Denver Life

Last night was the first of a few pre-parties Westword is hosting in advance of Artopia, which goes down February 19 at five venues in the Golden Triangle neighborhood. (All the Artopia details, including available tickets are here: Artopia Denver.) Last night’s party was at Beauty Bar, 608 E. 13th…

If there’s one thing we’ve proven time and time again, it’s that Denver loves its burlesque. What better way to show your appreciation for the timeless act of girls seductively removing their clothes and dancing than to learn a little about the history? You can do so this weekend at…

If you took yesterday off because you were scared of the roads, then chances are you’re returning to work today with a couch-potato hangover and no desire to get any work done. Good thing we’ve got Shift Freedom for you, because it’ll get your brain back into working shape and…

For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty,” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. You may…

Snow day! Denver Public Schools and others around the region are closed today “due to severe weather conditions and below-freezing temperatures,” and Loveland Ski area has just the thing to keep all those rugrats from going stir crazy: They’re slashing adult ticket prices from $59 to $30, and kids’ tickets…

The SIA Snow Show rang in its second year in Denver yesterday with Governor John Hickenlooper rocking a green 686 snowboard jacket and talking about how stoked he is to go snowboarding with his family this weekend, and Mayor Bill Vidal sporting a puffy black Spyder coat and urging SIA…

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: we’re really sick of zombie games. However, this was just too good to pass up. Namely because it’s really a survival game, not a zombie game — you could easily mentally substitute zombies for Mad Max-style psychos with cool mohawks and…

Kirsten Coplans thinks small. She lives and works simply in a tiny, eclectic Uptown matchbox of a house furnished with retro furniture and blooming collections: Chinese jewelry boxes with miniature drawers, Asian dolls, vintage glass casseroles patterned in fruity colors. Her studio, where she creates Pearl Clothing, her local line…

Being that the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building kind of looks like a gigantic DeLorean collided with the landscape of Tron, it’s saying something that Larry Green’s shoes came pretty close to upstaging it. In today’s edition of Street Fashion, wherein we talk to random people on the street whose…

For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. While it…

As every hipster twenty-something in Denver knows, our fair city has been sadly inferior to other mid- to large-sized cities over the years in at least one key area: We lack an IKEA. The Swedish impresario corporation of ready-to-assemble furniture that is both stylish and cheap, IKEA is a destination…

At its purest, style is not about adornment but expression. It appropriates what’s au courant and fits it to suit the individual, not the other way around. For lack of a better term, it’s genuine swag. To Leo Barth, who smirkingly combined dark jeans and a striped hoodie with loud…

First off, let’s get one thing out the way: Fotonica requires you to download the Unity player, so if you’re on some super-locked down computer at work, IT will probably bust your head open if you try. For the rest of us, Fotonica is an interesting take on the one-button…

When Westword staff writer Melanie Asmar called out the announcer and rodeo clown at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo yesterday for using Brokeback Mountain references to make gay jokes (personally, I’m more offended they haven’t updated their material since 2005), causing the NWSS to promise never to do it…

An overflow of bodies was spilling out onto the street of 609 East 13th Avenue on Saturday, toasting the night in celebration of the opening of the long awaited Landmark: Electric Ghost Tattooing. The co-op is a venture put together by four colleagues of the Denver tattoo scene, whose combined…

The National Western Stock show has been going on all month and on Saturday, photographer Aaron Thackeray went behind the scenes at the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo, held at the Denver Coliseum, and brings back these photos: People of the Rodeo…

For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty,” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Those who…

I don’t know about you, but when it finally got cold this winter, I had to pull all my sweaters out of mothballs or, rather, lack of mothballs. Which means that some of them came out of storage holey. Do you have holey sweaters, too? Or a favorite woolen scarf…

If you’ve ever been to a Burlycute show, then you pretty much know what to expect when these burlesque beauties put together a production: Sheer insanity. Also, hot girls taking off their clothes amidst the sheer insanity. And madame/emcee Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is the glue that keeps…

For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Here’s a…

Ever since zombies started taking over, ninjas have been getting a bum rap on the game front. Thankfully, Adult Swim Games is around to latch onto these types of things, which is where House of Dead Ninjas comes from. It’s a simple, clever and addictive game…