Researcher extroardinaire Jane Goodall, who has studied chimpanzees for more than four decades, will distill her expertise this weekend at two events: The Roots & Shoots Discovery stage show for kids and their parents, in Boulder; and the opening of Discovering Chimpanzees: The Remarkable World of Jane Goodall, at the…
Back in college, a major portion of my diet consisted of neon blue, orange and red Mr. Freeze popsicles; boxes of the incandescent tubes were stacked in the freezer at all times. But I never realized that I missed Mr. Freeze’s flavor until I took a sip of the Blue…
Amid the sprawl that is Douglas County — the fastest-growing county in the nation in 2001 — lives the Douglas County pocket gopher. The four- to five-ounce brown vegetarian is rarely seen outside of its burrow, and when the rodent does venture out, it’s rarely farther than a body length…
If you decide to skip the river of green beer that’s certain to run through LoDo this weekend in favor of a day of snowshoeing or schussing, you can still toast Ireland’s patron saint at the Beaver Creek Tavern, located at the base of the Centennial Lift (and known until…
Think you’ve got skills gnarly enough to hang with the big dogs? On Friday night, forty of Colorado’s best riders will shred, slash and slide at Boulder’s first annual Heavy Metal on the Hill, a rail jam competition sponsored by the 150-member University of Colorado snowboard team. “We’re going to…
Say you were throwing a dinner party for a group of your favorite hobbits. What would you whip up? Marinated goat cheese, maybe, with tangy apple soup, a garden salad and a chicken pot pie? That’s exactly what local storyteller and chef Carol Hampson will be serving this Saturday, March…
If you’re looking for shamrocks and leprechauns, follow the rainbow (or maybe just the blaring bagpipes) to LoDo for the 41st annual Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Because of construction around the Golden Triangle neighborhood and changes in the Denver Municipal Code regarding parades, organizers decided to return to their…
In the 1981 movie Arthur, dapper John Gielgud played a quintessential English butler forced to put up with the antics of Dudley Moore’s drunken playboy. But that’s nothing like the day-to-day life of real butlers, swears Mary Louise Starkey of Starkey International, the Denver-based service-professional training institute sponsoring this weekend’s…
Lounge lizards looking for a new downtown joint are slithering out of LoDo and over to the mod Harry’s Bar, just off the lobby of the swank Hotel Magnolia. Harry’s serves up cosmos, appletinis and dirty martinis by the trayload, but the real crowd-pleaser is the bright-pink Negroni Martini ($8),…
When the people of Nederland say that Grandpa is out back in the shed, they don’t mean he’s out there tinkering around with the snowblower. No, they mean that Bredo “Gramps” Morstel, a Norwegian who passed away in 1989 and was cryogenically frozen by his grandson, Trygve Bauge, is just…
Drop the Nyquil. If you can’t seem to kick that nasty winter cough, head straight to SoBo 151 for an Eastern European cure: shots of Becherovka. A Czech spirit that’s a mixture of alcohol, medicinal herbs and spices, Becherovka has been packaged as cough drops; these days, it’s also often…
Instead of taking to the streets to protest a potential war with Iraq, peace activists in metro Denver — and in over 600 cities around the world — will instead take to the stage with the Lysistrata Project, believed to be the first-ever worldwide theatrical act of dissent in the…
Are you just dying to know the ins and outs of Denver’s Solid Waste Management division’s hazardous-waste-collection methods? Waiting with baited breath to hear what Blueprint Denver means to your neighborhood? If so, this is your lucky weekend: Denver residents are invited to the free City Service Open House, Saturday,…
If you look back at hot pants, pet rocks, M*A*S*H* and roller-skating as souvenirs of the good ol’ days, it’s time to dust off that white leisure suit and slap on those platform boots, because Polly Esther’s is calling all vintage hipsters — along with younger club-goers — to get…
Looking for a historical booze cruise? When Buffalo Bill Cody had a hankering for a stiff one, legend has it he’d saunter into the Buckhorn Exchange and order up the usual, apple juice and rye — not the tastiest combo, but one guaranteed to ease the pain of a long…
Worshiped as gods by the ancient Egyptians for their dazzling speed and sharp talons, peregrine falcons were almost completely wiped out in the late 1960s after decades of battling habitat loss and pesticide contamination. A new exhibit opening at Parker’s Wildlife Experience Museum this Saturday, The Peregrine Falcon: The Return…
If all this gray winter weather is getting you down, fly to Sparrow, a tiny new Capitol Hill store that is adding a breath of fresh air to 17th Avenue. Whether you’re looking for an exotic bromeliad plant or a cheery paper pinwheel, Sparrow is the just the place to…
The word “bingo” usually conjures up visions of nursing homes and church gymnasiums. But when “B” stands for “bastard” and “I” is for “Iron Maiden,” and there’s a DJ on the premises spinning Pat Benatar hits, it can only mean one thing: Rock ‘n Roll Bingo at the Lion’s Lair…
Shaking a plastic cup for change on the 16th Street Mall is so 2002. Cyberbegging is a much less time-consuming — and warmer — method of making dough. At least for those needy souls with an Internet connection, a little HTML savvy and a PayPal account. Michael Palmer, his girlfriend,…
The Uptown neighborhood, which was one of Denver’s wealthiest in the late 1880s and one of its grungiest eighty years later, has made a strong comeback, attracting an eclectic mix of fashionable restaurants, bars, markets, condo-dwellers and dedicated homeowners fixing up those old Victorian houses. Last summer, it also acquired…
“Xeriscape” may be a weird word, but it may become increasingly familiar. To conserve water and keep Denver from looking like a giant dust bowl this summer, the concept of using indigenous and drought-tolerant plants in landscaping is something that we’re all going to have to get used to. To…
Do you think your little Fido is the greatest doggie ever? All owners do, but we’ll see who really is the “Best in Show” at the Rocky Mountain Cluster Dog Show, held this weekend at the National Western Stock Show Complex. “The agility and obedience competitions are great, with dogs…
