Fashion Week: For the Boys

Getty Images Duckie Brown’s line comes out fighting. At least that’s what Cat thinks those yellow gloves are for. Getty Images Grunge grows up at Duckie Brown? Cat thought Friday’s Fashion Week shows were going to be good for men, with John Bartlett, Perry Ellis and Duckie Brown all on…

Think Spring with Ollie Sang

While we’re waiting for the images coming in from Fashion Week, showing us what to expect for fall, let’s think spring for a little while. Seriously, if we all think warm really, really hard, maybe it will quit snowing. I know it’s a stupid mind-over-matter trick that all parents use…

How Fashionable

IMAXTREE.COM Christian Dior presented one of The Cat’s Pajamas favorite collections from fashion week last fall, featuring the Spring 2007 looks. Visit New York Magazine for a full slideshow. Cat is so excited: Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek starts tomorrow in New York. When Cat lived in The City, it was so amazing…

How Fashionable

IMAXTREE.COM Christian Dior presented one of The Cat’s Pajamas favorite collections from fashion week last fall, featuring the Spring 2007 looks. Visit New York Magazine for a full slideshow. Cat is so excited: Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek starts tomorrow in New York. When Cat lived in The City, it was so amazing…

Just the ‘Fax

Dave Walstrom is Mr. Colfax. Everybody along East Colfax Avenue knows his silver hair and deep, throaty voice. They know him because he comes into their businesses, serves as their advocate with various city agencies, organized last year’s Colfax Marathon and turns up at every event on the strip, like…

Design After Dark

Getting Groovy in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Cat’s Pajamas had a great time last Friday night at Design After Dark, the benefit for the Denver Art Museum. The food was tasty, the booze was boozy and the music was dancy. All of the architects did an amazing job creating…

Design After Dark

Getting Groovy in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Cat’s Pajamas had a great time last Friday night at Design After Dark, the benefit for the Denver Art Museum. The food was tasty, the booze was boozy and the music was dancy. All of the architects did an amazing job creating…

Blog Eat Blog

As noted in last week’s cover story the blogosphere is a mess, chock full of factually questionable information. Many erstwhile bloggers are making it their duty to clean up this mess, using their own sites to point out fictitious information they find on their colleagues’ blogs. But a tough question…

Lights, Camera, Action!

I like to think of this year’s installment of the Design After Dark party as Burning Man meets black tie. It’ll be all fancy-shmancy — it is a fundraiser for the Denver Art Museum’s Department of Architecture, Design & Graphics, after all — but with real party people keeping it…

Cat is Back!

The Cat’s Pajamas is taking a much-needed stretch after a mid-winter cat nap. You see, Cat really hates the cold. Sure, the first day is all sledding and hot chocolate and weeee!, but by week six, nobody looks cute in stocking caps and knitted scarves. Everyone just looks disheveled and…

Cat is Back!

The Cat’s Pajamas is taking a much-needed stretch after a mid-winter cat nap. You see, Cat really hates the cold. Sure, the first day is all sledding and hot chocolate and weeee!, but by week six, nobody looks cute in stocking caps and knitted scarves. Everyone just looks disheveled and…

Mad, mad, mad, mad State of the Union

Why bicker about the nuances of President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, when you can create your own version of it! Using Westword’s cutting-edge text-processing technologies, we have created a Mad Libs version of parts of Bush’s speech (if you don’t know what Mad Libs are, feel…

Nature Calls

Before delving into Episode 10, I have a bone to pick with AOL’s “TV Squad” blog. According to this entry, The Real World is eyeing Sydney for its first international outing since London in 1995. Wikipedia has already confirmed that Sydney will be the next city ravaged by reality television,…

Crock Block

Memo to Crocs Inc.: The Shoe Goddess wants her cut. Back in 2005, when Westword was trying to explain the surging global sales of hideous, crayon-hued plastic shoes designed in Niwot, we availed ourselves of the professional insights of the Shoe Goddess, a clog connoisseur who was on a vain…

A Civic Mess — And It’s Not Snow

The results are in for the Daniel Libeskind-proposed redesign of Civic Center, and the public’s responses are being unveiled tonight at the Denver Parks & Recreation Advisory Board hearing. But you wouldn’t know that from the city’s website. There’s nothing on the city’s homepage, and if you click over to…

Paint the Town Read

He slipped into Denver unannounced, just another traveler on his way to wherever. No fanfare, no welcome party. A man alone, on his way to identity and destiny. It was a brief stay, just ten days in the summer of 1947, a side note in a journal. But this man…

Hip Hop Chocolate Launch Party Cancelled

The Original Hip Hop Chocolate Launch Party has been cancelled due to inclement weather. But don’t worry, you’ll get your chocolate fix next Thursday, January 4, when the party has been rescheduled. It’s still taking place at 9 p.m. at Blue Ice Martini Bar. Visit www.myspace.com/hiphopchocolate for the latest…

Star Gazers

I come by my geek cred honestly. As a kid, the planetarium was my favorite place. I dreamed of being an astronaut. My mom and I would watch Star Trek every afternoon at 5 p.m. while shelling peas or snapping beans or some such chore. I read out the Fruita…

Christmas Choo-Choo

The Slim Princess. That’s what they used to call the old narrow-gauge trains, because they had to be thin enough to snake around high mountain passes. And no princess is more famous than the Denver & Rio Grande Railway’s Silverton that runs from Durango to Silverton through the splendor that…

Good Riddance, K-Mart

Do Denver Nuggets fans want to say goodbye to Kenyon Martin — or settle for the simple getdafucouttahere now that he’s injured again. It’s tough to tell after reading The Denver Post’s Marc Spears front page sports story on K-Mart yesterday. The story, headlined “Kenyon Plans for Someplace Like Home,”…

On the Prowl

On Saturday, The Cat’s Pajamas took her mom out for a day of camera shopping. That is, we embarked on the Holiday Boutique Crawl — hosted by eighteen northwest Denver shops — armed only with a camera (not credit cards) in search of the best that our city has to…

On the Prowl

On Saturday, The Cat’s Pajamas took her mom out for a day of camera shopping. That is, we embarked on the Holiday Boutique Crawl — hosted by eighteen northwest Denver shops — armed only with a camera (not credit cards) in search of the best that our city has to…