog at Pallet Fest 2015 in Sculpture Park, selling her Broken Revolt handcrafted accessories, which she describes as “delicately dangerous bohemian and industrial jewelry.” We stopped to chat with Herzog about how she comes up with the sayings she stamps into her jewelry, what inspires her…
“The idea for Spruce had been brewing for some time,” say owners Taylor Romero and Becca Miller, who finally opened their brick-and-mortar menswear shop in Berkeley this summer. “I was working at a web space for a while and I felt I wasn’t being creative or like I had to chance…
Earlier this week, horror legend Wes Craven died at age 76. I know I wasn’t alone in really feeling this one; horror movies are a big part of who I am, and there aren’t many horror filmmakers of his caliber. For that reason, it was obvious from the moment I…
