Three years ago, Judy Elliott of Denver Urban Gardens was leading kids at Fairview Elementary School in a nutrition gardening program when a class of fifth-graders looked at the tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, chiles, onions and peppers growing under lights in their classroom and decided they wanted to do more. Outside…
This I believe. I’ve been listening to NPR long enough to appreciate those words and smile when I hear them, because I know someone is about to move or inspire me, or maybe just make me laugh. Bill Gates believes that “the power of creativity and intelligence can make the…
One hundred years after the first Curtis Park grand Victorians were built in the 1870s, the neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Homes that had long fallen into disrepair started to see reinvestment. This weekend, some of the people who have put their blood, sweat, tears…
Before you ring up an expensive bar tab drinking Grey Goose or Belvedere martinis, you may want to invest some dough in learning the basics of booze. Sean Ziegler’s Lively Liquors course at Colorado Free University starts today with vodka, and Zeigler is pretty sure his students will be surprised…
Erik Klanderud watches the MotherLode Volleyball Classic every year, and every year he’s amazed by the level of play. The Classic’s producer, Leon Fell, was his volleyball coach at Aspen High School back in the ’80s, but Klanderud — who now works for the Aspen Chamber Resort Association — says…
If there’s one thing Denver is lacking, it’s pools. Unless you live in a trendy apartment complex or splurge on a plastic pool for the back yard, you probably don’t spend much of your summers here dangling your toes in the water with an umbrella drink in hand. Picking up…
“It’s just an opportunity to get some stuff really cheap,” says Kathleen Martindale, coordinator of the no-frills KGNU Book and Music Fair and Artists and Their Crafts show taking place today. “Short of us having the radio turned on, I think the entertainment lies in the little bit of chaos…
On Tuesday, August 14, Quiznos’ most outspoken critic finally went silent. Chris Bray, the founder of the Toasted Subs Franchisee Association, announced that he was settling the lawsuit he filed against the company late last year in U.S. District Court in Denver (“You’re Toast,” May 3). The dispute arose when…
If the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons were just a concert, headlined tonight by Ray LaMontagne, it wouldn’t disappoint. But it isn’t just a concert; it’s an event where more than a thousand people camp while others picnic or go tubing or simply plant their folding chairs in the…
Deciding where to land as a “fringer” — a Boulder International Fringe Festival-goer — can be overwhelming, with the seventy-plus local and international artist groups performing in 350 live theater, dance, circus art, media art, cinema, visual art, spoken word, puppetry, workshop and storytelling events over twelve days. That’s why…
Rebecca Rosen claims that she was a lost soul, fighting a losing battle against depression until her grandma Babe — who had been dead for ten years — came to her. Grandma Babe, who had also struggled with depression and taken her own life, would take over the pen when…
Colorado now has 63 wineries. Yes, 63! That number alone was reason enough for the Front Range Winery Association to band together for a tasting. Throw in some food and live music and you’ve got yourself the first-ever Boulder Food and Wine Festival. Today from noon to 5 p.m., $40…
Mercury Cafe owner Marilyn Megenity keeps a diary to track Colorado’s produce, year in and year out. According to her estimation, the peaches in her backyard should be ripe just in time for the Organic, Local Food and Wine Pairing she’s hosting tonight. “This is the time when Colorado’s produce…
Artists have long been attracted to Colorado for its magnificent views and crisp, clear light. For Landscapes of Colorado, curator Ann Daley chose contemporary paintings, drawings and photographs that are unique to the West, giving those works a place among the state’s rich art history. With 51 artists, the exhibit…
Comedian Bob Marley — an Irish guy from Maine — hears “real zingers” all the time about how he should come out in a dreadlocked wig at his gigs and impersonate the dead reggae singer, and he wisely chooses to ignore them. “It’s kind of ridiculous that I don’t do…
In my childhood bedroom, there’s a pink roll of yarn attached to a shabby six-inch square — the scarf I started making when my grandma taught me to crochet at age ten. Never one to throw anything away, I thought about picking up where I left off a few years…
Five-year-old Eliot wants to make a birthday card for his father, Tony. He pulls two sheets of paper from a notepad and selects a freshly sharpened blue crayon from the box. “This is a picture of me running Tony over,” he says. “I want to draw a picture of me…
No one could ever master the 7,000-foot ascent of the Mount Evans Hill Climb like Bob Cook. The tall, skinny cyclist with wire-framed glasses and even more wiry legs won the race for five consecutive years. At the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, he had the highest oxygen intake…
Amateur filmmakers, students and brothers Steven and Brian Amos last year organized the Door County Student Film Festival in their home town of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and were blown away by both the quality of submissions from around the world and the sold-out screenings. So this year they turned their…
Dan Witherspoon may have left the dating scene a long time ago (try fourteen years!), but he knows a thing or two about stirring up romance. First, food and wine are sexy. And second, orchestrated meet-and-greets can quickly turn into awkward disasters unless there’s a welcome distraction. That’s why he’s…
Between the junk, the treasures disguised as junk and the priceless people-watching, there’s nothing like a good flea market. When Motyka Johnson, a coordinator at the Aurora History Museum, decided to organize First Saturdays Summer Flea Markets, she was hoping to do something unlike the run-of-the-mill festivals and farmers’ markets…
Twenty years ago, studies showed that families in the United States who spoke Spanish at home tended to earn less money and be less educated than their English-speaking neighbors. But according to Devin Jenkins, a Spanish professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and CU’s Health Sciences Center, times…
