A breeze stirs the tall prairie grasses, gulls soar overhead, the low sun warms the landscape’s rocky outcroppings, and a not too distant ow-ow-owwwwwww rings out—a single wolf song that soon becomes a chorus of howls. This is the scene as you step…
Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Company has persevered and triumphed like its cast of performers. Its mission for nearly three decades has been to produce extraordinary theater and transform both the lives of actors with disabilities on the stage and people…
The Mile High City is fortunate to have its very own Craft Skiery TM . To observe skis being handcrafted, purchase a pair, quaff a local craft brew and order up a sweet tune for any brand of equipment, head straight for Meier Skis at 970 Yuma St. near downtown and Interstate 25. Part of Colorado’s…
When you think of Western art, you probably think of sweeping mountain vistas by painters like Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington's bronze statues of bucking broncos or Georgia O’Keeffe’s color-drenched southwestern landscapes. But…
One of the most historic parks in the country, Lakeside Amusement Park, is half attraction, half museum of mechanical, thrill-generating Americana. Its creators were inspired by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition — a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair — where the fairgrounds were nicknamed "White…
What do actor Don Cheadle, singer Judy Collins, astronaut Jack Swigert and Ruth Handler, the inventor of the Barbie doll, have in common? They all got their start on Colfax Avenue, famously nicknamed the “longest, wickedest street in America." The quote was dubiously attributed to Hugh Hefner in the…
On the northeastern edge of Denver, a masked bandit is plotting a midnight raid. It’s no ninja, but a black-footed ferret — until recently one of the most endangered species in the West — in search of its next meal. Prairie dogs, beware. This struggle is playing out within sight of downtown and the…
There is much to dazzle the eyes in the Colorado State Capitol — intricate stained glass, towering columns, gilded crown molding, gleaming brass chandeliers and, of course, the gold dome atop it all. Surprisingly, one of the building’s most striking features is one you can walk right up to and…
Denver Museum of Nature & Science has a little something for everyone, from gemstones, to Martian dust devils, to wildlife and even some mischievous, well-hidden elves. But for some visitors, it’s all about one thing: dinosaurs. By the time you’ve…
What creature is just as at home in the Hoh Rainforest as it is on the surface of Mars? As happy soaring through the solar system as it is splashing in a salmon stream? As comfortable reclining against a tree trunk as it is riding on the back of a…
