Originally imagined with a Great Depression theme, a party tonight at the Holiday Chalet Victorian Hotel will instead feature a 1920s and ’30s motif, complete with burlesque dancers, era-appropriate music, a free soup kitchen, a piano player, and a DJ spinning house and acid jazz. Proceeds from the event will…
“We’re all tied up in gender,” says Keith Garcia, programming director at Starz FilmCenter, “and we really need to pull back on the strings and let people be who they want to be.” Examining gender stereotypes and sexuality is part of the purpose of Cinema Q, a Starz series highlighting…
What could possibly be better than an all-showtunes karaoke night? How about Showtunes Karaoke with a burlesque performer emcee — such as Denver’s own Cora Vette, aka Reyna Von Vett — and female impersonators bringing back the ghosts of divas past? That’s the idea behind a collaboration between JR’s Bar…
Head over to Robert Thompson’s Argyll GastroPub, 2700 East Third Avenue, at 7 p.m. tonight for a five-course wine dinner featuring an array of truly decadent dishes paired with the perfect wines. Menu items include Goose Point oysters, a peach-and-goat-cheese tart, smoked trout, autumn salad, monkfish, lamb chops and a…
Wish you were in Italy? The next best thing could be “Visions of Venice,” a wine dinner at Pizza Republica, 5375 Landmark Place, tonight at 6:30 p.m. The four courses, which cost $50, will tour you through the foods and wines of the great Italian regions — and none of…
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A line-up of Colorado wines, as well as snacks, are on the roster from 5 to 7 p.m. today, October 16, at Michelangelo’s Coffee and Wine Bar, 1 South Broadway. Tickets for the wine-tasting, presented by Sutcliffe Vineyards, are $15 at the door…
No matter how much you think you know about beer, it never hurts to learn more. Tonight at 6 p.m., Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, located at 1937 Market Street, will host a Beer Class, where you can learn about the history, regions and production of beer while sampling…
The Larimer Sidewalk Arts Festival is a work in progress — the hosts learned a little something last year about seasonal scheduling — and it’s still growing, which is a good thing. So what can attendees expect? Lots of fantastic art created by young people; artists between the ages of…
Some people have skeletons in the closet, but we pretty much all have home movies packed away on a shelf — although modern technology has actually changed the way we store them. That’s why Home Movie Day came about in the first place. Devised in 2003 by archivists at the…
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an ancient text designed to provide guidance for the next life. “You whisper it into the ear of an unconscious or dying person; it’s an instruction of what to do,” explains Wendell Beavers, chair of Naropa’s performing arts department. “So in the Tibetan…
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The Cru Wine Bars in Larimer Square (1442 Larimer Street) and Park Meadows (8433 Park Meadows Drive) are serving up a special four-course dinner paired with Spanish wines to celebrate Columbus Day tonight.The dinner includes shrimp en escabeche, a warm spinach salad, beef tenderloin and spicy sausage, and rice pudding…
It’s almost time to get serious about pumpkins — but Aurora’s annual Jack-o-Launch at its Pumpkinfest is pretty much all fun and games. The pumpkin-launching teams are competing to dress weirder and, of course, chuck a pumpkin farther than their competitors. Today’s fall festival also features hay rides, a pumpkin…
Some people just can’t get enough pork. If you’re one of those people, head to Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, for “Pleasures of the Pig.” The dinner, originally scheduled for October 9, has been moved to October 23, and will feature cider-glazed pork shoulder, potatoes lyonnaise…
Where have all your favorite Wynkoop beers of the year gone? The specialty and seasonal brews? They’ve all been drunk — all except for a few kegs that Brewmaster Andy Brown has been holding back for tonight’s Beer Dinner of the Year. Sample six of Brown’s favorite brews, paired with…
Denver’s Old House Society offers walking tours that take people into old parts of the city that are completely new to them. “They’re fun, and they’re geared toward someone who doesn’t have a degree in architecture and history — even though when we plan our tours, an architect and a…
Right after Halloween, I always vow that next year, I’m going to start working on my costume early. I’m going to come up with a fabulous concept, figure out a way to execute it perfectly, then blow everyone away with my creativity and overall holiday spirit. When September rolls to…
Once you’re done carving that awesome jack-o-lantern, what the hell do you do with the insides? The Kitchen Table Cooking School, at 5375 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village, has the answer: pumpkin custard tarts, pumpkin chocolate-chip brownies and pumpkin roulade cake. Learn how to make all of them tonight at…
If you ever needed an excuse to eat at Troy Guard’s TAG, here’s a great one: The Restaurant Community Culinary Series is back for another first Tuesday serving up delicious food for a good cause. This month’s beneficiary is Food Bank of the Rockies, which will receive 20 percent of…
