Voodoo Doughnut wants Denver's help bringing Pam Grier home. The velvet painting of the actress was stolen from the Voodoo Doughnut Mile High on Colfax Avenue. "Please Denver, Please - Please you are ...

-- possibly the only museum in the world devoted to velvet paintings -- the pair have seemed to personify the "Keep Portland Weird" mystique. For the past four years, Anderson and Baldwin have invited ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

If you grew up with Mexican relatives, someone in your family likely had a black velvet painting in their house. Maybe it was of a donkey pulling a cart. Maybe it was of Pancho Villa. Still others ...

Are velvet paintings considered a collectible, a work of art or a plain tacky collectible? Beauty is all in the eyes of the beholders as one old sage said. Interestingly, painting on velvet goes back ...

A few years ago Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin decided to leave Portland, Oregon and return to Southern California. “We missed the sun,” says Baldwin. There was one problem: The couple needed to find ...

Robyn Ludwig is a script supervisor in the B.C. film industry. Her writing has featured in Columbia Journal, Cartoon Research, Silent London and Vancouver Observer. A selection of the writer’s black ...

The sub-sub-sub-genre of American kitsch velvet painting has taken on many themes during its three- or four-decade reign, probably most notably The King. We know, there've been a few tigers and ...

Jen Connell brings us step by step through her latest DIY weekend project. Who knew you could completely transform velvet by painting with chalk paint? I'm really excited to share my latest DIY ...

That painting is more than just a kitschy, flea-market find: It’s an original oil painting commissioned by the company – and now it’s gone. According to Voodoo Doughnut co-founder Kenneth “Cat Daddy” ...