We’re down to the final three designs for the a Cydney Payton Design Challenge, a special bonus competition that Cat organized as part of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Cat will announce the winner on the runway this Wednesday, April 25 — the last Fashion Project show for this year…
Cat got a little behind on posting the sketches for the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, a special addendum to the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Eight of the competing designers submitted “museum-opening outfit” sketches to the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, who will choose her favorite. The winner will…
Hardcore environmentalists may come off as strident and chiding to the rest of resource-guzzling America, but the truth is that anti-consumer activists reserve the most harsh finger-pointing for themselves. After all, eco-consciousness is a life philosophy built more on guilt than self-righteousness. What other type of personality would do things…
Make as many jokes as you like, but thanks to one Al Gore head-turning moment, Earth Day’s suddenly become important again. So what will you be doing about it? Here are a few suggestions on how to jump-start your social consciousness. In LoDo Ground Zero, the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado…
Shortly after they were introduced as funky boat shoes, made right here in landlocked Colorado, Crocs caught on with the hospital crowd in a big way. After all, they’re comfy-ugly, pair up well with green scrubs, and you can stick ’em in the dishwasher to wash off all those unsightly…
Richard Bemis It’s a busy, busy fashion weekend in town. Here’s your cheat sheet for making it through; just put it in your Trapper Keeper and head out on the town. Oh, and if you score any good — or so bad they’re good — fashion photos, send them over…
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: I appeared on Nancy Grace’s show last night. Why? Google is probably the reason. As you may recall, CU-Boulder student and self-styled satirist Max Karson was arrested on April 17 after saying in a class that he could understand why the disturbed…
Moments after I completed my strange appearance on the CNN program hosted by Nancy Grace (see this blog for details), my wife received a phone call from a friend in New York. Even though he’s not someone likely to be a regular Nancy Grace viewer (he works for The Daily…
The April 5 edition of the Message dealt with a buyout plan that was offered by the Rocky Mountain News to employees age 55 and above who’ve worked for the tabloid or another paper owned by E.W. Scripps for at least ten years. At the time, speculation was rampant that…
The slideshow of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project third runway show is now up. Check out all the designs here, then come back and visit Cat to post a comment about who you think should have won. The designer with the most “votes” will score a gift certificate to Sketch…
Episode 24 opens with Davis’ oh-so-valuable opinion that Jenn is ridiculous; she’s hooked up with everyone besides him. Meaning Darnell, Alex and Jon. I probably don’t need to point out the hypocrisy in this statement, but just in case — let’s see, Davis has a boyfriend (PJ) yet somehow manages…
It’s pretty safe to say that Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui never saw the basement tapes that Columbine gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold left behind. Oh, he probably read about them. But aside from a brief period of media viewings, the tapes have never been released. Officials were…
Andrew Whiteman of Apostle of Hustle, the subject of this profile in the April 19 Westword, is among the brighter singer-songwriters on the current scene, as the complete text of his interview indicates. Below, read about his first musical influences, a little-known poetry album that didn’t exactly fly off the…
The profile of Sean Lennon in the April 19 edition of Westword offers a glimpse into the life of a talented singer-songwriter still figuring out how to engage a public that prefers to view him in the context of his famous parents, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, rather than as…
Toward the end of The O’Reilly Factor, his popular weeknightly cable-news program, Fox News squawker Bill O’Reilly presents “The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day,” an entertainingly combative segment that often focuses upon media members who’ve said unkind things about him. The press is to O’Reilly what the United States…
A half-moon still hangs high over Park Hill when Charity’s mother begins her school-morning mantra. “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up,” Lisa Norwood orders. “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Charity, Autumn, get up, get up, get up,…
In Brenda Denton’s younger days, she’d been Denver’s queen of punk — a bad-ass, bar-fighting feminist with a Mohawk, torn jeans and a spiked leather jacket. At 38, she’d traded in the leather jacket for a pantsuit and settled into the life of a serious student. The lover of film…
When Michael R. and Deb O’Keefe, owners of a private Commerce City BDSM club, went before the Colorado Court of Appeals to contest the city denying them a sexually oriented business license application, the couple believed the judges in the hearing thoroughly slapped the city’s lawyers around (“Fit to Be…
The wee hours of the weekends can get pretty rowdy on Colfax, but Pete’s Kitchen has a not-so-secret weapon: Denver Police detective John White, who serves as spokesman for the department when he’s not moonlighting at Pete’s. One recent Friday, an Off Limits operative caught White in action. “John, he’s…
I’m beginning to get pretty fucking tired of the word hipster. The ubiquity of the term is weighing me down like a studded belt with an ironic buckle that doubles as a bottle-opener. The other day, por ejemplo, I was reading a society column — I like to keep tabs…
“An Uphill Battle,” Adam Cayton-Holland, April 5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Thanks for giving us the rest of the best Boulder story of 2006. While you wouldn’t catch me dead in the military, I’d want Lance Hering (or Steve Powers) watching my back. Friends like Steve are…
Later today (Thursday) there will be a complete slideshow of last night’s Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Can’t wait until then to tell the judges who you think should have won Challenge #3? Post your comments below. (You’ll have to wait for the slideshow to see who actually won!) Any comments…
