Need an excuse to party? Here’s one: The Colorado Humane Society is celebrating its 125th birthday today. Get gussied up in your finest evening attire and head over to the Adam’s Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Place, where you can celebrate with dinner, entertainment, a silent auction and much more. The…

I have never won a game of bingo. My problem is this: I can’t play more than one bingo card at once, so I’m never the first to place my dabbers on five consecutive squares. Well, all those bingo pros out there had better watch their backs, because I’ve discovered…

Scott Brown is no stranger to mountain festivals. He helped start the Telluride Bluegrass and Film Festivals, so believe him when he says the Telluride Tech Festival is different from any other high-country celebration in existence. “It’s about being smart,” Brown says. “Telluride is isolated, in a sense,” he adds…

Ted Striker: Surely you can’t be serious! Dr. Rumack: I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley. Airplane! has got to be one of the best movies ever made. Its blend of wacky, over-the-top silliness out-funnies Adam Sandler and Jack Black — even after 26 years on the video-store shelves…

Denver might have a reputation as a cowtown, but you’d never know it to look at the array of gourmet restaurants and fine-dining programs available in this fair city. One thing’s certain: We know how to dish out some fantastic grub, and we’re not shy about sharing our fabulous food…

“Having a lawn isn’t the best way to garden in Colorado,” says David Winger, conservation specialist and Xeriscape expert with Denver Water. He’s not kidding: For the six years I lived in the Midwest, I didn’t have to water my lawn once, and the grass still grew like crazy. But…

“There are so many things that need to be done in Africa,” says Natalie McIntyre, a volunteer for the non-profit organization Food for the Hungry. “I know that they need food, but I think it’s really important to empower people. “Fourteen million people in Uganda don’t have access to health…

There’s nothing better than imbibing high-quality wine — except maybe doing it while watching a display of high-quality fashion. Throughout the summer, on select Thursday evenings, the Riverfront Park Wine & Fashion Series will prove the compatibility of sunsets, runway-walking, wine-tasting and music at the Millennium Bridge Plaza in Riverfront…

The Charles Sawtelle GNU Mountain Jam keeps getting better with age. The jam has seventeen years of history, proving that it can offer quality folk, bluegrass and jazz music, authentic Texas barbecue and thirst-quenching local microbrews while maintaining a community feel. The event’s also a fundraiser for KGNU, which can…

You might think it’s impossible for these sultry summer nights to get any hotter. But you’d be wrong, because this evening’s Hot Summer Nights Bachelor Auction will crank up the temperature several notches. Each of the fifteen participating eligible gentlemen will be auctioned off with a pre-planned date, ranging from…

Tango — the dance of love — seems to be gaining the kind of popularity that swing dancing garnered six or seven years ago. And although you might be tempted to brush off the tango scene as yet another dance fad, there’s more to those slow-slow-quick-quick-slow steps than meets the…

Mica is the name given to a flaky group of silicate minerals that cleaves into thin, transparent layers and registers at about a three on the Mohs Scale of mineral hardness. It’s also a featured player in Rebecca DiDomenico’s site-specific installation Mica Chamber, on display at the Boulder Museum of…

The phrase “performance art” conjures up images of poorly executed college-drama indulgences, and it certainly doesn’t do justice to Jessa and James Huebing-Reitinger’s Project InSECT. Jessa creates gigantic, true-to-scale, fantastically vivid bugs in front of the audience while James uses skits, stories, lectures and insect tattoo painting to enhance the…

“It doesn’t matter how many left feet you have. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had many years of dance experience or zero. The program is set up so that total neophytes can come in and have a fun evening.” So says Tom Masterson, coordinator of Dances From Around the World,…

When you’re lucky enough to have a natural resource such as Mesa Verde National Park in your back yard, it’s easy to take good fortune for granted. Readers of Condé Nast Traveler voted Mesa Verde the number-one historic monument in the world, and National Geographic Traveler has cited the park…

Keeping the final resting place of your loved ones in tip-top shape should be a priority — especially for those with larger family plots to attend — because there’s nothing sadder than a neglected grave. In that spirit, the Fairmount Heritage Foundation offers a Gravestone Restoration Project today and tomorrow…

It’s appropriate that Robert Greer is the keynote speaker at Park Hill Bookstore’s 35th Anniversary Celebration. A local teacher and doctor, founder of the High Plains Literary Review and author of seven books, Greer has a background as eclectic as that of the bookstore, which started as a book co-op…

So you’ve always wanted to go to Rio de Janeiro for Carnaval, but never had the time, the cash or the costumes. Well, Estrojam is presenting the next best thing tonight with Burlesque Carnaval, a samba extravaganza that includes aerial acrobatics, burlesque performances and dancing to the sounds of Daniel…

Animal lovers of Denver, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is. At today’s BowWow Benefit Brunch at Sax Galleries, 3019 East Second Avenue in Cherry Creek, you can dine on delectable fare, participate in canine crafts and browse dog-inspired artwork for sale. Fork over just $20 for…

Yoga is the quintessential exercise for tree-hugging, granola-munching types. But what’s the point of getting all in tune with your body and its connection to the earth if you’re doing it in a man-made room with no windows? The creators of Yoga in the Park felt you, and came up…

“People don’t have to feel like it’s all about being a good bowler,” assures Warren Sherrill, artistic director for the non-profit Paragon Theatre Company. That’s why Paragon gives prizes for Best Body Language and Whiniest Bowler at its annual Bowlathon for Paragon fundraiser. Corral your own team of four for…

Last year, Stephanie Beacher read Anita Diamant’s best-selling novel The Red Tent. The book chronicles the lives of the Old Testament figure Dinah and her four mothers, the wives of Jacob. Beacher was inspired by the tale: “Some of are sisters, and there’s all kinds of jealousy and things going…