The 27th annual Taste of Colorado takes over Civic Center Park over Labor Weekend, attracting a quarter of a million people for FREE entertainment on seven stages, food from 50 restaurants, a culinary showcase, 250 arts and crafts booths, abundant kids’ activities from music and magic to FREE hands-on crafts activities and carnival rides. The fine [...]
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The Pearl Street Stampede to encourage the University of Colorado football team continues this year on the Friday evening before every home game. The season’s first (which is always the liveliest) is Friday, September 3. Show up at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall for FREE festivities to support the Colorado Buffalos. The university marching band starts playing at [...] Boulder County’s Eat Local! Week, August 28 through September 4, celebrates the bounty of Boulder’s farms, farmers’ markets, restaurants, grocers and community organizations that are committed to the locavore movement. It kicks off on Saturday, August 28, 5 p.m. with a FREE event at the super-green Boulder Outlook Hotel featuring, food, music and what organizers [...] The Colorado State Fair, August 27 through September 6, is cheap to begin with (regular admission, $5 on weekdays, $8 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays), but some days and some ways are even cheaper than others. Pick up an Orange Crush and look for the coupon on the back of the can for $1 off [...] Denver’s Harvest Week, through Friday, August 27, does not offer the one-price-fits-all predictability of Denver’s annual Restaurant Week, because each independently-owned, participating restaurant sets its own Harvest Week price. Frankly, we have not looked at the offers of all 37 participating restaurants, but a random check showed offers ranging from à la carte options at several restaurants [...] Escape to the mountains with Manor Vail Lodge’s Labor Day weekend package that includes lodging with a hot breakfast buffet daily, a three-course dinner in The Lord Gore restaurant and tickets to Vail’s Gourmet on Gore culinary festival. Nightly rates start at $179 based on an arrival on Friday, September 3 that includes paired Colorado microbrews on [...] The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory hosts its annual ” BBQ With the Birds” at Barr Lake on Saturday, August 28, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Learn about birds, birding and bird banding. Find your inner James Audubon with a workshop on bird sketching, or take a workshop on birding by ear, grassland birds or [...] Step out and get your summer on every Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. during Main Street SummerFest at Northfield Stapleton. Each event includes musical entertainment, hand-crafted gourmet foods, crafts for sale by local artisans, kid’s activities and more. Upcoming lineups include: Aug. 13 — Radio Disney Street Team hosts music, games and [...] For 82 years Littleton residents have been holding a community celebration. This year’s Western Welcome Week is actually an 11-day fest, August 11 to 22. The event schedule is so jam-packed it prints out at six-pages single spaced. Some highlights for true cheapskates. Running every day of the festival is the Friends Bag of [...] Since couples plan big weddings well in advance, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to suggest that brides-to-be and their moms put Sunday, November 7, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on their calendars for the Hotel Boulderado’s FREE annual bridal fair. Exactly four months from today, the hotel’s catering department shows off its exquisite food selections, [...] The Denver Burger Battle, to benefit Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Colorado, will determine Denver’s best restaurant burger. The cook-off on Tuesday, August 17, 6 to 9 p.m., pits these competitors against each other: Cherry Cricket, Park Burger, H Burger Co., Deluxe Burger, Walk-In Burgers, Colt & Gray, Old School Burgers, Argyll Pub, Steuben’s and Encore. [...] Denver Restaurant Week keys in on the Mile High City’s elevation with three-course dinners costing $52.80 for two. The first-ever Crested Butte Restaurant Week (June 11 – 18) does the same, keying in on the town’s 8,885-foot elevation, with great meal deals and lodging values. Participating restaurants offer multi-course dinners for $88.85 for a party of four ($22.21 [...] |
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