Belly Bliss — Denver’s one-stop center for all things mom — launched a sister studio last month at Stapleton’s hip Stanley Marketplace. Belly Bliss owner Lauren Williams has been busy celebrating the grand opening of her new collective, but we tracked her down to get the scoop on this momtrepreneur’s latest endeavor.
How serious is dating violence for high-school students? According to the Denver-based National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, nearly 1.5 million high-school students in the United States are physically abused by dating partners every year. It isn’t too surprising, then, that 57 percent of teenagers report knowing somebody who has been…
War is hell: Curtis Bean recognized that during his two tours in Iraq. But he didn’t know that coming home would be hell, too. The native of Troy, Missouri, had joined the Army when he was seventeen, “to be part of something larger than my home town,” he says. Bean…
You forgot to book a sitter, and now you’re stuck at home on New Year’s Eve with your kids? Think again. We’re rounded up the top kid-friendly — and parent-friendly! — parties for families looking for one last bash in 2016. Keep reading for ten events on December 31, as…
From dogsledding to light displays, there’s no shortage of family-friendly activities around Denver in December. Celebrate the season of joy with your loved ones at a few of our favorite local events and institutions.
Author Chris Meehan has been wandering around the wilderness since he was four. On Thursday, December 8, he’ll find himself at Baker Wine & Spirits, 440 Broadway, at a whiskey-tasting and book signing for his new guide, Climbing Colorado’s Fourteeners: From the Easiest Hikes to the Most Challenging Climbs. We…
Holiday music, dancing and tinsel bring back the feeling of a Christmas just like the ones you used to know. The seventh annual 1940’s White Christmas Ball runs from from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, December 3, at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, 11705 Airport Way in Broomfield; before the…
Getting the turkey on the table is the least of your challenges this week: You also need to keep your relatives entertained on a very long weekend. If you’re hoping to avoid the nervous breakdown that family time often brings, we recommend getting out of the house and enjoying a…
Josh Viola — the award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto and founder of Hex Publishers — will roll out his latest science fiction anthology, Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, at a launch party and book signing at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 10, at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, 1628 16th…
This season of gourds and ghouls is full of family-friendly activities. The fall festivities kick off in he mountains this weekend and extend through early November. Keep reading for our ten favorite autumn events.
I pull into the parking lot at Haunted Field of Screams at 7:30 p.m. sharp. By 8:15 I’m one of them, one of the hundred-or-so actors who come here Thursdays through Sundays in October to scare the hell out of anyone foolish enough to walk through a ghoul-infested corn maze…
Grab a cocktail or a cup of coffee, and settle into a seat in Union Station’s 100-year-old Great Hall on Wednesday, October 5, for a presentation by the authors of Found, the 2016 anthology from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. “Some things are better off lost,” explains Denver-based writer and artist…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “Photography is just a hobby, really,” says Colorado native Andrew Koch, who turned…
Painter Jeffrey Harrison’s latest solo exhibition, Vital Visions: The Expressionistic Realism of Jeffrey Harrison, opened last Friday at Georgia Amar’s Habitat Gallery. In the show, Harrison breaks through the boundaries of realism with pieces that take on traditional figurative subjects: portraits and the nude. A Colorado native, Harrison grew up in…
Artist Rodney Wood is finally showing paintings in Denver, after decades and many ventures in the art world. His art career started “during the old hippie days,” Wood remembers, when the Colorado native went to Colorado State University for a few years and studied art and art history — but his…
Josh Viola, the award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto, founded Hex Publishers last year and promptly released a horror anthology, Nightmares Unhinged. This November, he’ll publish Cyber World, a steampunk collection. But in the meantime, he has another project: Words, a free online zine for junkies looking to load up…
Last week’s Bike to Work Day in Golden kicked off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Visitors Center, where Mayor Marjorie Sloan dedicated the brand-new Golden Bike Library, a bike-share program for residents, visitors, students and workers in the town that’s distinct from Denver’s B-cycle, and designed with families in…
“This is an area that’s been long neglected in terms of infrastructure, and that’s one of our major intents — to bring greater connectivity to this northeast Denver community,” says Will Kralovec, director of master site development for the Urban Land Conservancy, which is leading the community-driven development of 303…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery outposts around town. Rosane Volchan O’Conor grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied music…
Fun-loving families have a lot of options for Colorado adventures this summer. Here are five of our favorite activities; kick off your summer by trying one. Or better yet, try them all! 1. Llama Treks Snow Mountain Ranch 1101 County Road 53 outside Granby 970-887-2152 If summer’s got you feeling…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “South Westminster isn’t a cookie-cutter community,” explains artist Richard Chamberlain. “It’s a real…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Lonnie Hanzon has shown his work in downtown windows, gardens, galleries, museums…
