Public art is one of my chief joys in life. I find it not only beautiful and fun but also important, a method of creating civic pride and engaging people of all walks of life with art outside of a museum, concert hall, gallery, etc. It is no secret that I am smitten with Denver’s […]
Read MoreThe Fort Collins Candy Store Emporium
Not long after we discovered the Cheyenne Candy Store Emporium in southern Wyoming, the shop closed due to an issue with the landlord. We were dismayed to hear the news, as the emporium was charming, full of history. Later, the candy shop’s owner announced that he was relocating his store-museum… to our neck of the […]
Read More[Review] The Wolves (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company)
I have been interested in theater since at least fourth grade, when I began participating in my school’s plays. I am certain that before Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company‘s production of The Wolves I have never seen a play about nine high school-aged women — girls whose lives and struggles might have, at one point, resembled […]
Read MoreFull Moon on the Farm
Dan and I live half a mile from Garden Sweet, an adorable local farm stand where you can build your own bouquets in the spring and pick berries in the summer. Garden Sweet has been wrapping up its season with a series of after-hours date night events with pumpkin picking, hot apple cider, s’mores and […]
Read MoreFrom the Dan Files: Red Mountain Open Space
Despite my burgeoning interest in mountain biking, it is still Dan’s domain. This week Dan took a personal day and drove an hour north to Red Mountain Open Space to get his bike dirty. Don’t recognize the bicycle? It’s Dan’s newest, which he built up from a Crust frame. It sports fat tires and is […]
Read MoreOne year in Colorado: what a weekend looks like these days
Somehow, one full year has passed since we arrived in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have been trying to imagine how I might describe the way our lives have changed in this past year, but to encapsulate it all seems impossible. Instead I have decided to lay out the anatomy of our weekend, a snapshot of […]
Read MoreA mountain bike named Ginsburg
No, that is not the name of a play I am reviewing. After a sexist encounter at the REI where I bought my first mountain bike — the first clerk made me feel invisible, but the experience ended well once I was turned over to a second staffer — I decided to name my first […]
Read More[Review] Men on Boats (The Catamounts)
There is an old Slate article that I am particularly fond of: a mother is reading The Hobbit to her 5-year-old daughter, and the daughter gets it into her head that Bilbo Baggins is a girl. She won’t be dissuaded, and insists that her mom read the story “the right way.” The mother says the pronoun switch was […]
Read More[Review] The Constant Wife (DCPA)
At intermission my husband leaned over to me to say, “This could have been written today. And it would still be shocking.” After all, The Constant Wife wasn’t penned recently; W. Somerset Maugham wrote the play in 1926, nearly a century ago. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) calls the play a “cheeky satire [that] […]
Read MoreIce cream flights in RiNo
I have wonderful friends. Kris and Jen are two of my best friends from Ohio. They have already visited us in Colorado once before, and this weekend we were able to catch up when a wedding brought them to Denver. In Cincinnati, our favorite way to spend time together was to choose a new restaurant […]
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