Take a Hike!

All thoughts of skiing melt away with the arrival of consistently clear skies and warm days, as Denverites head for the hills. If you’re not exactly the climb-a-fourteener-every-weekend type — or if you just don’t want to drive for hours to get to your destination — there are plenty of…

Take a Hike!

All thoughts of skiing melt away with the arrival of consistently clear skies and warm days, as Denverites head for the hills. If you’re not exactly the climb-a-fourteener-every-weekend type — or if you just don’t want to drive for hours to get to your destination — there are plenty of…

Angels Among Us

I am an admittedly biased source when it comes to Project Angel Heart. Every other Saturday, I spend a few hours delivering the organization’s meals to locals living with life-threatening illnesses. So I’ve seen with my own eyes how Project Angel Heart affects people’s lives for the better. I’ve received…

Mr. Nice Guy

It’s a sad truth: There are a lot of bad guys out there. Guys who steal, guys who kill, guys who break girls’ hearts. Sometimes it seems as though the good guys are nonexistent, but they’re out there — they’re just not always easy to find. And who can blame…

Collective Items

On the surface, it doesn’t seem as though Denver, Chicago and Miami have all that much in common. But consider this: Right now, these are the only three cities where you can find Rubi Rey rum, Bacardi’s new high-end brand of alcohol. And they’re also the only three cities where…

Old School + New School

It’s the age-old debate: What’s better, the original, classic story, or a bells-and-whistles remake? Old-school or new-school? The Denver Film Society has joined the debate with its Old School + New School film series, which features two films, separated by decades, screened in a single night and discussed afterward by…

Cycle of Seasons

Two-wheeled vehicles are so hot right now. There just seems to be something about summertime that brings out the bipedalist in all of us. And the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is cashing in on the popularity of all things two-wheeled with a pair of new summer exhibitions,…

A Million in One

Chance being the fickle thing it is, everyone could get a hole in one on a golf course at some point in life. Maybe you only get one shot at glory, but still, everyone has that chance. Why not use up your one shot today at the Million Dollar Hole-in-One…

Ale Watch

“Our ability to drink liberally is in danger of being attacked by terrorists,” notes Drinking Liberally’s John Erhardt. If you consider global warming a terrorist, then he’s absolutely right: Climate change is adversely affecting the growth of wheat, barley and especially hops, which means that you can expect beer prices…

The Zine Scene

I remember piecing together a “newspaper” of family goings-on to distribute to my parents and my brother when I was about nine years old. Maybe it was just the budding writer in me, but I was always fascinated by the printed word; as I got older, I traded in my…

In Like Lyons

Leave it to a town like Lyons to come up with the Lyons Outdoor Games, a multi-sport event that just keeps getting bigger and better each year. “This year, the bike events are going to be a lot larger than they’ve ever been,” notes spokeswoman Jen Booth. “The biggest addition…

Dance Dance Revolution

“I’m really fascinated with body language and a basic level of movement,” explains Chris Harris, the artistic director and choreographer for Louder Than Words Dancetheatre. “Understanding movements that the general public do, and trying to take body language and make that larger and more expressive through dance.” That fascination will…

5F: Five Minute Film Fest

Video virtuoso and 2006 MasterMind winner Johnny Morehouse is hip to the fact that these days, people have short attention spans. Really short attention spans. And really short attention spans call for really short films . Five minutes sounds good; five minutes is about the maximum amount of time you…

All Aboard!

Nothing says Colorado history like mining, and no place says it better than Georgetown, which celebrates our storied past every year with the annual Historic Georgetown Railroad & Mining Days event. Today and tomorrow, the picturesque mountain town holds a celebration on Sixth Street, featuring rides on the Georgetown Loop…

Prom Night

About two years ago, Bad Art for Bad People put together a show in Tampa, Florida. “We didn’t really have a theme for it,” Bad Art’s Bob White remembers, “and at the last minute, we decided to make it a prom theme.” Although none of the exhibit guests were notified…

Vibrant Vinyasa

Everyone’s favorite wine-and-yoga night, Vino and Vinyasa, returns tonight to lululemon athletica, 3000 East Third Avenue. “It’s one of the best-received events that we do here,” says lululemon’s Sybil Mortimer. And no wonder, when the instructor is Baptiste-certified yogi Dave Farmar — which means that he’s studied under the renowned…

Pop Symphony

When the Beatles album Abbey Road was released on CD in 1987, it spent 92 weeks on the U.K. Top 75 list. Quite a feat for an album more than sixteen years old at the time; it was also the last album the Beatles recorded together before they disbanded. And…

Shop Smart Art

As a wholesale jewelry merchant, Is Art doesn’t generally open its doors to the public. But that changes today with the Wearable Art Sale — aptly named, because the beautiful baubles are equally at home in a fine-art display case or enhancing your own natural loveliness. “It’s huge,” says Is…

Pink and Brown

“If I go into this fight, I am going to win. There will be no mincing matters, no pink-tea policies. It will be a regular man’s kind of campaign, stump speaking, spread-eagle and all.” — Margaret Brown When Margaret Brown (aka the “Unsinkable Molly Brown”) ran for public office —…

Fitness Fests

Celebrate fitness with the elements of earth and water this weekend in Buena Vista. Two separate events — Paddlefest and Bike Fest — will give participants the opportunity to enjoy some of their favorite recreational activities amid the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Paddlefest kicks off today and runs through…

What a Yes

The House of Yes “started with a particular house, a house I saw in an elegant suburb of Washington, D.C. There was just something about this chic, moneyed house that made me want in,” writes playwright Wendy MacLeod on her website. The plot follows fiancés Lesly and Marty; Lesly is…

By the Way …

I forgot to mention this interesting little side note in my blog about Tazo’s sneak-preview, media-only dinner on Monday night (which also happened to be Cinco de Mayo)… We arrived a little early and were sipping some tea-infused cocktails when Chef “Goose” Sorensen of Solera appeared suddenly behind the bar,…