Sometimes you just can’t find the right thing for the right person, and as the Christmas shopping days continue to dwindle, you wring your hands in despair. Or maybe you’ve been lazy. Whatever the case, you’d better look sharp: Santa lands in a mere five days, and you don’t want…
Chocolate fiends and those with sweet teeth, take note: Keystone chef Ned Archibald’s Chocolate Village, which he (along with his helpers) installs every year in the lobby of Keystone Lodge, might look like a Wonka-esque wonderland filled with delicious delicacies — but seeing as how Archibald recycles the village each…
Since the lunar perigree (commonly known as the full moon) doesn’t technically come to fruition until tomorrow morning at 3:12, tonight’s Full Moon Ski and Skate won’t take place beneath a completely, 100 percent, no-holds-barred full moon — but the sky will still be bright enough to light the way…
Imagine for a moment that you are Mary, and you’re roundly pregnant with your first child — about to pop, as they say — and you and your husband are seeking shelter for the night in a strange town. But there are hundreds of others who need shelter, who have…
I grew up in Evergreen, so for me, it doesn’t feel like the holidays until I’ve taken a spin around Evergreen Lake on my ice skates. Luckily for me, I can still squeeze in a quick dose of wintertime exercise before I unwrap my presents this morning, because the lake…
“It’s like storytime for grownups,” says Debbie Knapp, a performer for Colorado Homegrown Tales — a dramatic-reading series highlighting stories by local authors. “It’s a nice way to take a break from the holiday mayhem, harking back to the tradition of getting everyone together for the holidays and telling funny…
The title of Á Colorado en una Noche de Navidad (To Colorado on a Christmas Night), a musical-theater piece by El Centro Su Teatro that debuts tonight, is drawn from a new version of singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa’s “From Texas for a Christmas Night” — and writer/director Anthony J. Garcia, who…
Although there seem to be Santa Clauses everywhere at this time of year, they’re seldom accompanied by the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who. Today, however, all three take part in Movies With Santa, presented by the Shops at Northfield Stapleton, 8340 Northfield Boulevard. According to marketing director Joyce Rocha-Brown, the…
Embrace the ephemeral nature of beauty over the next three days during the Downtown Denver Partnership’s Ice Sculpting in Skyline Park. Meet in front of the holiday tree in Skyline Park, 1825 Arapahoe Street, at 10:30 a.m. today through Saturday to watch one of the most fleeting of all art…
Tonight is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year and a traditional time of celebration for almost every culture on the planet. Denverites can mark the imminent return of seeing the sun for more than a couple hours a day at the Dark Night Mysteries Solstice Celebration, tonight…
The world is full of holiday-season art shows that fall before Christmas, not on the day after. But at South Broadway Christian Church, 23 Lincoln Street, they decided to do things a little differently. Based on the success of an Easter Stations of the Cross exhibit staged there for Easter…
If you’re anything like me — thousands of miles away from your family, with no money for airfare and a girlfriend who flies home every Christmas — then you’re likely to get a little bitter around the holidays, with only your dog and reruns of A Christmas Story to keep…
Long before I knew any better, I was a Raiders fan, a fact that riled most of my Broncos-loving kinfolk. Everyone except my dad viewed my inexplicable fandom as something just a notch below heresy. But while Pops didn’t exactly share my zeal, he dug the fact that I was…
Earlier this year, I marveled at how my entire iPod playlist was devoted exclusively to the music made here. That was back in February, and considering that we were only two months into the new year, that might’ve seemed like a moment of breathless hyperbole. At the time, the ink…
Some of the world’s worst restaurants come out of a restaurateur’s attempts to define a cuisine, a mood or himself. Some of the best come as an answer to a problem or a declaration of intent. When it opened exactly four years ago, Mezcal could have gone either way: become…
I’ve been back to the bars in Iowa City — the town where I got my undergraduate degree — a number of times since I left three years ago. And every time, my college friends and I have stood around feeling just plain old. Not old like the non-traditional graduate-student…
As I walked into Santa Fe Tequila Company, I felt a little like Alice falling down the rabbit hole into a magical place. Sadly, I saw no caterpillar sitting on a mushroom and smoking a hookah, but the specialty drink list definitely winks at that wonderland with such cocktails as…
Jesse Morreale, owner of Tambien, called me at home last Wednesday night. “So, how is it?” he asked with no preamble, no hey-how-ya-doin’. “How is what?” I asked, feigning a sweet, downy and unsullied ignorance. “How is it?” “How is what, man? I have no idea what you’re talking about.”…
Mexico, Christmas 2001. Laura and I, in a fit of wild-goose inspiration, had quit the bright, dusty and idiot-ridden confines of Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a quick run through Truth or Consequences, Las Cruces and Vado, aiming the blunt nose of yet another in a long line of used $400…
The idea for a quartet of solo shows at Sandy Carson Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585, www.sandycarsongallery.com) began when owner Sandy Carson decided she wanted to mount an exhibit devoted to Toronto hotshot Tony Scherman, one of the foremost encaustic painters anywhere. Encaustic, by the way, is a wax-based…
American Art Invitational. Art, like politics, can be divided into liberal and conservative camps, with contemporary art representing the left and traditional art the right. But unlike politics, where the baton can pass back and forth between the two opposites, the art world has been run decisively by the liberals…
The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver opened its brand-new David Adjaye-designed building at the corner of 15th and Delgany streets less than two months ago. I love the building and the fact that the upstart institution managed to construct a high-style facility by an internationally famous architect, and I focused on…
