Denver Life

I’m hardly Catholic anymore. Still, I wear the idea of my Catholicism as a romanticized badge of honor, taking pleasure in the idea that I once was a part of something truly controversial — and it wasn’t even by choice. In fact, I’m only now able to write about being…

The Yves Saint Laurent show will soon fill the Denver Art Museum, and Mondo Guerra seems to be running away with Project Runway All Stars (anyone else think it’s suspicious that he’s cancelling Denver engagements because he needs to be in New York in mid-April?). So Denver’s looking good these…

Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face.. This was Junge’s second nomination…but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:…

Penelope Ann Miller looked fairy-tale beautiful (and Oscar-worthy) at the red carpet with this classic strapless look — and here are several other glimpses we caught of fashion dos and don’ts, including the stunning Milla Jovovich and overly collagen’d Melanie Griffith…

If you — or your kid — have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don’t miss this week’s three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25…

Saturday night’s Artopia was an entertainment mashup of music, performance art, visual arts, fashion, food and other almost undefinable activities, fueled by alcohol and general high spirits. You can get a feel for the annual event in this slide show — which inspired Found Artist to cry foul:…

When we didn’t find many Shit People in Denver Say videos, we created our own. But then Erin Streets, a 25-year-old Denver designer, weighed in with her own Shit Girls in Denver Say , which Nick Lucchesi says is very funny. Not so Shannen:…

After spending a long and frustrating day last week trying to figure out what year it was and what country I was living in because my government decided it was cool to discuss a little issue regarding birth control but magically barred the only person with a uterus from being…

We sent Noah van Sciver, author of our weekly Four Questions comic, to Artopia on Saturday night and asked him to come up with a graphic (literally) impression of that orgy of arts, music, performance, fashion…and drinking. And as it turns out, he paid particular attention to Danielle Ate the…

Beverly Lewis could be Colorado’s most successful author. Her specialty? Bonnet-busters, as Amish romance novels are called — even though she’s not Amish. Since 1965, Lewis has lived in Colorado Springs, producing novel after novel set in the Pennsylvania’s Amish country…

Wonder what’s going to happen on December 21? Ed Barnhart, director of the esteemed Maya Exploration Center, has been studying the Mayans since long before 2012 conspiracy theorists dreamed up this whole end-of-the-world thing, and he’ll be lecturing on “Misunderstanding the Maya: 2012 and Why You Shouldn’t Worry” at the…

Westword MasterMind (class of 2010) and Project Runway alumnus Fallene Wells has a dream — to produce a vintage-inspired line of clothing and start CoSewn, a local apparel manufacturing company. She’s been inching ever closer to that lofty aspiration since she launched a $20,000 Kickstarter campaign in January. But it’s…

A true legend passed away last weekend: Illustrator John Powers Severin, whose sixty-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond. “Truly the art world has suffered a great loss…

Sabin Aell first came to Colorado in 2006, when the Austrian-born artist, who’d been living in Frankfurt for eight years, was chosen for a show in Fort Collins by photographer Mark Sink. “I was really blown away when I first came here,” she remembers. “I was always thinking more about…

Ken Arkind still remembers the day he met Jose, “that evil little kid in the back of the classroom.” In the years since, they have struck up a friendship — but that day, at a workshop where Arkind was teaching local youth to slam, Jose was being a little snot…

Andrew Orvedahl doesn’t worry much about what he wears on stage. “I usually just try to make sure my clothes are clean,” says the Denver-area comedian and performer. With a two-year-old at home, that’s not always easy, so as long as he can find something stain-free — and a clean…

I first met Dianne Denholm in grade school, and it’s been great reconnecting with her as an adult in the six years since she started the TACtile Textile Arts Center. During that time, I’ve learned a lot about Denholm and how her mind works, and it’s been a trip: Not…

While there’s nothing new about taping — you can bet there’s a bootleg recording floating around somewhere that was secretly taped when Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount — Lance Stack’s efforts with Flat Response are incredibly noteworthy. Unlike other tapers who are devoted to archiving the shows of…

Today legislators will consider a measure that would provide an economic incentive for filmmakers to work in Colorado — a rarity these days, as detailed in “The Reel West.” But a century ago, there was a booming film business in this state, which got its start with an 1897 flick…

After the University of Colorado at Boulder’s meme page showed up on Facebook, I was convinced that the Internet could use fewer memes. While glittery animated GIFs were once the way to “show some love,” memes are the way to show some stupidity, taking an image and vandalizing it with…

“A tigalo is what happens when a tiger and a buffalo get funky together,” explains Matthew Brown, owner of Fancy Tiger Clothing (and the partner of Jaime Jennings, who runs Fancy Tiger Crafts), which recently settled into new digs on Broadway alongside the craft store and Buffalo Exchange, which has…