In May, I wrote about the mundanity of talking about the weather and how we should all just suck it up and deal with the rain and stop complaining. Last week, I finally broke. I took everything I said back and begged for summer to come, praying the afternoon thunderstorms…
One could hardly go outside this past weekend in Denver without stepping right into a street festival of one kind or another. PrideFest, touted to be one of the nation’s largest pride events, was one of the biggest, bringing the city’s LGBTQ community together under the sun at Civic Center…
Anthony Garcia Sr. is the founder of Birdseed Collective, a Globeville native, acclaimed studio and street artist, father, philanthropist and the mastermind behind the new compass created on an intersection at Jefferson Park. “It’s one of the pieces I’ll be doing this summer that is part of an urban renewal…
Summer arrives Sunday, and Denver street style is heating up. We spotted aspiring herbalist Palynn Earven on the pedestrian bridge in Riverfront and chatted with her to learn where she shops, what she thinks about fur, and what inspires her style. Earven cites earth tones as a favorite color palette…
Ski season has come and gone, but that’s okay — because the mountains have even more to offer in the summer. While you can find a festival going on nearly every weekend in any number of mountain towns, you can also make your own fun, whether you’re looking for a…
Summer is just around the corner, and the fashion scene is heating up. Here are four more events for the fashion-minded this month. 1) Elizabeth Kay Trunk Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 20 Whorl Shop 3326 Tejon Street Whorl will be hosting a launch party for Elizabeth…
Back in April, artist Lonnie Hanzon successfully completed a $10,000 Kickstarter campaign to put the icing on his contribution to this year’s fortieth anniversary PrideFest event: a massive, twenty-foot-tall wedding cake that would symbolically stand for marriage equality in our state and country. The sweet piece was to be constructed…
Dreams are weird. The shifting settings, ineffable imagery and bizarre happenings all seem to make sense at the time, only to leave you bewildered and often a little disturbed upon awaking. Nightmares are all that, plus a nice helping of mortal terror thrown in for good measure. Many horror filmmakers…
#20: Bryan Leister Artist Bryan Leister, a painter who’s graduated to new media and rethinks visual outcomes using code, installation, video-game technology and animation, can’t be pinned down — it’s a new, digital world out there, and Leister wants to be a part of it, by hook or crook. This…
Metro Denver is such a great place for cycling that you could pretty much head in any direction from your front door and find kindred spirits and stunning scenery. But there are many rides that have rightfully reached legendary status; here are ten that should have you on a roll…
Summer in Denver is full of art festivals, where row after row of artists show off their work. But some of the best places to see art in the summer are unofficial: Street artists from Denver and way beyond have made their mark in this state. Here are our ten…
The secret to why children look happier in photos from 1973 than they do in photos from 1933 could have something to do with the toys they had to play with. Baby boomers, breakthroughs in plastic molding and the rise of television pop culture are all credited with the revolution…
Last year renowned Denver hairstylist Charlie Price broke down in tears while watching an episode of Al Jazeera’s Borderland. Memories of growing up in the early ’80s with two girls from Cuba came flooding back as he saw the effects that immigration has on Mexican children crossing the border. “My boyfriend,…
Summer is the time to get up and get out, try a new sport, challenge yourself, meet people. And the season comes and goes pretty quickly, so here are ten suggestions for some new, mostly outdoor activities to try. We promise you’ll work up a sweat. Denver Cruisers Wednesday nights,…
There weren’t many nerdy kids in the ’80s who didn’t love The Last Starfighter. How could we resist its charms? It was about a poor kid growing up in the middle of nowhere whose love and mastery of video games turned out to be his ticket to the stars! That’s…
“Go ahead, call them chick flicks. We dare you.” So reads the motto for the fifth annual Colorado Independent Women of Film Festival. For the June 12-13 event, founder and program director Eileen Agosta has curated more than twenty film and television projects by two dozen female filmmakers from across the…
#21: Becky Hensley Becky Hensley’s motto is “You don’t know what you know until you teach it,” and as founder of Share Denver, a 1,600 square-foot, community-run Park Hill school and incubator for crafters and makers of all sorts that she calls an “eclectic Home Ec,” she lives it every…
Denverites who believe that there can never be enough cute in the world gathered at the Denver Coliseum this past weekend to commune with everything bright, happy and shiny — and each other — at Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival, a brand-new American tour featuring stage shows, exhibits, interactive elements…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. Last Monday, Tracks Ultimate Queen contest successfully whittled down…
Summer doesn’t really include a major shopping holiday, like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, so there’s no superego telling us where or what to buy. When it’s warm and sunny, we’re given over to lazy impulse buying and bargain hunting; we have the time to more completely enjoy our neighborhood shopping…
Is there any sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy film that sucks as bad as time travel? What is it about the concept of going backward or forward in time that seems to bleed all the intelligence and any semblance of good sense out of filmmakers? And yes, while there…
As spring swings into summer, it’s time to put your best-dressed foot forward. There are plenty of fashion events in the first half of June, ranging from trunk shows and workshops to hair shows and fashion parties. Here are the seven best places to look your best, in chronological order. …
