While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver’s best designers showed off their skills in a Cut ‘n’ Sew competition emceed by Project Runway contestant Fallene Wells, and sponsored by the Denver Art…
Residents of Barnum love their neighborhood, and several added their own reasons why to Jef Otte’s “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood.” Otte loves the activity, the weird stores around Federal Boulevard, even the fact that although the area’s named for P.T. Barnum, the legendary showman never…
Denver fashion fixture and Project Runway Season 9 contestant Fallene Wells showed off her Tim Gunn skills at yesterday’s Cut ‘n’ Sew event. Amidst the H&M hoopla at Denver Pavilions beginning at 10 a.m., local designers Melissa May, Tricia Hoke, Rachel Marie Hurst, and Heidi Busk participated in the speed-design…
Denver photographer Anna Newell Jones began to realize a couple of years ago that she was much too obsessed with things. For her, the need to consume manifested itself into a big pile of debt. That’s when Newell Jones put her well-shod foot down, foregoing her need to feed on…
The Ice Palace will open its doors at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 5 p.m. today — which means that Santa Claus will finally be in the house. Er, the mall. The Ice Palace — a fancy name for a faux icicle-covered indoor forest — will feature six-foot-tall snowglobes…
Sleeping outside in the cold wind is not a common beauty regimen. And so camping out for H&M’s opening yesterday certainly didn’t equal beauty sleep. In fact, with crews starting to set up a runway and booths at midnight, sleep was impossible for many of the campers. In fact, by…
What would you do for a $10 H&M gift certificate? Would you 127 Hours it? Give away a Klondike bar? Wait in the cold for seventeen hours? With pink eye? By midnight last night, over thirty people were lined up at the Denver Pavilions, waiting for today’s noon opening of…
If affordably priced Scandinavian designs are your heart’s desire, join the crowds who’ll be packing the new H&M store that opens in the Denver Pavilions at noon today. The 20,000 square feet of retail space should hold 500 people, according to spokeswoman Laura Schottland. And through opening weekend, employees will…
It’s not quite a wrap, but when the Bureau of Land Management announced that it had approved Christo’s “Over the River,” the art installation proposed for a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado cleared yet another hurdle…
David Sedaris played the Paramount on November 7, and the essayist/commentator was a big hit, discussing everything from the house he wanted to buy in England to where white men shit to, well, shitting in your hand, as Kelsey Whipple noted in her “10 best David Sedaris quotes” post. A…
David Sedaris is a tiny man with a huge life. Truly, the man is pretty darn small, and though his voice sounds like that of a timid librarian, it packs a biting combination of charm and painful humor that’s strong enough to ring through even the spaciousness of the Paramount…
Like the hairstyles it documents, “White People With Dreads: A field guide” just goes on, and on, and on, without benefit of much sanitizing. And that bothers Alisha, who just found the year-old post and offers this: Maybe half of you people out there should stop being racist and stop…
David Sedaris will be talking pretty at the Paramount tonight, and many of his fans did the same when they entered our contest to win two tickets to the David Sedaris appearance. The rules? To enter, you simply had to tell us what you would do “when engulfed in flames…”…
The tent-like roof that architect Curt Fentress designed for the terminal at Denver International Airport is not only beloved — as consultants revealed at Tuesday night’s town hall meeting on the DIA art program — but it may also be the only feature of the airport that has not inspired…
It’s not often we get to talk about multiplayer games in conjunction with browser games, but Roadeo provides an entirely unique and enjoyable experience that requires two players and a lot of willpower. It’s a racing game, but it’s unlike any racing game you’ve likely ever played, as it requires…
How does a burlesque emcee extraordinaire celebrate her birthday? If you’re Cora Vette — aka Reyna Von Vett — then you bring in Coco Lectric, the star of the Texas burlesque scene (and the 2010 Queen of Burlesque), a dusky beauty whose red-feather-boa routine turned the heads of the judges…
Suspicions confirmed! At last night’s town hall meeting on the art program at Denver International Airport, consultants who’d interviewed hundreds of DIA travelers, and studied 1,600 online surveys, revealed that the most loved — and loathed — piece of art at DIA is Luis Jimenez’s “Mustang.” But they also documented…
There’s no business like snow business. Aspen has been celebrating Winterskol, its “toast to winter,” since 1951, as a way to perk up the dull weeks after Christmas. But while the 2012 Winterskol is still months away (it runs from January 12-15), discussion of the upcoming event has been anything…
The mission of the Addicted Project isn’t traditional recovery — it’s the reality of recovery. It was after a 5 a.m. walk along Colfax Avenue that the concept hit him, recalls founder Joshua Robbins: People going through the process of withdrawal need to be able to express themselves creatively. And…
You have an eye for fashion or home design. Maybe you’ve already hung out a shingle, or perhaps you’re still a student looking for a functional foothold on this slippery economic slope. You’re not alone: The Denver Design Incubator can help lead you through the ins and outs of running…
Love “Mustang,” the blue horse that stands guard outside of Denver International Airport? Loathe it? Tell DIA officials all about it tonight, when the airport and Arts & Venues Denver host a DIA Art Master Plan town-hall meeting at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, from 5 to 7 p.m…
Update: Thursday, 12:08 p.m.: We’ve picked our winners, thanks for playing and for reading Westword! If you have no pressing plans a week from tonight, Monday, November 7, why not go see acclaimed essayist, author and unique orator David Sedaris at the Paramount Theatre?…
