Denver photographer Anna Newell Jones began to realize a couple of years ago that she was much too obsessed with things. For her, the need to consume manifested itself into a big pile of debt. That’s when Newell Jones put her well-shod foot down, foregoing her need to feed on…
The Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands — supposedly for their own good — has generated outrage among mustang advocates across the country, as well as numerous YouTube glimpses of the brutality of the roundups. Now a documentary having its Denver premiere…
The Ice Palace will open its doors at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 5 p.m. today — which means that Santa Claus will finally be in the house. Er, the mall. The Ice Palace — a fancy name for a faux icicle-covered indoor forest — will feature six-foot-tall snowglobes…
Sleeping outside in the cold wind is not a common beauty regimen. And so camping out for H&M’s opening yesterday certainly didn’t equal beauty sleep. In fact, with crews starting to set up a runway and booths at midnight, sleep was impossible for many of the campers. In fact, by…
The H&M store at the Denver Pavilions — the first in Colorado — opened at noon today. but last night a few lucky shoppers, fashionistas and gawking members of the media got to attend a “VIP Party” at the new fashion hot spot. Photographer Jim Wills brought back these photos:…
A Streetcar Named Desire opened this past weekend at Germinal Stage Denver. Juliet Wittman’s complete review will run in our November 17 issue; in the meantime, here’s a capsule critique:…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. His choice for today: You’ve Been Trumped. Check out the full pitch…
This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. I have watched my younger brother, Evan Kutz, build his artist’s portfolio since he first got into trouble for doodling on a wall…
What would you do for a $10 H&M gift certificate? Would you 127 Hours it? Give away a Klondike bar? Wait in the cold for seventeen hours? With pink eye? By midnight last night, over thirty people were lined up at the Denver Pavilions, waiting for today’s noon opening of…
Valerie Savarie’s art lends itself well to the assertion that the message is the medium. The books she chooses to cut into, the string she sews to the cover and the characters standing at the door she’s cut open represent the message of her pieces. The meaning in the content…
The Bunker Company’s Sno-Surf, patented in 1939 by Vern Wicklund and brothers Harvey and Gunnar Burgeson, is the “holy grail” of the new Colorado Snowboard Archive at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum, according to museum board member and Colorado Snowboard Archive co-founder Trent Bush. While researching this week’s cover…
If you happen to find yourself in Barnum and you don’t live there, chances are you’re lost. And not just because it’s not a neighborhood that lends itself to being found — find one of two streets that make their way down through the gulch, around the curve, back up…
Nederland’s Corvo Brothers, a collaborative duo who co-create complex and surreal, carefully staged narrative photographs, take the art of Photoshopping to a whole new level. For their shared show with sculptor Jonathan Hils, Metamophosis, which opens tomorrow at Walker Fine Art, the brothers transform the strange territory of saponification, a…
If affordably priced Scandinavian designs are your heart’s desire, join the crowds who’ll be packing the new H&M store that opens in the Denver Pavilions at noon today. The 20,000 square feet of retail space should hold 500 people, according to spokeswoman Laura Schottland. And through opening weekend, employees will…
It’s not quite a wrap, but when the Bureau of Land Management announced that it had approved Christo’s “Over the River,” the art installation proposed for a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado cleared yet another hurdle…
Denver Arts Week and the grand opening of H&M will collide today at the Denver Pavilions in what’s definitely a big day for Denver’s legion of fashionistas. As the line grows in anticipation of H&M’s doors swinging open at noon, the waiting ranks will be treated to a live fashion…
Can’t find a date for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Black Sheep Friday? Let MCA and Buntport Theater Company play matchmaker. The museum is looking for contestants for its version of The Dating Game: Win a Date With Buntport Theater. All you have to do is bring your A-game…
For the third annual Denver Lumberjack Party, organizer Kiki Nichols wanted to mix things up a bit. “This year, I wanted to use our powers for good,” she explains. “We won’t have a cover charge, and a portion of the bar tab will benefit the Denver Dumb Friends League. Lumberjacks…
While some people might look askance at a klezmer-funk-hip-hop collaboration, world-renowned klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer sees the combination as completely logical. “Funk is the root of hip-hop,” he explains, “so you’re taking two traditional musics with hip-hop as the common denominator and bringing them together.” And they come together in…
You know the rule of the closet: If you haven’t worn it in over a year, out it goes to make room for new favorites. But few people have the wherewithal to stick with the edict unless there’s the promise of some kind of return. That’s why Anna Newell Jones…
Not to split hairs, but style shows are becoming old hat in Denver. So with Konsepsyon, the Parlour’s design team set out to cut a different path. “We wanted to give back to the community, and we wanted to work with a charity relevant to our industry,” explains design team…
The greatest rivalry in roller derby history could come to a head this weekend when the Continental Divide & Conquer 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships roll into the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, where the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club — the defending champ — is angling for…
