The merchants of the Tennyson Street business district, which stretches along Tennyson from 38th to 52nd avenues, already offer unique merchandise, friendly service and a cozy mom-and-pop ambience to die for. But this holiday season, they’re stoking the pot with just a little more incentive. The neighborhood’s Jingle and Mingle:…
There seems to be steady stream of green men gracing the Buell this season. First it was the big green guy who was “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in Young Frankenstein last summer, and now the beloved ogre Shrek will turn the place into a swamp when the touring company of…
Diminutive and soft-spoken, with black owl-eye glasses and long, wavy dark hair, Viviane Le Courtois is one of those “still waters run deep” types, whose mind, you just know, is working overtime, all the time. Viviane is a thinker and an observer: There’s a bit of a scientist in this…
As projected, the crowds came out for this weekend’s premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, to the tune of $125.1 million, the most ever for a Potter flick. That included my family’s little donation to the total weekend box-office; we caught Deathly Hallows Saturday at the…
Oh, that Chris Loffelmacher. He promised a spectacle and, by god, he delivered. Last night’s Frock Out 2010 fashion showdown at the Denver Central Library rocked it hard, baby, interspersing a drop-dead battalion of strutting models with sideshow curiosities both real and imagined on the runway that stretched through the…
Denver designer/seamstress Jil Cappuccio lives by a credo of constant reinvention; it’s how she lives her life, makes clothes and runs her business: by trial and error, the occasional epiphany and a wild imagination. Her trademark designs – yoked shifts and blouses, retro-inspired shirts for men, sassy carpet bags, easy…
It was a party to end all parties, and The Last Waltz, the Band’s 1978 swan song, was in many ways also the end of an era, a celebration of popular music’s old guard giving way to the fresh sounds of the ‘80s. It was what Woodstock was to the…
Chris Loffelmacher, the witty and wicked Fresh City Life programmer at the Denver Public Library, always infuses his productions with both fun and drama, but Frock Out 2010: Sideshow will be totally over the top — the Big Top, that is. This year’s local fashion-design showcase and fundraiser has a…
Brian Corrigan and Samuel Schimek, the guys behind the all-Colorado pop-up store YesPleaseMore in the Denver Pavilions, and their city sponsor, Create Denver, are all about starting a dialogue between local cultural groups. But they wanted to find the right way to do it. “I went around beating down their…
Mike Whiting’s pixel-inspired minimalist sculptures are all about the evolution of a concept, says Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile. “Ever since the first day he entered the gallery carrying this little square plate of steel, he’s really had a full-blown concept in his head that evolved very slowly, which is so…
The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library’s Seldom Screened Cinema film series is exactly what it sounds like. “We wanted to feature films people hadn’t seen before or for a long time, films that aren’t shown on TV all the time” says the library’s Erin Lally of this fall’s ongoing screenings…
“I don’t think there is anything similar to this in town.” That’s the word from founder Becky Swiney, aka “Rockabettie,” on Jonesy’s Art Bazaar. And she has a point: For one thing, this bazaar takes place in Jonesy’s EatBar, a restaurant; for another, it’s squarely alternative in nature. “I only…
Amanda Lueck Grell, a language arts teacher at Trevista at Horace Mann, has seen her share of spelling bees. And one day, as she was describing her middle school’s most recent bee for fellow boardmembers at Metro Denver Promotion of Letters, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids ages…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
Mondo, Mondo, Mondo — what are you up to now? Not one to lock himself up and lick his wounds, Denver’s favorite reality show runner-up Mondo Guerra, upset by Gretchen in the Project Runway Season 8 finale, is strutting his stuff all over town, including his big gig Thursday as…
Westword art critic and exhibit jurist Michael Paglia has already cast his votes and chosen the works for the upcoming Art District Best of 2010 exhibition at eventgallery 910Arts, and the results will be unveiled Friday night at the opening gala. But you still have time to weigh in, too,…
Holiday shopping doesn’t have to be a drag. You just have to know where to look. There are two big reasons why we’re already thinking about it seriously this year: First, this gift-getting season could go down in the books as the earliest commercial shopping blitz in history. The door-busters,…
There are burlesque girls and there are legends. No question about which category Satan’s Angel, the Devil’s Own Mistress, Queen of the Fire Tassels belongs to. Perhaps the greatest tassel-twirler alive, 66-year-old Angel Cecelia Helene Walker retired at her prime, but decided to hit the road again in 2002, to…
Mona Lucero has a name in this town, but I have a feeling she would have gained one wherever she settled, even in what might be called more cosmopolitan coastal, urban or even global realms. In the eight years since she opened her Mona Lucero Design Boutique, an urban community…
Denver Arts Week is back and once again provoking the question of why we need one. Similar to Denver Restaurant Week, which came about as a way to put culinary Denver on the national map, it’s all a matter of raising awareness of the city’s cultural stature among the natives…
The Denver Center Theatre Company is opening its 2010/2011 season on a light note: Patrick Barlow’s screwball adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film noir The 39 Steps opened September 10 in the Ricketson Theatre of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Denver Performing Arts Complex, featuring a monochromatic set that emulates…
You know the drill: House gets messed up, tool-lugging good guys come in and save the day. That’s the constantly replaying plot on the DIY Network’s Disaster House, where the destruction is creative, but the denouement workman-like. Still, trying to figure out how Denver techno-guerrilla marching band Itchy-O got in…
