This season is all about the brights, whether they’re in modish ’60s dresses or swingy ’70s-style maxi dresses. And the biggest of all the brights is yellow. In your face, eat sunshine yellow. Yellow that under normal circumstances should either warn you of a blind curve or a terror alert…
Cat is so enthralled with this Louis Vuitton heel. She wants it for herself. But at $1,060, it’s not likely to happen any time soon. But there’s a very similar pair at Aldo Shoes for about $120. That’s possible…..
Here are the rest of the sale items Cat found. Some tasty, tasty treats…
Too much fashion for one blog post! Cat went shopping on Satruday, doing her monthly swing through the boutiques and malls to see what’s on shelves. Sales, sales everywhere. Seriously, if you’ve been needing to stock up on basics, Banana Republic is having a giant end-of-season mark down before new…
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Barneys New York was purchased by the government of Dubai — for $825 million. This is the fashion Mecca of the U.S. Seriously. Cat lived down the street from the Co-op on 17th, and when Barneys had its twice annual sale, people…
Note: Here’s the video — finally posted on YouTube. Last week the blogosphere was all atwitter about Diesel webcasting its spring/summer 2008 collection, scheduled for Friday evening and titled “Liquid Space.” Even boingboing got in on the action when Diesel announced that the models would be walking in “a futuristic…
Photos by Taylor Sullivan Note from Cat: What to Wear Fridays, a feature on what this city’s most stylish are wearing for the weekend, is now back. It had gone on hiatus, but with the warm weather all kinds of cute frocks are turning up. So tune in every week…
Manolo Blahniks 40% off — in Vegas. • The WSJ says Frye boots are back. But Fashionista responds and (wrongly) compares them to cowboy boots and says they’re already over. Note: Neither Frye nor cowboy boots are ever over. • If you’ve got the money, get thee to Vegas. Manolo…
Fops and Dandies has a great post today about Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Bitten” line doing a little biting of its own. Yep, they’ve spotted a SJP — who swears, swears, swears she’s involved with the “designing” — that looks remarkably similar to an Anna Corinna bag. One sells for $360,…
Thursday, June 21 Gay on Santa Fey Kick off PrideFest early and head down to Santa Fe Drive for a mix of art, fetish fashion shows by the Crypt, body art, drag queens and kings, and performance art by Hector Muñoz. Participating art venues include the Labyrinth, 4 art studios,…
My great-grandmother had a ticket to cross the Atlantic Ocean on April 10, 1912, on a ship that, allegedly, God himself couldn’t sink. But instead of setting sail with the Titanic on its maiden voyage, she decided to spend a few more days in Europe with her family. It was…
Traffic congestion on southbound Broadway after the first day of the work week is no fun. Instead of the road rage you’re bound to encounter, wouldn’t you rather just dance? The folks over at Blue Ice are betting you would, which is why they’re hosting La Practica Tango Happy Hour…
“Where are you girls going? What is good on Tuesday?” one of two Avalanche players asked me in an almost unintelligible French accent. So I invited them to join me at Kokopelli’s, 2233 Larimer Street, for Live Roots Reggae Night from midnight on. Of course, the hockey players didn’t show…
What true bookie wouldn’t love to mingle with a who’s-who of contemporary Indian literature, beginning, but not ending with, the esteemed Salman Rushdie, all while sitting on the top of the world in Aspen? That’s the agenda at this year’s Aspen Summer Words festival, titled Passage to India: a five-day…
Years ago, when Denver sculptor Maureen Hearty (aka Mauxheart) created Lilyanna, she debated whether or not to develop the “awkward, gangly, ugly” skull-headed character into a children’s book. She decided against it, and considering the psychedelic world of “crazy metal plants,” kleptomaniacal jellyfish, Venus flytraps and raunchy blobs where Lilyanna…
Evan Almighty, the followup to Bruce Almighty, is the work of an angry God. At 89 minutes that last a lifetime, it’s a sanctimonious sitcom dolled up as the most expensive comedy ever made — $175 mil, so they say, no doubt choking — and marks an unfortunate low point…
Bamako, the latest by acclaimed African director Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting for Happiness), arrives heavily lauded by the usual suspects: festival love galore, including a privileged slot at Cannes and placement in the New York Film Festival; lengthy coverage in the highbrow movie magazines; strong reviews on pointy-headed film blogs. Structurally…
A skilled actor vanishes into a role; a movie star appropriates it. As presence trumps character, the star personifies Brecht’s alienation effect and the movie becomes a vehicle — the latest installment in an ongoing career or, in the case of a great star, a public myth. Angelina Jolie is…
Mike Enslin, the travel writer played by John Cusack in 1408, could use a better travel agent. Every hotel room in which he finds himself booked is said to be occupied by the ghost of some suicidal creep or a murderous goon who left behind a pile of bodies in…
In 2005, a Seattle man was anonymously delivered to the Enumclaw Community Hospital and died shortly thereafter. The cause of the death was an internal puncture wound inflicted during anal sex with an Arabian stallion. An investigation led to the discovery of a farm where a community of zoophiles, organized…
The Elitch Theatre opened in 1891 as the first summer-stock company in the country; over the years, it hosted such legendary stars as Sarah Bernhardt, Douglas Fairbanks, Jose Ferrer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Grace Kelly, Lynn Redgrave and Vincent Price. Many years ago, I saw Shelly Winters there in 84 Charing…
The 1950s were anything but fabulous. The figure of Senator Joseph McCarthy loomed over the American landscape, instilling a sense of fear that pervaded every cranny, stifling independent thought and creating a culture so sanitized and asexual that it seemed wrapped in plastic. Men wore their hair militaristically short, and…
