On the same day that I explored Denver’s Crush Walls artwork (part 1, part 2, part 3), I also took a “break” at the Denver Art Museum. Believe it or not, though I’d been in the building before, I had never actually walked the galleries. I found the museum itself, with its sharp angles and […]
Read MoreRiver North mural hunting: part 3
This series of three posts explores one of my absolute favorite joys: public art. If you missed them: part one, part two.
Read MoreRiver North mural hunting: part 2
Indulge me. This series of three posts explores one of my absolute favorite joys: public art. If you missed part one, start here.
Read MoreRiver North mural hunting: part 1
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 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 […]
Read MoreThe Inventing Room
Dan and I recently caught a show at the DCPA — it ended up being a rather quick play with no intermission and so we found ourselves not quite ready to drive home afterwards. We had no plans, but I remembered Kate telling me to check out The Inventing Room in the SloHi neighborhood, a […]
Read MoreWandering Denver
We did not spend our entire Denver visit inside the DCPA. Below are a few more photos from our meanderings, including some decent German food and a trip down a swanky part of Larimer Street we’d not happened upon before. Not pictured: the red velvet waffles at The Corner Office. Good morning.
Read MoreColorado New Play Summit
As Dan and I were making our plans to move to Colorado, my friend and colleague Rick Pender gave me a heads-up about the Colorado New Play Summit, a two-week festival of commissioned work that takes place at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. On the first weekend, the Summit offers up staged readings […]
Read MoreWings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
Ad astra! Dan and I had errands to run just outside of Denver — during planning I noticed we would be immediately next door to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, which we had not visited yet. My family will understand exactly how homesick I became for the museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base […]
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