Can you feel it in the air? It’s lasagna time. Last year I wrote about Dan and my “$100 lasagna,” our delicious Christmas tradition now it its 8th year (we think). Every Christmas I say it would be so easy to make lasagna again some time during the year but we never end up doing […]
Read MoreMeow Wolf: The House of Eternal Return
I have been waiting for an experience like Meow Wolf. I am the kind of nerd who publishes articles about how we overuse the word “immersive” in art. It is not that I think everything needs to be immersive — far from it — but I dislike how we bandy that word about and render it meaningless. […]
Read MoreDreams come true, yes they do, in Santa Fe
You know us, always itching for a road trip. This time it was Dan’s idea: 7 hours straight down I-25 to Santa Fe, New Mexico, just a few days before Christmas. He knew I have been itching to visit Meow Wolf, an immersive art experience that is opening a new location in Denver in a […]
Read MoreGarden of Lights
Finally, my hunt is over. Dan and I have visited a few local Christmas light shows and none of them have cut the mustard. I won’t name names, but we have been underwhelmed by two or three of the area’s most popular light displays. Luckily, we happened across Garden of Lights at The Gardens on […]
Read MoreToday’s my Yetiversary
About a year ago, I gave away a bookcase. The neighbors who adopted the bookcase invited me to visit their gym. I shrugged, said my maybes — but with the forthright style I’ve come to think of as their own, Linda and Tony asked, “How about Tuesday at 12:30?” I was adrift a year ago, […]
Read MoreOn Rower, on Lifter, on Baker, on Blitzen
It’s not that I’ve taken a break from blogging so much as I’ve taken a break from… leaving the house. In early November, Dan and I flew home to Cincinnati to see family for the holidays. In the 3 weeks since then, our lives have been fairly quiet — relatively speaking. Here are a few […]
Read MoreBonus art hunting: Denver Museum of Art
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 […]
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