If you want to know what Colorado and the west looks like, then head on over to the new Rockmount Ranch Wear and Liberty Boot exibit at the Denver Public Library’s central branch. The display is a fashion-lovers paradise (if only we could buy all of the beautiful boots and…
Last week, Crocs announced that it was eliminating 27 jobs, or 4 percent of its Boulder area work force, as part of a company restructuring in the wake of disappointing sales. Since the company could use some good news, here’s a Crocs fan’s response to the piece Alan Prendergast wrote…
Recycled fashion is hot these days. Just ask local designer, Trisha Hayworth — who uses recycled vintage pieces in her clothing — or any of the Colorado State University students participating in tonight’s recycled fashion show. Student designers were asked to incorporate scrap material leftover from the construction of CSU’s…
When Japan’s traditional Tango-no-Sekku (otherwise known as Boys’ Festival) falls each year on May 5, families hang out koi-nobori (carp banners) to symbolize longevity and perseverance, both desirable traits in sons. They also bring out the heirlooms – swords and elaborate, armored samurai dolls – and display them in their…
DIY fashionistas, rev up your bobbins: Wesco Fabrics, supplier to the design trade here and across the nation, is unloading a mind-boggling 25,000 yards of drapery and upholstery sample fabrics, all at a standard $3 per yard. There are jackets and handbags just waiting to be sewn from these classy…
Though fall colors are normally laid to rest when spring has sprung, sometimes Mother Nature comes down with a touch of schizophrenia and makes it snow on May 1st. When this happens, one is faced with a dilemma: Stay warm and wear fall clothes and autumn hues for unexpected weather?…
Hey all you fans of modern furniture — while you still can’t shop conveniently at an IKEA (sadly, the closest one to Denver is in Draper, Utah which is over 400 miles away) — there are a few great sales going on right now on high-end modern designs. Beginning tomorrow,…
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like Batman’s Bruce Wayne, whose transformation from average Joe into masked crusader is an act of will instead of the unintended result of a…
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who’s on her way to Scotland to marry Mr. Right Now since Mr. Right’s too chickenshit to say boo before her…
When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out — essentially paying full price for a fraction of the final product. Superfans are happy to do that sort of thing…
We walked to the front door of Shadow Theatre Company’s brand-new home in Aurora on a strip of red carpet. Inside the spacious lobby, dozens of people were chatting, smiling, sipping wine. In Denver, people aren’t much given to dressing up for a night of theater, but the crowd here…
Written in 1978, when the feminist movement had woken us all up to the extraordinary fact that women could, and frequently do, like each other, Crimes of the Heart is about sisterhood. Literal sisterhood, as opposed to the metaphorical kind explored in other dramas of roughly the same period, such…
The Baseball Show. Evil, malaprop-prone Vincent Vascombe, owner of the Beloit Bulldogs, is determined to hold on to his star player, Bill “The Bomber” Dawson. But Dawson — aided by his smart, competent fiancée, Helen — has plans for the majors, and there’s a talent scout hanging around. So Vascombe…
When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing about quilts, he rolled his eyes and said, “Oh, please, you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.” It’s a common reaction, and I know a lot of people feel this way, because every time I write about a quilt show,…
Surely the biggest art news last week was the joint acquisition by the Denver Art Museum and the Anschutz Collection of “Cowboy Singing” (pictured), an 1892 painting by Thomas Eakins valued at between $5 and $8 million. In addition, the DAM has also acquired two Eakins sketches, both of which…
Berghaus, Douglas and Riverhouse Press. 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…
While digging in the mud of a Kansas river bank, a group of scientists discovers…bones! Whose bones are they? Where did they come from? And what are they doing in this unlikely spot? All of those questions are answered in the latest film to hit the Extreme Screen Theater at…
Metallica is a magnet for performers dedicated to covering the band’s music in a manner 180 degrees removed from its noisy, aggressive origins. Consider Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica and Rockabye Baby!: Lullaby Renditions of Metallica, two discs so dopey and ear-wrecking that they’re capable of making…
Join the Parker Road Players for Almost Denver: The Songs and Failures of Jim Aurora, a John Denver parody that pokes fun at the legend by creating a “forgotten” fictional folk singer whose life parallels Denver’s. “I think they just thought up these parodies while listening to John Denver music…
When Michael Mason was younger, he and his friends used to cruise downtown Denver in their parents’ cars. “When you’re young, you want to get older, and when you’re older, you want to have the same feelings as when you were younger,” he says. As an engineer who lives in…
I am the proud owner of an 81-pound Victorian bulldog named Marshall. He’s the best dog on the planet, and I wouldn’t trade him for anything. But there will always be a soft spot in my heart for little dogs — dogs you can tuck under your arm or into…
The fruits of the regional retail union known as the Original Shopping Districts are finally beginning to ripen, as evidenced by tonight’s Ladies Only Sample Tour event, taking place from 4 to 7 p.m. in member districts all over the metro area. A successful, rapidly growing venture in past years,…
