Archive for the ‘ Denver Fashion ’ Category
Whoa! For those of you who follow the Denver Kickball Coalition, this weekend is the start of the playoffs! If you want to see a good game, come watch Oceans of Pain as we play The Convicted at 3:30 on Sunday at Veteran’s Field. Come down and cheer us on! We plan to win…. [ READ MORE ]
This weekend, the Merill Oyster Racing Series returns to Denver. Billed as the Ultimate Urban Adventure Race, teams are given a series of clues and using their smarts (and the smarts of their friends, who they can phone) they must search around town to find clues and complete challenges. Some events in the past have [ READ MORE ]
What does Sylvia Plath have in common with snub nosed monkeys? That sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s really the title of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Mixed Taste Lecture taking place Aug. 21. Each week, the MCA offers a tag-team lecture where two unrelated topics are presented independent of each other at [ READ MORE ]
For the next week (August 13-23) Boulder will be alive with the Fringe element. The 2009 Boulder International Fringe Festival kicks into high gear this weekend with performances, bands, arts, and other activities going on all around town. The Fringe Festival brings together artists and creators of all stripes, those often located just out of [ READ MORE ]
I remember the drive out to Stapleton Airport back in the day, back when anyone could go in and wait by the gates for relatives, friends, and others coming and going from the Colorado. It seemed like a magical place then. I was out in the now burgeoning neighborhood of Stapleton not too long ago, [ READ MORE ]
Tonight at the lovely little intimate space 11th Avenue Gallery, recently re-Denvered artist Tiffany Kennedy will be exploring the Joan of Arc mythos in her show “Robbing Joan Myth.” The space is a lovely place to view some great local artists, and usually hosts a good crowd of wanders and other creative types that lends [ READ MORE ]
Famed Denver collector Andrew Novick tonight will be combining his love of collecting with his love of BBQ for “The BBQ Show: A Meatrospective” starting tonight at Fu Collective + Gallery. on 8th and Santa Fe. The show will blend Andrew’s collection of BBQ paraphernalia including grill photos, restaurant photos, fliers, and other items with [ READ MORE ]
Whoa! Tonight is a busy one out on the cultural/arts front! Hold onto your hat, it’s going to be an artistic ride tonight! Over in the River North area, Rhinoceropolis (3553 Brighton Blvd.) will be hosting “Draw Rings 3″. Gathering known and sometimes unknown Denver artists, misfits, and outsider creative types together, [ READ MORE ]
Oh man, I love fairs! I have fond memories of being loaded into a “ghost house” car ride at a fair up north of our fair state (which one, I will not say, as to keep the crowds down… ) wherein a dirty blanket hit riders in the face on the start of the [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been a huge fan of Melissa May’s Incroyables fashion line ever since I saw her intricate, rebellious, but definitely feminine dresses, skirts, and tops up at the little store at which I worked in Fort Collins oh-so-long-ago now. I was particularly enthralled with her lovely, pleated and carefully ruffled evening gowns. Since [ READ MORE ]
I worked with the International Poster Collection at Colorado State University for six years, and developed quite an affinity for that artform during my many, many years as a student worker (I was in school a Looooong time…) So I’m particularly excited to see the documentary American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art [ READ MORE ]
If you like a good deal as much as I do and need some stylish furniture to dress up your house, you might want to swing by the Denver Gypsy Boys estate sale this weekend. From Friday to Sunday, furniture and other items from a home at 8213 W 70th Place in Arvada will be [ READ MORE ]
Join the Denver Roller Dolls and the women of the Denver Kickball Coalition tomorrow, Thurs. July 16th at 6 PM for a balls-out battle of the finest (it’s for charity, too!) Head to Veteran’s Field (by DU) for BBQ, door prizes, and a spirited game between the two groups. Fierce fashionista and kickball captain Brandi [ READ MORE ]
The Mile High Music Festival is going on this weekend, and it looks like a great way to hear cool music on some hot summer afternoons. Held at Dick’s Sporting Goods Fields over in Commerce City, the festival is a two-day extravaganza of big name bands, as well as some local groups performing all day, [ READ MORE ]
Hey wayward Rams, Colorado State University is offering lots of meet-and-greets and career expansion opportunities for those of us in the Denver diaspora! On July 22nd, the CSU Denver Office (410 17th Street, Suite 1400) is offering a Career seminar geared towards those of us who use social networking tools. The seminar, called “Tweets, Pokes, and [ READ MORE ]
Update your summer look with the hottest local designers this weekend as Fashion Denver presents SPLASH. Drop by City Hall Event Center (1144 Broadway) this Saturday from 12-7PM and see the wares of over 25 local fashion designers, jewelry and accessory creators, and other talented Denver folks. Pick up that perfect outfit for all [ READ MORE ]
Head over to the Fashion Denver HQ for hot times and cool designers in this heat of the summer. The doors of the HQ open at 5PM-9PM and is the perfect stop on your way to art events and other things. Hang out on the stoop and listen to some music, watch a spontaneous [ READ MORE ]
Holy smokes! This is going to be a busy week, what with the holiday and all sorts of events coming up for First Friday. If you’re meandering down Broadway to enjoy the festivities this Friday, stop in at the 11th Avenue Gallery to check out the “El Merezer” show featuring two of Denver’s favorite artists. [ READ MORE ]
It’s that time of the month again! Another chance for wacky, who-knows-what spontaneous fun tonight! Head on over to the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer) tonight for SPUN. It promises to be a cavalcade of acts and activities from 9PM-midnight. This month, music will be provided by Safe Boating is No Accident and Danielle Ate the Sandwich, comedians [ READ MORE ]
I’m not one to go to stores that sell primarily children’s clothes: I have no children, and don’t quite know what to do when I’m in their presence (“You’re rather small,” is my usual response to any child that crosses my path.) But I’m very tempted to head to Rock the Cradle, an [ READ MORE ]
Color’n'Light Art Gallery will be hosting their own Sparkle Saturday jewelry artist event this Saturday, June 13th, from 1pm-4pm. CnL features a different local jewelry artists each weekend, with the artist available for meet’n'greet during the event on Saturday. Visit their website at color-n-light.com for directions and more info! Color’n'Light is a [ READ MORE ]
It’s the time of the month to get stylin’ again! And as Summer begins to peek its head in around the rain, it’s time to add some heat to your wardrobe! This Friday from 5-9PM, Fashion Denver will be opening its doors of its newly remodeled Headquarters for a showroom celebration! Come check out the latest in local [ READ MORE ]
I’m a sucker for anything Andy Warhol, so when I saw the name of this art/fashion/dance event called The Factory was happening on May 30th, I was immediately drawn in. I’m assuming it’s a tribute to the glory day’s of Warhol’s Factory, a creatively explosive place he helmed in the 1970s. Head over [ READ MORE ]
Come on over to the Meadowlark Lounge to for a variety cavalcade tonight, with entertainment organized by Denver’s hostess with the mostess, Brandi Shigley of Fashion Denver. There will be comedy, art, music, jokes, drinking, and pretty much everything else you can imagine. Here’s the line up thus far: 8:00-8:50ish MUSA 8:55-9:00 Brandi intro and sillyness 9:05-9:20 [ READ MORE ]
We all hit the streets for the big First Friday events all around town- but what about the Third Thursday of the month? Usually a lonely day that we all breeze past without so much of a notice, this week’s Fashion Denver showroom open house will make it a day to mark on [ READ MORE ]
Join Fashion Denver (321 W 11th Ave) to celebrate the new designers in the Fashion Denver Showroom at the FD headquarters tonight on First Friday! From 5-9PM, the new crop of style will feature work by Desire Gallegos, Kirstin Swallons, Taryn Slawson, Kate Wilkonson, Francis Roces, Lindsay Donaldson, Eliza Streete, and Ivy Bishop-McClure. There will be [ READ MORE ]
