#50: Theresa Mercado Professional film buff, horror aficionado and admitted “murderphile” Theresa Mercado is so immersed in her work programming the Sie FilmCenter’s scare-tastic Scream Screen film series that she’s apt to introduce her picks to the audience while in full character costume — something you don’t see every day…
With more money from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment going toward “Enough With the Puff” ads featuring a creepy teddy bear (pictured above) and a possible cigarette-tax hike coming (Proposition 72 is on this year’s ballot), there’s never been more incentive to quit smoking. There are even fewer…
The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District has been part of my life for almost all of it. I was born in Colorado in 1980; voters in the six-country metro area approved the SCFD tax — one penny on every ten dollars — in 1988. Denver is a better city for…
#51: Phaedra High Phaedra High — Denver entrepreneur, event-thrower, maker and advocate for natural hair and beauty care — calls herself a “nerd with her head in the clouds,” but that doesn’t mean she’s not getting things done. A primary hand in producing the Denver Natural Hair Care Expo for…
The Alamo Drafthouse is putting a spin on its popular Baby Day shows by introducing Alamo for All, screenings that not only accommodate young families, but families and guests with special needs who are not able to appreciate a typical movie presentation. Not that any movie screenings here are typical…
#52: Sarah Fukami Colorado born and bred, printmaker and current RedLine resident Sarah Fukami creates work that’s deeply rooted in her Japanese family’s internment during WWII and issues around her cultural heritage. Fukami layers her mixed-media historical references on Plexiglas panels, relating stories of figures both notable and anonymous, bringing…
#53: Daniel Crosier Since graduating from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2000, under the tutelage of sculptor Chuck Parsons, Daniel Crosier has put his hands in plenty of new projects: He’s been a neo-kabuki performance artist with his group OFM: OdAm fEI mUd, transformed wood-burned illustrations…
The owner of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park has a favorite story involving his flagship property. It involves a wedding and a couple of overly hydrated llamas.
A Denver-based videography company called Studio C3 has been making insane time-lapses of the most haunted places in Denver. Using a Gh4 camera, photographer David Kaufman made his way around the Mile High picking four haunted spots to showcase. The fantastic four he chose: Molly Brown House, the Croke-Patterson Mansion, the Brown Palace Hotel and the Lumber Baron Inn. A separate time-lapse features one haunted spot in particular: the stagecoach ruins found in Penrose, Colorado, which includes a legend of a “grey lady” guarding the space.
This season of gourds and ghouls is full of family-friendly activities. The fall festivities kick off in he mountains this weekend and extend through early November. Keep reading for our ten favorite autumn events.
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the philosophy that inspired Denver International Airport to not only acknowledge all the conspiracy theories that started flying even before the new airport opened two decades ago, but celebrate them. As part of the fun, last week DIA hosted a costume party…
One of Broadway’s longest-running businesses is packing up its wig boxes and high heels. Studio Lites, which caters to Denver’s burlesque and drag communities but is a treasure trove for anyone looking for a wig or some bling, will close its location at 333 Broadway by the end of the…
At a fashion show, sometimes the style we spot off the runway deserves a second look. We spied event coordinator Rita Sater, a Denver native who has a background in visual merchandising, styling, design and makeup artistry, at the Fashion Group International and Jones New York fashion show at Dillard’s…
Arial StaxXx was born in a pair of heels, but the firecracker persona of 25-year-old Jonathon Torres didn’t make her debut as a drag star until the 2015 Ultimate Queen competition. That contest is known for testing the mettle of the most seasoned performers through fourteen weeks of makeup, dance…
Designer Katie Wells — aka Giddyup! — lives for Halloween, when she paints the runway with her signature bug-encrusted gowns and cobweb couture. Wells debuted her 2016 costume line on the sidewalk in front of the new Denver Fashion Truck brick-and-mortar boutique at 2343 West 44th Avenue on October 15, and photographer Ken Hamblin…
Andrew Novick collects things. Lots of things. But Novick is no garden-variety hoarder. Each of his prized objects, which are catalogued and line shelves in his garage, evoked some kind of story for him, and the collection, once the subject of a museum exhibit at Adam Lerner’s old Lab at…
#54: Frankie ToanA relative newcomer to Denver, artist Frankie Toan is already well-embedded in the city’s under-the-radar art communities. A former PlatteForum resident and a current second-year resident at RedLine, Toan creates work that’s rooted in craft and heavy on message, confronting viewers with alternative social realities, urging them to throw…
After eight weeks of fierce competition, thousands of sequins and rhinestones, pounds of makeup and one giant cloud of hairspray, the winner of Tracks’s Ultimate Queen All-Stars competition was crowned last Thursday night. The finale kicked off with the Final Four queens — Arial StaxXx, Gia StaxXx, Kyile Vanderpump and…
For some creatives, fashion and music work together to create a real work of art. Khalil Arcady is Sur Ellz, a 23-year-old songwriter, producer and performer from Aurora who sports a multi-genre appeal in both his music and fashion sense. We spotted him at Westword’s DISH last month, where he was wearing…
#55: Andrew Huffman Incoming RedLine resident artist Andrew Huffman hails from Kansas, bringing with him an up-to-the-minute artist’s eye view and an arsenal of mediums, from wall projections to photographs altered through painting and drawing. Get to know Huffman as he speeds through the visual universe, via his answers to…
Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, always the perfect backdrop for an old-fashioned burlesque show, played host to a spooky seasonal edition of Vivienne VaVoom’s monthly Sunday Peepshow on October 9, with a focus on the gorgeous costuming worn by Denver’s leading ladies of burlesque. And in this case, one boylesquer! All photos…
Although October is a time for spooky costumes, there are plenty of other fashion events this month to fill your social calendar — and fill your closet. The list includes everything from store openings to a fashion-sketching class. Here are the ten best fashion events in October, in chronological order. …
