There appears to be no shortage of organized urban adventures to keep you in an alt-athletic state of wonder, proving that the scavenger hunt-style fun need not stop with your loss of innocence and taking on of responsibility. Today, Denver will witness yet another group of grownups remembering how to…
When Thomas Frank decides to write an election-year book about Republican misrule, you should probably pay attention. What’s the Matter with Kansas? which came out in 2004, correctly predicted the rise of “moral values” voters before they walked out of the polls that November. It sparked a rush of critical…
Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan, a Colorado native who grew up in Oklahoma and now teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a quintessential writer’s writer and thinker whose works often intermingle environmentalist concerns and respect for nature with historical Native American and feminist perspectives. It’s an…
“I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.” — Derek Zoolander There’s a lot more we can learn from Zoolander besides the fact that Derek Zoolander is ridiculously good-looking. For example: “A male model’s…
Where can you find a mountain festival that contains music by Jazz Whistler Francesco Bonifazi, Big Daddy Lee and the Kingbees, the Earthbeat Choir, Frogs Gone Fishin’, Lucas Pulver & Friends, the Last Minute String Band, Wendy Woo & the Woo Band, and a drumming circle led by Laurie Loeb…
Gather together, festivarians! The eighteenth annual Folks Festival takes place in Lyons this weekend at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch (500 West Main Street, Lyons). Planet Bluegrass is well-known for its sustainability efforts, which means, among other things, that you won’t have to pitch your outside food or drink at the…
“Everything is political, to a certain extent,” notes Kim Harrell, owner of East End Applied Arts. That concept is the driving force behind the current exhibition at her gallery, Paint, Clay and Politics. Featuring the paintings of Theresa A. Anderson and the ceramic sculpture of Flora Curells Benzal, the exhibit…
“The mid-century-modern style has been near and dear to my heart since I was a little kid watching The Jetsons,” says hostess Dana Cain. “Modern design is so popular in Colorado right now, and it seemed like the ultimate thing I could do for Denver,” she adds, explaining the motivation…
I’m partial to corny hometown celebrations, and Littleton’s is undoubtedly one of the best around. No measly weekend of face painting, goofy competitions and pancake breakfasts, the ongoing eleven-day Western Welcome Week summer fete is actually all this and more, featuring no end of family fun, from gold panning to…
The duality behind creativity goes something like this: The inexplicable craziness forcing creative folks to write or sculpt or draw is often hindered by the procrastinator’s need to do the dishes or read old e-mails when it’s actually time to work. That’s why it’s good to have deadlines. Luckily, the…
“Everything is political, to a certain extent,” notes Kim Harrell, owner of East End Applied Arts. That concept is the driving force behind the current exhibition at her gallery, Paint, Clay and Politics. Featuring the paintings of Theresa A. Anderson and the ceramic sculpture of Flora Curells Benzal, the exhibit…
The last time I interviewed Woody Allen, at his editing suite on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, he was preparing the release of Match Point (2005), a dark morality play about an ambitious — and ultimately homicidal — tennis instructor working his way up the rungs of London society’s rigidly defined…
Adam Helms is a New York artist interested in taking up political themes in new works on paper and a monumental sculpture. His solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver — which officially opens tonight — is his first museum show anywhere, and director Cydney Payton is the one…
You’ve got to fight for your right to wear cool protest shirts. A few local anarchists who are helping to coordinate planned disruptions of the Democratic National Convention have been raising funds by selling off these spiffy “Defend Denver” T-shirts. I picked one up myself after being approached by the…
When I was told that I was being sent to a Teen Vogue party on August 16th to promote the first ever Silver Jeans store opening, I was ecstatic! The new store is in the Park Meadows Mall, and I thought before I went I should research the jeans and…
Though I rarely make it out to the Family Thrift Center, in Wheat Ridge, at 3777 Kipling Street, I always find amazing deals when I do, so I keep it on my radar. Family Thrift happens to be across the street from my favorite diner, the Apple Ridge Café, which…
Monday night I headed down to South Broadway in pursuit of an interesting subject to cover for “Secondhand Sartorialism.” South Broadway is a great area to investigate when you are seeking style inspiration. Hip boutiques, thrift stores and interesting bars abound, filled with people who possess intriguing and inspiring taste…
You know those people who are so incredibly gorgeous that even on your best hair day, in a moment of your most profound self-esteem, if you found yourself seated next to one of them you’d feel like one of those nasty mutants from The Hills Have Eyes? Only less interesting?…
Macy’s, the venerable department store that originally opened in 1858 as a fancy dry goods store in New York City, is celebrating 150 years by releasing celebrity prints from famed Rolling Stone photographer Mark Seliger. Cat thinks Christina is looking beautiful, fashionable and classy in this pic, which was inspired…
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd Apatow’s brand of stunted-man yuks a global franchise. Once more, Seth Rogen’s red-rimmed, half-shut eyes peek out from beneath his tousled Jewfro, which sits atop…
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center inspired fantasies of lustful conquest. As James Marsh’s documentary Man on Wire tells it, a mischievous French teenager was sitting in a dentist’s office in 1968 when a magazine image caught his eye. It…
A young female writer of romantic novels decides to turn to the supernatural for her next book. As she struggles with writing, throwing away page after page of work, she begins having a series of strange and unsettling experiences. Before long, she’s drawn into a dark, horrific alternate reality, populated…
