Cat’s friend Stacy is in town, so she only had time to scout two dresses for Cheap and Chic Monday. Still, either would be a good investment. The black is a perfect dinner and cocktails dress (it’s also in gold for the brave among us), and the sundress comes from…
Click here for a slide show of the evening. On Friday night, July 6, The Fabric Lab celebrated its fifth birthday by throwing Glorification — guerilla fashion shows parading down the streets and in the galleries open for First Friday. Even though a lot of passersby thought it was performance…
Photos by Taylor Sullivan Tran Wills is a hard person to keep up with. Between the multitude of fashion shows that she has her hands in, running her locals-only boutique The Fabric Lab with her husband, Josh, and keeping up with her three kids, it’s a wonder that she can…
Cat is just in a picture mood today. Fashionologie sent her over to the French Vogue website, where the good people there have posted some of the advertisements we can expect in our fall fashion mags — you know the ones that double as weapons of mass destruction? Anway, here’s…
It’s post Fourth of July, and Cat is still recovering from too much green chile, tequilla and menudo, so enjoy yet some more pretty pictures. This time from Wednesday’s showings at the fall/winter 2007 Paris Haute Couture shows. (Photos courtsey of Elle.com; click on the images for slide shows of…
This is either great — or terrifying — news: A Sex and the City movie is happening, with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis all participating. Variety is reporting that the squabbles of a few years ago — when Cattrall wanted the same money and power…
One of the best field trips of my high-school career in the Chicago ‘burbs was to the city’s Briar Street Theatre to see the Blue Man Group. I don’t remember details of the show any longer, just the sensory overload. Neon and black light. Drumming, lots of drumming. And the…
With songs like “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” “Silver Bells” and “Winter Wonderland” dancing through your head, aren’t you ready for a silent night by the time New Year’s kisses roll around? Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, has the answer for all you holiday humbuggers who would rather choke…
Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-fucking your brain in the last twenty minutes. Yes! It’s torture enough waiting for the iPhone and the second coming of Jesus without wondering when, exactly, this…
Upon finding out that The Private Life of Henry VIII was made in 1933, my roommate’s first reaction was “Dude, this is gonna suck.” I had higher hopes, thinking it would be kitschy, maybe, or at least slightly amusing because of the historical context. But good, probably not. How could…
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been so thuddingly mediocre for so many years that I approached the opening night of A Midsummer Night’s Dream filled with skepticism. And nothing I heard at the gala preceding the performance — as new artistic director Philip C. Sneed pontificated on the history of…
The Victorians were increasingly fascinated with stories of adventure, as technological advances in travel made their world smaller and more accessible. It didn’t hurt that so much of that world map was colored an imperial red. In his famous novel Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne makes fun…
Corteo. Cirque du Soleil’s Corteo is a fine experience — visually gorgeous, musically exhilarating and filled with acts of athleticism that take your breath away. The costumes and sets are lovely and evocative, with the kind of fanciful curlicues you imagine adorning a fairy-tale palace or a miraculous child’s birthday…
Curator Gwen Chanzit is the world’s foremost authority on the late artist Herbert Bayer, and she has put this knowledge to good use over the past couple of decades as the keeper of the Herbert Bayer Archive and Collection held by the Denver Art Museum. It was started while Bayer…
The contemporary art scene in Denver is made up of scores of galleries, but until thirty years ago, there were only a handful of exhibition spaces in town. It was in the 1970s that the foundations for what we have now were first laid. This was the time of the…
Gary Lynch. The Emmanuel Gallery, in association with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, presents Gary Lynch: A Memorial Retrospective. Lynch, a Denver native who was born in 1953, died unexpectedly in the fall of 2005. A well-known fine-art photographer who served on the board of CPAC, Lynch took up the…
Black Snake Moan (Paramount) The best place to see Craig Brewer’s mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would be a Mississippi drive-in circa 1972. His tale of a black bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) who chains up a seething, scantily clad cracker nympho (Christina Ricci) would’ve had the lot under martial law…
Everyone’s got a different sense of what makes a killer party. For kids, maybe it’s whacking a piñata and overdosing on cake. For adults, it could be sticking a beer bong down your gullet and declaring yourself Mayor of Schlitz City. But since 1999, the Mario Party series has served…
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Complete Series (Shout!) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Anchor Bay) Dead Silence (Universal) Echo & the Bunnymen: Dancing Horses (MVD) Film School (Docurama) Frankenstein Conquers the World (Tokyo Shock) Going Under: Unrated Version (Blue Underground) High School Musical: The…
Mike Schleipfer, also known as DJMC, has amassed a lot of strangely compelling music during his eight years at KGNU — and now he’s got a new place to put it. Beginning at midnight tonight, and continuing every second and fourth Wednesday night/Thursday morning, A to Z With DJMC will…
Of all the DJs in all the world, Mark Farina, who spins a free set today at Twist & Shout, may be the most musically accessible. On a series of discs released under the Mushroom Jazz banner beginning in 1996, he helped establish the sonic template for Om Records, the…
For the most part, real-life robots are lame. They just sit around doing boring-ass jobs like assembling cars and vacuuming floors. They don’t do any of the cool things my childhood obsession with pulp sci-fi led me to expect: no transforming into fighter jets, no plotting to overthrow their human…
