Silhouettes set to win on America’s Got Talent finale tonight

It was another great night for Denver’s Silhouettes on America’s Got Talent, as all three judges seemed to agree that America should vote for our favorite shadow dancers. Beset by technical difficulties, the group was forced to perform last. And we can’t help but agree with judge Piers Morgan, who…

These aren’t the droids you’re looking for

As you may have noticed from the incessant product placement in ads and media, Star Wars: The Complete Saga hits shelves on Blu-Ray this week. The nine-disc set ($139.99) includes both the awesome, genre-changing original three movies and the putrid, hope-demolishing follow-up prequel trilogy. But it also comes with forty…

The Myron Melnick show at the Singer is drop-dead gorgeous

Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, often looks to major local artists as a source for significant solo shows. Typically, these include work done over a broad sweep of time, which allows viewers to gain insight into the artist’s oeuvre. Examples are…

Top five celebrities Mistress Saskia would sodomize if she could

Mistress Saskia, Denver’s premier dominatrix, is headmistress of Pavlovia Denver, a house of professional domination where she trains apprentice dominants, teaches private lessons for singles and couples, and offers such delightful and demented services as cross-dressing, role-play, spanking, whippings, fetish play and bondage (subjects you can learn much more about…

The 10 best BDSM movies (Images are NSFW)

BDSM-themed movies, and films with hot kink scenes in them provide us with two very important things: mainstream popular-culture acceptance, and something to jerk the gerk/smack the peach to when we’re bored. See also: The best BDSM movies: Five more options for your viewing pleasure…

BDSM edgeplay advice from Jay Wiseman

For people not involved in the BDSM, or kink scene (the subject of this week’s cover story), most forms of sadomasochistic or SM play would be considered edgy, but within the scene there are certain activities that are generally recognized as being high-risk, even for experienced players, and these are…

How to get my job: LEGO Builder

Did you know that you could build things out of LEGOs for a living? We didn’t either, which is why we caught up with local builder Duane Hess to talk about his unlikely career. It’s probably one of the coolest jobs we’ve ever heard of, and while it certainly takes…

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…