Is it possible that last Tuesday’s casting call at Suite 200 for The Real World wasn’t, well, real? It certainly wasn’t crowded when Claire Delahorne left at 11 p.m.: “In 2012,” she wrote in her Real World blog post the next day, “a major cable network casting for an insanely…
On January 5, 3,000 excited students at the Junior Theater Festival were eagerly awaiting the arrival of a few actors and executive producers from the new NBC drama Smash. They weren’t waiting to bombard the stars with autograph requests or to blind them with flashing cameras; nor were they waiting…
When it comes to fashion, winter gets a bad rap — often because of bad wraps. After all, even the cutest outfit gets covered up with a coat. But the third annual Winter Wonderland Goggles and Bikini Fashion Show is proof that even in the coldest months, fashion can be…
Meghan Throckmorton, who opened Rakun at 1147 Santa Fe Drive last June, has designs on Denver: She’s holding a fashion competition for students, asking them to create a woman’s look. “As long as you’re in school and sew your own clothes,” she says, “we want your submissions!” But you’ll need…
There’s an art to putting people in the right jeans, which Bree Davies revealed yesterday in her Fitting Room Confidential post. People who want flare jeans, for example, have no flare. And then there are those deadly Dad denims… What do your jeans say about you? Not much, in Cory’s…
For a brief and beautiful moment in time, I lived in New York City. During that year of boot camp for life, I learned a few things — like, there is no such thing as privacy, the only scary part about the subway is that sometimes it smells like human…
Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in…
Denver is full of amazing artistic visionaries who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And each year for the past seven years, we’ve been awarding five of these creative geniuses with MasterMind awards. Members of each class of MasterMinds have done amazing things with their awards, frequently using…
The Wildlife Experience’s Extreme Screen Theater is one of two advance screening locations for The Grey, the film opening nationwide on January 27 in which Liam Neeson plays an unlikely hero who leads a group of roughnecks in their fight to survive after their plane crashes the remote Alaskan wilderness…
When I was growing up, everyone had birthday parties at Skate City. Like, everybody. My mom was more of the “let’s roll the Slip N’ Slide out on our dead lawn and make Kool-Aid (because it’s cheap)” kind of party-thrower, but I really just wanted to celebrate with a wax…
Every TEDx event is many things, and all of them are happening at once. A cross between a theater and a lecture hall, the discussion series follows a creative combination of performance and insight, becoming a circus for the mind. And tonight, local chapter TEDx Mile High will reinvision an…
Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, eight years ago Westword created a program to honor the visionaries — artists and organizations alike — who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And we decided to not just honor these…
Phil Bender was a famous artist long before he won the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts this fall — even if he was the one who hung himself with the “Famous Artist” tag. So is it possible that the Piratical, tech-phobic Bender put up the Phill Bender Facebook…
Tim Tebow has inspired more than sports fans. He’s inspired artists, too. And the folks at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, who produced two posters of the Broncos quarterback that borrowed the imagery and words used by artist Shepard Fairey in his now-iconic depiction of Barack Obama. Do you still hope…
Update, 2:53 p.m., January 16: We’ve picked a winner! Check your e-mail to see if you’ve won. Thanks for playing along.Of course you watched the Broncos beat the Steelers on Sunday. And if you watched the CBS broadcast of the game, you saw footage of Loveland Ski Area on Saturday…
Update, 4:15 p.m.: We’ve picked a winner! Check your e-mail to see if you’ve won! Thanks for playing and reading Westword. It’s layers of pop culture imagery piled on top of one another like sports announcers piling on Tim Tebow — and you know you want it. To commemorate Tebow’s…
For the third year running, burlesque queen Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is hosting the Too Sexy for the Stock Show burlesque extravaganza to provide a counterbalance to all that good, clean, wholesome fun. Photographer Emily Driskill brought back these photos from the January 11 show at Bar Standard…
The Terminal Kings project is painting the town — or at least some massive murals destined for Denver International Airport — this week, with City Hall, 1144 Broadway, turned into a massive gallery through January 21. The fact that the three lead artists, all billed as “world-class,” are from out…
Terminal Kings is taking off at City Hall, where three world-class street artists — Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff — are creating giant murals that will be displayed at Denver International Airport over the next five years, as the South Terminal project gets under way. Over the next ten…
In a tradition that officially dates back to 1906, and unofficially to the early days of ranching in the West, the National Western Stock Show is in town. And the annual event celebrates a lot more than funnel cakes and cowboy boots. On Monday, Show and Tell asked readers whether…
Once upon a time in the ’90s, I was not the cool blogger I am now. I was just like any other teenager, barely existing on the Internet (save for being a third, observational party to my best friend’s chat-room adventures) and living out my writing dreams as a reporter…
Denver designer Fallene Wells will use the most modern of fundraising mechanisms to gather money for a clothing line that harks back to the past, specifically the 1920s. Wells, who starred on Season 9 of Project Runway, kicked off a campaign on Kickstarter this week, in which she hopes to…
