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April 20, 2012
Stephanie Ohnmacht sails away with Frock Out 2012 honors
Last night's Titanic-themed Frock Out fashion fete at the Denver Central Library was a subdued affair, especially when compared to the last one two years ago, which was both a fashion show and a good-humored freak show, and maybe a little too messy for some people's taste. But the styles marched out ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Reader: Mondo should have won last time -- but at least he gets the big prize now
Mondo Guerra was the undeniable star his first round on Project Runway. Even though he didn't win the competition, he won hearts with his admission that he's HIV positive. And last Thursday night, he got his sweet revenge by winning Project Runway All Stars , which came with a hefty load of prizes ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Mondo Guerra win on Project Runway All Stars has Denver looking good
Mondo Guerra won it all last night, when he was named the winner of Project Runway All Stars. But this Denver designer has always shown that he was a cut above -- generous to other designers and supportive of causes close to his heart, including Colorado AIDS Project, the beneficiary of last night's ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
It's a celebration, bitches! Mondo Guerra wins Project Runway All Stars
It must have been tough for Denver designer Mondo Guerra to keep a secret for so long, but on Thursday night, the reality-show contestant could finally let it out: He was the winner of Project Runway All Stars. In a watch party held at the Exdo Event Center, Guerra had gathered with a few hundred o ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Life is a carnival for Mondo Guerra: Party with Mondo for the Project Runway All Stars finale
Will Mondo get robbed again, or will he finally triumph? That's still the big question on the minds of loyal fashionistas across the very universe. But either way, we already know that Mondo Guerra has a bright future ahead of him.
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March 21, 2012
Project Runway's Mondo Guerra says he's ready for his "own show"
Denver designer Mondo Guerra is about to emerge from the Project Runway vortex after a two-year stay, and he'll be the latest personality to try and prove that there are second acts in the lives of American reality-TV stars. Since Season 8 of the Lifetime reality show began filming in June 2010, an ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
Project Runway All Stars finale (part one) leaves viewers in suspense
Last night was the first installment of the two-part finale of Project Runway All Stars, and it posted one of the toughest challenges in Project Runway history. The remaining three designers were challenged to create "mini collections" of five pieces in only four days -- the shortest turnaround for ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
Project Runway All Stars trims down to the final three
Last night on Project Runway All Stars, the challenge for the four remaining designers was to create a ready-to-wear outfit for designer and guest judge Nanette Lepore's line that was "irresistible, feminine and timeless." The winning design would be featured on the Nanette Lepore label, and profits ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Runway Redemption
Last night on Project Runway All Stars, the challenge for the four remaining designers was to create a ready-to-wear outfit for designer and guest judge Nanette Lepore's line that was "irresistible, feminine and timeless." The winning design would be featured on the Nanette Lepore label, and profits ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Designers light up the runway with special effects challenge on Project Runway All Stars
Last night's episode of Project Runway All Stars was brought to you by a deadhead near you. Or it might as well have been. The challenge asked the designers to create a look that would pop under a black light and impress guest judge Pharrell Williams.
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February 27, 2012
A clothes call for Denver fashion survey -- deadline today!
Mondo Guerra, Denver designer!The Yves Saint Laurent show will soon fill the Denver Art Museum, and Mondo Guerra seems to be running away with Project Runway All Stars (anyone else think it's suspicious that he's cancelling Denver engagements because he needs to be in New York in mid-April?). ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Mondo waves Jamaican flag for repeat win on Project Runway All Stars
It was World War III last night onProject Runway All Stars as the designers competed to see who could create the best national flag-inspired outfit. Each contestant was to take on a nation that represented a "major world region," but some of the countries wound up looking somewhat obscure.
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February 20, 2012
MasterMind Awards honor our eighth class of artistic entrepreneurs
On Saturday night, Westword introduced the eighth class of MasterMinds -- artistic entrepreneurs who are changing the cultural landscape. Since we started the program, we have given more than $130,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations. The latest winners (click on the link for profiles): M ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Broadway challenge proves the perfect stage for Mondo Guerra on Project Runway All Stars
Last night's challenge in Project Runway All Stars was for the designers to create a dress for one of the characters in the Broadway play Godspell. They were given a $200 budget and sent off to Mood to buy "rich-looking fabrics" for their character's wardrobe -- which was to consist of separates tha ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Project Runway All Stars's Mondo Guerra benefits the Colorado Aids Project
Denver's most fashionable and charitable denizens turned out last night to attend a special Project Runway All Stars viewing party at Beauty Bar hosted by contestant and Denver designer Mondo Guerra. While Guerra hosts a viewing party at the venue every week, last night's event featured silent and l ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
Westword's MasterMind Awards for 2012
Denver's most fashionable and charitable denizens turned out last night to attend a special Project Runway All Stars viewing party at Beauty Bar hosted by contestant and Denver designer Mondo Guerra. While Guerra hosts a viewing party at the venue every week, last night's event featured silent and l ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Fashion face-off on last night's Project Runway All Stars
This week's episode of Project Runway All Stars was "fashionmania," as Mondo Guerra, the Denver designer who won last week's challenge, put it.
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February 8, 2012
Project Runway's Mondo, Fallene and Julie will dress up tonight's Good Exchange for Change
Last year's Goodwill-sponsored Good Exchange for Change Fashion Show and Clothing Swap, which came right on the heels of Mondo Guerra's stunning near-win on Project Runway, featured the local fashion superstar while banking on a trend-to-be: the clothing swap.
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January 19, 2012
Project Runway All Stars already jumps the shark? Oh yes.
It's only episode three of Project Runway All Stars, and already they're jumping the shark by having the client for this week's challenge be a fictional character. Not just a fictional character, but a fictional animal character. A fictional Muppet character. That's right, the designers are making ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Runway rundown: A recap of last night's Project Runway All Stars
After the first episode of Project Runway All Stars, my head was reeling from all the changes that Lifetime had made to the basic Project Runway model (as well as from all the fun everyone was having at the viewing party with Mondo Guerra at Beauty Bar, the first in an ongoing series).
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August 1, 2011
Professor Splash's belly flop proves America's Got Talent -- of a very strange kind (VIDEO)
Video below.I made a marathon drive back to Colorado yesterday, arriving on the eve of this state's birthday -- just in time to watch a Coloradan make a splash on America's Got Talent, where the self-proclaimed Professor Splash executed a record-breaking belly flop into twelve inches of water ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
A now-vacant building proves to be a lucky location for politicians
Video below.I made a marathon drive back to Colorado yesterday, arriving on the eve of this state's birthday -- just in time to watch a Coloradan make a splash on America's Got Talent, where the self-proclaimed Professor Splash executed a record-breaking belly flop into twelve inches of water ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Fallene Wells on Project Runway, Mondo Guerra and the value of persistence
Though the initial Project Runway pool of twenty contestants is not exactly exclusive to better-known capitols of design, it's certain that Denver made a huge impact on the show last year in the form of Mondo Guerra, who came in second place in the running and first place in everybody's heart ... More >>
Culture
July 21, 2011
Now Playing
Though the initial Project Runway pool of twenty contestants is not exactly exclusive to better-known capitols of design, it's certain that Denver made a huge impact on the show last year in the form of Mondo Guerra, who came in second place in the running and first place in everybody's heart ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Fallene Wells gets picked up for Project Runway: Denver is ON FIRE
Keep it sassy, Fallene.That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (co ... More >>
Culture
July 7, 2011
Now Playing
Keep it sassy, Fallene.That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (co ... More >>
Culture
June 30, 2011
Realism be damned, Hairspray gives us exactly what we want
Keep it sassy, Fallene.That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (co ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Mondo Guerra on the Art of Costuming and dressing Tracy and Edna Turnblad
Keep it sassy, Fallene.That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (co ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Q&A: Mondo Guerra on the art of costuming and dressing Tracy and Edna Turnblad
When the Arvada Center's new production of Hairspray officially opens tomorrow night, Everyone, but everyone, will be checking out the costumes. That's because Denver hero Mondo Guerra designed them, putting his way with fresh and professional looks to the test. And besides, if Mondo wasn't m ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Party with Pride: Show your colors at nine of the town's biggest and best Pride celebrations
It goes without saying that every LGBT bar and club in town will be overflowing this weekend with beer busts and boot scoots and just plain wild celebratin' of the imbibing kind. Check into your favorite, and you'll be well taken care of. But where do you go to see and be seen, raise a glass ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Sticking Together for Pride
It goes without saying that every LGBT bar and club in town will be overflowing this weekend with beer busts and boot scoots and just plain wild celebratin' of the imbibing kind. Check into your favorite, and you'll be well taken care of. But where do you go to see and be seen, raise a glass ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Clothes You Can Live In, Clothes You Can Die In: Lumos and Nox Clothing
Steven PierceNamed after magical spells from Harry Potter meaning light and dark, Lumos and Nox is a new clothing boutique for humans owned and operated by Tyler Lewis. A traveling kid, Lewis draws inspiration from the peoples, cultures and places that he has traveled to in his short 21 year ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
This weekend: Meet Denver's Top Ten designers at the Denver Style Expo
When this weekend's Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city's top local designers, to a special people's choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But fo ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Denver’s Got Style!
When this weekend's Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city's top local designers, to a special people's choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But fo ... More >>
News
February 17, 2011
Dana Cain creates her own fun -- and makes Denver fun for creators
When this weekend's Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city's top local designers, to a special people's choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But fo ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Pozitive Influence
When this weekend's Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city's top local designers, to a special people's choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But fo ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Epic adventures in fashion at Artopia
This blue-haired goddess is also a holy grail.Whatever else happened in the Denver arts world this year, one thing is certain: Fashion blew up like a balloon with a terrorist in it. At the forefront of that boom, of course, was Mondo Guerra, who took second place in this year's season of Proj ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Photos: Mondo Guerra's fancy Goodwill clothing swap and fashion show
Last night, Project Runway contestant and Denver's current fashion star Mondo Guerra was at the Infinity Park Event Center for a clothing recycling bonanza known as the Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap in Glendale. There was a fashion show featuring Goodwill clothing -- repurpos ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Wearing Goodwill on Your Sleeve
Last night, Project Runway contestant and Denver's current fashion star Mondo Guerra was at the Infinity Park Event Center for a clothing recycling bonanza known as the Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap in Glendale. There was a fashion show featuring Goodwill clothing -- repurpos ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Mondo Guerra's limited edition t-shirts for Piper Lime speak out on World AIDS Day
Mondo Guerra's "Live and Love" tree tee. At the Denver Public Library's November Frock Out designer showcase, guest judge (and beloved local Project Runway runnerup) Mondo Guerra let a few cats out of the bag: He's staying in Denver because "it's our time;" after coming out as HIV-positive on ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Frock Out 2010: It's a circus out there!
Oh, that Chris Loffelmacher. He promised a spectacle and, by god, he delivered. Last night's Frock Out 2010 fashion showdown at the Denver Central Library rocked it hard, baby, interspersing a drop-dead battalion of strutting models with sideshow curiosities both real and imagined on the runw ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
The Circus is in town
Oh, that Chris Loffelmacher. He promised a spectacle and, by god, he delivered. Last night's Frock Out 2010 fashion showdown at the Denver Central Library rocked it hard, baby, interspersing a drop-dead battalion of strutting models with sideshow curiosities both real and imagined on the runw ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Tee time with Mondo: Buy this and claim your 15 minutes of fame
Hey-ho, let's go: The Pondo Beara limited-edition T-shirt. Mondo, Mondo, Mondo -- what are you up to now? Not one to lock himself up and lick his wounds, Denver's favorite reality show runner-up Mondo Guerra, upset by Gretchen in the Project Runway Season 8 finale, is strutting his stuff all ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Starz Denver Film Festival: James Franco, Aron Ralston make 127 Hours go by just like that
Aron Ralston.Director Danny Boyle's films are becoming a staple of the Starz Denver Film Festival's Big Night showcase. In 2008, Slumdog Millionaire joyously filled this festival slot, anticipating its march to a Best Picture Oscar. And on Friday, Boyle's latest, 127 Hours, was introduced by ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Designer Mondo Guerra plans to make a splash as Denver's first contestant on Project Runway
Aron Ralston.Director Danny Boyle's films are becoming a staple of the Starz Denver Film Festival's Big Night showcase. In 2008, Slumdog Millionaire joyously filled this festival slot, anticipating its march to a Best Picture Oscar. And on Friday, Boyle's latest, 127 Hours, was introduced by ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Carmelo Anthony could wind up LeBron-ing Denver and the Nuggets
Carmelo.Three Denver blog posts for ya. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein would like to be confident that Carmelo Anthony will accept the Nugs' max offer. But he can't shake the feeling Denver might be "LeBron'd." BigMedia.org's Jason Salzman wonders when the Hasan family will get its $300,00 ... More >>

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