With two of Denver’s biggest fashion happenings falling late last week and over the weekend, Cat had her bowl full of spicy summer styles to see. First Cat headed down to the Platte River Valley for the second installment in the Riverfront Park Fashion Series last Thursday, July 19. With…
[jump] Top row, left to right: 1. Sonora Dress from Beklina $112, was $148 2. Mulberry Striped T-shirt Dress from Net-A-Porter $118, was $295 3. Manoush Strapless Dress from Net-A-Porter $115, was $230 Middle row, left to right: 1. Violette Poppy High Waist Skirt from Le Train Bleu $89, was…
Your weekly snack on all things fashionable and/or interesting to Cat. British Vogue: There’s a new man at the helm of Halston? Will the Versace boy be the charm? The skinny on models being too skinny and whether we should just feed them already and be done with it: Portfolio…
Photos by Taylor Sullivan Brandi Shigley is a force of nature. When she walks into a room, you can actually feel the atmospheric pressure change. She is a tornado of different fashion projects; on top of her small-business marketing company, B-23 Productions, and her local designer network, Fashion Denver, she…
Cat just got the sad news that Miss Talulah, Robin Lohre’s lovely shop in Stapleton, will be closing in October. Talulha Jones, her other outpost of children’s toys, tablewares, jewlery and other items filled with old-time-romance, will remain open at 1122 East 17th Avenue. Lohre’s even expanded the floor space…
Our associate art director came in today wearing the new skull vest by Libertine for Target ($24.99). It looks cute on her — way cuter than in this picture because she made it much less preppy — though she says that it feels thin and cheap. So don’t be thinking…
Wow. That’s a pretty striking image. And Cat will admit it made her think about Sisley when previously she couldn’t be bothered with their clothes. Does it work for you? more at twiigs.com…..
Cat got the official word: Octane on Larimer Square is closing. As of end of day Friday, July 20. That means all those super sales won’t be around much longer, so go pick up some cheap denim. Larimer Square won’t confirm who will be coming into that space, but they…
Doris Giardini believes in the power of the wheel. “I think if it wasn’t for roller-skating, I would be in a wheelchair,” she says. “It’s low-impact, easier than walking, much easier than jogging. It’s something you can do from the time you start walking until you leave the earth.” Giardini…
Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom and fortitude, set in the jungles of Indochina and featuring an immigrant lad who turns out to be just as…
I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did. Two straight guys pretending to be gay (insert fiscal excuse here); been there, done that (insert all known variants on The Odd Couple here). Rampant homophobia hiding behind liberal pleas for tolerance — blech. And it’s…
Did John Waters sell out? Or did our ever-more-metrosexual age merely render him irrelevant? Certainly long before Hairspray took up residence on the Great White Way in 2002, Waters had abdicated his throne as America’s elder statesman of underground smut in favor of a more lucrative career as a neutered…
I sometimes wonder how frightening The Shining would be if the soundtrack were muted. How scary would Jack Nicholson be if he were lugging an ax around without the creepy screech of violins and cellos like constant nails on a chalkboard? How troubling would a little kid be if his…
There’s a reason that La Traviata, an opera about the doomed love between a consumptive courtesan and an aristocrat, is one of the most frequently performed in the world: It’s gorgeous, packed with luscious songs and expressive arias, full of pulsating emotion. But Central City Opera’s La Traviata is a…
Threepenny Review editor Wendy Lesser once noted that our relationships with the dead are always changing — a comment that pulled me up short at the time. The dead are long past contributing to conversations with the living, I thought. But, of course, these conversations take place constantly, as our…
Around the World in 80 Days. The Victorians became increasingly fascinated with stories of adventure as technological advances in travel made their world smaller and more accessible. It didn’t hurt that so much of that world map was colored an imperial red. In his famous novel Around the World in…
When I came to Denver in the 1980s, the Mile High City was a great place to be if you were a fan of architecture, as I am. At the time, the oil boom was transforming downtown into what it is today, with new high-rises popping up like mushrooms. The…
I’m sure that anyone who travels down the South Monaco Parkway as it skirts the fashionable Crestmoor neighborhood has noticed the dramatic — if a bit tumbledown — expressionist-style church (pictured) that occupies a two-acre site just north of the Ellsworth Avenue intersection. As long as I can remember, the…
Fang Lijun: Heads. China is definitely on the ascendancy internationally. Not only does the teeming economic powerhouse produce all the junk that can be found in a suburban Wal-Mart, but it’s also turning out important artists who have taken the contemporary scene in the U.S. and Europe by storm. Adam…
Red Dawn: Collector’s Edition (MGM) John Milius’s 1984 war pic was a mighty bonkers release even back then; not since the 1950s had something come down the pike so rife with Commie paranoia. Russian and Cuban forces invade the U.S. with tanks and choppers and the whole shebang, only to…
The last hour of The Darkness is exactly what the game should have been from its opening moments: a magnificent, bloodthirsty mix of firepower and hellish wrath. Playing the role of Jackie Estacado — a hit man who inherited demonic powers via a family curse — you will spend the…
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Shout!) Avenue Montaigne (THINKfilm) Baxter (Lionsgate) The Best of the Colgate Comedy Hour (Passport) Beer Drinkers in Space (Tempe) Birdman & the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series (Turner) Esther Williams: Volume 1 (Warner Bros.) Gunsmoke: The First Season (Paramount) The Happy Hooker Trilogy (MGM) The…
