The Colorado electronic music scene is blossoming with the help of Sonic Bloom, the state’s major electronic music festival, which just completed its third year in Winter Park, this past June.

The event brought some of the nation’s most respected electronic musicians to the Rocky Mountains, as well as some local underground favorites.

Ever wonder what being in the military is like? Yeah, me either. I already spend at least an hour at the gym every morning. So when a friend asked me to join her for a morning of “Boot Camp,” I thought, Pff, how hard could it be?

She warned me that the workout would begin promptly at 5:30—yep, in the a.m.—so I woke at 4:30, sipped some coffee and arrived at the modified warehouse of Altitude Peak Fitness a few minutes early. Those already there ranged in

I decided to expand my dining horizons by inviting myself to the Tuesday Night Dinner festivities at the African Community Center (ACC) in Denver. The weekly dinners are open to anyone in the community, with one pre-requisite: you must bring a dish you love from your culture.

Old buildings make us wonder what they’d say if they could talk. Dave Burrell satisfies his curiosity by ferreting out the secret pasts of Denver homes and businesses.

As owner of Historical Insights, Burrell has written 200 histories ranging from a first decade report to profiles replete with genealogical information.

I love sitting in the front row at the theater. The live action that makes plays so appealing in the first place is amplified in the front row: the sight and the smell of sweat, the glistening tears, the flying spit.

Spit was flying all over the place during the opening beat-boxing overture of Curious Theatre Company’s The Denver Project.

Being pretty active and enjoying such things as climbing and mountaineering, I was pretty stoked when I heard about the new Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum in Golden. It also happens to be the only mountaineering museum in America.

The museum, I am told, was converted from a school. The outside had prayer flags lined from the roof to the concrete. Upon entering the museum, the first thing that caught my attention was the crevasse staring at me. We leaned forward to

Even the name invokes images of pre-punk London: Lipgloss. It rolls off the tongue, in all its glamorous grunge, pulsating with an electric attitude that sums up the scene perfectly. What is Lipgloss? It’s not a bar, or a club – it’s a night. A freaker’s ball with DJs that keep it hot and drink specials that keep it affordable for the counterculture socialites. It happens every Friday in La Rumba, a salsa club turned weekly post-modern rave party.

For you ex-Boulderites who’ve left Shangri-La for careers, strippers and Rockies games down here in Cowtownthere’s now a glowing orb of a place that spews great beer and food like a solar flare.

Veering wildly off the marketing path by opting for an “un-Sun” name, the folks at Mountain Sun opened the Vine Street Pub (corner of 17th Ave. and Vine Street) on April 14th right here in Denver.