Bag on this. Dana Miller was turning more heads than any other vendor at the Green Frontier Fest Sunday. The co-owner of BaggyShirts – who sells reusable bags made from recycled clothing – made a statement with disposable plastic grocery bags. She was a trooper, despite the hotter-than-expected temperature, spending…
Shoppers are the same, wherever they come from, so whether you’re here as a DNC delegate, ready to paint the town red, white and blue, or a local citizen looking for deals and Obama swag out the wazoo, now’s the time. And though it’s fair to expect independent retailers all…
Former Westword Fashion Mastermind winner Deb Henrikson is having a big 40% off sale at her shop, Equillibrium, located at 238 Santa Fe Drive. Deb’s unique street wear styles focus on sustainablity and socially aware fashion for both guys and girls. Equillibrium is open from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday…
OMG DID YOU SEE SHEAR GENIUS THIS WEEK? Walk into any salon and that’s what you will hear. Not as hooked on it as every stylist in Denver? Well, get it together! What Project Runway did for Fashion, Shear Genius is doing for hairstyling. The show is almost at its…
Stop by 24K tonight, August 21, at 9 p.m. for a fall preview of the latest looks from local clothing line Belleview. Models will be mingling with the crowd to show off the fashions, and from 10 p.m. to midnight you can enjoy complimentary drinks from Rubi Rey cocktails. DJ…
Get a head start on your weekend shopping at Frolik’s Third Thursday Celebration sale tonight, Thursday, August 21. From 5 to 8 p.m. the Highland shop, located at 3715 West 32nd Avenue, will feature a $15 and a $25 clothing rack, and if you mention the email they send out,…
The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf a good 25 years. Which isn’t to suggest that it’s fetid product in need of tossing out: Parts of it are genuinely delightful, and Rainn Wilson doesn’t squander his first feature-film starring role…
When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, telling the audience that the movie “put my heart in a vise and proceeded to twist that vise until the last frame,” my jaw went…
In its final ten minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are ten perfectly enjoyable minutes. It’s hard to knock any sequence that climaxes with a musical number titled “Rock Me, Sexy Jesus,” done up nice and Grease-y. Problem is, the eighty or so…
Two men in a room together: the torturer and the tortured. This is Uruguay in the early 1970s, and the victim is Pedro, a member of the revolutionary Tupamaros. The man who controls the torture — though he doesn’t administer it personally — is a colonel in the fascist country’s…
Iraq War, the Musical! has what so many political satires lack: teeth. It’s a sustained and ultimately serious attack on the Bush administration’s war and the lies told by Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney. Writer-creator Paul Cross has clearly done a great deal of research on the topic, and through skits…
The Hot L Baltimore. Director Terry Dodd has arranged one of the sweetest, smartest, loveliest evenings of theater you’ll ever have, by staging Lanford Wilson’s The Hot L Baltimore in the lobby of the Barth Hotel. The play is a kind of extended tone poem about life in a seedy hotel filled…
I’ve long thought of Denver as being the Rodney Dangerfield of American cities, because we just can’t get no respect. But ever since the Democrats announced they would hold their national convention in town, those of us who live here are starting to feel more like Sally Field, because it…
Although he moved away ten years ago, Gary Sweeney has a long and committed relationship with Denver. Sweeney is a conceptual artist with a taste for pop imagery, as seen in his best-known local creation, the pair of decorated maps titled “America, Why I Love Her” at Denver International Airport…
About Us… et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us…, put together by freelance curator Mark Addison, who brought in two dozen works of conceptual realism by a raft of internationally known artists in addition to pieces from his own collection. Addison…
It’s hot in the city — and it’s about to get hotter. Labor Day is the traditional kickoff to green chile season in Colorado and New Mexico, when vendors offering up to two dozen varieties line up along Federal Boulevard and other west Denver streets, roasting and selling their aromatic…
Observing the work of Mexican artist Gustavo Artigas is sort of like taking in reality TV. We watch intently, not without schadenfreude, to see how our fellow man reacts to diverse situations. The difference? There are no cockroaches, catfights or cash prizes involved…and Artigas’s work might just teach you a…
To borrow a phrase from the infamous 1968 DNC, the whole world’s watching. That’s why the City of Denver put its irons in the fire months ago to create Dialog:City: An Event Converging Art, Democracy and Digital Media, a public program showcasing commissioned works by renowned artists that doubles as…
First off, if you’re expecting some guy in whiteface trying to get out of an imaginary box on a street corner, forget it. The illustrious San Francisco Mime Troupe has spent most of its fifty-year history taking on issues in a manner that’s decidedly out of the box: Since the…
Mark Travis blazed onto the Denver art scene in the 1980s, and he exemplified the lifestyle of the classic artist-persona as made famous in fiction: He drank, smoked, did drugs and chased women while banging out one great painting after another. Although Travis first made a name for himself with…
Democratic Convention delegates can get a taste of Mile High history along with their music fix during the ninth annual After 5 Jazz & Blues Festival, which starts today and runs through August 29 in historic Five Points. The fest features both local and out-of-town musicians and runs the gamut…
How do you define democracy? How about with a film contest explicitly bound to the results of the popular vote? Cinemocracy Rocks! is a short-film festival for which more than 115 citizen reporters, activists and filmmakers submitted five-minute videos about democracy. The ten that garnered the most praise, interest and…
