Denver Post: Entertainment
- Things to do this weekend: Lumberjack festival, tarantula heaven, and Coors’ 150th birthday
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 08:00 AMGolden opportunity
Saturday. Before it was part of an international conglomerate, Coors was a tiny brewery founded by a German immigrant who was looking for the best source of water in Colorado.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Country star finally adds stadium-sized Denver date to 2024 tour
Tuesday - 09/26/2023 - 12:00 PMCountry artist Morgan Wallen originally snubbed Denver on his blockbuster One Night at a Time stadium tour, which kicked off overseas in March. But as it turns out, local fans will have the opportunity to catch Wallen in the Mile High City after all.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - High travel costs forcing Coloradans to book holiday trips early
Tuesday - 09/26/2023 - 04:00 PMMore than half the Colorado residents who are planning to travel for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays said they are booking earlier this year, according to a new AAA survey.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Small talk gives way to horror in “The Minutes” at Curious Theatre
Monday - 09/25/2023 - 08:00 AMOn the civic-minded set of “The Minutes,” things get very strange, even funny, before going downright dark. Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama about a city council meeting gone awry launches the new season at the Curious Theatre Company with artistic aplomb and to roiling effect.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “A Little Night Music” still feels modern in Denver Center’s season opener
Friday - 09/22/2023 - 08:00 AMIf the title “A Little Night Music” sounds like a nod to old-world Europe, that may be because it is a direct translation of the title of Mozart’s Serenade No.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A Reba McEntire corn maze, a silent film fest and more things to do this weekend
Thursday - 09/21/2023 - 09:12 AMReba McEntire + corn mazes = fall fun
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Saturday-Sunday. This weekend sees a proliferation of Front Range fall events geared toward families, led by biggies such as LaSalle’s Fritzler’s Farm Park — whose corn maze this year features a giant likeness of Reba McEntire — and Erie’s Anderson Farms (andersonfarms.com). - Grateful Dead-themed bar forced to close for 90 days, could lose brewing and live-music licenses
Wednesday - 09/20/2023 - 03:48 PMDenver’s So Many Roads Brewery has been ordered to close for 90 days and, upon reopening, will not be allowed to brew its own beer or hold live music performances for the next year if they violate the terms of a new settlement with the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 10 Reasons to visit Estes Park this fall
Monday - 09/18/2023 - 07:06 PMAutumn in Estes Park is when everything falls into place. Your rock shoes will stick a little better, the trails are in ideal condition for mountain biking, trail running or hiking, and the trout are biting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Illegal Pete’s restaurant teams up on queso-flavored cannabis vape pen
Tuesday - 09/19/2023 - 08:31 AMThere are myriad ways to celebrate National Queso Day (Sept. 20), whether you use this culinary delicacy as a dip, a dollop or a full-on smothering agent. Thanks to one Colorado cannabis company, locals will be able to enjoy queso in a new way – by smoking it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “The Librarianist,” by Patrick deWitt, and more short book reviews from readers
Monday - 09/18/2023 - 08:00 AM
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- Coors historian counts down 10 of her favorite artifacts from the brewery’s 150-year history
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 09:48 AMHeidi Harris grew up near Golden, where the Coors brewery was a fixture of the skyline. But she had never taken the popular tour of the historic brewing facility until about eight years ago when she started working there.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “The Enchanters” is the latest hot novel by Colorado author James Ellroy, of “L.A. Confidential” fame
Tuesday - 09/26/2023 - 12:38 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Losing eyesight sharpens vision for artist Chloé Duplessis
Monday - 09/25/2023 - 08:00 AMEditor’s note: An untold number of unheralded artists live in Colorado, those creators who can’t (or don’t want to) get into galleries and rely on word of mouth, luck or social media to make a living.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Colorado brewers collect a whopping 40 medals at Great American Beer Festival
Saturday - 09/23/2023 - 03:17 PMThe 2023 Great American Beer Festival may not have garnered as much hype as previous years, but Colorado breweries made their most impressive showing in recent memory at the awards, which took place Saturday morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver’s toughest tickets: Good luck getting into these shows, restaurants or games
Thursday - 09/21/2023 - 08:00 AMAs Denver’s population has exploded, so have its entertainment options. One might think that growth makes it easier to get into the best restaurants, concerts, and sporting events, given that there are more of them than ever.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Denver Walls mural fest hopes to reset, expand street-art scene
Thursday - 09/21/2023 - 02:29 PMFirst impressions can be tricky. We project and make assumptions based on appearance, and those feelings often persist despite new information.
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With most art, that’s the point — provoking reaction and discussion, opening new space for expression and, in the case of murals, changing the way we look at outdoor, urban environments. - Here’s how to decorate for Halloween, according to scare professionals
Wednesday - 09/20/2023 - 08:00 AMFrom their nightmare factory in Greeley, husband-and-wife team Ed Edmunds and Marsha Taub-Edmunds have been making elaborate monsters and masks for more than four decades.
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Their company, Distortions Unlimited, then dispatches the creepy cast of artfully crafted characters — like animatronic circus clowns, life-sized werewolves, and a toothy 11-foot-tall “Sleeping Giant” — to commercial haunted houses, theme parks and corn mazes. - GABF spotlights Black brewers in special section at this year’s beer festival
Tuesday - 09/19/2023 - 08:00 AMDespite being a longtime beer drinker and brewery owner, Celeste Beatty has only attended the Great American Beer Festival once in its 40-plus-year history.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson returns to WWE at “SmackDown” in Denver
Monday - 09/18/2023 - 06:07 PMFinally, The Rock has come back to Denver.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Coach Prime unveils new line of shades before CU v. CSU “hat-and-sunglasses” bowl
Friday - 09/15/2023 - 12:17 PMWhy throw shade at CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders when you could wear a pair of shades he helped inspire?
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- Popular Chicago restaurant Portillo’s eyeing a Colorado expansion
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 08:00 AMPortillo’s, a Chicago-born chain known for sandwiches and hot dogs, has been on a blitz to expand its footprint across the U.S. — and its next destination could be Colorado.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ice Castles returns to Colorado after two years
Tuesday - 09/26/2023 - 01:56 PMWinter is coming – and so too are the Ice Castles.
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The popular frozen attraction will return to Colorado following a two-year hiatus and set up in a new location in Cripple Creek. - What’s the purpose? Slow art can be taxing in a fast-paced world.
Monday - 09/25/2023 - 08:00 AMIt might be funny to call Trey Duvall’s new art installation at Rule Gallery “exciting.” After all, the piece is a bit tedious to watch.
Here is the visual: a broom sweeps across a mound of sand.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2023 Colorado film festival guide: Oscar bait, secret lineups and more entice audiences to theaters
Friday - 09/22/2023 - 02:10 PMThere’s plenty to look forward to in film fests this season, even after Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Fest wrapped up earlier this month..
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So what does fall 2023 hold? - Is TikTok-focused crowd work ruining stand-up comedy?
Friday - 09/22/2023 - 08:00 AMAs the High Plains Comedy Festival returns for its 10th edition, Denver audiences can catch dozens of stand-up sets from 100 local and national comics, podcast recordings, open-mic nights, reunions, and more along the city’s South Broadway corridor.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Watch: Bravo TV show “Winter House” goes slope style in Steamboat Springs
Wednesday - 09/20/2023 - 01:36 PMDust off your goggles and wax your gear because the new season of Bravo’s “Winter House” will have you itching to get on the Colorado slopes.
Season three, premiering Oct.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Evan Rachel Wood comes to Meow Wolf Denver for a psychedelic concert this week
Wednesday - 09/20/2023 - 08:00 AMIn the 2007 film “Across the Universe,” actor Evan Rachel Wood plays a starry-eyed character named Lucy living in the height of the psychedelic 1960s. The movie – at its core a musical powered by The Beatles – follows Lucy and other characters like Jude and Prudence through hallmarks of the era, as they protest the Vietnam War, find community in New York’s thriving arts scene and journey to other dimensions with the aid of substances like LSD.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 8 must-see Denver classical, jazz and dance performances for fall 2023
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deion Sanders’ sunglasses notch $1.2 million in sales in first day
Monday - 09/18/2023 - 01:31 PMThe Prime Effect has lured A-list celebrities to Boulder and sold out season tickets for a college football team that won just a single game in the 2022-23 season. It’s also catapulted sunglasses sales literally overnight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘A Haunting in Venice’ review: Spooky-fun seance soiree with Hercule Poirot
Thursday - 09/14/2023 - 12:37 PMKenneth Branagh didn’t give us much time to miss Hercule Poirot.
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Early 2022 brought the release of “Death on the Nile,” an adaptation of an Agatha Christie mystery novel and the follow-up to actor-director Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express” from 2017.