The annual Westword Menu Affair is always a party. And I don’t say that lightly: The food is free, the booze flows freely, and at least one inappropriate pass is always made. The sixth edition, happening tonight, promises to be no different, with more than thirty local restaurants — including…
If Shocking Beyond Belief! Films’ latest flick, Here Come the Brides, is a reflection of society, you certainly don’t want to be straight. The couple portrayed is overbearing, pathetic andboring. The gays, however, get better food, better clothes, better parties. Plus, they get to corrupt the innocent straight boy in…
Maria Cole deserves a gold star. Because while the attention of the international art world is all trained on man-of-the-moment Daniel Libeskind, this Davis Partnership architect has been humbly leading the city’s artistic evolution. Cole is quiet and understated, more prone to self-deprecation than fighting for any of Denver’s reflected…
As a kid, I swore I would never be one of those adults who keeps the house freezing and makes everyone put on another layer. Really, there are only so many sweaters you can bundle up in before you’re mummified on the couch. But with Xcel getting a rate hike…
The reappearance of the streamlined Super Chef sign on Colfax — uncovered as the Walnut Cafe was making way for the new Emilio’s restaurant — reminds me of how I came of age eating two-egg breakfasts — with bacon, hash browns, wheat toast and jelly — in Super Chef’s hallowed…
Here she comes: Ms. World Leather 2006. While 28-year-old Jae Januze looks hot in her leather corset and pants, she also looks none too comfortable. In fact, she strips off the outfit as soon as the photo shoot is over. But then, Januze only started her reign as leader of…
Not all tagging is bad. In fact, some wall writing is intended as a public service. Just check out the alleyway postings recently found behind some Denver businesses. Thanks to the graffiti website www.12ozprophet.com for uncovering them. — Jared Jacang Maher…
It’s 100% Illegal Fun tonight at the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue. Goldenchyld and Troublemaker will make their Denver debuts on the tables. The 1979 film The Warrior will get deconstructed by a passel of local VJs. The Polarity Twins are hosting their Swap Meet. Fashion Denver is presenting…
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
Climbing up the stairs to Club Evolution, 2300 Champa Street, is a little creepy, as if the Ghosts of Debauchery Past are going to appear from thin air to haunt me. Over yonder, in the corner, is where my best friend Senzelle met her future husband, who sat there writing…
Short of Colfax and the Broncos, there’s nothing in this town that people are as passionate about as the Civic Center. And their hackles are up right now as they wait for Daniel Libeskind to reveal his preliminary designs for the hundred-year-old park, which the Civic Center Conservancy paid him…
I’ve been a fan of Deb Henriksen since I caught one of her first fashion shows two summers ago. Her styles were innovative but still wearable, her sensibilities completely down with the skater chick who can hang on the half-pipe and still look good at the after-party. Project Runway only…
The day I cried was months later, when I went to my mailbox for his weekly letters and poems. The box was empty no letter, no poems. I was so alone. Lost. Confused. The stanza from “The First Time” by Trinidad Sanchez Jr. carries a new layer of meaning now…
Founded in 1992 on the basic model of Anarchism — i.e. no hierarchical leadership — Critical Mass is a group that one expects to be disorganized. The relatively new Denver-based installment of the monthly bike phenomenon is no exception. The oftentimes chaotic debate that moshes within their online Yahoo message…
Dave Walstrom has streetcar envy. He sees the system in Portland, Oregon, and wants it for Denver, specifically the stretch of East Colfax Avenue between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard that is his fiefdom as executive director of the Colfax Business Improvement District (C-BID). He covets the $1.5 billion in private…
By last Tuesday, a question I’d asked President Bill Clinton (see “Clinton, Finally”) had become a joke on Jay Leno. The question was this: “If Senator Clinton becomes president, what would your role be?” The answer (buried in a much longer response) was this: “I’ll do whatever she wants, and…
10:30 p.m. Civic Center Park is breathtaking at night. The moonlight illuminates the white marble of the Beaux Arts buildings, bringing out every curve, every cornice. There is a stillness that makes the park seem like its own insular world, with the sounds and rhythms of city life muffled far…
Art, meet fashion. Fashion, meet art. Now go mingle and produce a beautiful union. That’s the idea, at least, of the second annual Shoe Ball benefiting the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. “We see this as a crossover event between art and fashion, worlds that intersect so often,” says the museum’s…
Eat your words. That’s the mantra of the Book Arts League’s seventh annual Edible Book Show and Tea, being held today at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th Street in Boulder. On display will be the artistic and culinary talents of local authors and artisans who crafted books…
East Colfax Avenue might be enjoying a renaissance, but not everything in the Bluebird District is shiny and new. The Goosetown Tavern is finally adding a patio, and the railings separating it from the sidewalk are pieces of the much-loved 15th Street Viaduct that once ran through lower downtown. “It’s…
Motorcycle exhibits are all the rage at local museums and galleries, but Mario’s Double Daughter’s Salotto is doing something a little different. All this month it’s hanging custom lowrider bicycles built by Tyler Stans. “About a decade ago, a friend pulled three antique bikes out of the trash, then proceeded…
FRI, 11/11 In 2000, artist Patricio Córdova produced a piece titled “Allegory of My Life,” an assemblage of painted hearts, abstract lines and scenes from his family history in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. A year later, the picture of Córdova’s life changed dramatically. Hit from behind while stopped in…
