Rolling Paper

After starring in 20 years’ worth of video games, the Super Mario Brothers have been spread mighty thin. The mustachioed heroes’ latest outing, however, takes this concept to a literal extreme. Paradoxically, Super Paper Mario is like every Mario game you’ve ever played — and like nothing you’ve seen before…

Sale at Strut

Shoe sale. Those are Cat’s two favorite words in the English language. And on Saturday, May 5, Strut at 3877 Tennyson Street is celebrating its birthday with 15 percent off and champagne. Woohoo! Owner Elyse Burja always has so many cute options that Cat can stock up and not have…

Peace, Yo!

You wanna give peace a chance? The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver is getting all technological and making it easy: Just visit the site to add your digital offering to its Peace Pile, the interactive portion of the museum’s current Peace Project exhibition. When Cat added her virtual symbol, 1,533 people…

A Week of Fashion

It’s another stylish, stylish week here in D-Town, with lots of stuff Cat doesn’t want to miss. So leave those ball caps and hoodies at home, and hit the streets. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 Transitions: A Fashion Benefit for UACK 8 p.m. Wynkoop Brewery (upstairs) $10 at the door; $8 in…

Oh, Kiki, You’re So Fine

Kirsten Dunst has been lighting up the fashion blogosphere with her on-again-off-again relationship with style as she trounces through European press junkets promoting Spidey 3, trying ever so hard to convince crowds that she could, in fact, portray falling if shoved off a cliff. (Naturally, nobody believes her.) The snarky…

And the Winner of the Cydney Payton Design Challenge Is…

Museum of Contemorary Art/Denver director and curator Cydney Payton made her final choices in the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, in which eight designers from the Tamarac Square Fashion Project sketched her a “museum-opening oufit” (appropriate since the new MCA building opens this fall). Payton considered both the artistic and stylistic…

And the Winner of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project Is…

It’s said, it’s done, it’s over. Cat knows who won the final challenge, a day-to-evening look, and Cat knows who is going to be representing D-Town at New York Fashion Week in the fall. You want to know who won… click here for the complete slideshow. Then come back to…

Sweet Shots

The slideshow from last night’s Tamarac Square Fashion Project will be up later this afternoon — a lot of pictures to go through! — but in the meantime, here’s some fun video of the Little Black Dress and Ace Hardware challenges, shot by Johnny Morehouse and Ben Kronberg, to keep…

This Is Madness

A game based on 300 has no excuse not to kick ass. Just picture yourself leading 300 Greeks (that’s 1,800 abs) against the Persian empire’s massive armies, led by the evil, pierced, and preening King Xerxes. Since your Spartans are the deadliest soldiers in the world, the Persians’ only chance…

Deb Henriksen Designs for Cydney Payton

We’re down to our last sketch for the Cydney Payton Design Challenge! That means tonight is the big night, the showdown, the climax, the night we find out who wins the Tamarac Square Fashion Project — and whose drawing of a museum-opening outfit Cydney, the MoCA-D curator selected. It’s been…

Jose Clark Designs for Cydney Payton

Today, we have Jose Clark’s sketch for the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, a special Cat’s Pajamas competition as part of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Only one more day until we find out who the director and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver picked… Here’s Jose’s artist’s statement:…

Stephanie Ohnmacht Designs for Cydney Payton

We’re down to the final three designs for the a Cydney Payton Design Challenge, a special bonus competition that Cat organized as part of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Cat will announce the winner on the runway this Wednesday, April 25 — the last Fashion Project show for this year…

Lisa Ramfjord Elstun Designs for Cydney Payton

Cat got a little behind on posting the sketches for the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, a special addendum to the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Eight of the competing designers submitted “museum-opening outfit” sketches to the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, who will choose her favorite. The winner will…

A Weekend in Fashion

Richard Bemis It’s a busy, busy fashion weekend in town. Here’s your cheat sheet for making it through; just put it in your Trapper Keeper and head out on the town. Oh, and if you score any good — or so bad they’re good — fashion photos, send them over…

And the Challenge 3 Winner Is…

The slideshow of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project third runway show is now up. Check out all the designs here, then come back and visit Cat to post a comment about who you think should have won. The designer with the most “votes” will score a gift certificate to Sketch…

Hot Mama

We’ve all seen Super Mario eat copious amounts of mushrooms, but have you ever considered the care that goes into preparing such delicacies? In Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Wii, Wolfgang Puck wannabes are thrust into the kitchen — alongside “Mama,” the game’s titular chef — where they’ll chop,…

Speak Your Mind

Later today (Thursday) there will be a complete slideshow of last night’s Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Can’t wait until then to tell the judges who you think should have won Challenge #3? Post your comments below. (You’ll have to wait for the slideshow to see who actually won!) Any comments…

Gino Velardi Designs for Cydney Payton

Today’s contestant in the Cydney Payton Design Challenge is Gino Velardi, who is best known around town for his stunning gowns. Seriously, he has this feathered babydoll number that Cat might just kill for…but that’s another story, as he’s got something else in mind for the director and curator of…

Crystal Sharp Designs for Cydney Payton

Today’s entry into the Cydney Payton Design Challenge comes from Crystal Sharp, whom everyone knows as the proprietor of She She on South Broadway and Bayaud. Check out her design, and then go here to see the slideshow of what she — and the other eleven designers competing in the…

Mona Lucero Designs for Cydney Payton

And now Cat presents the second entry in the Cydney Payton Challenge, a design created by local fashion fave Mona Lucero. Next week Payton will choose her favorite sketch, and the winner will be announced on the Tamarac Square Fashion Project runway on April 25. Stay tuned to Cat every…

Cydney Payton Challenge: Tricia Hoke

Cydney Payton is the city’s reigning art matriarch. And how lucky we are, because Payton’s no stodgy old maven. No, the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver loves Manolo Blahniks and red lipstick, wishes she could meet Miuccia Prada, is listening to TV on the Radio, and even…

And the Challenge 2 Winner Is…

Nicole Popovich One of Cat’s faves from the second challenge of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. To view the slide show, click here. Cat will be honest: She expected some trash to come down the runway during the second challenge of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Not that she’s disrespecting…