Last Saturday it was beyond cold outside, but inside Trax things were heating up for the 22nd Annual MAX Fashion Show. Every year Max Martinez hosts the extravaganza that showcases the spring looks that will be available in his boutiques. This year, Missoni, Chloe, Narciso Rodriguez and Diane Von Furstenberg…
A Special Cat’s Pajamas Report from Susan Froyd, Westword’s own Night & Day editor — and shoe aficionado. Clark’s Indigo Mademoiselle, $93.95 As a former San Franciscan, I always thought that I could safely say I’d left my heart there. In my bedazzled mind, there’s no city on earth more…
Denver’s fashion-power couple. Tran and Josh Wills are always on the go. Not only do they have three lovely children to keep up with, they are the owners of The Fabric Lab boutique at 3105 East Colfax Avenue and are now partners in the new Belmar venture A++, along with…
“Many religions today have kind of lost their passion,” says Denise Barnes, the one-woman band behind monthly Kick-Ass Peace Prayer Gatherings at the Mercury Cafe. “Part of the idea is just to wake things up a little bit; God must be really bored, too. One of the rules is ‘Do…
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round; the beer on the bus goes splashy-splash, splashy-splash; the people on the bus see bourgeois kitsch, bourgeois kitsch… That’s the Art Directors Club of Denver’s bus song. Feel free to sing it tonight at the annual First Friday…
I don’t know about you, but the holiday lull after Christmas simply screams “Go look!” And I must obey by bundling up the family to go cruise the mysterious streets in search of the flashiest holiday lights in town. I’m even Jewish, but what the hell; it’s probably some deeply…
I’m a holiday-light junkie and can’t wait each year for the season of garish and magical outdoings by the Denver Zoo and the Denver City and County Building and that crazy guy around the corner. But in a way, I’m also setting myself up for disappointment, I guess, because these…
The second annual Bough House fundraiser, which benefits the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center, has “stepped it up a lot,” according the RMCLC’s Sara Payne. The 29 artists who have interpreted the modern holiday tree will offer up their works a for silent auction at tonight’s holiday party, which takes…
Two years ago, the Parade of Lights was mired in Bill O’Reilly-stoked controversy over the question of whether Christian-themed displays would be allowed — but that’s ancient history now. “We had a nativity float last year, which looked fantastic,” says Sarah McClean, communications manager for the Downtown Denver Partnership. “We…
To hear Nuclia Waste describe her crowd-pleasing performance of “The Twelve Drinks of Christmas” — a spoof on the classic holiday song that finds Denver’s dearest Cycle Slut waxing progressively more wasted as the routine progresses — you’d think the holidays had gone to the heathens. But, no: During Nuclia’s…
There’s no shortage of “palooza”-heavy titles these days. By now the suffix should be, like, scrawled all over our cultural notebook. Adding to the frenzy is Breckenridge Resort’s Holipalooza. “It’s a way of packaging all the things we do for the holidays under one name,” says Kristen Petitt, public-relations director…
Denver’s independent boutiques always agree on at least one point during the holidays: They long to share with you their troves of shoppable riches, the sort you’ll never find at the mall. At least one, the modern-design stronghold Mod Livin’, 5327 East Colfax Avenue, puts its goods where its mouth…
As Dea Webb of Plastic Chapel almost sadly notes, the six graffiti artists included in Deep Freeze: Adjust the Thermostat — an exhibit opening tonight at Webb’s SoBo collectible-toy shop — may soon be too big for her tiny hole-in-the-wall. That’s because all six of them — Biff Baxter, Jason…
The tinny sound of ragtime-era recordings is not entirely listenable; technology was too new and primitive to capture the real spirit of the raucous, danceable music. Most people think of “The Entertainer” as the embodiment of the genre, but there was a wider variety of ragtime that has been mostly…
No, the Virgin Mary doesn’t get high on aerosol fumes, and Joseph doesn’t ride in on a skateboard, but in most other respects, The Nativity Story is less of a departure for Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke than you might imagine. From the first glimpse of Nazareth…
Do artists actually see more than ordinary people? That’s what my high-school art teacher thought. So, apparently, does Nicole Kidman — or at least that’s the way she plays Diane Arbus (1923-71) in the celebrated photographer’s exceedingly curious “imaginary portrait,” Fur. Kidman acted around a prosthetic proboscis to win an…
I want to like Arthur Miller’s plays — and I do like his politics. But the truth is, I have trouble with Miller even at his best — with his lack of humor, ponderousness and stultifying self-pity, with his dated tropes and florid language. And The Price, currently playing at…
The Big Bang. Sometimes it’s nice not to have to think too much, to just settle back and watch a couple of frenetically energetic guys working really hard to earn your good will — and your entertainment dollars. Oh, and to make you laugh. The Big Bang posits the following…
A funny thing happened to photography on the way to the 21st century: It went from being degraded as an inferior way to convey aesthetic concepts to one of the most significant aspects of contemporary visual culture. The medium provides the foundation not only for a wide array of photo-based…
A lot of people make Denver what it is, but few have changed the face of the city the way architect Cabell Childress did (“Mind Over Matter,” August 5, 2004). Born in Virginia in 1932, Childress earned a degree in architectural engineering at Georgia Tech in 1954. After graduation he…
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…
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (Warner Bros.) At long last, Richard Donner’s much-whispered-about “original version” of Superman II sees the light of day, and it quickly joins the ranks of the reconstructed Touch of Evil, Apocalypse Now, and Blade Runner as films made superior in the recutting and retelling…
