Tiny Japanese monsters have suddenly invaded Denver. If you download the free Pokémon Go app, you’ll see them popping up all over town: high-tech versions of the characters introduced to America on Pokémon cards two decades ago. While the app leaves something to be desired on a technological level (the augmented…
July promises to be a scorcher — and we’re talking about fashion, not the heat. Colorful bursts of fashion are popping all over the city, like fireworks. Following are ten fashion events that will light up your night this month, in chronological order. 10. Denver Design Week Launch Party 7…
Rock and roll, Denver. The Golden Triangle was the site of our annual Westword Music Showcase at the end of June, and in addition to hearing great music we saw a lot of great festival style, including a standout menswear look sported by musician Diego Florez, a Colorado native raised on the Northside…
#73: Deb Flomberg Helping to stage fun and off-the-wall shows for Equinox Theatre Company (including the current Evil Dead: The Musical, known for its ever-popular bloody front-row “spatter-zone” seating) isn’t enough to keep Deb Flomberg busy: The actress, director, producer, writer and PR queen is also a booster of the…
It’s not a summer in Denver without a trip to Lakeside Amusement Park. Built in 1908, the park is a testament to the enduring appeal of old-fashioned thrill rides and neon lights. It’s also the subject of Denver’s Lakeside Amusement Park: From the White City Beautiful to a Century…
Denver’s been getting quite a workout lately, with all the indoor cycle studios and fitness franchises popping up around town. Now you can add Barre Forte, 1553 Platte Street, to the lineup: Colorado ultrarunners Amy O’Connell and Sarah Brittenham opened the doors of Denver’s second licensed Barre Forte studio on June 25…
#74: Gemma Danielle Artist Gemma Danielle’s intricate mandala work intersects with her mastery of the healing arts as a Reiki practitioner. For her, both are spiritual, referencing inner energies and meditational journeys. And now she shares these visual therapies on a larger scale in public murals, most notably her Urban…
June has come and gone, and with it, gay pride month, but the reverberations of the tragic mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12 — which took the lives of 49 and wounded 53, all from the Latinx and LGBTQ communities — continue to move…
Lets take a moment to remember the late great Bill Cunningham, who passed away this week at 85 and was a an inspiration to the fashion and art world, photographing fashionistas all over New York. Many believe Cunningham was the grandfather of street-style, and likeCunningham we attempt to capture the…
Passion. That’s what lies at the heart of the geek experience. Spaceships, wizards and monsters may be its signifiers, but what really drives geek culture is passion. Crazy, all-consuming, unbridled passion, the kind that drives people to reread dozens of thousand-page tomes, argue minor plot points endlessly in online forums,…
#75: Arturo Garcia Activist, workingman, writer and painter of animals and people, Jaliscan emigre Arturo Garcia also partners with the Boulder-based Americas Latino Eco Festival as steward of Graficomovil, Mexican artist Artemio Rodríguez’s mini-museum and community printmaking studio on wheels. This summer, Garcia is on the road with Graficomovil, making…
When it’s hot outside, Fashion Denver’s Brandi Shigley heads for the pool, and on Sunday, June 26, she brought the Splash Fashion Market along for the swim. While hand-picked Denver designers and businesses showcased their wares poolside, all the fashionistas got cool at the pool. All photos by Ken Hamblin…
#76: Bianca Mikahn Poet, hip-hop musician, healer of social woes, youth mentor, activist, goddess — these are just a few of the hats that Denver native Bianca Mikahn wears as she dances through life, touching lives with her lyrical voice and a helping hand. Mikahn’s work places her on many…
During last weekend’s Denver Comic Con at the Colorado Convention Center, the streets of Denver were full of people wearing costumes saluting their favorite comics characters and superheroes, in a celebration of the scene. But one spectator was not impressed. Says Amanda: Dressing up in black and red lingerie and calling…
Thousands of dedicated cosplayers and comics geeks stormed Denver Comic Con 2016 over the weekend of June 17-19, 2016, for a glorious glimpse of such celebrities as Marvel maven Stan Lee, the latest in comic culture and, thanks to all the costumes, each other. Photographers Aaron Thackeray and Danielle Lirette…
It’s no secret that I love horror movies, but I have a confession: They don’t really scare me. At least, not usually. My beloved zombie movies fill me with a sense of apocalyptic angst, but almost never fright. As much as I love the gore in so many of these films,…
Now more than ever, Denver PrideFest, one of the largest pride events in the nation, stood tall last weekend as a symbol of love and solidarity within the GLBTQ community, here and everywhere. Photographer Miles Crisinger caught all the colors of the fest’s July 19 parade and rally. Now…
John Moore is no stranger to the theater. For more than a decade, the longtime journalist and critic for the Denver Post covered Colorado’s theater scene with an integrity and intensity that earned him a spot as one of the country’s twelve most influential critics in American Theatre Magazine in 2011 — the year…
Thousands of comics fans lined up last weekend for Denver Comic Con at the Colorado Convention Center, many of them there to show off their elaborate cosplay creations, which often require months of preparation. Behold the heroes and villains and weird characters of Denver Comic Con 2016, as documented by…
“We just decided to go for it,” says Ryan Schutz, a towering, genial, bearded guy — Hagrid in a service-station shirt. With him is Mike Decker, similarly attired, one arm in a sling but the other rocking a Mongo-size cup of coffee. Schutz is the executive director of Bikes Together, a…
Last Sunday’s senseless mass shooting at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, left an immediate and indelible scar on the global gay community, an injury made graver by the fact that it occurred in June, the month when gay pride is celebrated the world over. Here in Denver, we’re…
This is a big weekend for big events in Denver — PrideFest, Juneteenth and Denver Comic Con — and after the shootings in Orlando last weekend, you can anticipate higher security at all of them. Comic Con poses a particular challenge, since fantasy weapons are such an intrinsic part of…
