Binding Barbie began my life in kink

Jenn Wohletz is the author of this week’s Westword cover story, “Field Guide to Denver Wild Life.” Here’s her first-person account of how she got involved in the the kink scene. I used to tie up my Barbie dolls. I’d strip them, smother their smiling little mouths with duct tape…

R-U Engaged yarn-bombs a little fuzzy goodness onto Boulder B-Cycle

On Sunday night, R-U Engaged covered Boulder’s eleven B-cycle kiosks in “yarny knitted goodness,” as organizer the Man in Black describes. The group’s mission is to bring greater awareness to good causes via yarn-bombing. They’ve also set up a QR-code scavenger hunt in which participants can win one of five…

Pedaling to unity: ARTCRANK cranked it up (photos)

Consensus can be a tough thing to find among the disparate factions of the cycling community in Denver — Critical Mass, the Cherry Creek bike trail and the use of gears are some common areas of contention — but it appears there is at least one thing we all can…

Photos: Conkwear Art/Clothing Installation at MegaFauna

One artist in the RiNo Art District helped continue the recent wave of creativity coming out of River North on Friday night. Megafauna, a newish boutique shop that caters to local artists, opened just shy of four months ago at 27th and Larimer streets just above the Meadowlark. On Friday,…

To Lonnie Hanzon, the King of Hudson Gardens: An open love letter

Word’s come down that the annual Hudson Holiday lighting extravaganza, designed by Lonnie Hanzon and bankrolled by the Museum of Outdoor Arts, is no more — and I’m telling you, I am crushed. That’s because I’m not only a holiday light-show junkie, but also a lover of the arts, and…

Summer’s End: See these shows before the season ends

Though the calendar year starts in January and ends in December, the art calendar starts in September and ends in August. So before the 2011-2012 season gears up, here are a few last gasps of summer — all worth enjoying before they’re gone. At the intimate Sandra Phillips Gallery on…

The 2011 Kinetic Sculpture Race was not about speed (photos)

Like a psychedelic gathering of Jules Verne honorable mentions, this weekend’s 2011 Kinetic Sculpture Race at Union Reservoir in Longmont pitted crazy Rube Goldberg contraption against even crazier Rube Goldberg contraption in a contest that wasn’t so much about speed as it was about sheer silliness: Competitors vied for supremacy…

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis: Sleazeball or victim? Probably both

Consider this scenario: The guy who created Girls Gone Wild, the collection of Mardi Gras tit-flashing videos popular with frat-boys and lonely unskilled laborers everywhere, offers to give three girls a ride to their car — but then instead of taking them to their car, despite their protests, takes them…

Viva la Lucha! Mexican Wrestling takes over El Diablo (Photos)

It was back in 1942 that a mysterious, silver-masked Luchador known only as El Santo appeared on the scene in Mexico City as an unknown contestant in an eight-man battle royale. He won that fight, but what was more important was that he would change wrestling forever — an influence…