The artwork featured at the Cherry Creeks Arts Festival will now be available for purchase all year with the launch of the organization’s new website, Art Shop, which launched last Wednesday. To celebrate, Art Shop is featuring commemorative festival posters from 1991 through 2012 — and they will be 50…
Over the summer, the Denver Art Museum explored the history and future of airport architecture through the design of local architect Curtis Fentress, the founder of Fentress Architects who designed Denver International Airport, including its iconic tent roof. Now highlights of the Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of…
Panzano, the restaurant at the Hotel Monaco, has always had a great bar and dining room complete with chef’s counter, but it never had many private dining options, beyond a small room in back where it could seat up to fourteen guests. So when the boutique next door to Panzano…
When the Colorado Convention Center created an urban farm on the piece of land between the complex and Speer Boulevard, it forgot about one minor detail — the winter. But when cold weather descended, the fragile plants at Blue Bear Farm had to be relocated — or die. Enter “Adopt-a-Pot,”…
These days, it seems like the only things that come in the mail are coupons and bills. Jared and Rachel Rippy want to change that by creating pieces of art that are intended for the mail. Through their new business, Postscript, the husband-and-wife team create letterpress postcards with graphic art…
It’s fitting for the small Abecedarian Gallery to end the year with an exhibition of small-scale art. All the two- and three-dimensional works in the Modest in Scale show are twelve inches or smaller in every dimension. “It’s a great show to have right before Christmas because people are out…
Craig Broek is taking over back yards and front lawns around Denver — but only with the best of intentions. He’s the pastor of The Table, a community church that grows fresh vegetables on the lawns of anyone willing to open up their property, and then donate a portion of…
Deerhammer Distilling Company, a whiskey distillery located in Buena Vista, is spreading some holiday cheer with its limited-edition Buena Vista Brandy. The holiday drink was made in conjunction with Vino Salida and distilled in Colorado with all local ingredients. Only one barrel was made, and the bottles are now on…
Cinema Geeks, a Denver-based group of filmmakers, traveled in time for a chance to win $10,000 in the International AR.Drone Film Festival, but returned to the present present empty-handed…for now. “Alas, we did not win, but the response from the audience and competition judges was really great,” says director and…
Tomorrow morning a line will start forming early outside of Mona’s Restaurant, the incredibly popular breakfast/lunch joint in the Platte Valley. But owners Linda and Garen Austin have never been able to recreate the success of this spot. And last month, their third attempt at a Mona’s, this one just…
Denver’s Civic Center just added another attraction. Coral Sphere, a sculpture by Yvonne Domenge, was installed this morning in front of the McNichols Building. The two-ton, blue-steel sculpture was previously on display at the Boeing Galleries of Millennium Park in Chicago; it will now reside in Denver, like an abstract…
Serious adult conversations can be boring, which is why pairing them with cookies and milk might be the best way to get people interested. That’s what Evan Weissman hopes to do with Warm Cookies of the Revolution, which he describes as a “civic health club” designed to get people engaged…
Steampunk and German lieder, a romantic form of song, don’t seem like they’d go well together, but Luminous Thread Productions likes to combine the unexpected. Nuptials for the Dead, which opens the company’s 2012-13 season, titled Dreampunk, gives German art songs a new life in this story of a woman…
Seven-year-old Miles Louison was browsing through a cookbook when he saw something that caught his eye: sushi made out of candy. Five years later, he’s the owner of Sushimee Candy, and is known as the Candy Sushi Kid. Business is going swimmingly. See also: – Lyla Padden has a successful…
The days of walking out of class and finding a wide array of food trucks to choose from on the Auraria campus are over. Well, not exactly over — but things have changed. On November 1, a new policy went into effect that limits any gourmet food-truck visits to the…
Old family recipes written on yellowing note cards can be easily forgotten, never to be cooked again. Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack didn’t want that to happen to the recipes of her mother and grandmother, so she decided to write them down. But her small family cookbook grew into a larger project that…
Life can be ironic sometimes, like a dairy farmer who becomes lactose-intolerant. Jake Rosenbarger, owner of Kim and Jake’s Cakes, was recently diagnosed with Celiac disease. But despite this new-found gluten intolerance, he continues to do what he loves: baking delicious cakes. “In the world of food production and that…
This is the first day of Movember, the perfect excuse for men around the world to let their mustaches grow wild for a good cause. Businesses around town are joining in this hair-raising movement, donating funds to Movember and Sons, which distributes the money to various prostate and testicular cancer…
Falafel is like fried chicken for non-meat-eaters. It’s crunchy and flavorful and filling. And there are many, many different ways to serve it. Dalia Hannah and Chris Hernandez are experimenting with as many of those ways as possible in their new food truck, Baba’s Falafel, which took to the streets…
El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday that honors the dead through altars, offerings, sculptures and dances. For the Aztec, who had been celebrating this tradition for more than 3,000 years before encountering travelers from Spain, death was not the end but the continuation…
Avid newspaper readers can find the work of French illustrator Serge Bloch during the week in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Los Angeles Times; his work also appears in Time and New York magazines. Bloch has illustrated more than 300…
Wine may not be a typical gift for a first birthday, but Coohills will celebrate its first anniversary by offering a complimentary glass of Chandon Blanc de Noirs and an amuse bouche created by chef/co-owner Tom Coohill to all customers on Saturday, November 3. See also: – Coohills makes itself…
