It was love that made Carson Williams do it. When he and his wife moved to a new house on a quiet cul-de-sac in Mason, Ohio, nine years ago, she asked him to put up some Christmas lights. “For the first few years, I just made them blink. Then I…
As fans of Denver’s 9th and Lincoln Orchestra know, this is one big band that’s not likely to break into “Cherokee” during its monthly gigs at Dazzle. A conglomeration of musicians from such progressive bands and ensembles as the Czars, Hamster Theater and the Future Jazz Project — as well…
Upper 15th Street is changing fast: Places like Lola and Karma opened in the last year, and the new Highland Bridge and long-awaited Vitamin Cottage are both about to. But in the midst of all that change, designer/boutique-owner and neighborhood veteran Mona Lucero has been keeping stride, stocking her shop’s…
You can’t see Happy Feet at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. As with Narnia — the movie that inspired last year’s holiday display — Happy Feet won’t be showing at the Colorado Cinemas Cherry Creek 8, because the independent chain doesn’t have the pull of a giant, five-billion-screen multiplex. Pity…
Constance Eaton-Brown owned an antique store on the East Colfax Avenue strip for years and years. Old-timers will remember Eaton-Brown’s shop, Collector’s Choice, as a cramped, dark and musty antique store that specialized in costumes and even won some Westword Best of Denver nods back in the ’80s. Eaton-Brown was…
My daughter plays the fiddle, not the violin, and it’s an important distinction: Fiddle music is a whole sunshiny animal unto itself, born of traditional roots and primeval ties to the earth. The very best fiddlers tend to channel the primordial, something I can only hope my daughter learns to…
It’s time for Denver’s arts institutions to take a bow in the glow of Daniel Libeskind’s crazy new museum building. And three in particular — the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Opera Colorado and Colorado Ballet — are taking a joint one today with Monsters in Art. The…
The sad news is that tickets to Rojo, mi amor, tonight’s $100-a-head benefit gala at the Museo de las Américas, are scarce, if not completely gone. But the wonderful news? You can still get in on the less expensive and more youth-oriented Rojo, mi amor…the After Party at 10 p.m.,…
Denver poet laureate Chris Ransick doesn’t believe in being all high and mighty about his position in life. Instead, his message is more evangelical: He just wants to spread the word about poetry. Trust him, it’s a cool thing. So when Ransick took part in the recent marathon recording session…
Louder Than Words Dancetheatre just doesn’t do things in the usual way — and its latest production, Nocturnography…of Waking and Dreaming, should be no exception. “We don’t do the typical dance piece, and then the lights come up and then there’s another dance,” notes company production manager Whit Ryan. “It’s…
Go ahead: Risk the thirty-minute drive today and you’ll find yourself savoring autumn on the Front Range during the Mountain Area Land Trust Watershed Trail Festival, happening from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. along the scenic Beaver Brook Watershed, which is located 3.5 miles west of Evergreen on state highway…
Though never as famous as Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Montgomery Pike was an all-American romantic character, the one who peered out across the endless flat prairies and spotted a majestic blue mountain rising out of the horizon. The stark beauty of that granite sentry on the Front Range is reason…
The time is always right for the Osage Mercado, a barrio-based public marketplace happening this weekend just south of the light-rail stop at 10th Avenue and Osage Street. A community-driven showcase with a fair-trade spirit, the mercado features a bounty of fresh vegetables, handmade arts and crafts, local performers, and…
When collector/show promoter Dana Cain brought Denver the Baby Boomerama back in the ’90s, what she really wanted to celebrate was the retro spirit — that innocent belief in a bright, shiny future — in all its rich, expansive, pioneering entirety. But rather than produce an expo that waded knee-deep…
Ever since the days of prehistoric man, words have been bandied about over broken bread, with the cave-dweller’s friendly “Ugh” slowly giving way to talk of love, current affairs, politics or simply what we did today. If you’ve ever had a hankering to bring something new to the table —…
Believe it or not, Denver’s beautiful formal park gardens — from the famous plots of Civic Center, Alamo Placita and Washington Park to the lesser-known plantings in such places as Montbello Civic Center Park — don’t just pop up out of the ground each year. As you’re reading this, more…
If you ask me, the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, which made its debut at Sloan’s Lake in 2001, is just about the best thing that ever happened to summer in Denver, brimming over with just the right amount of everything you’d possibly want from a fest: First and foremost, it’s…
A little taste of Steamboat Springs can be had right here in the Mile High City this month during the Steamboat Wine Festival Denver Wine Dinner series, a scrumptious pairing of top chefs from the mountain resort with some of our own Larimer Square toques. Tonight’s partnership features Samba Room…
Globeville, the bastion of the working class, boasts a weathered history that most of us don’t truly appreciate as we whiz past on I-70. A multicultural crossroads where Denver’s old Eastern European and new Hispanic communities met under a miasma of meatpacking haze and smelter smoke, the neighborhood defines the…
Even in the heat of summer, our fine Colorado Symphony Orchestra toils, but rest assured, the beat is more relaxed. Witness the CSO’s laid-back Summer Coffee Concerts, a pair of mid-morning performances of works chosen precisely because they won’t challenge lazy, listless summer listeners. And here’s the kicker: Free Peet’s…
“You’ve paid your debt/Get up, you wreck/ And crawl out through the door/Love will return.” Elegant, gay, acerbic, pensive and hilarious, Ray Davies has always been an unlikely yet perfect rock star, a relic from the days when kids like me listened to Davies and the Kinks blast the inanely…
Ruralites Bren Frisch and John Roberts take both farming and parenting more seriously than most. While they work the fields at their Longmont-area Sunflower Farm, they’re also active as foster and adoptive parents who recognize the value of farm life in rearing kids who’ve had a rough start. A few…
