We’re already at contestant #7 for the Tamarac Square Fashion Project — just five more to go. Keep track of everyone as we get ready for the big showdown on Wednesday night, March 28, at 7 p.m., when everyone can come and meet the twelve designers and hear what challenge…
Nancy Sedar Sherman is on her way to the Fashion Project Tamarac Square. But does she like Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan? Find out below! Name: Nancy Sedar Sherman Company name: Nancy Sedar Designs Years designing: Since high school Bio: Nancy Sedar Sherman is a Denver native. Although she’s lived…
Give it up for Ms. Equillibrium, our latest victim in the road to Fashion Project Tamarac Square! Name: Deb Henriksen Company name: Equillibrium Clothing Years designing: Organically all my life; as a profession, about 6 years. Bio: Growing up in Naperville, Illinois, Deb Henriksen’s interests were heavily focused on drawing…
Name: Jose Clark Company name: I’ll start with “Maclovia” for Private Ladies Couture. (So, ladies look for it in the future… maclovia.com) Years designing: Just one Bio: I have a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and did that for almost eight years. I was doing well, but there was something missing,…
According to God (aka Wikipedia), the term zine encompasses “any self-published work of minority interest.” Come again? “Well, there’s a lot of debate in the zine community about what a zine really is,” says Stevyn Prothero, one of the main organizers of this year’s Denver Zine Fest. “Some inksters still…
Armando Thomas Guerra prefers sexy redheads like Lindsay Lohan, his mother’s red chile and old Subaru BRATs in green — at least that’s what he tells Westword’s fashion blog, the Cat’s Pajamas. The Denver native is gearing up for his fifteen minutes of fame as one of twelve contestants in…
Dogs get all the pet props, and cats aren’t far behind. What do they have that the guinea pig doesn’t? That is, besides size and permission to roam the house unconfined. It’s downright unfair! The Dumb Friends League will attempt to even the score at today’s March Mammal Madness, a…
When local artist Peter Illig started scouring estate sales to feed his obsession for vintage stereos, it gave his promoter girlfriend an idea for a new event. “It’s sort of like a cross between a vintage guitar show, a record show, an electronics flea market, an old audio store and…
Driving used to be fun. Cruising for chicks in high school, road-tripping in college, heading up to the mountains for a weekend. But somewhere along the way — between the traffic and the road rage or the accidents and the insurance premiums — driving lost its appeal. Thankfully, Denver’s a…
Believe it or not, Denver’s Irish do more than just sit around pubs and drink. No, it’s true. For starters, they often stand around pubs and drink. But they also play some pretty competitive Gaelic sports, including Gaelic football (rugby meets soccer) and hurling (lacrosse meets field hockey). Today from…
Staci Davis has a very good reason why she — and the rest of the board of directors of Salsa Central Denver — picked Edie the Salsa Freak to lead a weekend program of Salsa Bootcamps. “She’s the best,” Davis says simply. “She’s the four-time world-champion salsa dancer, and she’s…
Green is the new black. That is to say, concern for environmental causes has become très chic. In acknowledgement of the trend, the newest round of Fresh City Life cultural programming is all about the earth — and that includes the free Enviro Docs series, which opens tonight with Fed…
The annual works of Boulder choreographer Danelle Helander always come off as fresh and delightful. So the theme of this year’s Helander Dance Theater production — intuition and its relationship with the imagination — sounds like a good match. Helander will undoubtedly go with her gut when the evening-length study,…
In the same week that sees Adam Sandler playing a grieving 9/11 widower in Reign Over Me, another lone figure reeling from post-traumatic stress fills the central role in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed thriller, Shooter. Named Bob Lee Swagger and played with appropriately gruff machismo by Mark Wahlberg, he’s a…
As Charlie Fineman, a New York dentist who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the September 11 plane crashes, Adam Sandler sports a mass of bedraggled locks and walks with his head hung low, the sounds of the city drowned out by the Who or Bruce…
Hard-core phantasie geeks will relish role-playing every enemy of The Last Mimzy, a family-style sci-fi adventure whose director, Bob Shaye, is better known to them as the evil wizard — the alien executive who peed all over the Fellowship. Shaye, in his other job as New Line Cinema topper, has…
Led by a short, rotund man who carries a briefcase and speaks as if conserving his last reserves of emotion, the heroes of Army of Shadows engage in little of what counts for action these days. And yet, as directed by WWII veteran and gangster-movie master Jean-Pierre Melville, this long-unreleased…
It feels as if Boulder’s Dinner Theatre has opened the doors and let in a great whoosh of invigorating air. Sure, the blocky old interior is the same, and the food hasn’t changed in decades. And yes, many of the cast members are familiar, because BDT is perhaps the last…
The premise of Frame 312 should be fascinating. Playwright Keith Reddin postulates that the 22-second Abraham Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy’s assassination that was minutely examined by the Warren Commission had been edited, and that an excised frame — frame 312 — shows the president’s head slamming backward, indicating…
Historic preservation in Denver is really in trouble right now, despite its many successes. The easy-to-understand community benefits of landmark protection are all over the central part of the city — lower downtown, Country Club, Seventh Avenue Parkway, Potter-Highland, Montclair, Larimer Square and on and on — and they make…
Western art and contemporary art would seem to be mutually exclusive, but they’re not. There are many artists in the area who combine the two sensibilities to create what’s called — you guessed it — contemporary Western art. This type of work has gotten a big boost from the Denver…
Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to the Denver Art Museum. For one of the special shows inaugurating the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Native Arts curator Nancy Blomberg has selected over a hundred works for the…
