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…
Max Karson, an envelope-pushing CU-Boulder student profiled in this Message column from last November, loves making news. But he may have gotten more attention than he bargained for on April 17, when he was arrested as a result of remarks he offered in class. According to information contained in this…
When proto-punk and original-era punk acts were in their prime, I was either too young or too far from the various scenes to catch them in action. As a result, my only chance to see such groups perform has been in reunion formats — and my experiences at such shows…
Chef Adam Mali’s also a floorwalker, which bothered me a little. When I see a chef working the room, shaking hands, making nice with the customers, all I can think is that with him on the floor loving up the crowd, who’s in the galley watching my agnolotti or expo-ing…
Today’s contestant in the Cydney Payton Design Challenge is Gino Velardi, who is best known around town for his stunning gowns. Seriously, he has this feathered babydoll number that Cat might just kill for…but that’s another story, as he’s got something else in mind for the director and curator of…
Today’s entry into the Cydney Payton Design Challenge comes from Crystal Sharp, whom everyone knows as the proprietor of She She on South Broadway and Bayaud. Check out her design, and then go here to see the slideshow of what she — and the other eleven designers competing in the…
So why a school? And not just any school, but a college campus of more than 26,000 students — possibly the only place even more vulnerable than your local schoolyard. And why now, just a few days before the infamous anniversaries of Waco and Columbine? At least 31 dead, including…
The sun was shining and the weather was sweet — and Michael Franti’s Bob Marley quotes didn’t stop with the weather when he and Spearhead took the stage at Copper Mountain on Saturday for the final of three free concert weekends, part of the resort’s season ending Sunsation festivities. Franti’s…
And now Cat presents the second entry in the Cydney Payton Challenge, a design created by local fashion fave Mona Lucero. Next week Payton will choose her favorite sketch, and the winner will be announced on the Tamarac Square Fashion Project runway on April 25. Stay tuned to Cat every…
This April 10 blog discusses the manner in which Denver Post TV-and-radio writer Joanne Ostrow wound up being branded a left-wing idealogue by Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly on his weeknight staple, The O’Reilly Factor. But the story doesn’t end there. When Ostrow declined to be interviewed on the Factor,…
Like any journalist who sticks around long enough, I’ve occasionally been interviewed myself. I’ve chatted with the greats: Peter Boyles, Joan London, even Phil Donahue, in all his pre-Oprah glory. I once had a meaningful five minutes with Katie Couric, thanks to a remote hook-up — I stared bleary-eyed into…
In this week’s Message column focuses upon Nerf (pictured), the program director for KTCL — and along the way, he’s credited with putting the Fray into rotation prior to the point at which the group officially signed to Epic Records. But others at the station had an even more hands-on…
Just in case you’re all dressed up with nowhere to go, here are a few late-breaking events we heard about too late to include in this week’s Night and Day calendar: On April 13, Denver music hub Twist & Shout and local hip-hop maven Jeff “Apostle” Campbell are hosting WORD:…
Cydney Payton is the city’s reigning art matriarch. And how lucky we are, because Payton’s no stodgy old maven. No, the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver loves Manolo Blahniks and red lipstick, wishes she could meet Miuccia Prada, is listening to TV on the Radio, and even…
As part of the Denver National Convention brouhaha in town yesterday, Howard Dean announced the convention committee’s leadership team. It’s a powerful, experienced bunch, including Leah Daughtry, Dean’s chief of staff, as the convention’s CEO. The list also includes Jenni Engebretsen as deputy CEO for public affairs, an apt choice…
You’ve already met Zac Pennington. He’s the well-dressed kid behind the counter at the record store; the one with the Modest Mouse good looks who intimidates you with his storehouse of music knowledge. He’s the one standing outside the venue passing out hand-drawn flyers for some multimedia art-rock show he’s…
What goes on in the minds of taggers? What are they trying to tell us with their hastily scrawled missives across our double garage doors? Perhaps a lack of coherent message and bad penmanship are not the only problems plaguing Denver’s tagbangers. More legible postings on a garage door in…
