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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 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 | ShareMore 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
On 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 | ShareIf 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
Reba McEntire + corn mazes = fall fun
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).
Denver’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 | ShareAutumn 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
There 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 | ShareHeidi 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
Editor’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
The 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 | ShareAs 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
First impressions can be tricky. We project and make assumptions based on appearance, and those feelings often persist despite new information.
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.
From 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.
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.
Despite 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 | ShareFinally, The Rock has come back to Denver.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhy throw shade at CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders when you could wear a pair of shades he helped inspire?
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePortillo’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
Winter is coming – and so too are the Ice Castles.
The popular frozen attraction will return to Colorado following a two-year hiatus and set up in a new location in Cripple Creek.
It 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
There’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..
So what does fall 2023 hold?
As 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
Dust 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
In 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.
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