9:30 am, Mar 14, 2013
You know that feeling when a dinner party is over and you look around your kitchen and see red-stained wine glasses and plates with small bits of food left and realize that the fun part is over? That's how Laura Letinsky's still-life photographs make me feel—like I missed the entire party and am stuck with just remnants. But somehow I'm not upset...
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3:00 pm, Mar 13, 2013
Don't be the guy in the clunky, square-toed slip-on this spring. The shoes of today are brown not black, round not pointy, and more versatile than ever—so bring your footwear up to date with a proper fit and a touch of flash. Here are five ways to refresh your look: Colored SolesYou don’t want your dress shoes to be mistaken for sprinter spikes,...
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3:00 pm, Mar 12, 2013
Why stop a good thing? Motherhood Out Loud's original January-February run was met with so many sold-out performances and praise, Director Bob Wells and Avenue Theater Group Executive Director Nuri Heckler decided the show must go on. Motherhood Out Loud is a collective of vignettes telling the tales of moms across the country, and perhaps...
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2:00 pm, Mar 8, 2013
Nowadays, people don't want to simply shop—they want to buy smart. They may accomplish that by clipping coupons, embracing minimalism, or focusing their dollars on local products and purveyors. Whatever method they choose, one thing remains the same: People are thinking about where and how to spend their hard-earned dollars.It's the same...
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12:58 pm, Mar 8, 2013
Most places have funerals and proper burials for their deceased, but Nederland's Frozen Dead Guy Days celebrates a more untraditional method of preserving one's body. Bredo Morstoel, the “Frozen Dead Guy”, was an outdoorsman who spent his life in the freezing hills near Oslo, Norway. When he died in 1989, he was packed in dry ice and...
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12:30 pm, Mar 6, 2013
Have you ever wished your mother had passed one of her fabulous vintage cocktail dresses down to you instead of giving it away? If so, turn to Repro-Retro owner Patricia Tomlinson. An art and fashion historian with a passion for 1950s and early 1960s style—think Christian Dior’s iconic “New Look,” costume designer Edith Head’s work for Hollywood...
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12:55 pm, Mar 5, 2013
In this Age of More that seems hell-bent on forcing most of us to make do with less, two rat-race refugees have taken the concept of simple living to a blissful extreme. The Minimalists are Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, childhood friends from Dayton, Ohio who left six-figure telecom jobs a few years ago when they realized that the...
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2:30 pm, Mar 1, 2013
With another First Friday upon us, and pleasant weather forecast for tonight, expect the Art District on Santa Fe to be a little more congested than it's been so far this winter. As soon as the local temps turn relatively balmy, Santa Fe usually is overrun by art lovers ranging from casual to fervent. (It's a situation that probably could be...
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2:45 pm, Feb 28, 2013
Month of Photography Denver launches tomorrow, with hundreds of exhibitions and events taking place all over the city and its suburbs. It seems an astute time, then, for me to call attention to one particularly talented local photographer: Benjamin Rasmussen. The 28-year-old brings a photojournalistic style to his work, showcasing people and...
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11:00 pm, Feb 27, 2013
With the Oscars wrapping up movie award season just days ago, the timing couldn’t be better for actress and artistic director Susan Claassen to bring her one-woman-show, A Conversation With Edith Head, to Denver. Claassen (a University of Denver alum) stars as the costume designer extraordinaire, who worked on 1,131 movies during her nearly 60-...
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12:30 pm, Feb 27, 2013
Earlier this month, Denver Film Society held a kickoff event for the Women + Film VOICES Film Festival, its annual celebration of female-focused films. Organizers screened The Invisible War, which showed at last year's festival and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony. The film exposes the...
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4:16 pm, Feb 22, 2013
Boulder-based band Leftover Salmon is bringing their bluegrass-n-rock grooves back on the road for another jam-stomping tour—but they’re not just playing music. Conscious Alliance, a Colorado-based nonprofit, has teamed with the musicians to raise money to provide hunger relief to communities. The group collects and distributes...
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10:00 am, Feb 22, 2013
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the final part of our exclusive four-part online series about Colorado filmmakers at the Oscars. Be sure to tune in to the big show on February 24. A still photographer from Boulder, Louie Psihoyos began his career with National Geographic before snagging a job at Fortune Magazine, where he befriended Jim Clark, founder...
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2:54 pm, Feb 21, 2013
Imagine quietly setting up your tent and starting a fire in the Colorado Rocky Mountain wilderness. From a distance, you hear some rustling in the grass and a splash in the creek bed. If it were 70,000 years ago, you wouldn't rule out a wooly mammoth stomping through looking for some grub as the noisemaker. In the Denver Museum of Nature &...
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11:00 am, Feb 21, 2013
Bookstores aren't lacking in Colorado-penned page-turners at the moment (see here, here, here, and here). But if your nightstand is looking baren, here are two suggestions—one for you and one for your kids. FOR THE ADULTSKind One by Laird Hunt (Coffee House Press, October 2012) Hunt's fifth novel is a meditation on "antebellum America." His...
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