New at I Heart Denver: Denver Picard Schimek in a box

We love our dogs in Denver, but few local pups have stirred up as much heart-thumping love and attention as house corgi Denver Picard Schimek, the I Heart Denver Store’s animal ambassador. His owner (and I Heart Denver entrepreneur) Samuel Schimek says the precious pooch turns one this month. See…

Photos: Female arm-wrestling competition at Phat Thai

Young Cherry Creek restaurant Phat Thai offered a strong start to Labor Day weekend. Upper-body strong, that is. Organizers channeled muscle and mettle with a female arm-wrestling competition that featured members of the Denver Derby Dolls and the public pushing up their sleeves and pitching in to raise funds for…

Twenty best costumes from the 1950s Tiki-Exotica Ball

Labor Day weekend packed a peck of pickled parties, but for the holiday outing’s best costumes, look no further than Saturday’s 1950s Tiki-Exotica Ball. Held at the Millenium Harvest House in Boulder, the event featured historic fashion, Polynesian pageantry and vintage music for a night dedicated to the Hawaii of…

Hey, baby, what’s your sign?

I don’t recall my exact age when I started checking my horoscope, but I’m sure it correlates with my reading of the newspaper, a routine that started when I was about eight. (I had been drinking coffee every morning long before that, because apparently, I was a tiny, grumpy preschool-sized…

Spike Lee’s most beautifully preachy moments

Spike Lee’s films always carry a social message, but his mastery of aesthetics and storytelling usually transcend any political bias. Yet just like the jazz score in a Woody Allen flick, or obscure pop culture references in one of Quentin Tarantino’s little treasures, there inevitably comes a point in almost…

Filmmaker Clifton Archuleta finds room to Breathe in Pueblo

After eight years in the Army, Clifton Archuleta moved back to Colorado to attend Colorado Film School and get his BFA from Regis University. His thesis piece, Broken Cycle, has earned him recognition at film festivals; he just finished making a short film called Breathe in his home town of…

Photos: ARTCRANK Denver pedals into Taxi this weekend

The local graphics community rolls quite naturally alongside the hipster bike community, which is evident every September when the annual ARTCRANK bike-poster show takes a lap through Denver. This year’s event featuring $40 limited-edition, hand-printed posters by 36 talented artists will be in that RiNo live/work haven, Taxi, to celebrate…

Zombikini car wash puts walking dead in swimwear at last

In the midst of our current zombie renaissance, we’ve just about seen it all: running zombies, Nazi zombies, classic-lit zombies, even singing and dancing zombies. It seems like every day a new wrinkle is added to the zombie canon. Today’s innovation: the zombikini car wash. See also: – Slideshow: Zombie…

Blue state v. red state: Which Colorado do you live in?

Colorado is a key swing state in the upcoming presidential election. In polls, Colorado looks like a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, with leads shifting back and forth by the day — and which way the vote ultimately goes here could decide the national outcome. By the numbers,…

Two ceramics shows memorialize Colorado’s clay history

Although Colorado has a substantial ceramics scene right now, back in the second half of the twentieth century, the Centennial State was one of the places to be for artists who worked with clay. The cavalcade of international stars active then included Betty Woodman, Paul Soldner, Richard DeVore and that…

Now Showing

Continental Drift. To create Continental Drift, MCA Denver curator Nora Burnett Abrams and Aspen Art Museum curator Jacob Proctor looked at the work of more than 300 Colorado artists who had submitted portfolios. Abrams and Proctor then winnowed the hundreds of submitters down to a mere twenty and scheduled them…