Take a Hike!

All thoughts of skiing melt away with the arrival of consistently clear skies and warm days, as Denverites head for the hills. If you’re not exactly the climb-a-fourteener-every-weekend type — or if you just don’t want to drive for hours to get to your destination — there are plenty of…

Get in the Swim

Most days, the mountains are a fair trade for Denver’s lack of an ocean. And on those other days when the mercury is really rising, you can beat the heat at nearby pools and water parks. In addition to Denver’s sixteen public outdoor pools (daily rates are $3 for adults…

The Fest of Times

Summer is here, and for music lovers, that can only mean one thing: It’s festival time! Love them or hate them, festivals are the quintessential summer music experience. Sure, it can be exhausting to spend an entire day (or two, or three…) at a concert, but there’s nothing quite like…

Fashion or Driving: The Teen Dilemma

This just in: America’s teenagers are not using their own money to pay off debt. Well, I, for one, never would have guessed. Maybe that’s surprising to The Allstate Foundation and Junior Achievement, who compiled a survey on teen spending habits, but to everyone with a kid under the age…

Workplace Propriety According to Westword

“Hi, hon-,” Christopher interrupted his normal post-work greeting to me and, instead, looked me up and down in much the same manner Carrie’s classmates did her after the unfortunate pig’s blood incident. “Is that what you wore to work today?” he finally asked/snarked? “What?” I scratched an itch through a…

The Pajamas Letter: Be On the Lookout for Elf Slippers!

As you may remember, we finally received a response from our mysterious pajamas lover, but instead of revealing his identity, the rascally pajamaphile offered us a new challenge: We had to find a left-footed elf slipper, hidden somewhere around Denver, as described in this note: View larger image…

Fashion on the ‘Fax: Summer Trends

We still have three months until Labor Day so bring on the white. Page paired a pleated trench from Guess with Juicy Couture bangles for the perfect summer night outfit. Kendra represents the epitomy of Colfax style with a little bit of girlish lace and Vans skate shoes. A long…

That Thong Th Thong Thong Thong

Call the fashion police. Wearing thong underwear is now officially a crime. When you wear it on your face, anyway. Last week, we detailed the capers of the Arvada “Thong Bandits” in this blog, and only two days later the Denver Post reported that one of the men had been…

Jiberish Clothing: The Art Behind the Label

Click Here for Slide Show Jiberish Clothing, a Denver-based snowboarding and hip-hop clothing company, is putting the spotlight on their artists in a new exhibit at the Michael Walter Gallery, 742 Santa Fe Drive. The show, entitled The Crowning: Culture Creates the Crown, features artwork by Jiberish designers Matt Yerman,…

Earshots Jewelry Wants You To Rock Responsibly

If your group of friends is at all like mine, you might recall a familiar conversation: “Dude, I love A,” “I know, man. A is pretty great. On a totally unrelated note, B is awesome too.” “Agreed! Now that I think about it, B is as rad as A.” “You’re…

Talking Shop: Safari Seconds

Once tucked away in a back parking lot, Safari Seconds thrift store just expanded into a street-facing storefront at 414 Broadway, a move that will surely give the store, a non-profit refugee resettlement project of the African Community Center, a new lease on life. Even in its old hole in…

Carrie’s Fashionable Evolution

Click to View Slide Show Before you head out to catch the Sex and the City movie for the third time this weekend, take a look back at some of Carrie Bradshaw’s more memorable fashion moments. For a few more of Carrie’s looks, check out Rossy’s previous blog…

Feel the Bliss

Bliss Salon, located in a red-brick Highland Denver square at 2845 Wyandot Street, stands out in the crowd simply by being where it is, but it doesn’t hurt that Bliss is not only a peaceful women’s hideaway with a green viewpoint, but also one with boutique style and an in-house…

Fashionable First Friday Art Walk

When a group of experienced clothing and jewelry designers gets together for a collaborative showing, you know it’s an event that can’t be missed. This is the case with clothing designer Carol Mier and jewelry designers Leyna Bencomo, Holly Fillingham, and Marc McCall. This fashionable group is displaying pieces of…

Capitalizing on Capitol History Tees

You would think that a hundred years after Denver citizens moaned so mightily about the worn condition of the Capitol building’s copper dome that they inspired local miners to donate gold to cover the ugly thing, somebody might have thought to commemorate the significant anniversary. Fortunately, several bodies did. Last…

Empty Castle

John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America’s two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought a GameCube, Nintendo 64, every incarnation of the Game Boy — and anything Nintendo releases with a “Mario” or “Zelda” in…

Just Jewelry

If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind jewelry piece to compliment your summer styles, why not take a drive out to Frisco to see the “Just Jewelry” exhibition at Wild Side Studio, 518 Main Street, Frisco. Steamboat Springs-based jewelry designer Melanie Guerra will be showing over 40 pieces of work, including…

Look of the Day – Amanda

You know those gorgeous high school girls for whom all the varsity quarterbacks ditch practice? The prom queens and head cheerleaders? The girls from whom Tina Fey gleaned inspiration for her hit film, Mean Girls? Perfect 10’s and Jailbait Knockouts? Amanda was not one of those girls. Amanda was tormented…

Bandit Fashion Watch

Here’s a fashion crime of a whole new kind. On May 16, these two men, now dubbed the “thong bandits,” robbed a gas station in Arvada. For their caper, one man had donned a green thong, while the other wore a blue thong over his face. With so many cute…

Local Designer Trunk Show

Spring is finally melding into summer here in Denver, and with that change in season our closets need a transformation, too. What better way to celebrate the sun than by wearing summer styles by local designers? This was the thought that prompted Denver fashion veterans Lourdes Rios and Kandyce Hudson…

Flirty, Sex-y, Money

Apparently, Harrison Ford isn’t the only movie star who just seems to get sexier with age. Movie theaters all across Denver (probably the country) were sold out to hundreds of Sex-crazed fans, all dressed to the nines this Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sex and the City opened…

A Tangled Yarn

Colorado-based author, Maggie Sefton, knows a thing or two about knitting and purling, but the national bestselling author of A Killer Stitch can also weave — the parts of a mystery, anyway. Tomorrow, Sefton releases the fifth book in her Knitting Mystery Series, and this time heroine Kelly Flynn has…