Today’s kids might know their way around a keyboard or how to surf the web with confidence, but as Earl Noe of the Book Arts League observes, the workings of a printing press are a different story entirely. “When they see the ink and type pressed to the paper, they’re…
Summer Jackson is quite possibly the best big sister in the city. Her younger brother Johnny is the mastermind behind clothing design label Broken, and Jackson has nothing but nice things to say about his work. “A lot of his designs are very technical, bringing together a different perception for…
It’s September, that rare and glorious time when seasons merge and you get best of summer’s weather along with the beginning of fall’s greatest attraction: football. Finally, your excuse to drink to excess on Mondays has returned. At Lola, Football With Spice mixes Monday Night Football with tequila and sangría…
Denver restaurants agree that Colorado produce and food products deserve the spotlight, especially now, at the height of the harvest season, when Palisade’s peaches are at their ripest, lamb and trout are abundant, and the corn ears of the Eastern Plains are at their sweetest. To that end, members of…
Receding hairlines, kids that won’t leave home, trophy wives and other expensive indulgences to recapture youth are just a few of the foibles of mid-life crises examined in Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical, opening tonight at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. Artistic director and producer Michael J. Duran says Mid-Life is returning for…
About 8,000 people will get physical in Cheesman Park today to show their support for the Colorado AIDS Project, its sister organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS at the 21st annual AIDS Walk Colorado. Last year, the event — which also includes the 5K AIDS Run — raised more than…
“We’re celebrating the 75th anniversary of something that is as American as baseball, and that’s the drive-in movie theater,” says photographer Zachary S. Malham. “I personally got on this drive-in mission — that’s what I call it — about 25 years ago here in the West. We were passing through…
The first rule of the Denver Cruisers? You do not talk about the Denver Cruisers. Second rule? You DO NOT talk about the Denver Cruisers. According to DC founder Brad K. Evans, there’s a good reason for that — many of them, actually — all of which mostly have to…
The second season of Bravo’s interior design show Top Design begins tonight at 10 p.m. Hosted by India Hicks, the show also features designers Todd Oldham (sure, he designs sofas for La-Z-Boy, but he still has a pretty good aesthetic) and Jonathan Adler, alongside Margaret Russell, editor-in-chief at Elle Decor…
Back to the regular school schedule means going back to tests, homework and classes — and finding a way to be comfy and still stylish. When I returned to school, I noticed that every class has its own style. For seniors, it’s super casual — a simple T-shirt and jean…
I have not been one with my new purse. At Cheyenne Frontier Days in late July, I searched through every booth and shop, looking for a replacement for the tooled leather number I’d picked up a few years before at the National Western Stock Show — a bag now held…
I was just certain that there would be a plethora of fashion bargains — and by “fashion,” I mean “T-Shirt,” which is admittedly stretching the definition of fashion pretty far — to be had today on the 16th Street Mall now that the Democratic National Convention has officially ended. Just…
It makes not a whit of difference to me whether or not Michelle Obama wears pantyhose. She is beautiful and poised, looks good in those jewel tones, and I love her. And I’m especially fond of this political pin-up girl’s collection of Erickson Beamon flower brooches, which she’s been seen…
Colorado is all over this week’s New Yorker, which not only has a piece on Denver, but this diss on Crocs in the opening graph of “Sole Sisters”: Boys have cars, girls have shoes — nineteen pairs, on average, according to a Consumer Reports poll. And so: I’ll take a…
Celebrate the end of the DNC in fashion at the Kid Dangerous Grime Couture fashion show at 24K and Monarch, 1416 Market Street. The party is from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. and admission is free if you call 303-888-0655 for reservations. For more information on Grime Couture, visit www.kiddangerous.com…
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads…prepare yourself…thrillers and spy novels. Or at least that’s the only conclusion one can draw from the “story by” credit the comedian receives on Traitor, an uneven yet engrossing terrorist thriller…
Until the untimely death of singer/guitarist D. Boon at the end of 1985, the Minutemen were one of the most exciting and creative bands of their era. The documentary We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen — which kicks off a four-part film series called Our Band Could Be…
At the very beginning of his one-man piece, Jeff Key appears in his underwear, so the first thing you find yourself focusing on is his beautifully toned body, an image to which your mind returns periodically — and pleasurably — throughout the course of this very serious and soul-searching exploration…
In many years of faithful attendance at Heritage Square Music Hall, I have never seen T.J. Mullin lose control of an audience. Sure, he always gives the jokers in the seats some play, letting them interrupt or yell out a comment or two — but he was having serious trouble…
Iraq War, the Musical. Unlike so many political satires, Iraq War, the Musical has teeth. It’s a sustained and ultimately serious attack on the Bush administration’s war and the lies told by Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney in order to launch it. Through skits and songs, writer-creator Paul Cross tells the…
The Modern and Contemporary department at the Denver Art Museum gained official status in 1978 when the institution hired Dianne Vanderlip to head it up. During her nearly three decades in the post, Vanderlip facilitated the acquisition of thousands of works for the permanent collection. But between shopping sprees, she…
Last week, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center concluded its nearly year-long search for a new director by hiring Sam Gappmayer (pictured). The job represents a big promotion for Gappmayer, who is currently the director of the much more modest Sun Valley Center for the Arts, in Idaho. Second only…
