May 16, 2013

Photos: The Barbie Dreamhouse Experience

The Barbie Dreamhouse Experience covers about 1,400 square meters and offers visitors to try on Barbie’s clothes in her walk-in closet, tour her living room and her kitchen in Berlin, Germany.

The Barbie Dreamhouse is a life-sized house full of Barbie fashion, furniture and accessories and will be open to the public until August 25 before it moves on to other cities in Europe.

(Source: The Denver Post)

January 10, 2013
1940s-vintage apron and dress patterns
In the 1940s, clothing patterns were offered for sale through The Denver Post. For 16 to 20 cents they could be purchased from our Pattern Department. Here’s a sampling of some vintage apron and dress styles that were available.
In this example, a crocheted hostess apron with rose filet for someone who loves to entertain, from Aug. 6, 1945.
These retro fashions are so much fun that it’s a shame we don’t still have the patterns. But they’re out of stock, so please don’t send your money.

1940s-vintage apron and dress patterns

In the 1940s, clothing patterns were offered for sale through The Denver Post. For 16 to 20 cents they could be purchased from our Pattern Department. Here’s a sampling of some vintage apron and dress styles that were available.

In this example, a crocheted hostess apron with rose filet for someone who loves to entertain, from Aug. 6, 1945.

These retro fashions are so much fun that it’s a shame we don’t still have the patterns. But they’re out of stock, so please don’t send your money.

(Source: The Denver Post)

January 4, 2013
Denver Art Museum’s Van Gogh exhibit will be open ‘round the clock on final weekend
If you don’t get tickets to the blockbuster “Becoming van Gogh” at the Denver Art Museum, you’ll have only yourself to blame, Ray Mark Rinaldi writes.

Denver Art Museum’s Van Gogh exhibit will be open ‘round the clock on final weekend

If you don’t get tickets to the blockbuster “Becoming van Gogh” at the Denver Art Museum, you’ll have only yourself to blame, Ray Mark Rinaldi writes.

October 2, 2012
Photo caption contest: Like a jetpack over troubled water?
Each week, we post a photograph from the news, and we invite readers to write their own captions (click on the comment link at left). We’ll choose our favorite captions at the end of the week and publish them in The Sunday Denver Post.
Head over to the Idea Log to submit your caption entries.

Photo caption contest: Like a jetpack over troubled water?

Each week, we post a photograph from the news, and we invite readers to write their own captions (click on the comment link at left). We’ll choose our favorite captions at the end of the week and publish them in The Sunday Denver Post.

Head over to the Idea Log to submit your caption entries.

September 11, 2012
Interactive map: Newspaper front pages around the world on Sept. 12, 2001
A map of dozens of newspaper front pages from around the world on Sept. 12, 2001, following the now-infamous 9/11 attacks.

Interactive map: Newspaper front pages around the world on Sept. 12, 2001

A map of dozens of newspaper front pages from around the world on Sept. 12, 2001, following the now-infamous 9/11 attacks.

September 6, 2012
Bold hair color moves from alternative to mainstream
If you had pink or blue hair in 1982, you might also have worn it in a mohawk.
Now, if your high school has blue as one if its colors, go ahead, rah-rah school booster, and plaster your locks with streaks of cobalt. It won’t signal rebellion, but it might make you fit in more seamlessly with the cheerleading crowd.
The hair-gone-technicolor style from the ’80s is back, 30 years later — tamer, less DIY and more salon, and secure in the mainstream.
(Photo: Color specialist Jenn McCrorey gives Tyler Jensen a color treatment at Voila salon. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)

Bold hair color moves from alternative to mainstream

If you had pink or blue hair in 1982, you might also have worn it in a mohawk.

Now, if your high school has blue as one if its colors, go ahead, rah-rah school booster, and plaster your locks with streaks of cobalt. It won’t signal rebellion, but it might make you fit in more seamlessly with the cheerleading crowd.

The hair-gone-technicolor style from the ’80s is back, 30 years later — tamer, less DIY and more salon, and secure in the mainstream.

(Photo: Color specialist Jenn McCrorey gives Tyler Jensen a color treatment at Voila salon. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)

August 28, 2012

Colorado’s futuristic “Sleeper” house made Forbes list of America’s Ugliest Mansions

The house designed by architect Charles Deaton and made famous by Woody Allen’s 1973 film “Sleeper” has been listed as one of America’s ugliest in an article on Forbes.com which notes that “architectural beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but some mansions are just plain ugly.”

Officially named “Sculptured House,” the mansion boasts 7,700 square feet of living space, five bedrooms and baths, a top level master suite, a state-of-the-art kitchen, and an office with a wet bar and deck.

May 24, 2012

Offbeat Historical Photos

We’ve posted 62 historical offbeat photographs from yesteryear that are just bizarre or just slightly ahead of their time. You be the judge.

(Source: The Denver Post)

May 11, 2012

Boulder, Colorado, couple fulfill lifelong dream, living large in a 133-square-ft. home

Some homeowners prefer the sprawl of suburban McMansions. Others opt for cozy old bungalows near city centers.

Not too many opt for a 133-square-foot home — you read that correctly — that on first glance looks not much larger than a Great Dane’s doghouse.

But Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller did just that. The Boulder couple built a 7-by-19-foot wooden house whose foundation is a two-axle trailer bed. Last week, they towed it to a 5-acre patch of isolated hillside 20 minutes outside this town, which sits on South Park’s eastern edge.

Could you live in (or share) a space this small?

May 8, 2012

The Richthofen Castle, an iconic relic of Denver history, is under contract for sale.

If the deal closes, it will mark the end of 14 years of on-and-off-again efforts to sell the 35-room estate that was built by the uncle of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron flying ace of World War I.

Baron Walter von Richthofen, a Prussian immigrant turned Colorado mining baron, conceived the idea for the limestone castle in the 1870s and finished it in 1887.

What are the most impressive or interesting homes you can think of?

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