Denver Life

Exercising Denver: How to Get MADE Into a Boxer

When MTV’s MADE premiered in the early 2000s, teenagers became infatuated with the idea of transforming into someone else. We saw people being coached into cheerleaders, opera singers, BMX riders and so on. Whenever I would tune in for a dose of reality television, I always imagined what it would be…

Denver Life

Photos: The XXX-Mas Craft Fair at MCA Denver

Holiday drinks and Playboy cut-outs made for a festive time at the XXX-Mas Craft Fair, a risque co-ed ornament-crafting evening at MCA Denver on December 18. Photographer Danielle Lirette captured the all naughty masterpieces crafted with love, glue and a little T&A. Now see the full XXX-Mas Craft Fair slide…

Performing Arts

Podcast Profiles: Haley Driscoll and Christie Buchele Get Personal on Empty Girlfriend

Podcasts are in tune with the democratized spirit of Internet media; anyone with a microphone and a computer can offer their listeners unlimited hours of recordings, usually for free. Limited only by their imaginations, podcasters have a freedom of expression unrestricted by commerce, censorship or geography. Indeed, several great podcasts have blossomed from Denver’s own flourishing arts community. Here to celebrate them is Podcast Profiles, a new series documenting the efforts of local podcasters and spotlighting the peculiar personalities behind them.

Performing Arts

Winnie Wenglewick Brings Kink to the Stage with BITE

Winnie Wenglewick loves showing her audience how to get kinky. The owner, producer and artistic director of Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, Wenglewick is currently producing BITE, a “choose-your-own-adventure sex farce” that offers audiences numerous opportunities to vote for what happens next, whether it’s a “blowjob fest” or some other kinky escapade…

Denver Life

Five Tips for S&M Newbies

If you’ve ever wanted to get kinky, this is the weekend to start. Tonight Beyond the Bedroom will host Coming Out Kinky: A Grown Up Comedy at Shine in Boulder; tomorrow it will offer “Welcome to S&M: A Gentle Introduction” at Denver’s Dangerous Theater, with discussion/demonstrations of masochism, bondage, discipline…

Denver Life

Five Tips for Coming Out Kinky

Beyond the Bedroom will host Coming Out Kinky — A Grown Up Comedy at Shine tomorrow night. Jean Franzblau’s comedy is about a woman’s path of sexual exploration; she plays twenty characters in the show. Beyond the Bedroom Executive Director Daka Dan describes the actress/playwright as “not a ‘full-time’ kinkster…

Visual Arts

Five Reasons Why the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Will Suck

With its terrible writing, dump truck-sized plot holes, horrible Twilight fan-fic dialogue and a plethora of downright ridiculous misconceptions about BDSM and kinksters, Fifty Shades of Grey, the first book in E.L. James’s trilogy, made me want to faceplant into my Kindle. It’s four hours of my life that I…