FRI, 9/12 One expects art galleries to cater mainly to grownups, but consider little Quetzalli, 928 West Eighth Avenue, a gallery that’s committed to exploring cultural roots through art. Its current show, Rastros (Traces), featuring works by Eric “Elfego” Baca and Robert Lopez Dussart, appeals to adults by offering different…

SUN, 9/7 Robin Jester likes urban tales — real, meaty accounts of life. The Regis University graduate advisor, who moved to Denver two years ago from New York, first experienced the buzz of creating a salon when she was living in Manhattan. And she figured the concept of online city…

SAT, 9/6 Ever wonder how to create your own ristra — the strands of dried red chile peppers that are hung near the entrance of a home to symbolize an abundant harvest? Well, this is the weekend to learn, and the place to master the art is the Chile Harvest…

Classical music is a hard sell almost everywhere you go these days, but that hasn’t deterred the Colorado Symphony Orchestra from trying harder. On the brink of a new season, the CSO is also at a crossroads, anticipating the eventual loss of Maestra Marin Alsop and those new directions that…

FRI, 8/29 “The main code of the tango is that you dance as you are feeling today,” says Nina Pesochinsky, artistic director/instructor/performer of the Denver-based Tango Mujer Dance Company. “The same two people can dance the same song a thousand times, and they will have a thousand different dances. It’s…

SAT, 8/30 The Council Tree, once a gathering place for people of the Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes, has been replaced by a stretch of I-25. But people of all backgrounds are reclaiming northern Colorado as a place to exchange cultures and ideas. “Over 21 different tribes considered northern Colorado their…

SAT, 8/30 It’s good old country fun with a metropolitan twist: This year’s Chatfield Nature Preserve Corn Maze, created by the Denver Botanic Gardens, will promote the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). Every year, DBG staff and volunteers submit design ideas for the maze, and this time around, public-relations…

FRI, 8/15 I remember the first (well, the only time) I saw Riders in the Sky, back in the ’80s. It was at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where I actually had gone to see the other half of the double bill: Cheap Suit Serenaders, cartoonist Robert…

THURS, 8/14 Laugh like a hyena this evening as the Third Annual Comedy Night cracks up the Denver Zoo. Hosted by Colorado comedian Kevin Fitzgerald, Animal Planet’s infamous Emergency Vet, the chucklefest promises to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Fitzgerald, a hunky featured favorite at the Comedy…

SAT, 8/16 In the mini-world of miniature golf, there are courses with windmills, giant gorillas and zigzag downspouts. But none of these have the decorum of a regular golf course. For that, you’d have to visit a place like Go Putt!, at 9741 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. The…

Boasting such lovely items as antique iron bed frames and a dark red Chinese wedding wardrobe, the new Paris Loft overflows with stylish furniture and trinkets to decorate everything from LoDo dens to suburban shelters. “Our focus is to offer affordable elegance,” says co-owner Maria Fair. “And things that are…

FRI, 8/8 Are they dancers? Are they circus performers? Are they bonkers? Nancy Smith, organizer of Boulder’s Aerial Dance Festival, says all of the above assertions are true of her artists. And the unique festival, which opens tonight, has gathered eight soaring groups from across the country and abroad for…

FRI, 8/8 Loveland: the vortex of internationally acclaimed sculpture. Who knew that the unassuming town happens to be a hotbed of artistic expression? Lots of folks. And art aficionados will have a unique chance to get up close and personal with all manner of three-dimensional works at not one but…

Puppets are present in almost every culture, so it is fitting that the mice of Denver Puppet Theatre’s new production, The Mouse Tales, come from China, Persia and Africa. Annie Zook, who does everything from script-writing to puppet-making to puppeteering at the theater, says the little rodents have been a…

SAT, 8/9 Calling all Scots: Don your family’s tartan kilt for this weekend’s fortieth annual Colorado Scottish Festival. Held today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Highland Heritage Park, 9651 South Quebec Street in Highlands Ranch, activities include rugby games, dulcimer music and Highland dance, as well…

SUN, 8/3 Winnie Wenglewick brought more than her furniture with her when she moved to Denver from Orlando two years ago. The improv theater entrepreneur also brought a novel, breakneck idea: the Extreme Playwright’s Adventure, a patented concept of her own invention that pits a dauntless crew of playwrights of…

SAT, 8/2 Slap on your saddle shoes, pile on the pomade, and head directly to LoDo where the sparks are flying at today’s Built for Speed: The Art of Kustom Kulture. The hep cats on 15th and Wazee streets are hooding the meters today and jamming the block with hot…

THURS, 7/31 This weekend in Boulder, a unique kind of theater will hit the stage: The Peanut Butter Players’ new musical farce Bratrace is not exactly children’s theater, but it’s truly family theater, the term used by writer/director Jo Anne Lamun to describe the intergenerational entertainment experiment, a kid-sized satire…

FRI, 8/1 Not every all-American girl dreams of becoming a musher, but for 21-time Iditarod Sled Dog Race competitor DeeDee Jonrowe, it was just a fact of life while growing up in a remote western Alaska backwater. “There are no roads out there,” she explains. “I always loved dogs, so…

FRI, 8/1 The lowly limerick is “the Rodney Dangerfield of poetry,” according to the Limerick o’ the Day Web page. “Limericks proudly broke into what had been the one unbroachable frontier in proper English society: smut.” Smut is in the ear of the beholder, of course — and there was…

SAT, 7/26 After years of tolerating male-dominated music charts and watching mass-marketed boy bands hog the stage, female performers are giving the finger to the audition couch and bustin’ out on their own. National tours such as Lilith Fair and Ladyfest have set the precedent that chicks can riff, and…

SUN, 7/27 Although it’s a bit of a sideshow to the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver’s diverse Colorado Biennial showcase, the Colorado Film Biennial: 10 by 10 has also turned out to be its own three-ring circus. The ten finalists, chosen from nearly fifty entries in three categories, including narrative, avant-garde…