Denver Life

Roses are red, violets are blue, love is in the air…and fashion is, too.

The work week is finally over, and it’s time to throw on the “Zen AF” t-shirt and carve out some time on the mat. This weekend is the perfect opportunity to try a variety of workouts at low to no cost, whether it’s Crossfit, barre or cycling. Keep reading and choose your sweat session.

A musician-turned-designer, and an installation artist to boot, Kenzie Sitterud came on last fall as a member of the most recent class of RedLine residents, a designation the artist is already embracing with a shower of new and ongoing work.

Artist, photographer and educator Katie Taft isn’t new to the Denver scene: Back in 2006, she was a member of the second class of Westword MasterMinds, already a creative activist known for her monthly artist-talk series Self Made, which took place in a bar.

The Best of Denver 2018 Readers’ Poll is live, and we’re looking for your input on dozens of the categories that will appear in the March 29 issue.

We spotted the model/marketer in Curtis Park, on a visit back from New York, where he studied fashion marketing at Parsons School of Design.

The snow has almost completely melted after last weekend’s snow storm, which means it’s time to get out of the house and into the studio. This weekend offers plenty of opportunities to get onto your mat with free and cheap weekend workouts.

Jason Heller says he’s been a jack-of-all-trades—blue-collar warehouse worker, a record-store clerk, an itinerant musician and a drunkard.

Have paintbrush, will travel — over his career, Kevin Sloan moved around. A lot. But for now, he’s settled in Denver, spinning elegant canvases drenched in allegory and magical popsurrealism, many of them based in a natural world changed by human history.

You had a week to recover from your weekend workouts, Denver warriors, and now it’s time to get back on the mat and back on the meal planning.

Native Denverite Josiah Lee Lopez, aka the muralist ZEPOL, grew up on the streets and and in the back alleys, with roots as a talented graffiti writer whose work — still executed on walls, though now more often with permission — has evolved with the times.

Painter Craig Marshall Smith was born in Flint, Michigan during the Truman administration. He attended UCLA, and then taught drawing at three universities in three states for over thirty years. His opinion columns appear in a number of metro-Denver weekly newspapers.

Destiny Acuna designed an outfit for the first lady of top Dawg Entertainment, SZA, a five-time Grammy-nominated R&B singer.

Denver native and artist Carlos Frésquez’s people came from the centuries-old Mexican borderland culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, but he experienced his roots from a city boy’s cross-cultural perspective.

The best choreographers are pioneers in space, intellectually binding movement and ideas in a singular sweep through time. It takes a dynamic, malleable mind to do that, while staying just ahead of trends in the outer reaches of the dance universe. Kate Speer — a consummate collaborationist, recent PlatteForum resident and a member of RedLine’s newest class of artist/residents — has got that down

2018 looks like it’s going to be a stellar year for nerds of all stripes. Here are eleven of the best events.

It’s a week into 2018, and it’s time to test those New Year’s resolutions. Did you commit to get fit? Check out these free and cheap weekend workouts around the metro area this weekend to help get yourself motivated.

Musa Bailey galvanized an old-school spirit in rapidly gentrifying RiNo with music, style, spins and street art as the creative wing and artist liaison of the Cold Crush ownership — and hopes to continue that work when the legendary hip-hop club safely lands in a new location.

The new year is here, bringing new ideas, new trends and new reasons to look your best. Here are the ten best fashion events for Denver in January 2018.

Yoga mania has swept Denver. You can do yoga on New Year’s Eve, yoga on New Year’s Day, yoga with goats, yoga with pot, yoga to a Bassnectar soundtrack. And now you can even do it naked, with Yogi Roo at Release Studio. But that’s where some yoga enthusiasts draw the line.

It’s been a fascinating time in Denver theater, a time of ferment, renewal, excitement, hope and loss. And through it all, the community has continued to produce first-rate art. Here are some of the noteworthy trends in 2017, as well as my picks for the best theatrical achievements of the year.

Before you make your official New Year’s resolutions — and before signing up for any gym memberships — take advantage of this weekend’s workout and wellness deals in Denver.