Denver Life

Summer may be heating up, but that shouldn’t be an excuse to stop sweating during workouts.

We spotted the kindergarten teacher in a sea of spectators at the Westword Music Showcase.

Alexander Ablola Photography and fashion shape Alexander Ablola’s world, a crossover milieu that he navigates from behind the lens and, as a design-savvy artist and costumer, behind the scenes.

Author Catlyn Ladd went from exotic dancer to college professor.

Denver’s losing cultural institutions to Lakewood. The Colfax Museum is the latest to go.

It’s rare for the fashion world to represent with a DIY outlook, but Denver stylist Meredith MacNicholas, who launched the underground fashion magazine collective Soft and Shallow in 2016 with photographer Alexander Ablola, is crossing that line.

Some of this country’s most creative design energy came from immigrants.

Add a little fitness to your Westword Music Showcase weekend.

A self-taught artist/illustrator/muralist and musician originally from Kansas, former farm boy Joshua Finley is a member of the offbeat Cabal Gallery crew and plays drums in the cow-punk band Granny Tweed.

This Thursday, June 21, marks the fifth International Yoga Day, and several fitness events are popping up throughout the city in celebration. Here’s five opportunities to unroll your mat and join the rest of the world for a day rooted in peace, cooperation and yoga.

Artist Josh Davy is a part of the booming 40 West Arts District.

As Denver prepares for Pride, local fitness studios are joining in on the celebration, too.

Meet Velvet Elvis, Colfax Museum operator and the reincarnation of Neal Cassady, Jonny Barber.

From a sober rave to drunken parties, Denver Pride proves to be a good time again.

Dita Von Teese grew up in a farming town in Michigan as Heather Sweet, a dishwater blonde who, was “just kind of a mediocre looking girl,” she says, before moving to Los Angeles to eventually revolutionize the burlesque world.

Still a year from her BFA, Mari Crespin is already a busy artist.

Get out and see (and buy) some art this summer!

Being chic on the street is important, especially if you work in the fashion industry: You never know who might be watching. We recently spotted model and actress Grace Anne Peters in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe.  Peters moved from Kansas to Colorado to pursue a career in modeling…

This state may be landlocked, but you can still get in the swim of things.

The 21 best events in Denver this week.

“Have graphite, will travel” could be the motto of artist Travis Hetman.