Gary Pera had been whitewater sledging for several years near his home in New Zealand when he met a girl from Aspen, Colorado. “A woman enticed me over here, and we decided to check out the rivers,” Pera explains. “I didn’t even know there was a ski resort, but I…
With a Democratic National Convention hot on our heels, these are downright presidential times in Denver. On the first of July, it’s already the sort of summer when everything local has developed some sort of cultural tie to a political theme. We’re all jumping on soapboxes to expound, watching and…
The words “user-generated content” usually mean you’re about to encounter one of two things: an irritating Super Bowl commercial made by 16-year-olds, or another dramatic chipmunk. Still, people love this stuff. So it’s no surprise that video-game developers are catering to the YouTube generation with “Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy”…
Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It’s R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring fhe Little Tramp. An Inconvenient Truth meets Idiocracy on its way to Toy Story. But none of these do justice to a film that’s both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate — and,…
As we’ve said before, Coloradans can’t seem to stay out of the news when it comes to undergarments. One local designer has taken our proclivity for exciting new uses for underwear, and translated it into a new business venture. Heather Arellano, the spotlighted designer for this week, can easily sum…
Teen fashion correspondent Sarah Bolliger brings us the teen view of the latest summer fashion trends. Fashion trends seem to change almost every day. Trying to keep up with these trends can be difficult, especially when you are on a budget. We all wish we could wear and own those…
Coloradans sure are getting inventive with their undergarments this summer. First, we had the Thong Bandits who wore women’s thongs over their faces in an attempt to conceal their identity during a robbery in Arvada. Then there was the priest caught jogging naked in Greeley who seemed to spur a…
It’s an experience most every guy can relate to — spotting an absolutely stunning girl hanging off the arm of, well, a complete and utter douchebag. You know the type: overly gelled hair, fugly tattoos, spray-on Cheeto-hued tan, ridiculous bling hanging everywhere… Well, one man has made the study of…
These two pictures represent the female style of Colfax so well. Pink streaks with a sundress and a LBD rockin’ out to some punk music with cocktail in hand. — Rossy Kay…
Slide Show It was all food, fashion, fun and wild animals at last Thursday’s Do At The Zoo. The Silk & Spice themed gala brought out Denver’s finest for the evening. More than 40 restaurants were serving up treats, including a taste of molecular gastronomy offered by O’s Steak &…
Click on photo to see slide show Omigawd! It’s Gay Pride Eve and I haven’t even started my holiday shopping! Lucky for me, just a few blocks down from the office is a little boutique… nay… little Mecca for Denver’s “alternative lifestyles.” Studio Lites Wig Boutique has been a Broadway…
Everyone knows that a good pair of jeans is a girl’s best friend, and more than a few of us also know how hard it is to find that elusive grail. But if you can’t chance upon the perfect fit this weekend off the endless racks at the Warehouse Sale,…
First of all, deep down inside, every mom knows her baby is beautiful. The tot could have two heads and, yes, it would still be beautiful. But the real question here is this: Is your child a rock star? Perhaps the only way to find out is to call hipster…
Maybe it’s just that competitive reality shows have hit the tipping point. Maybe it’s that being a “star” on HGTV is sort of like being the quickest runner at fat camp. Maybe it’s that fast design isn’t usually good design. Whatever the reason, HGTV’s reality show Design Star needs to…
In a wonderful marriage of food and fashion, tonight’s Do At The Zoo should present fabulous eats from over 40 of Denver’s top restaurants as well as plenty of fashionable guests in tropical cocktail attire. The event is themed “Silk and Spice” and proceeds will help to build the zoo’s…
Pink hair streaks, huge shades and a Johnny Cash inspired shirt….stop being so damn cute Holli! I loved this top because it is the perfect mesh of casual and dressy. It could be worn to a party or to take multiple shots of tequila, like Amy was doing. — Rossy…
The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin’s intercontinental, cross-cultural ensemble piece a Best Screenplay statuette makes perfect sense: It’s not brilliant, but it wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relationships…
The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in ’06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life partner, Adam McKay, to get distributors interested. Notes the trailer: The men behind Anchorman and Talladega Nights “watched it…
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, “Doc” Paskowitz, at Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance, showing director Doug Pray a blown-up photo of a Nazi preparing to shoot a Jewish mother and child at close range…
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here’s a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI tumult of 300, Alexander and Troy look like sissy-boy slap parties. Mongol, alias Genghis Khan: The Early Years, may compress, elide and…
A man in a Michael Jackson outfit — red shirt, black jeans, white face mask — rides hunched over the tiny frame of a clown bike. Jutting out to his side, attached by a wire, is a stuffed monkey puppet with angel wings. The background is a nondescript go-kart track…
The idea behind the Gaia Film Festival is that simple choices can inspire us to make a difference, thus changing the world, one choice at a time. That’s why you’ll find films such as the Colorado premiere of Saida Medvedeva’s Water, which examines the secrets of the most common substance…
