Please note: Restaurant hours, locations, and menus are subject change, so please visit the restaurant website or call in advance of visiting. If A Little Night Music has you in the mood for a taste of Nordic country cuisine, you can find it along the Front Range from pastries to game meats. Scandinavian food includes […]
Please note: Restaurant hours, locations, and menus are subject change, so please visit the restaurant website or call in advance of visiting. A lot of decisions impact your restaurant choice: preferred cuisine, proximity to other activities (such as the theater), trying something new, and supporting local businesses. If you’re interested in supporting the Black community […]
Last June saw the founding of the Colorado Historic Opera Houses Circuit. Celebrating its first anniversary, the circuit connects five historic mountain opera houses. These historic venues are a reminder of the days when rough and rugged mining towns competed to construct elaborate buildings to showcase their newfound riches and support their aspirations of culture […]
Let’s raise a glass to one of Denver’s favorite southern gals who is back in town with the show Dixie Longate – Cherry Bombs & Bottle Rockets, appearing July 8. If you, like Dixie, appreciate an un-fussy drink in a tell-it-like-it-is bar, where you can make new friends before your glass is empty, you’ll want […]
Dixie Longate doesn’t need real fireworks to light up the stage, and neither do you. In fact, there are plenty of ways to dazzle this summer without fire and have just as much fun as the host of Dixie’s Cherry Bombs & Bottle Rockets, playing at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on July 8. While […]
Few writers have been as universally celebrated as William Shakespeare, and even though one may feel they know the Bard’s prose well, it never gets old. Nor does watching the plays live, hearing his sonnets and enjoying interpretations of the stories through countless means. Whether heading to a live performance, planning the next character study, […]
Perhaps Theater of the Mind was your first taste of immersive experiences or you may have been an early adopter when DCPA Off-Center launched in 2010/11 with The Ultimate Wii Baseball Game and Hip Hop Jambalaya. No matter your original entry point, you’re likely hooked…or soon will be. If you aren’t family with immersive experiences, […]
Please note: Restaurant hours, locations, and menus are subject change, so please visit the restaurant website or call in advance of visiting. Miss Rhythm: The Legend of Ruth Brown – playing May 6 through October 15 at the Garner Galleria Theatre – encapsulates the life and times of R&B singer Ruth Brown as a symbol […]
From the archives: this post was originally published on December 14, 2021. People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years in taverns, ale houses, coaching inns, and grog shops – but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. To counter distilled spirits […]
The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) was an idea hatched in 1988 by some of the country’s leading dance companies and artists to preserve and promote dance by people of African ancestry. Denver’s own Cleo Parker Robinson was one of the five founders of IABD who helped form and shape it into a […]