Museum of Contemorary Art/Denver director and curator Cydney Payton made her final choices in the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, in which eight designers from the Tamarac Square Fashion Project sketched her a “museum-opening oufit” (appropriate since the new MCA building opens this fall). Payton considered both the artistic and stylistic…
The April 27 Rocky Mountain News features the final installment of “Border Street,” a year-long series about an unnamed Denver block where, according to its introduction, “old meets new, English meets Spanish, legal resident meets — and sometimes marries — illegial immigrant.” The concluding piece, dubbed “The River Churns Endlessly,…
It’s said, it’s done, it’s over. Cat knows who won the final challenge, a day-to-evening look, and Cat knows who is going to be representing D-Town at New York Fashion Week in the fall. You want to know who won… click here for the complete slideshow. Then come back to…
As noted in the March 8 story “Bus-ted,” Parents Television Council Denver Chapter Director George Robison is suspiciously good at the violent video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – but that doesn’t mean he wants ads for the game splashed all over Regional Transportation District trains and buses…
The slideshow from last night’s Tamarac Square Fashion Project will be up later this afternoon — a lot of pictures to go through! — but in the meantime, here’s some fun video of the Little Black Dress and Ace Hardware challenges, shot by Johnny Morehouse and Ben Kronberg, to keep…
Here’s a bonus for fans of Joseph Arthur, who’s profiled in the April 26 edition of Westword. The published piece was based on an extensive Q&A reproduced below. Among the topics Arthur touches upon: his risky new solo album, Let’s Just Be, and why at least one song on it…
The trucks rumble through the gates of Waste Management Recycle America’s plant in north Denver, lining up for their turn at the scales. A driver for the City of Thornton tailgates one from the City of Denver. Dump trucks from commercial and residential collection routes across the metro area squeeze…
Even Cydney Payton had big hair. Yes, the director/curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art/ Denver once teased and sprayed her hair into a voluminous cloud — and all in the name of fashion. But she’s certainly made up for that transgression and is fast becoming one of Denver’s most…
AM talk-show hosts and FM gabbers who work for the cluster of eight Denver stations owned by Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio business, live in very different worlds. Nevertheless, they all came together on April 19 at Clear Channel’s Tech Center headquarters for a highly unusual, all-hands-on-deck meeting inspired…
For a brief period in 1993, my mother was unabashedly in love with Karl Malone. I can recall her going on about “what pretty eyes he had” and how impressive his shoulders were. When she spoke of Malone, it wasn’t hard to see that same teenybopper who’d traveled from her…
On April 6, Jeff Trott, the most industrious burglar in Colorado history, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. It was the maximum the judge could impose after Trott pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree burglary — a mere fraction of the more than 500 break-ins that he admits…
“Faith, Hope…and Charity,” Luke Turf, April 19 Charity Begins at Home Luke Turf wrote a balanced, beautiful story proving that we all need a little Charity sometimes. Lisa Norwood’s story should make even the most die-hard anti-social-program cynic see that there are a lot of families that simply need some…
Virgil Dickerson has always suspected that people have been stealing his music. Now he has irrefutable proof. When we spoke last month, the head of Suburban Home Records had no quanitfiable evidence to support his claims that illegal downloads were taking a toll on the label’s bottom line. Still, he…
We’re down to our last sketch for the Cydney Payton Design Challenge! That means tonight is the big night, the showdown, the climax, the night we find out who wins the Tamarac Square Fashion Project — and whose drawing of a museum-opening outfit Cydney, the MoCA-D curator selected. It’s been…
This April 20 blog recapped the strange experience of appearing on Nancy Grace’s CNN jabber show — and on April 24, I received a lovely parting gift from the producer who lined up the interview. As seen in the accompanying image, a “special” NG keychain arrived in the mail addressed…
Because Richard Sandoval has so many restaurants to keep track of, because he is one of those multi-unit chefs who seems driven to collect addresses the way some kids collect baseball cards, he has no day-to-day control over his properties. He sets a concept, writes a menu, staffs up with…
Offense Report No: 07-0243491 Date: 04-16-07 Type of Offense: Third Degree Assault Location of Offense: Capitol Hill Weapon Used: Skillet Officer Brown reports: “Investigation showed that the suspect [a 23-year-old female] and the victim [a 52-year-old male] were in an argument and the suspect hit the victim with a cast-iron…
Today, we have Jose Clark’s sketch for the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, a special Cat’s Pajamas competition as part of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Only one more day until we find out who the director and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver picked… Here’s Jose’s artist’s statement:…
“Leaving to Learn,” a seven-day series in the Rocky Mountain News, hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, for obvious reasons; other news, including the slayings at Virginia Tech, regularly stole the spotlight over the course of its run. However, “Learn” provided an especially interesting look at some of the the…
The yard signs are out in force in the Jefferson Park neighborhood in northwest Denver, telling passersby that residents here aren’t anti-development, just anti-bad development. Key talking points have been dispersed to neighborhood association members, noting that their neighborhood, an up-and-coming enclave of new condos and town homes alongside empty…
Regis University’s ongoing struggles with the nitty gritty of teaching tolerance in a religious setting has taken on more weight since Virginia Tech hit the news. One week has passed since the massacre, and the media has thoroughly peeled away the onion layers of gunman Cho Seung-Hui, revealing yet another…
The crowd that gathered on April 22 for the Decemberists’ gig at the Fillmore Auditorium was dominated by college agers who looked as if they’d decided to take a break from writing a paper for their semiotics class or post-grad couples looking for a little intellectual stimulation in advance of…
