A Suppressed Passion Becomes a Career at Brushstrokes Studio Gallery
It requires nothing short of courage to pursue your passion after twenty years of doing something completely different. For artist Kelly Berger, a chance run-in with a couple of friends brought a suppressed talent back to the surface and redefined her career path in the process. One day, an acquaintance approached Berger with the proposition...
Fiddler on the Roof: The Candlelight Experience
Going out to dinner and a show is one of America’s classic dates. At Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, this tradition rolls delicious food, high-caliber performances, and charming hospitality into one perfect outing. Forget multiple reservations and rushing through dinner to make curtain time. At Candlelight, the experience is all-inclusive. Currently celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Playhouse...
Canvas and Cocktails: Where Everyone is an Artist
It is one thing to admire art on the wall. It is another to be the artist behind the masterpiece. At Canvas and Cocktails, even the most paintbrush-shy are guaranteed to leave with a colorful conversation starter of a canvas, no experience necessary. Especially after a drink or two… Canvas and Cocktails transformed the typical...
Swim, Bike, and Run Your Way Fit: Everyone Can Tri
Screaming muscles, burning sun, insatiable thirst, and competitive excitement culminated at Sunday’s Tri for the Cure. This sprint distance triathlon brings women from all walks of life together to compete, challenge themselves, and raise money for breast cancer research. Though an avid swimmer since I could walk, I quit after my senior year of high school and...
Booklovers Unite at the Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
It’s the sound of a binding cracking open for the first read shattering the silence of the library as the smell of book pages fills the air. It’s snuggling up under the covers with a flashlight and your favorite novel past bedtime. It’s sipping iced tea poolside on vacation with the latest paperback in your...
Poolside Picks for Harry Potter Fans: Give Hunger Games a Chance
Some stories are just too good to fit into one novel. Harry Potter needed seven. The Twilight saga needed four. The newest favorite, The Hunger Games, became a top-selling trilogy. Our favorite stories hook our lives to their characters until we just can’t get enough. The hold us hostage to their tale. We sit in shock at cliff hanger endings,...
Feed Me, Seymour! PHAMALY’s Little Shop of Horrors Takes the Stage
PHAMALY’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Steven Wilson, is unlike any other. Filled with excitement, laughter, and a twinge of darkness, Little Shop brought the audience to the middle of skid row for a wild ride with a very peculiar plant, with a twist. PHAMALY is an award-winning Colorado based theatre company composed entirely of performers...
Back for Seconds: Revisiting Your Favorite Books-Gone-Movies
Let me just say this: I love movies. I love my Red Box (with free rental codes), my Netflix account (well, my dad’s), and I love my (limited) collection of DVDs at home. But most of all, I love going to the movie theater. I hardly ever feel guilty forking over a handful of hard-earned cash for even...
Poolside Picks: Death Comes to Pemberley
Jane Austen’s classic, Pride and Prejudice, is brought back to life with a mysterious murder twist in the best-selling novel, Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James. Set six years after Elizabeth’s marriage to Darcy, James beautifully evokes the world of Elizabeth Bennet with a twist. She brings a murder to the grounds of Pemberly in a...
Bridesmaids on the Rocks
A night out at the movies is one of America’s favorite pastimes. But take the movie, throw it on a giant screen surrounded by nature and underneath a blanket of stars and you have Film on the Rocks. Film on the Rocks is just about the best thing to happen to the movies since buttered...
Two Creepy Guys: A Peek into the World of Horror
I have never been one for horror. After reading In Cold Blood for a high school English course, I couldn’t sleep for days as images of blood-splattered mattresses danced in my head. I admit that I sometimes leave my bathroom light on and the door cracked after accidentally watching a preview of a scary movie,...
Poolside Picks: Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Do you remember the feeling you got the first time you turned the key in the ignition, let your foot off the break, and pressed that gas pedal? The car lurched into motion and suddenly everything in the rearview mirror grew smaller and smaller. Driving became the symbol of freedom for all sixteen year olds...
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