Last night’s episode of Project Runway All Stars was brought to you by a Deadhead near you. Or it might as well have been. The challenge asked the designers to create a look that would pop under a black light and impress guest judge Pharrell Williams…
It’s First Friday, and you might already have plans to be out and about. Here’s one more wonderful event to add to your itinerary, if you happen to be heading toward the Art District on Santa Fe or Gildar Gallery on Broadway: Welcome to Tomorrow, an informal unveiling of spring…
The KinkforAllDenver event on February 25 may have left a few people out of that all. A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the conference, criticizing the organizers — Rebecca Crane of Boulder and Maymay, formerly of New York and the co-founder of KinkForAll — for censoring presentations…
We’ve seen our last leap day for four years — but not discussions the earth’s rotation and other arcane calendar information you’ll need to look at before you leap. And then there’s this from Mothy:…
While Colorado may be home to one of the worst dressed cities in America, we’re still ranked as one of the fittest. It’s no secret that people here love being active — and Colorado Clothing has been making workout and sport apparel for our generally healthy population since 1998. But…
Fallene Wells was getting ready to acknowledge defeat in her Kickstarter campaign, which ended on February 22. The Denver fashionista was even preparing a second fundraising effort — with a more modest goal — on another crowdsourcing website since she was so far away from the $20,000 she’d hoped to…
I’m hardly Catholic anymore. Still, I wear the idea of my Catholicism as a romanticized badge of honor, taking pleasure in the idea that I once was a part of something truly controversial — and it wasn’t even by choice. In fact, I’m only now able to write about being…
The Yves Saint Laurent show will soon fill the Denver Art Museum, and Mondo Guerra seems to be running away with Project Runway All Stars (anyone else think it’s suspicious that he’s cancelling Denver engagements because he needs to be in New York in mid-April?). So Denver’s looking good these…
Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face.. This was Junge’s second nomination…but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:…
Penelope Ann Miller looked fairy-tale beautiful (and Oscar-worthy) at the red carpet with this classic strapless look — and here are several other glimpses we caught of fashion dos and don’ts, including the stunning Milla Jovovich and overly collagen’d Melanie Griffith…
If you are kinky, want to be, or are just curious about sexuality and different lifestyles — check out KinkForAllDenver, a full-day conference taking place tomorrow at the Community College of Denver’s Auraria Campus. The conference will be a hands-on (crack a joke here, pervs) teach-in with presentations by sexual…
If you — or your kid — have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don’t miss this week’s three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25…
Saturday night’s Artopia was an entertainment mashup of music, performance art, visual arts, fashion, food and other almost undefinable activities, fueled by alcohol and general high spirits. You can get a feel for the annual event in this slide show — which inspired Found Artist to cry foul:…
When we didn’t find many Shit People in Denver Say videos, we created our own. But then Erin Streets, a 25-year-old Denver designer, weighed in with her own Shit Girls in Denver Say , which Nick Lucchesi says is very funny. Not so Shannen:…
After spending a long and frustrating day last week trying to figure out what year it was and what country I was living in because my government decided it was cool to discuss a little issue regarding birth control but magically barred the only person with a uterus from being…
We sent Noah van Sciver, author of our weekly Four Questions comic, to Artopia on Saturday night and asked him to come up with a graphic (literally) impression of that orgy of arts, music, performance, fashion…and drinking. And as it turns out, he paid particular attention to Danielle Ate the…
Beverly Lewis could be Colorado’s most successful author. Her specialty? Bonnet-busters, as Amish romance novels are called — even though she’s not Amish. Since 1965, Lewis has lived in Colorado Springs, producing novel after novel set in the Pennsylvania’s Amish country…
Wonder what’s going to happen on December 21? Ed Barnhart, director of the esteemed Maya Exploration Center, has been studying the Mayans since long before 2012 conspiracy theorists dreamed up this whole end-of-the-world thing, and he’ll be lecturing on “Misunderstanding the Maya: 2012 and Why You Shouldn’t Worry” at the…
Westword MasterMind (class of 2010) and Project Runway alumnus Fallene Wells has a dream — to produce a vintage-inspired line of clothing and start CoSewn, a local apparel manufacturing company. She’s been inching ever closer to that lofty aspiration since she launched a $20,000 Kickstarter campaign in January. But it’s…
A true legend passed away last weekend: Illustrator John Powers Severin, whose sixty-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond. “Truly the art world has suffered a great loss…
Sabin Aell first came to Colorado in 2006, when the Austrian-born artist, who’d been living in Frankfurt for eight years, was chosen for a show in Fort Collins by photographer Mark Sink. “I was really blown away when I first came here,” she remembers. “I was always thinking more about…
Ken Arkind still remembers the day he met Jose, “that evil little kid in the back of the classroom.” In the years since, they have struck up a friendship — but that day, at a workshop where Arkind was teaching local youth to slam, Jose was being a little snot…
