“You need to throw that thing away as soon as you get home,” says Tracy. “You see how it’s riding up in the back?” I do see. I’m standing in the bathroom of a suite at the Ritz-Carlton with Tracy, a woman I just met, and she’s appalled — appalled…
While people debate the changes in Highland, one refugee sings the praises of Barnum, which Jef Otte celebrated in “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood.” This neighborhood may be named after circus promoter P.T. Barnum, but its fans aren’t clowning around…
Night and Day Vintage smells like cinnamon, and it looks like a scene inside Alice’s imagination. For those who enjoy retro deco without an empty-bank-account echo, it might as well be Wonderland. Located one block west of Broadway on 11th Avenue, Night and Day has an interior that leans heavily…
While many people laid out by the pool or devoured BBQ on Memorial Day weekend, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit or old T-shirt and shorts, true street fashion never takes time off. For proof, look no further than these stylistic movers and shakers we found downtown over the…
I have bad taste in all facets of my life. I’m attracted to pink and turquoise bathroom fixtures, knock-off Chanel purses and PT Cruisers outfitted with the many personalities of Taz. My favorite flavors are black licorice and Alka-Seltzer, and if I could, I would serve every meal with Kalamata…
Late last year, spurred by a seeming disconnect among many factions of the local fashion world, style mavens Kathy Bacon and Mona Lucero put their heads together with Ginger White Brunetti of Create Denver and Stephanie Blake of Blake Communications to investigate the concept of a unified fashion board or…
There was real mayhem at the 2010 Mayhem Festival, with one man facing a long prison term for his role in the fracas. “It was like getting socked in the gut,” Eric Swanson says of learning that he could spend 48 years in prison. Except that he could actually be…
“Those B cycle riders are almost as dangerous as the spandex warriors,” says Yosh, in response to Bree Davie’s rant about the Cherry Creek Bike Path. This Memorial Day weekend, Denver’s parks and trails will be filled with people — many of them very hazardous to your health. Who are…
To call Free School Denver “grassroots” is almost too mild: Like a relic of the ’60s, DFS has no hierarchies. Formed in that nascent spirit of community education, the school offers all classes for free, and anyone can attend or teach one. Sessions tend to go down in private homes…
On Tuesday, artist Kyle Banister and a crew of Southwest Airlines employees and students from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design spent four hours creating a masterpiece. And just a few minutes later, it was gone. That very short life span is one of the challenges, as well…
Though you can never truly count on the weather in Colorado, it’s been consistently warm out there for a while and the forecast calls for it to stay that way. Fortunately, the water park at Elitch Gardens will open May 26, just in time for Memorial Day fun. Here’s a…
Sarah Slater, founder of the Titwrench music festival, is a 2011 MasterMind award winner — and it looks like smarts run in the family. Because tonight, Sarah and her sister, Julie Slater, will host a special edition of Gorinto to celebrate Julie’s acceptance to college in Berlin, where she plans…
As the season starts to swelter, street fashion takes a more easy-going, laid-back approach. Yet for these individuals, that doesn’t mean compromising on style. Take a gander at this week’s subjects, who are creating their own looks…
It’s almost swimsuit season, and I was sporting a rocking case of “winter bush.” Ladies, we all know what that is: You wear jeans and heinie-hiding girl-brief panties all winter long, into early spring, and when you finally snap and look down at your privies in the shower, it looks…
The Colfax Marathon always includes plenty of entertainment: end-or-race parties, streetside viewing at the Irish Snug, and this year a scooter parade. But when you’re on the run, it’s the very little things that count, as Rebecca Aronauer points out in her “Colfax Marathon Dispatch,” with the top ten things…
The idea that online dating sucks for straight people is as old as online dating itself. A few weeks ago, as I watched Luciann Lajoie explain in great theatrical detail the (however brief) life of a frantic serial online-dater in Date, I was reminded of just what terrified me so…
Time magazine started the whole thing, with a cover that featured a toddler smirking like a teenager while latched onto his mother’s breast. The cover story, on attachment parenting, inspired a response from both Westword writer Jef Otte, who thinks attachment parenting sucks, and local comic Andrew Orvedahl, who doesn’t…
The movies for the 2012 Film on the Rocks summer lineup at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — many of them picked by the people, for the people — were announced Friday night, and don’t blame the Denver FilmCenter if you don’t like The Notebook. “It wasn’t just because this seems to…
.Creeped out by last week’s TIME cover story about attachment parenting, Jef Otte penned an essay for the Village Voice about how much attachment parenting sucks and posted it to his wall. As it happened, local comic and 2012 Westword MasterMind Andrew Orvedahl had penned his own essay on how…
Crystal Lee is a fashion designer, seamstress, stylist and all-around bad ass. Shunning the corporate world in order to follow her passion — and avoid beige nylons — she is pursuing her love of fashion as a student at the Art Institute of Colorado. Her line of super-easy, fly and…
Britt Chester, who sold his car two years ago and relies on his bicycle and public transportation to get around, has been riding around this town’s bike trails, stopping to snap pictures. This photos become posts in our “guess where I’m biking” series — which has a B-cycle card as…
Wicked will end its run in Denver on May 20, and when the touring show goes, Colorado native Andy Kelso, who plays Fiyero, the hedonistic prince who becomes the third point in a love triangle with the two leading ladies, will go with it. “The Buell is where I first…
