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Classic paintings collide with SpongeBob and Ren & Stimpy inside Denver’s Leon Gallery

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Cymon Padilla’s show of oil paintings at Leon Gallery is titled “re:mixture,” however it’s probably best described as a mash-up. Or, even more precisely, as a 10-car art pile-up. Caravaggio’s & “Doubting Thomas” crashes into Donald Duck. Rodin’s & “Thinker” collides with SpongeBob SquarePants. Duchamp’s most notorious smashes into cartoon personalities Ren & Stimpy. Throughout
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History Colorado’s future gets some clarity thanks to new additions, challenging 2018

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Following a tribal dancing and drum performance, Steve Turner canvassed the History Colorado Center on Dec. 8 conversing with all members of three Ute tribes, about 300 of whom revealed to welcome “Written on the Land: Ute Voices, Ute History. ” “The display program is really coming into life,” stated Turner, executive director of History Colorado.
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Finding Santa: A dozen places in Denver (and beyond) to see St. Nick

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Between decorating, light displays and purchasing, shepherding your own children to be delighted (or scared ) from Santa Claus is a ritual which remains central to the holiday experience for most families. But you land around the scarring side of the divide, it’s nice to know you can find Santa in more places than ever
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Colorado radio listeners vote to keep “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” on air

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A Colorado radio station polled its listeners, asking whether a holiday tune that is favorite infamous for its lyrics that are predatory only must go. The solution is no. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” lives on at Colorado’s Christmas radio station KOSI 101.1 despite initially being yanked off the air. The song, according to a duet
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Ski for free on Sundays at a historic Colorado ski resort

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Nothing beats the freedom of snowboarding and skiing and ski at no cost. For the year Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs will provide free skiing on Sundays this year. (Sunday skiing is free on Howelsen’s nine cross country paths.)  Prior to last season, completely absolutely free skiing has been provided one Sunday a month. Howelsen Hill
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Adam Lerner, visionary director of MCA Denver, stepping down in 2019

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Adam Lerner, the acclaimed director of this Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will step down in June following a decade-long tenure where he built an global reputation for a risk-taking, influential and fiscally savvy leader at a fast paced creative hub. “My present contract expires in June and the museum is at a very healthy
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These Colorado businesses are offering Black Friday deals, and there’s not a TV or video game console in the bunch

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Around Colorado, millions of companies will be offering deals and special promotions beginning this Friday within their Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekend that serves as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday buying season. Maybe not all of them hail from the standard corners of this retail sector. Hotels, spas, recreational marijuana stores, are getting in on
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Looking for a winter hike? Try these two trails in Estes Park

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By Tyler Pialet, Trail-Gazette When snow falls in Estes Park and neighboring Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), there’s no reason to pack away the hiking shoes for the season. Along the East side of the park which receives lighter snowfall than the West, almost all of the low-elevation trails are open for hiking in the
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Looks like Dead & Company is planning a return to Boulder’s Folsom Field for fourth straight summer

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It appears the Dead will grow in Folsom Field second summer, since the University of Colorado let the cat out of the bag Dead & Company’s intends to play Boulder for its fourth consecutive year. The band — featuring John Mayer and also three of the four surviving members of the Grateful Dead — has
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Six tips that will help you plan your next cross country skiing trip

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From Walter Nicklin, Special to The Washington Post Cross country skier Derek Dresler, of Silverthorne, makes the most of the new snow and cold weather in late October while skiing Loveland Pass with his dog Georgia. (Eric Lutzens, The Denver Post)Against the royal background of the Mont Blanc massif, I took a brief break in
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