Readers: Quit clowning around! Zombies are coming!

Run for your life! The zombies are coming to Colorado this summer, and the “Run for Your Lives” 5K obstacle course will have fitness freaks fighting to avoid zombies while they also fight to stay on course. It’s like The Walking Dead, but at a faster pace, Nick Lucchesi points…

Reader: Get a grip, dude. Feminism is for everybody!

Feminism isn’t a ladies-only club, Bree Davies pronounced yesterday. Feminism is for everybody. Including two very supportive male friends: one of whom attended the Rally to Protect Women’s Health at the Capitol Monday, both of whom earned a shout-out in her piece…

Have you hugged your male feminist today?

I started writing this piece by reiterating my usual spiel about why I’m a late-blooming feminist and why it’s important for all people to be feminists. But no one wants to hear that. No one likes to be told what they aren’t doing, even if asking that all humans to…

Women of the World Poetry Slam enters second preliminary rounds

Last night, the Denver poetry scene was reintroduced to the national stage with the first preliminary rounds of the Women of the World Poetry Slam. With two bouts each at Mercury Cafe, Eden and Leela European Cafe, the night ended with the first scores for 72 international competitors. Hundreds of…

Reader: Saving Face Oscar win hits close to home

Saving Face may be set in Pakistan, but the crew behind the film is from Colorado — and they brought an Oscar back to this state after winning the best short documentary award. The team included co-directors Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, producer Allison Greenberg, editor/producer Davis Coombe and Dr…

F@ck Fancy Tiger — says Fancy Tiger

No, Fancy Tiger Clothing and Buffalo Exchange don’t hate each other, although you’d be forgiven if you thought they did. After all, a new ad campaign from the side-by-side boutiques on South Broadway is definitely in your face. The opposite is true, however. In fact the stores have held several…

Everything I know about real life I learned from John Waters

I am the product of weird parents. Okay, “weird” probably isn’t the best word, considering it can describe everything from hairstyles to movies to that guy on the bus who always smells like day-old Whopper Jr.’s and mothballs. But my parents were definitely weirdos. My dad made Tang and Spam…

Recycled Runway fashion show mixes sustainability with Project Runway

The ecologically minded SustainAbility hosted Recycled Runway, a fashion show Friday night at the Sherman Events Center that attracted an unpretentious collection of hippies, fashionistas, press, parents and those who aren’t a typical presence in the fashion world, creating an “awesome mix” of people and fashion, in the words of…

Welcome tomorrow’s fashions today at Fancy Tiger Clothing

It’s First Friday, and you might already have plans to be out and about. Here’s one more wonderful event to add to your itinerary, if you happen to be heading toward the Art District on Santa Fe or Gildar Gallery on Broadway: Welcome to Tomorrow, an informal unveiling of spring…

Reader: KinkforAllDenver needs to work out a few kinks

The KinkforAllDenver event on February 25 may have left a few people out of that all. A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the conference, criticizing the organizers — Rebecca Crane of Boulder and Maymay, formerly of New York and the co-founder of KinkForAll — for censoring presentations…

Reader: Look before you leap again!

We’ve seen our last leap day for four years — but not discussions the earth’s rotation and other arcane calendar information you’ll need to look at before you leap. And then there’s this from Mothy:…