Here’s a fashion crime of a whole new kind. On May 16, these two men, now dubbed the “thong bandits,” robbed a gas station in Arvada. For their caper, one man had donned a green thong, while the other wore a blue thong over his face. With so many cute…
Spring is finally melding into summer here in Denver, and with that change in season our closets need a transformation, too. What better way to celebrate the sun than by wearing summer styles by local designers? This was the thought that prompted Denver fashion veterans Lourdes Rios and Kandyce Hudson…
Apparently, Harrison Ford isn’t the only movie star who just seems to get sexier with age. Movie theaters all across Denver (probably the country) were sold out to hundreds of Sex-crazed fans, all dressed to the nines this Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sex and the City opened…
Colorado-based author, Maggie Sefton, knows a thing or two about knitting and purling, but the national bestselling author of A Killer Stitch can also weave — the parts of a mystery, anyway. Tomorrow, Sefton releases the fifth book in her Knitting Mystery Series, and this time heroine Kelly Flynn has…
In the old days – I’m talking the Golden Age of Hollywood – women knew their way around a pin curl. That’s when Veronica Lake made waves with that sexylicious one that fell over one eye, and every girl dreamed of looking like a Vargas pinup. But in this day…
Click here to see a slide show of Nicole’s work Patricia Field, the mastermind behind Carrie’s couture, has said of her leading lady, “People ask me all the time, ‘How does Carrie afford her wardrobe? She’s a columnist for a newspaper.’ I say, ‘Don’t worry about it. She looks fabulous.’”…
Denver designer Kirsten Coplans has been around the block — a few of them actually — beginning first with her defunct 17th Avenue boutique, Sparrow, and more recently as the creator of a clothing line carried by Jil Cappuccio on Capitol Hill and Pome on South Gaylord Street. For that…
Recently, I lost a close friend. This friend had been with me for many years, had traveled around the world with me, and always made me feel good. I’m talking about my favorite pair of Serfontaine jeans. These were the jeans I could wear with anything, could rock if I’d…
Although this look would probably fly in Aspen, it makes me glad that Denver isn’t as trendy as New York and the women here know better than to wear mangled fur with bad boots and a top knot. I do have to defend this with the fact it was from…
Only 24 more hours before the streets are lined with Sex-a-holics. It’s been nearly five years since we last saw our girls, so take a minute to make sure you’re still up on all the gossip of years gone by. Here’s a sampling of questions from the Sex and the…
In 1858, a famous chess game, the Opera House Massacre, was played between three people: The German Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French Count Isouard faced off against the American chess master Paul Morphy. But despite the combined efforts of Karl and Isouard, Morphy ran away with the checkmate,…
Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve already seen that gown winging its way around the web. Given the Sex and the City vibe, some fans might be more interested in whether the frock is…
Video virtuoso and 2006 MasterMind winner Johnny Morehouse is hip to the fact that these days, people have short attention spans. Really short attention spans. And really short attention spans call for really short films . Five minutes sounds good; five minutes is about the maximum amount of time you…
CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be interpreted according to its president’s presumed taste. Days before the 61st Cannes Film Festival ended, rumors were rife that the jury was having difficulties reaching consensus. As the award ceremony…
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that “strenuous indoor exercise” does not top anyone’s summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a video game. Me? I’ll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii…
Explosions, pratfalls and robots, heroes, aliens and blondes: It must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it’s striking to note just how many movies will require us to actually think this summer. (Aren’t we supposed to save thinking for the fall?) Maybe it’s the election, but there…
McGuinn and Murry are a pair of gumshoes waiting in their dusty office for a case in McGuinn & Murry, a takeoff on 1940s film noir. No one has enlisted their services for years, though, and so they make up hypothetical mysteries to pass the time. Murry comes up with…
The Denver Project. Created by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of New York’s UNIVERSES, this is an attempt to bring the realities of life on the streets to us, the well-fed patrons of Curious, to show that the homeless constitute a society and culture of their own, one that abuts…
Design is the stepchild of the visual arts, with none of the high status of its cousins, painting and sculpture, or its big brother, architecture. This is most likely because of its ubiquitous nature. On the plus side, the ready availability of design — which is all around us —…
East Colfax Avenue as it runs through central Denver is definitely on the way up. From downtown to the Monaco Parkway, storefronts are being spiffed up, shops and restaurants are opening, and people are starting to fill the formerly seedy sidewalks. The part of the street that seems to be…
Berghaus, Douglas and Riverhouse Editions. In the front spaces at Sandy Carson, there’s a whimsical yet intelligent show called Clearing: The Kinetic Sculpture of Marc Berghaus. The pieces are mechanical, with the most clever use of machinery being “Freeway Chase,” in which viewers look through the frame of a TV…
Though Joe Preston is better known for his tenures in the Melvins, Earth and High on Fire, his most musically interesting venture is perhaps his solo project, Thrones. With this act, Preston is free to let his imagination roam free, and the variety of his recorded output under this name…
