First Friday in the dead of summer: What better time could there possibly be to get out and take in some art and socializing? Get our picks from around town after the jump…

Give local artisans your attention at one of two artisan fairs with a different look. Or drop by both: Today from 1 to 8:30 p.m., the Elati Garden Arts and Crafts Fair (the second of two hosted this year in the sunny confines of the Elati Community Garden, 840 Elati…

You are invited to run, trot, walk, stagger or crawl every Thursday at either 6:15 or 6:30 p.m., weather permitting, by joining the Irish Snug Running Club, a large, loose and fun-loving group that takes a 5K loop each week before settling down to eat and drink. Tonight, a representative…

We’re all fascinated by adventurers and their reasons for taking seemingly insurmountable risks. Journalist Jennifer Jordan’s awe became fixed on the story of wealthy mountaineer Dudley Wolfe — a member of the 1939 American team that attempted to climb the treacherous K2 on the border of China and Pakistan —…

Bathtub gin, murder and an orgy set the pace for Andrew Lippa’s musical The Wild Party. Based on Joseph Moncure March’s narrative poem of the same name, The Wild Party explores the darker side of the flapper era. Set in a Manhattan apartment in 1928, the crazy evening centers around…

Last year’s inaugural Local Flavor Festival was small. Really small. But, notes Mickki Langston of the Mile High Business Alliance and its offshoot, Colorado Local First, that was intentional. “This is a fairly intimate gathering,” Langston says. “There are plenty of huge fests in the city already, and we’re definitely…

One of the Biennial’s most ambitious local art exhibitions doesn’t officially open until today, five days after the citywide July event ended, but that doesn’t mean that the show, PlatteForum’s ambitious Here at Home: 6 Artists, has spent the month of July under wraps. Rather, the collaborative works created by…

Dana Cain misses nothing, especially when it concerns one of her idols. So when the Denver promoter of pop-culture events and local artists noted months ago that Andy Warhol’s birthday fell on First Friday this year, she worked to galvanize the Art District on Santa Fe (on whose board she…

It’s nice to know that Historic Denver Inc. can now boast a little history of its own. The preservation-minded nonprofit, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, will make that perfectly clear by bringing back, at least in spirit, A Night in Historic Denver, a defunct history festival that drew…

Summer camp isn’t just for kids anymore: At the YesPleaseMore pop-up shop in the Denver Pavilions, shop co-conspirators Samuel Schimek and Brian Corrigan have set aside the month of August for a weekly series of evening “camps” featuring summery adult diversions like tonight’s Denver Handmade Alliance Crafty Demo Expo…

Avant garde cellist Zoë Keating isn’t content with sticking to canon. Though her main instrument is the standard cello, she tweaks its sounds using a foot pedal hooked up to a MacBook. That noted, her performance tonight at the Colorado Music Festival, under the World Music banner, is cocked and…

The city’s first Biennial of the Americas, a mashup of art exhibits and installations, cultural events and international dialogue strung together by a thread of hemispheric cooperation, came to an end Saturday after its full inaugural month of programming…

The gourmet food truck is an idea that’s really found its groove in the metro area, and it seems as if every trendy eatery in town has a shiny, upscale roach coach trolling the streets with better-than-average street-food eats. This is a trend that we enjoy, argue about and learn…