Photos: Taking It Off at the Colorado Burlesque Fest

Some of the best names in burlesque paraded past in panties and pasties during the four-day Colorado Burlesque Festival, a gathering of burlesque stars from near and far, in Denver this weekend. Brandon Marshall brought back these images from the Friday-night showcase at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. Now see the full Colorado…

Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Tran Wills

#18: Tran Wills When Tran Wills won a Westword MasterMind award back in 2007, she was running the Fabric Lab, a boutique focused on local designers. That shop is long gone, but in the years since Wills moved on from East Colfax Avenue, she’s gone on to bigger and better…

Three Things to Do for Free in Denver July 13-16

Even though rents are rising as fast as the temperature around here, there are still plenty of bargain entertainment options around — particularly with the Biennial of the Americas opening Tuesday. On Thursday alone you can become an active member of the beer community, check out cool art and learn…

Gallery Sketches: Five New Shows and Art Events in Denver July 10-12

High summer brings variety to local galleries, where new exhibits range from a Biennial-inspired group show to an all-out bash remembering Frida Kahlo with art, film and music. Follow the muse to these five events. Nothing Belongs To Us Rule Gallery July 10 through August 15 Opening reception: 6 to…

Dr. Jeff Young is Animal Planet’s Newest Star in Rocky Mountain Vet

Dr. Jeffrey Young is a casting director’s dream. There’s the veterinarian’s look: long, greying hair, a thick mustache and kanji tattoos inked on his biceps, sculpted from years working as a track-and-field coach at North High. Then there’s the fact that, a quarter-century into his practice, Young still isn’t shy…

Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Justin Beard

#19: Justin Beard Justin Beard is a forager — of food, materials, experiences and ideas. As an artist, he won’t be pinned down to one practice, and he works wherever his conceptual foraging takes him, from building sculpture created from things he’s found to performance art, a movement he’s working…

Getting Started With Magic: The Gathering

I want you to consider something stupid. I want you to consider a trip down the deepest, nerdiest rabbit hole you will ever find. I am here to convince you to turn pieces of cardboard sideways while pretending to be a wizard, and I can all but promise that if…

Kingsley Becomes Reynolds in Body-Swap Thriller Self/less

Imagine if Donald Trump wanted to reboot his disastrous presidential-campaign-announcement month to start over as a younger man with real hair. In Tarsem Singh’s Self/less, Trump could hire the medical geniuses of Phoenix Biogenic to transfer his aging brain into a strapping-hot bod for $250 million — the price of…

Puff, Pass and Paint Celebrates New Home — and Bob Ross

Heidi Keyes’s Puff, Pass and Paint is a very different kind of art class, combining canvas, cocktails…and cannabis. Over the past year It’s proved popular with locals and tourists alike, and last month it moved from the beleaguered Green Labs to a studio space at 2900 Marion Street shared with…

The Ten Worst 21st-Century Buildings in Downtown Denver

Denver has never been a great town for fans of architecture. Important buildings from the past routinely go under the wrecking ball, while only a tiny percentage of their replacements are any good at all. It’s actually a brilliant strategy on the part of developers: Short-circuit any future historic-preservation struggles…