The people at CU-Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium are stoked, to put it mildly. On Monday, October 12, they learned that NASA had awarded them a cool $1,000,000 with which to make movies. “We are getting hammered with proposals already,” says Thor Metzinger, the planetarium’s video producer. The plan calls for the…
My best friend is a funeral director. We talk about death — a lot. Over the last decade of our friendship, I’ve watched as she expertly moves through social situations, carefully choosing to reveal (or not reveal) what, exactly, it is that she does for a living. For all of…
#8: Laura Phelps Rogers Laura Phelps Rogers tells her stories in complex sculptural installations combining cast metals with found objects, mixed media, photography and performance. A member of the Pirate and Ice Cube co-ops, Rogers has also placed public artworks, such as her 2013 Nipple Quilt installation, in spots as…
Now playing at the Sie FilmCenter and Alamo Drafthouse is the meta-horror-comedy The Final Girls, a film that celebrates one of the greatest and most under-appreciated character types in modern cinema: the horror movie’s sole survivor. A cross between the meta-horror stylings of Scream and Cabin in the Woods and the…
The Crypt, Denver’s beloved adult store and sex shop, has closed its doors. On September 30, both of the locations on Broadway were shuttered; they’d been seized by the City of Denver because of “unpaid taxes.” Along with a notice from the city regarding the tax seizure, the door of…
An all-black outfit may be stylish, but when you’re dressing in a single color palette, you have to pay attention to the details. We spotted fellow blogger and stylist Merida Teot — who describes her style as “color meets local chic” — at the Whorl Imprints fashion show in Cherry…
When I was nineteen, my mother-in-law (the first one, I’ve had a couple more since) asked if I’d ever seen Psycho and I said something stupid: “No, but I know the whole deal, so I don’t really need to.” I will never forget the look she gave me in response;…
October is the month of madness. The month to pull out all the stops and go over-the-top with all your fashion, and one outfit in particular: your Halloween costume. Although a couple of our favorite costume stores have closed — RIP, Flossy McGrew’s — there are still some fantastic spots…
As a writer who covers local issues in art, social justice and city growth, I use the word “community” on a regular basis to describe both tangible settings and loose associations between people. This past weekend, as I made hundreds of laps around DIY space Dryer Plug Studios, where I…
#9: Karl Christian Krumpholz Cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz has a keen eye for the historical underbelly of Denver bar culture, as evidenced by his new weekly comic “The Denver Bootleg” in Westword, as well as his ongoing webcomic 30 Miles of Crazy!, a paean to the nightlife, people and places…
Cassiana Moore is the owner of The Knockout Girl, a Brazilian fitness-wear brand with an online store. We spotted her at Imprints by Whorl, a fashion show featuring Whorl’s new line made at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and funded by Indie-gogo. There was hot fashion both…
Although October in Denver is packed with scares, tricks and treats, there’s also plenty of fashion, with events geared to turning over a new leaf — and getting a new fall look — all over town. From anniversary parties to pop-up shops, from fashion shows to sample sales, here are…
October is here, and horror is in the air! Speaking of horror, the Internet has been in something of a furor over the past few days, losing its collective shit over a rumored remake of The Exorcist. Oh, the horror! Sure, it looks like that was all a tempest in…
True style is classic, timeless and has nothing to do with age. And if there’s an ambassador for timeless style, it’s Debra Rapoport, the well-dressed star of Ari Seth Cohen’s blog, book and documentary, Advanced Style. The film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent and stylish people who happen to…
https://westword-dev-wpvip.md-staging.com/restaurants/fire-closes-denver-dinerfor-now-6046043 If you’re like me and have a late-night ritual that involves eating out in Denver, chances are you’ve got your favorite spot. I’m not talking about the after-midnight fourth meal experience of shame-eating Taco Bell in your car — or a prideful trip to the Tacos Rapidos or Viva…
#10: Jennifer Garner A printmaker and dedicated faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Jennifer Garner honed her curating chops over ten years at Auraria’s Emmanuel Gallery and Metro’s Center for Visual Art. Now she’s on board at Denver International Airport, curating changing exhibits that give thousands of travelers…
The scary season returned to Denver this past weekend, when Asylum and the 13th Floor opened their doors. Celebrated by media ranging from MTV to USA Today to Fangoria, these two hair-raising fright-fests fuel our city’s nightmares. From its Denver base, the 13th Floor Entertainment Grouphas expanded over the years…
Feast your eyes on this spectacular look we spotted at Westword’s DISH celebration last Sunday. While the focus was on the food — signature dishes from more than forty of our favorite restaurants — there was also plenty of fashion on display at Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex…
Fall is here, which means football season is here, which means fantasy football is back! How’s your team? (Just kidding: No one who’s not in your league cares.) Sadly, it also means the tired, lazy comparisons between fantasy football and Dungeons & Dragons are back. Whether it’s a meme like…
Traffic in Denver sucks. If you drive along Speer Boulevard after 3 p.m. on any given day, you have to battle not only congestion, but new development construction that is apparently permitted to stop traffic whenever it pleases. Then there’s the nightmare known as Colorado Boulevard, a street where no…
If you are not a season ahead, you are a season behind. We learned this basic rule of fashion while at New York Fashion Week, which showed work from designers’ Spring/Summer 2016 collections. On September 13, we attended the Essence Street Style Block Party, which went down in DUMBO. The acronym stands…
Anyone can make a zombie movie. All you need is some buddies, a camera and a few gallons of fake blood. An idea or two helps, and a little talent can go a long way, but plenty of these low-to-no-budget backyard zombie epics get made without either. Sometimes — very…
