A DIY Birthday: Fancy Tiger Turns 1

See a slideshow of the whole party here. Cat had a fancy Friday night last week on South Broadway at Fancy Tiger’s first birthday party. Owners Matthew Brown and Jaime Jennings sure know how to throw a kickin’ birthday for their DIY boutique, with a delicious spread of never-ending vegan…

No Libertine at Stapleton Target

If you went looking for the Libertine line that debuted at Target on July 15, hopefully you didn’t turn up at the Stapleton location, like Cat did. After not finding anything even mentioning the big release, Cat went and asked the woman working the dressing rooms. “I ain’t never heard…

The Simpsons Go High Fashion

Fashionista has this little tidbit today: The August issue of Harper’s Bazaar features a fashion spread with the Simpsons — and Linda Evangelista — in Paris. There’s Marge in Chanel and Versace, her sisters in Viktor & Rolf, Bart in the front row of the Louis Vuitton show and Homer…

Linkalicious: What Cat’s Reading on July 13

via Just Jared, via W Posh and Beck sizzle in W. Here’s the weekly roundup of what’s hot in fashion this week. — Cat • New York Times: Does a “trophy” wife make – or sink – a presidential campaign? Ask Law and Order’s Fred D. Thompson. • British Vogue:…

What to Wear Friday: Jon Evans

Photos by Taylor Sullivan. “I basically wait to get to paid, then I go out and get the nicest clothes I can afford,” says Jon Evans, better known for playing in Action Packed Thrill Ride. “I go to Wal-Mart for T-shirts because they have the best blank tees for $2.99……

Liquidation Sale at Octane — Hurry While Prices Are Cheap

Cat doesn’t know what’s happening with Octane in Larimer Square — she has calls into everyone short of God looking for answers — but what she does know is that they’re having a “Liquidation Sale,” which is usually double speak for we’ve got to close the doors and get the…

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, black variety. The darkest and most threatening by far of the five Potter films, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is also the only series entry outside of the third, Alfonso Cuarón’s Harry…

Joshua

George Ratliff’s Joshua debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to raves from a particular breed of audience member: parents. Because, see, no matter how hard Fox Searchlight is trying to sell this movie as a horror picture — Rosemary’s Baby meets The Omen on the way to The Exorcist’s for…

Dynamite Warrior

The great thing about Thailand’s 2006 martial arts thriller, Kon fai bin — or Dynamite Warrior — is that it takes as much from American cinema as it does from Hong Kong. Besides being vaguely modeled after a high-noon Western flick, it also follows the American tradition of filling in…

Too Old to Be Loud

Too Old to Be Loud is the sixth in Heritage Square Music Hall’s Loud series, and the cast does much the same thing every time. The very thin plot line always involves an annual reunion in the Boylan High School gym. Actor-director T. J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer play sister…

The Servant of Two Masters

The weather decided to become a participant in the opening night of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s The Servant of Two Masters. To begin with, the performance had to be delayed for a half-hour because of pelting rain. Then, after a remarkably good-humored audience had been seated again, gusts of wind…

Now Playing

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…

Looking Up

Installation art, an aesthetic approach that uses space as one of its materials, dates back to the early twentieth century, but then it was a mere sidelight rather than the major art form it is today. Installation began to take off in the 1960s and 1970s, along with the rise…

Lawrence Argent

Lawrence Argent, one of the four featured artists in Looking Up at Metro’s CVA (see review), has emerged over the last decade or so as the region’s premier conceptual artist. But unlike most of his fellow travelers in this brainiac pursuit, Argent has been successful in getting public commissions. Selection…

Sketches

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…

Three Runs and a Strike

You’re Gonna Miss Me(Palm) A hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival two years ago, Keven McAlester’s doc about the Papa of Psychedelia, Roky Erickson, at long last gets its proper release. But time has done McAlester a tremendous favor: Had he shot the film too soon, he would…

All Class

One of the best new video games on the market requires you to take math tests. During summer break, no less. But before you cue up “Night on Bald Mountain” and run like hell, you really should play Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree. Any “party title” that can hold a…

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release on July 10

After the Wedding (IFC) The Astronaut Farmer (Warner Bros.) Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Funimation) Brutal (Lionsgate) The Comedy Collection (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Taylor Collection (St. Clair) Extras: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Fat Burning Hip Hop Dance Party: Urban Style (Shami) Fred Astaire Collection (St. Clair) Frankie & Annette: MGM Movie…

Elitists, Unite!

Celebrate the storming of the Bastille and the official launch of ElitistHipsterSnob.com today at the EHS Bastille Day Party, taking place at the Meadowlark, 2701 Larimer Street. Why Bastille Day? Because no one is snobbier than the French, of course! Thrill to the sounds of fake French accents and DJ…

Tiger Burning Bright

Put on your best celebratory hat and head down to the Fancy Tiger Birthday Party to celebrate the shop’s successful first year in business. The one-of-a-kind boutique, located at 1 South Broadway, specializes in hipster fashions, local music and handmade crafts. Owners Matthew Brown and Jaime Jennings promise lots of…

Copy Cats

Why are so many fun things illegal? Are authorities just enemies of good times and public play, or is there something inherently pleasurable about pushing against prohibition? Or, as unruly teen Ren McCormack questioned in 1984’s Footloose, “You really can’t dance here, man? I can’t believe that.” But while Kevin…