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Located across from the Bluebird Theater, Goosetown Tavern draws beer drinkers and music fans from the East Colfax corridor and beyond. After Bluebird owner Chris Swank, who also owns Mezcal next door, bought Goosetown from the Wynkoop Restaurant Group in mid-2014, the bar started hosting live music. It typically has a neighborhood-bar vibe, but the […]
Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art (CVA) is an award-winning, off-campus art gallery. Founded in 1990, the gallery serves the school’s students as well as the community, and shows off the fact that MSU Denver has the only public higher education art program in the state.
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William Havu originally opened his namesake gallery in Aspen in 1973. It moved to its current home in the Golden Triangle in 1998, and focuses on seven exhibitions a year. Artists displayed here represent both regional and national movements in realism and abstraction.
Located in the heart of Denver and celebrating 125 years of fun, Elitch Gardens is America’s only downtown theme and water park. The park is open May 2 through November 1, 2015, with 53 rides and attractions, live entertainment, thrilling roller coasters and an entire water park.
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Before the Pepsi Center was built in 1999, the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche played their games in McNichols Arena (which has since been razed to complete a parking lot for the football stadium). It was more than time for a new venue; McNichols did the trick for nearly a quarter-century, but the facility desperately […]
Changing and permanent exhibitions, studio classes, tours, lectures, special events and family activities.
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Well-tended gardens and conservatory, the Denver Botanic Gardens feature the Cloud Forest Tree, a living sculpture supporting hundreds of blooming orchids and epiphytes; also offering classes, tours and events.
With cove lighting illuminating the brushed-steel front and back bars and sweeping color kinetics, La Rumba resembles a liquor-filled laserium. Add to that the award some great club nights – Latin on Fridays and Saturday’s Salsa night — and this Golden Triangle treasure becomes one hot tamale.
This address has long housed an independent venue – the Aladdin Tavern in the ’30s, then the Playboy Lounge until Hugh Hefner paid its then-owner $5,000 to change the name. In 1967, the club was purchased by John Lyons, who transformed it into the Lion’s Lair. Its current owners are keeping the bar’s legacy alive; […]
The Bluebird Theater started hosting live music in 1994, and it didn’t take long for the theater, built in 1913, to become one of the city’s best midsized venues. With sculpted capitals, restored Victorian-style paintings and a vaulted ceiling, the place is as much a work of art as any of the touring and local […]