Denver Life

Once upon a time in the ’90s, I was not the cool blogger I am now. I was just like any other teenager, barely existing on the Internet (save for being a third, observational party to my best friend’s chat-room adventures) and living out my writing dreams as a reporter…

Denver designer Fallene Wells will use the most modern of fundraising mechanisms to gather money for a clothing line that harks back to the past, specifically the 1920s. Wells, who starred on Season 9 of Project Runway, kicked off a campaign on Kickstarter this week, in which she hopes to…

Pam Grier is one of Denver’s greatest exports, and last fall, Robin Edwards pulled together the “Top 5 ass-kicking Pam Grier roles” — among them her performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. But Juror169 has a a problem with Grier’s off-screen roles. Here’s the verdict:…

Carmen Tisch, accused of vandalizing a $30 million Clyfford Still painting on December 29 — she reportedly scratched it, slid down it and urinated by it — was in Denver County Court on Friday, January 6, to hear the charges against her. Her family says Tisch has alcohol problems. Ya…

Everyone’s a critic, but Carmen Tisch took it too far on December 29, when she offered her assessment of “1957-J- No.2,” a large piece at the Clyfford Still Museum. Tisch is accused of scratching, punching and rubbing her butt against the painting, which is valued at more than $30 million…

ABC pulled a swap with the first segment of Celebrity Wife Swap, moving up the episode that had been scheduled for next week to this past Tuesday. And what swap led off the new season? Pastor Ted Haggard traded wives with Gary Busey, sending his mate — who already deserved…

John Hickenlooper still isn’t sure why he was the only elected official invited to sit in the President’s Box with Barack Obama and this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients: Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep and Barbara Cook. But Colorado’s governor knows it was the thrill of a…

Here’s something to ponder in 2012: The new year will mark, among other things, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. And, as Chris Loffelmacher of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program points out, “How often does a shipwreck turn 100?” That’s why, when Loffelmacher rolls…

For almost three decades, the modest Kloewer house at 4990 South Elati Street has featured an outsized holiday light show — a favorite annual sight, as Susan Froyd describes here. But after this year’s display, the family is pulling the plug for good on January 5…

We’ve discussed many weighty subjects on Show and Tell over the past year, but the all-time comment-getter remains Jeff Otte’s “White people with dreads.” Just yesterday, Bongzilla weighed in with this: I’m sorry, but every comment I’ve read on here has been EXTREMELY racist.. All you’re doing is finger pointing…

I love New Year’s resolutions. If I keep them, I feel like the most important person in the universe of me. If I break them, I just go back to the original list and edit, making it look as though I hadn’t planned on making my bed every day anyway…

Last week, Susan Froyd offered the “Fifteen best Denver ART moments in 2011” — a compendium of seriously praiseworthy events over the past year that elicited precisely one comment. Meanwhile, the comments keep coming in for Jef Otte’s “Ten best moments in Denver arts: 2011.”…

Yes, it’s getting deep around here — and we’re not just talking about the snow. If you’ve missed the discussion of Jef Otte’s “The ten best moments in Denver arts: 2011,” it’s just the thing to heat you up on this cold winter day. Among the weighty issues that have…

Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop will kickstart a tiny, 250-square -foot version of its bike shop on South Broadway sometime in the next few weeks. It will be located right behind Happy Coffee, which Salvagetti owner Scott Taylor plans to open at 1 South Broadway sometime in February or March inside what…

Brandi Shigley could be our Westword MasterMind poster girl: Civic-minded and an ever-positive dynamo on the local style scene, the Fashion Denver founder lives up to the very definition of a MasterMind in a way that truly befits a member of the inaugural 2005 creative class. Back then, she was…

It’s the end of the year, which means that Westword scribes are busy compiling lists of the good, the bad and the ugly of 2011…sometimes the very ugly. If we were working on a list of the worst art moments of 2010, it would certainly include the fact that arts…

Yes, 2012 is creeping up on us like my 32nd birthday (no need to send presents — I will only be accepting fan letters as gifts and creepy Facebook messages of adoration from high school stalkers). Since the world is not going to be ending as some of us maybe…

There’s big news on Broadway, where Fancy Tiger and the Buffalo Exchange will be sharing a building at 55-59 Broadway, with the clothing resale shop opening post-Christmas after a quick move from Capitol Hill, and Fancy Tiger opening its new, merged doors in in early January. It’s big news, but…

‘Tis the season to torture sales clerks, as Bree Davies revealed in “I’m an idiot, and other misconceptions about retail employees.” At Shirt Folding Store, where she’s worked off and on for five years, she’s suffered through people who’ve used her as a babysitter, people who’ve used her as a…

Animo, an Italian company specializing in equestrian wear, has set up a pop-up store at 2426 Third Avenue in Cherry Creek, which opened last night, is open again today and will open tomorrow at 9 a.m. The label prides itself on being “100 percent made in Italy — the fabric…

You know you’re in trouble when you’re still shopping and Christmas is just a little more than a week away. Though the most organized folks have finished their gift-buying and are now focusing on tree-trimming, wrapping and baking, procrastinators can breathe easy: You can still snag hip, edgy, arty gifts…