The Forney Transportation Museum was the backdrop for the Diver City Fashion Show on Friday night, an event produced by students from Johnson and Wales University’s Cat Walk Club as a fundraiser for Clothes to Kids Denver. Over a dozen local designers were featured in Diver City; keep reading for…
On last week’s Under the Gunn, the five remaining designers were paired with a “real women” with real fashion issues, and asked to create a design to meet their needs. Lots of drama ensued — between the designers and their clients, between the designers and their mentors — and in…
The centuries-old culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, built on a bedrock of religion, yields an equally old subculture of santeros and santeras — carvers of religious figures, retablos and crosses. And each year, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council gives over its walls to the best of…
Being broke doesn’t have to be a bummer in Denver this weekend. The city is full of bargain events, everything from a Muppet-themed art opening to the dedication at a dog shelter to a class on the powers of gemstones. We’ve selected ten of the best activities that all cost…
Spring skiing and snowboarding is alive and well in Colorado, thanks to new snow this week and heavier-than-usual totals since January 1, and several ski areas have already announced extended seasons to make the most of it. Aspen Mountain, originally scheduled to close on April 20, announced on Thursday that…
Several years ago, when Adán De La Garza and Christina Battle moved to Denver from cities with vibrant media arts communities, they sought out the same thing here. They did not find it. As video artists, they craved an artistic network, a local scene where they could bounce off ideas…
Now that spring has arrived, the fashion faithful have a bouquet of shopping options to help with the transition out of winter sweaters. If you are looking for unique, boho-hip, stylish designs to add to your spring wardrobe, head to the Rustic Thread Boutique in Highland. We recently chatted with…
“We just want to get famous enough to meet Lena Dunham,” say twin artists Taylor and Jazzmyn Barbosa. They may be joking, but it doesn’t seem like too fantastic a dream; the Barbosa sisters’ art is cut from the same vulnerable, whip-smart cloth as the star and creator HBO’s Girls…
The Stanley Film Festival, presented by the Denver Film Society, has announced the complete lineup for the festival, which runs from April 24 through April 27 in Estes Park and includes screenings of such movies as Eyes Wide Shut and Gremlins and more. In keeping with its setting in the…
That TV that looked so great twenty years ago is looking like an environmentally unfriendly albatross today — it’s essentially trashed, but too full of toxic materials to throw out with the trash. But on Saturday, April 5, Republic Services of Denver will provide a convenient way to recycle obsolete…
Clothes to Kids Denver is a non-profit organization that provides free clothing for low-income, school-aged children. On Friday, April 4, the Cat Walk Club, comprising students from the Johnson & Wales University fashion merchandising program, will have host its annual Diver City fashion show, with a portion of the proceeds…
#93: Becky Wareing-Steele Becky Wareing-Steele lives in a world of miniatures, where tiny figures and creatures go about their lives inside tiny bottles and jars and whimsical lockets, and even among the jagged crystals of cracked-open geodes. Her crafting career started with a button-making machine and worked its way into…
Some cult films have such an expansive audience, they may as well be mainstream. Others attract a smaller, more dedicated cult of followers who share the movie’s joys via word of mouth and keep it alive at midnight screenings. Then there are other films that seem to have no cult…
Whether you are interested in cultural documentaries, classic dramas or anti-colonial revenge films, this year’s XicanIndie Film Festival promises to showcase the most innovative and intriguing Latino, Chicano and global indigenous films. Here are five must-see selections from the festival, which starts tonight; head to Su Teatro to see the…
Whether he’s stuffing his subjects’ faces with food or taking pictures of them covered in their own blood, Andrew Novick takes photographs that document an always interesting and often delightfully weird time. This time around, the artist, collector, Peeps expert, Stanley Film Festival collaborator and Warlock Pincher looked to his…
Critical Focus: Ian Fisher. This show, located in the informal Whole Room at MCA Denver, is made up of a group of mostly monumental paintings of the sky. It’s the type of thing that has become the artist’s signature. Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the…
Tucked into a pocket of his workout sweats, Steve Rogers — aka Captain America, the serum-enhanced Yankee Doodle Dynamo who’s spent the last six decades in deep freeze — keeps a notebook of cultural beats he’s missed: Star Wars, Marvin Gaye, Thai food. If only he’d added ’70s conspiracy thrillers…
Our story resumes: Having found a love-like feeling for Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), “restful domestic comfort” has, at the outset of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume II, robbed the young Joe (Stacy Martin) of her orgasm. Naomi Wolf documented a similar problem in her 2012 book Vagina; the similarities between Joe…
The great insight in director Roger Michell’s fourth collaboration with writer Hanif Kureishi is its vision of Paris as an arena equally amenable to romantic comedy and sulking tragedy. Thus the City of Lights becomes a proving ground in Le Week-End, in which Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play an…
The shining strength of Dava Sobel’s And the Sun Stood Still — which is currently receiving its world premiere in Boulder — is that, at a time when the sciences have been so muddied by sloppy thinking, willful ignorance and financial pressure, it provides insight into the scientific process and…
Mo’Print, the Month of Printmaking, is winding down, and although the centerpiece is the Open Press show at the McNichols Building, there have been dozens of other events focused on printmaking up and down the Front Range. Among the ones that I’ve checked out are the two on view at…
Why can’t women stay friends? That’s a trick question, of course, but also one that British actresses Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells — lifelong pals in real life — attempt to answer earnestly and honestly in their new HBO cringe comedy Doll & Em. In the six-episode series, Mortimer and…
