Painter Peter Illig’s retro sensibility and deep affinity for all things mid-century modern drive his work, which combines realistically rendered found snapshots brimming with emotional life and an unsettled state of near-nostalgia for the lost values of a vanished era.
We spotted University of Denver student Allie Phocas at 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, channeling 1990s film icon Cher Horowitz. Phocas was born in Philadelphia and spent time in New York, but grew up in Jackson, Wyoming; she’ll apply for medical school in June and currently volunteers at Planned Parenthood. We stopped to chat with Phocas about what inspires her look, where she shops and what she thought of the show.
Extra Vitamins is Julia Belamarich and Kyle Warfield, life partners whose interest in zine-making and playful graphic design morphed into a wearable-art business brimming with a combined sense of style and activism.
The cure to a hangover is simple: It’s attached to an IV bag and comes with a $99 price tag. Hydrate IV Bar opened its doors in the Bonnie Brae neighborhood last April; it was the metro area’s first full-service, walk-in boutique IV therapy clinic. Now owners Blake Whealy and Katie Wafer plan to expand to a second location in Highlands Square.
A longtime member of the Denver art community, Jeffrey Keith is a painter with an astute ability to assimilate free brushstrokes into tightly constructed, color-conscious compositions. A teacher at the University of Denver, he’s curated the Storm Warning, which is the focus of an April 13 symposium.
Some stereotypes deserve to be turned on their heads. On opening night of 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, March 30 at Exdo Event Center, we ran into graphic designer Eve Erdenebat, who proved that a woman can can rock a classic men’s suit just as well, if not better, than a man. We stopped to chat with her about where she shops and where she finds inspiration.
Now that April has officially arrived, spring fashion is busting out all over — at parties, shows, charity events and everything in between. Here are the ten best fashion events in Denver this month, in chronological order.
Performance is in Ayla Sullivan’s blood, along with her black and Vietnamese roots. Denver’s newest Youth Poet Laureate performed with the Minor Disturbance youth poetry slam team at the Brave New Voices national finals and is now a sophomore at the University of Colorado Boulder.
On March 24, the premiere of the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race garnered its biggest ratings ever, and here in Denver, Tracks debuted its own new season of the Ultimate Queen Competition, complete with 21 drag performers vying for thirteen glamorous spots before a packed house. The competition was fierce all around and the stakes were raised for the next battle, which is tonight, Friday, March 31.
Photographer, animal lover, collector, Denver Punk Scene archivist, caregiver and person of the world, Jill Mustoffa favors shots of neon signs and runaway grocery carts from behind the lens and is handy with tools as a home-restoration whiz.
Yogini, massage therapist, and sound healer Devine Willerth is launching aerial yoga classes, also known as AIReal Yoga, through Sukha Healing Arts, a wellness business she’s owned for two years.
Lonnie Allen found his comic-art stride as a high-schooler dabbling in zines and mini-comics, eventually coming up through the ranks in the local comix scene, where he’s long been a regular among Denver’s close-knit cartooning community.
Denver native Christian Filus designs and sells accessories; he describes his style as “evolving, inconsistent, and aggressive.” We spotted Filus and his stylish buddy Toure Armon at Artopia 2017, and stopped to chat with Filus about what inspires his personal style. Westword: Who or what inspires your personal style and…
Partners in life and in their business Extra Vitamins, artists Julia Belamarich and Kyle Warfield met while working at analog-design master Rick Griffith’s Matter Studio, learning the ropes and taking some cues from Griffith’s graphics-cool marketing model.
With the arrival of spring, fashion events are blooming all over town. You can catch shows by major designers and Colorado State University students; the month will end with the big Denver Fashion Weekend. Here are ten stylish shindigs over the next ten days.
Assetou Xango’s poetic voice is queer, black and female, and almost by requirement, a clarion for activism.
“Women need to hit shit,” says Christoph Clarke, known as Master Clarke, the mind behind a modern wave of feminist ass-kicking reminiscent of…
#26: Jim Milmoe Just weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday, Golden photographer Jim Milmoe is deservedly basking in the 2017 Month of Photography limelight with two shows of his work running concurrently at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Pattern Shop Studio. It’s a fitting topper to a…
The Alamo Drafthouse Littleton is enjoying a glut of films celebrating International Women’s Month, with a diverse selection of titles celebrating women in acting, writing, directing and more. One of those films, the 1916 silent classic Shoes, will screen this Thursday, March 16, courtesy of the theater’s Colossal Women series, with a live…
#27: Confidence Omenai Arriving in Denver from Tulsa just a few years ago, Confidence Omenai brought years of hands-on experience to the local performance-poetry scene as a slam poet, author, teacher and activist. She quickly rose among the ranks of Slam Nuba, serving both as a member of the national…
Young gamers will take to the big screen this weekend to battle for the right to represent Denver at qualifiers for the first-ever Minecraft City Champs tournament. Organized by Santa Monica-based Super League Gaming, Minecraft City Champs is a season-long competition that pits teams from twelve cities against each other…
The drag world is still shook from the news that for its ninth season, RuPaul’s Drag Race will leave its Monday-night perch and land on Friday night – not to mention hopping networks from gay pioneer Logo to music mainstay VH1. Producers of the Ultimate Queen Competition at Tracks quickly decided to follow suit; when their highly anticipated local drag battle royale premieres this season, it will be on Friday, March 24.
