The idea that online dating sucks for straight people is as old as online dating itself. A few weeks ago, as I watched Luciann Lajoie explain in great theatrical detail the (however brief) life of a frantic serial online-dater in Date, I was reminded of just what terrified me so…
Time magazine started the whole thing, with a cover that featured a toddler smirking like a teenager while latched onto his mother’s breast. The cover story, on attachment parenting, inspired a response from both Westword writer Jef Otte, who thinks attachment parenting sucks, and local comic Andrew Orvedahl, who doesn’t…
The movies for the 2012 Film on the Rocks summer lineup at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — many of them picked by the people, for the people — were announced Friday night, and don’t blame the Denver FilmCenter if you don’t like The Notebook. “It wasn’t just because this seems to…
.Creeped out by last week’s TIME cover story about attachment parenting, Jef Otte penned an essay for the Village Voice about how much attachment parenting sucks and posted it to his wall. As it happened, local comic and 2012 Westword MasterMind Andrew Orvedahl had penned his own essay on how…
Crystal Lee is a fashion designer, seamstress, stylist and all-around bad ass. Shunning the corporate world in order to follow her passion — and avoid beige nylons — she is pursuing her love of fashion as a student at the Art Institute of Colorado. Her line of super-easy, fly and…
Britt Chester, who sold his car two years ago and relies on his bicycle and public transportation to get around, has been riding around this town’s bike trails, stopping to snap pictures. This photos become posts in our “guess where I’m biking” series — which has a B-cycle card as…
Wicked will end its run in Denver on May 20, and when the touring show goes, Colorado native Andy Kelso, who plays Fiyero, the hedonistic prince who becomes the third point in a love triangle with the two leading ladies, will go with it. “The Buell is where I first…
After sitting through two recesses and a combined seven hours of debate and testimony before the House State Affairs Committee killed the civil unions bill last night, I left the Capitol with a numb ass and a heavy heart. But as I and other GLBTQ persons and allies face another…
You’re not going to see Edie Winograde’s “Battle on the Little Big Horn” at History Colorado, or any of the other pieces that graced the recent Appropriated: The Chronicled West at the Robishon Gallery, the show organized by husband-and-wife team Jim Robischon and Jennifer Doran, who pulled together contemporary art…
“Comics and sci-fi are the new archetypes of our culture; we relate to Star Wars and Stan Lee’s characters, and we’ve created new mythologies through them,” says Dan Landes, restaurateur and self-confessed sci-fi geek. And on May 4, Landes’s City, O’ City hosted a full-on orgy of nerdness with the…
Meet the MasterMinds! Eight years ago, Westword started the MasterMind Awards, a program that honors this city’s most creative class. Over $100,000 years in grants later, the MasterMinds are still going strong…
Is everyone using Kickstarter to push a movie project? Some days it seems like that. The crew behind CREEP!, a movie about making the worst horror movie ever — 1964’s The Creeping Terror — is in the last days of an attempt to raise $65,000 to bring the monster back…
Photographer Scott Russell has documented the lives of Denver sign-fliers in Cardboard & Concrete, a show that debuts this weekend at Wazee Union, and puts a face — actually, eleven faces — on the city’s controversial homeless issues. But the show itself is stirring some controversy…
On Saturday, when a collision of cultural celebrations — the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo — had people sporting big hats and sombreros all over town, one person’s style statement definitely topped all others. Every witch way. Here’s a look at this week’s Denver street style…
Scott Russell expected to find stories, and he did. On bike rides between Denver’s alleys and street corners, he found twenty of them, eleven of which will be on display this weekend at Wazee Union at Cardboard & Concrete, the project that resulted. But there were a few surprising turns…
Is Colorado the Suburu state? That’s what Bree Davies suggests in “An Ode to Subaru, the unofficial car of Colorado”. While Wooderson, her beloved Outback, is the focus of the piece, there are plenty of other Subarus out there. An entire fleet of them. And their drivers are all fans…
After a winter hibernation, new retail merchandising vendors are wheeling out their wares on the 16th Street Mall. And not only have the offerings grown, but so have the hours: The Downtown Denver Partnership now requires vendors to be on-site between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and…
When I was in my early twenties, I carried an aluminum baseball bat in the back of my car. It was initially gear for summer seasons of Chilihead softball: I worked at Chili’s for a few years — and, like many corporate chain restaurants, Chili’s really wishes it were a…
There are a few places where women without hats would seem dangerously close to naked: a Baptist church, the Kentucky Derby and Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. And for a hat to appear in conjunction with the latter — the Queen, in her sixtieth year of Queendom, is known for…
After months and months in the shadows of construction trucks, Tennyson Street has finally emerged, newly paved and curbed. And last Friday, Kevin Curry’s “Face the Sun” a new piece of public art paid for (like the construction project) by the 2007 Better Bond Project was unveiled at 41st and…
Britt Chester has been riding around the metro area, asking people to guess where he’s biking — for the chance to win a season B-Cycle pass. Some of these areas have B-Cycle stations, some — like Park Hill — do not. And if they don’t, advises, one reader, then they…
When she set out to create the online clothing retailer DapperGirl, Molly Barrett drew from her own experience, and the difficulty she encountered finding clothes that fit. But “fit” wasn’t just about the physical aspect — Barrett wanted her clothes to encapsulate her style, personality and who she was –…
