Improv is a particularly entertaining segment of Denver’s booming comedy scene, one in which actors working without a script play off the audience to create characters, jokes and even songs. Last year a new improv troupe joined the funny fray: Queerbots, which has a particular and fresh slant behind its mayhem…
MasterMind, Fashion Denver founder and entrepreneur Brandi Shigley is now adding international philanthropist to her resume. Shigley and the four other members of Team Clean Water Philippines will leave Denver for the Philippines on March 22, with a goal of installing fifty clean water filters — and the team needs…
Jeff Popp and Casey Lorenzen founded their backpack brand Mile High Mountaineering — now known simply as MHM — in 2009, and have since grown it into a full line of innovative and award-winning backcountry packs for hiking, backpacking, skiing and snowboarding. Last year they launched a successful Kickstarter campaign…
Life is short. For instance, even if you live to be ninety years old, that’s only 4,680 weekends. And until you’re a teenager, most of them are wasted on cartoons, sugary cereal and picking boogers. So, now that you’re older, don’t forget to live it up any chance you get…
In Boulder, it seems that climbing culture has always been around – the need to wear stretchy pants, to make impossible ascents, to perform crazy feats of gravity-defying derring-do. There, climbing is a kind of hypercompetitive Zen performance art. It’s fitting then that a new, epic climbing-history documentary, Valley Uprising,…
The Phamaly Theatre Company has been going strong in Denver for more than two decades, producing shows like Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and this season’s The Fantasticks, which just wrapped up a run at the Arvada Center. Now the company has a chance to take its…
Editor’s note: Indie Design Blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she’ll be sharing some of her favorite homes, by taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Betsy Wareing Steele creates dioramas that are to die…
#33: Stan Yan Denver native Stan Yan started out a stockbroker and ended up a cartoonist. Self-taught as an artist, he not only found his calling in the pages of comic books but helped to found the Squid Works comics cooperative, a community of artists with similar goals. More recently,…
When Leonard Nimoy died last week, my immediate reaction was to tweet, “RIP Spock. You lived long and seemed to prosper.” In the intervening time, I’ve come to realize I got it wrong. It’s Nimoy who is dead. Spock lives on. I’m not just talking about the character as played…
Get out of the cold and into a warm theater! Here are capsule reviews of recently reviewed productions — including four that close this weekend, and are all worth seeing. 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche “At the center, it’s a really sweet love story — and the funniest show of…
Art and fashion go hand in hand for Wendy Harriman, an artist inspired by her surroundings whose show, Wandertrees, will open at Fancy Tiger Clothing this weekend. The featured pieces are wall hangings that integrate found pieces from nature with fibers and suede to create works of macrame art that bring…
David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo is presenting Constructed Histories, an ambitious multimedia show that was put together by guest curator William Morrow. That Morrow has come up with a museum-quality exhibit should come as no surprise, as he was formerly a curator of contemporary art at the Denver Art…
When she envisioned NerdNest, Raine Giorgio wanted to create a one-stop shop and social-media sharing service for fangirls, And they have plenty to share. We asked three fangirls, including Raine, about their induction into fandom and what they consume each week. Keep reading for the answers. Raine Giorgio Age: 21…
Twenty-one-year-old Raine Giorgio is slumped into the soft leather folds of the old couch in her apartment near the University of Denver, wavy brown hair pulled loosely back, small frame hidden beneath a blanket while she does her Netflix-ing, blogging, fan-fiction writing and texting beside posters of The Fifth Element…
Fans of Japanese pop culture gathered over the weekend at the Sheraton Denver Tech Center for Animeland Wasabi, a nonstop anime love-fest, where cosplay — the art of becoming your favorite anime or video-game character — was a central part of the action. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture…
When Catherine Barricklow joined the first class of the Tara Performing Arts School in 1997, there were fewer than a dozen students, and instruction was in the basement of a home in Boulder. As the school’s population expanded, Tara became nomadic: The students were taught on makeshift stages around the…
Haus of Dollz brought a hot variety show of of burlesque, drag and comedy — something for everyone — to the Exdo Event Center over the weekend. Here’s a sampler of Brandon Marshall’s photos from the show; if you like what you see, check out the full Haus of Dollz…
A wealth of talent and ingenuity has gone into the Aurora Fox production of Big Fish — too bad the musical itself is no big deal. Based on Daniel Wallace’s novel, which became a 2003 film directed by Tim Burton, Big Fish is a story about tall tales. Edward Bloom,…
Rags Consignment Store in Cherry Creek North hosted a style-street event last month for Denver’s fashion and style-insider community. One of the fashionistas we spotted was Lucas Randall, intern at Jiberish Apparel. We asked him to share his fashion philosophy and where he shops; keep reading for the answers. Randall…
March is here, and thoughts of all those spring fashions are keeping us warm. Events are also heating up the scene: This month you have a chance to be cast on Project Runway, shop exclusive collections at Denver department stores, discuss upcoming trends, purchase rare sneakers and attend a bridal…
In a recent conversation I had with rapper and activist B. Dolan, I asked him why he chose to write about issues that, on the surface, didn’t affect him directly. He does a lot of work to bring to light the concerns of women, people of color, trans people and…
The funny thing about this entire crazy Mayday Experiment? I’m an introvert. Now, no one who knows me ever wants to believe this, but I swear it’s true. I’ve managed to get past my awkwardness and shyness over the years with a lot of practice, but deep inside, I’m just…
