Farmers’ markets seem to be sprouting up all over town these days, some of them fabulous and some merely mediocre. But the Old South Pearl Street Farmers’ Market — located in the 1500 block of Old South Pearl between Florida and Iowa avenues and taking place every Sunday through October…
Although Tracy Morgan regularly acts like a crazy person on television (catch his character Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock if you don’t believe us), the comedian is truly just…normal. “Outside of show business, I live a normal life,” Morgan says. “I have my own friends that I’ve known for thirty,…
Mid-June is the time for fresh cherries and strawberries (and rosy stalks of rhubarb for those ephemeral strawberry-rhubarb pies); July and August bring apricots and sweet corn, Colorado peaches and heirloom tomatoes by the bushel. As the good stuff from in-state earth begins to ripen, farmers’ markets all over Colorado…
Jason Bosch, sole dynamo behind the weekly ArgusFest human-rights film series, originally planned to screen the Errol Morris documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, a stark look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, tonight at the Mercury Cafe. But he changed his mind when he decided to also host the fest’s annual…
I heard it all, musically, as a ‘tween in the Sixties, in the inner sanctum of my brother’s room. And while Mark allowed me my own forays into weirdness — I was obsessed with the Who’s “Happy Jack” — I allowed him some, too, including his fixation on that most…
For those aspiring jewelry makers out there, Desert Gems is hosting its annual sale and show through June 24. Gemstone beads are 50% off, Czech Crystal is 35% off and lots, lots more discounts. Desert Gems is at 457 Wadsworth Boulevard, 303-426-4411…
Looking for a stylish-yet-eco way to hit the grocery store? She’s a Betty has a great solution: Envirosax. A set of five is only $35, and they fit into a pouch you can stash in your glove compartment. Woohoo! No more forgetting them at home because you don’t want unsightly…
The River Front Fashion Series kicks off this week. Tonight, Wednesday, June 13 Slice Launch Party and Fashion Show Fetch 87 is introducing it’s new modeling agency with a new troupe of models strutting the runway wearing designs by Equillibrium Clothing and Potential Fashions. Unfortunately, it’s in the suburbs, but…
Lynne Bruning, Denver’s favorite avant garde fashion designer, is best known for her Wookie coats. Those giant faux fur confections that give you super magical powers when you wear one. (Cat knows: She wore the hot pink Wookie to Rockbar the other night, and it caused quite the commotion.) Plus,…
Rant Alert: If you just want to see the pretty pictures, scroll to the bottom where each image links to a slide show of the designer’s work. Normally Cat talks about fashion. Today, Cat has to talk about modeling. On Friday night, June 8, Locality Productions and Fashion Denver put…
Cocaine — it’s back. No, seriously, the New York Times says so. According to the country’s paper of record, blow is big in the club and fashion scenes. This. Is. Breaking. News…
The Horndribbles — those plushie monsters that have been seen around town over the past few years — were at Fancy Tiger on Friday night, June 8, debuting their screen-printed tees. It was a fun little soiree, with lots of sweets, kids, shopping — and PBR. Cat bought her own…
Tali De’Mar, Caprice Esser, Kara Mullins, and auditioning designer Kenley Collins. (Photo via Elle.com, credited to Michael Loccisano/ FilmMagi.com.) Elle.com has behind-the-scenes looks at the Project Runway tryouts in New York, L.A., Chicago and Miami. The next season doesn’t start until December, so this will have to be your fix…
• Trading beer for bags — we so need this in Denver. • Scenes from the first day of sales of Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Bitten” line. • Halston’s coming back – but what about it’s iconic fragrance? (via Fashionista) • The Fabric Lab of Russia. • Are the Olsen twins…
This month’s Vanity Fair features guest editor Bono and a cover about Africa. Twenty covers actually. Here’s a handy cheat sheet of them all, so you can be sure to get your very fave. Cat’s gotta vote for Barack and Don or Iman and Don — always gotta go for…
(Photos by Mark Manger) The Summer Guide is finally here. On stands today (Thursday, June 7). Cat is pretty happy with how it turned out. Even though we were photographing in a bone-chilling downpour, all the fashion images look beautiful. Dark and moody and maybe not so summery, but, hey,…
Happy day, happy day! Cat just stumbled on Plasticland, which features the most darling dresses (and more) for cheap. Like Forever 21 prices. (Okay, maybe a little more.) If you like vintage styling or a rock-and-roll edge to sweet, classic pieces, you’ll love what they’re offering. Cat just better not…
Denver newbie Patricia Branstead is a master printer, papermaker, book artist and teacher of all of the above, a globe-trotting treasure who decided to roost here. Raised near Washington, D.C., and schooled in the Bay Area, she founded and ran the Aeropress intaglio studio in New York City for seventeen…
Anyone who’s sat through An Inconvenient Truth knows that a PowerPoint presentation — no matter how disturbing the facts — isn’t all that compelling. That’s why EcoArts, a Boulder nonprofit, combines world-renowned scientists with artists to create projects that are both scientifically accurate and moving. This summer, EcoArts invited the…
Writing is a lonely job. Sometimes you wonder if it’s really worth it — especially when you can see your apartment’s pool from your desk. Those glistening sun-worshipers just look so goddamn refreshed and uninhibited and happy that I — er, you, that is — just have to ask yourself…
Lowest Common Denominatorism writ large and engraved in stone like the Ten Commandments according to Cecil B. DeMille, the Hollywood blockbuster is often an allegory for itself. Walt Disney, the notoriously litigious studio that successfully changed the nation’s copyright laws to protect its trademark Mickey Mouse but more recently declared…
A true-crime yarn told largely by the criminal, with supporting testimony from his curiously forgiving victim, Crazy Love comes billed as a documentary. But it can’t really be considered journalism — unless you count as journalism the sort of lurid tabloid exposé whose hundred-point headline blurts “ACID-ATTACKER MARRIES HIS VICTIM!”…
