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Denver Fashion Week returns on November 9-17 for its Fall 2024 show. Taking place at The Brighton, a Non Plus Ultra Venue. in Denver, designers from across the country will take the runway, showing collections for sustainable, streetwear, avant-garde-themed nights and even western wear. While Denver Fashion Week is now...

In its second year, the Denver Walls festival is more than murals on buildings — it's a behind-the-scenes look at how street art is made.Why it matters: The festival is one of the city's most iconic and the street art produced in the River North Arts District is a tourism draw for locals and visitors alike.What they're saying: "Public art is really to bring people together in public spaces," organizer Ally Grimm (aka A.L. Grime) tells us.By the numbers: This year's festival features 17 artists from around the world painting murals on 13 walls in RiNo. (See a map.)The artists...

TMAD’s success with multi-unit operators stems from its unique positioning, strong corporate support, and scalable model, allowing franchisees to confidently expand their businesses with a focus on healthy, made-to-order meals and a commitment to success. , the fast casual brand serving up Seattle-style teriyaki bowls, has become a leading...

10/01/2024 | by Good News in the Neighborhood, Sponsored by the Central Park Master Community Association. Kinley Graves is an entrepreneur who started a dog treats business two years ago. In a neighborhood filled with many successful business owners, she may not sound all that remarkable until she reveals her age: she just turned 10.

Leer en español.Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Azucena Rubio’s kids often complained about meals in their Jeffco schools.Her elementary school daughter said the food was cold, sometimes frozen, and had no flavor. She often skipped lunch. Her son, now 16, left campus to buy snacks for lunch from the local gas station and was often late coming back to class.So when she heard that the district was working with a group of parents on improving school meals, she joined in.For...

At Convict Coffee Company in Parker, the walls are decorated with prints from the Colorado-based Prison Art Experience, which gives incarcerated creatives the chance to earn income through their work. Some of the baked goods are sourced from Treasure House of Hope, a nonprofit that provides housing and career development opportunities for those seeking positive life changes. And alongside staples like Americanos and lattes, there are one-of-a-kind drinks such as the Orange Jumpsuit (Orange Crush and vanilla creamer).

With one month to go before showtime at the 47th Denver Film Festival, festival organizers have peeled back the curtain to reveal this year’s official selections, honorees and jurors.Inside "The Hurt Man": How Cooper Koch, Ari Graynor Filmed That Riveting 'Monsters' Episode Presented by Denver Film, the festival will kick off with the opening night presentation of Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut The Piano Lesson from Netflix on Nov. 1. Hitting the screen at the MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater, The Piano Lesson is an August Wilson adaptation starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins,...

Brothers Adam and Jon Schlegel opened the first location of Snooze at 23rd and Larimer streets in the Ballpark neighborhood in 2006. Since then, the homegrown company has added a corporate partner and expanded to states across the U.S., including Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Tennessee and Texas.

10/01/2024 | by Good News in the Neighborhood, Sponsored by the Central Park Master Community Association. Julie Johnson started drawing seasonal chalk greetings in front of her house on Beeler St. during the pandemic: an Easter message with colored eggs, a New Year’s greeting, a heart for Valentines Day. “It was my effort to bring a little cheer to members of the community,” she recalls.

Looking for an activity that will help your child develop grace, coordination, and confidence? Check out Dance Arts Studio! For over 60 years, Dance Arts Studio has provided a welcoming and nurturing environment for children of all ages and abilities to explore the joy of dance in Broomfield!. Giveaway Alert:...

Kelly Kawachi, the head butcher at Blackbelly and the recipient of the first Michelin Guide Young Professional Award in Colorado, isn’t just carving out a space in a maledominated industry—she’s redefining it. Her advocacy for sustainable meats has taken social media by storm, with her Instagram rapidly growing as people flock to learn more about the woman behind the blade. You can meet her on October 16 at Blackbelly’s Bites with Butchers at the Denver location, where Kawachi will teach participants how to make the most of their meat. If you’re busy that day, you can still benefit from Kawachi’s expert advice. Here, she gives her top picks for dining and discovering Denver’s hidden gems.

It’s a freezing, quiet January morning in Denver, Colorado. The year is 2011 and I might be the only person left in the hotel. Everyone else at the academic conference left early the day before–panels cancelled, vendors packed–in fear of a major snowstorm. Not me. This was good news to me and instead of leaving early, I extended my stay by one day. Now I was headed west in my rental car, praying, hoping. The roads were already plowed, because in Denver they know how to handle snow, but surprisingly only one other person was at Red Rocks Park when I arrived, a local birder who knew his stuff. “They’re not here yet, but they’ll be coming down,” he told me, “Too much snow in the mountains, they’ll want to eat.” And they did come down. Small, rotund balls of energy with conical bills, dressed in subtle shades of brown and black, silvery white and rosy pink, the latter barely showing in the darkness of the cloudy morning. They fly too quickly to the feeders and then back to the skies, chittering in a cacophony of indistinguishable ‘chews’ and ‘vreers,’ but my new companion helps sort them out: Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, the only rosy-finch I had already seen when I visited four days ago; Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, arguably the plainest of the three; and one or two Black Rosy-finches, the easiest to distinguish with its silver-gray cap contrasting with deep dark plumage. There are also at least six “Hepburn’s Rosy-Finches,” a subspecies of Gray-crowned, which really excites my companion. It’s very cold, 2-degrees Fahrenheit according to historical records, and there are still snow flurries, but I have no memory of cold or wet, only the magic of watching these birds flying in, the remnants of their breakfast falling to crowds of Dark-eyed Juncos (Slate-colored, Oregon, Pink-sided, Gray-headed), White-crowned Sparrows, and one, rare for the area, Harris’s Sparrow. It was a magic morning.

The new season is here and its time to fall for some new local releases. Tune in this month to hear songs by The Milk Blossoms, a Colorado band that has been awarded by Westword as "Best Pop Band" as well as "Best Experimental Band" in their Best Of Denver editions over the years, so it's fitting that their new album, Open Portal, is a blend of both of those genres. Band member Harmony Rose says she wrote a 40 page poetry book in 2020 with sticky notes all over it, and that is what eventually became the lyrics of the album.

After 25 years in business, Denver-based Yampa Sandwich Co. is looking to become more of a regional brand by adding franchise locations within Colorado and across the Southwest. With eight Colorado restaurants — five in the Denver-metro area, two in Fort Collins and one in Steamboat Springs – Yampa expects...

Larimer Square will soon be home to the most anticipated wellness club opening of the year. Sway, the full-service, revolutionary new spa concept created to redefine the spa experience for younger generations, will open its flagship location in Denver’s iconic Larimer Square. Set to open this November, the concept will offer the best in facial bars, massage, and remedy technology with a membership model focused on affordability to meet health and wellness needs tailored to Millennials, Gen Z, and Alpha X in big cities.

10/01/2024 | by Good News in the Neighborhood, Sponsored by the Central Park Master Community Association. Sofia Macias has known she wanted to work in the film industry since she was very young. “I’ve loved horror films since I was 8 years old,” she says. A senior at the Denver School of the Arts, she recently found out that her 6-minute film Resonance was accepted into the All-American High School Film Festival in New York City. Macias describes the film as a psychological horror story of a girl who lost her little sister in a drowning accident.

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Denver artist Joe Rollman has a retirement plan — not for anytime soon, but someday. "I told my wife that when I get old, eventually my hands will stop working, and at that point I want her to use medical tape to fasten a pencil to my hands," he says. "I want to keep doing this until I can't do anything anymore."

Westminster’s performing arts faculty are renowned for their high-level teaching ability and creativity in the classroom, but this extends beyond the Westminster campus. Some work in ballet, while others work on Broadway musicals. How much does the Westminster community know about the performing arts department faculty’s involvement in the greater Atlanta arts communities?

DENVER –Stories on Stage presents “Woke Up!” Saturday, October 12 at 7:00 p.m. at The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, CO 80304 and Sunday, October 13 at 2:00 p.m. at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 80204. Tickets are $26 and are available at www.storiesonstage.org or by calling 303-494-0523.