The Denver Traveler

Have you got 90 seconds?
Have you been hankering to learn more about the history of Denver?
No problem!
‘Denver History Minutes’ premiered to the public as part of Doors Open Denver earlier this month. The initial set of 90 second programs include; “There Goes the Neighborhood” – the first commercial building on East Colfax; “The City Rises” – the post WWII building boom; “ and “Skyline Urban Renewal” – both the aggressive demolition and the call for preservation. Also featured are the roles prominent people played and their landmarks including Henry Lowenstein’s Theaters, Dana Crawford and the downtown jewel …read more

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The Colorado Rockies are back home this week into next for seven consecutive games! The first three finish up a run of games against The Los Angeles Dodgers with the next four games being played against theSt. Louis Cardinals.
Coors Field is bound to be packed for all the games. Why not grab some Cracker Jacks and join in the spirit?! Rock Pile tickets are only $4 and the Club Infield tickets can go for up to $100 with all the prices in between.
See the Los Angeles Dodgers:
May 2nd Friday- 7:05pm
May 3rd Saturday- 6:05pm
May 4th Sunday- 1:05pm
See the St. Louis Cardinals:
May …read more

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The Ricketson Theatre in the Denver Center Performing Arts Complex is showing Doubt. Not the emotional state, but the award winning John Patrick Shanley play. Doubt, A Parable is about deception and moral uncertainty. An old-school Nun accuses a Catholic Priest of abusing a student. The student’s Mother defends the friendship between the Priest and her Son. It is a tale that will keep you intrigued long after the curtain falls.
Doubt, A Parable is showing now through May 17th with shows Monday through Thursday at 6:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm with a Saturday Matinee at 1:30pm. There is no …read more

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Back in December, we at The Denver Traveler took you to Frock Out! Denver’s Fashion Show and Contest. Well, this same event has been written up in Sew Simple magazine to help illustrate how enthusiasm for fashion has been spreading and that you don’t need to go to the big cities to find what you desire. Denver is a trendsetter on that front and so many others.

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The American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk is Sunday May 4th. Signing up is easy- you can walk by yourself, join a team or rally a team and all go together. Commemorating T-shirts for this years walk are only $12.
Put on your pink ribbon and head on over to Cuernavaca Park- South Platte River Drive and 20th Street. The three mile walk starts and finishes at the park after circling the edge of the city, walking along Elitch’s and all the way to Invesco field.
Some individual participants have already raised over $1400 and a few teams …read more

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The Travel and Culture channel here at b5 recently expanded! Shawn Marie and I just wanted to extend a warm welcome to Jody Reale at The Hawaii Traveler, and to J-Michael Cabosky at Starked DC!
We have the pleasure of knowing Jody personally, and we’re excited about the perspective she’ll bring to the channel! We’re also eager to get to know J-Michael, and wish him well with the Starked blog.
Welcome to the Channel Guys! Readers, please stop by and give them a read!
[photo - SXC]

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Friday:
6:00pm- Critical Mass Bike Ride Start: 15th Street and West Colfax.
8:00pm- 3rd Law Dance Theatre premieres The Clean Room.
Saturday:
7:30pm- Next Stage Denver presents Falsettos at the Aurora Fox Theatre
10:00pm- Ladies and Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains Neighborhood Flix Cinema.

Sunday:
Noon to 4pm- Dia de los Ninos
Celebrate World Cultures during a Day for the Children.
Free admission to the Denver Art Museum, Colorado History Museum, Byers-Evans House and the Denver Public Library.
2:00pm- Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series Finale with Margaret Patterson.

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The Denver Public Library and Fresh City Life, have launched a new Thinkology Series entitled, Wild Wilde West. This series of events invites you to think about those moments when you work to keep your private persona sacred, while our culture makes ever greater demands on our privacy.
Wild Wilde West kicks off this Saturday, April 26th with American Girls Playing Cowboys. This discussion will focus mainly on Calamity Jane and Willa Cather. Geoffrey Bateman, who teaches rhetoric and writing, at The University of Denver will take the conversation into further depths by examining whether this time in history …read more

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This Earth Day the Mayor will announce that the Denver Daisy, a daisy propagated in Denver to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the City, will be the official flower of Denver.
Free seeds will be available at the Botanic Gardens on Earth Day. The hope is that everyone will plant them in their yards and the City will be daisy filled during the Democratic National Convention.
Free Denver Daisy seeds are also available at Tagawa Gardens- 7711 South Parker Road.

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April 22 people nationwide will be celebrating Earth Day to inspire awareness and appreciation for our planet. We here in Denver will join the celebration with two very important events:
Civic Center Park will host an Earth Day Fair to spread the green word all Earth Day long. Everyone is welcome to attend and learn more about activities going on in Denver to help save the plant.
The Denver Botanic Gardens‘ main order for Earth Day 2008 will be the kick off of the “Take 5 Pledge“! An initiative that has 5 categories and a pledge to improve each …read more

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