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Lakeside Summer Scream 2023: After a sold-out 2022 event, this year's Summer Scream fundraiser for Denver Film brings a '90s theme to Lakeside Amusement Park

In early January, Eric Jaenike and Jennifer Mosquera of immersive-arts duo Prismajic met over drinks with Amber Blais and Staza Stone of circus-arts troupe Rainbow Militia. Both groups had spent the past few years pushing the boundaries of immersive arts in Denver and were mutual admirers of each other's work. They started talking about how they might collaborate, and it didn't take long before they settled on an idea: a performance set in the clouds and rooted in Greek mythology. During the meeting, Jaenike and Mosquera conjured up images of clouds, lighting, starlight and an idyllic cabin ...

6 Easy-to-Plan Celebrations That Are Almost as Good as Traveling Megan Spurrell © Pedro Pardo/Getty Over the past year, we’ve all been through a lot. But amid the difficult realities of living through a pandemic, there have been certain benchmarks—in the form of anniversaries, holidays, birthdays, births even—that remind us that we all something to be grateful for. Having healthy loved ones, in particular, feels more precious than ever—there's almost an urgency to savoring special moments with those we care about, whether that’s via Zoom or from six feet apart. For...

Stephen Brackett is proudly “not cool.” At least that’s what he says — though we beg to disagree, because he manages to get an unbelievable amount of cool stuff done for Colorado. Brackett is in constant motion, and where he walks, we’d all be wise to follow. A graduate of East High School, he gained fame early as part of Flobots, the indie-hip-hop act that had a hit with “Handlebars” and, rather than chase national attention, focused instead on community and getting to work on the activist causes that the act’s members care about much more than clout. Together they launched a...

Credit: Anne Herbst, KUSA My husband is a bit of a music snob, and when he heard Jen Korte perform in my story, he thought she was fantastic. She is.  Korte has a few different projects in town, and said that this was going to be her year.  2020 was the year of her album. She was finally a full-time musician after years of hard work. And then the pandemic hit.  So even though things stalled a bit, she kept creating just like her fellow artists. “There will be a flood of messaging and storytelling that comes from this time because there were so many huge things that happened in one year,�...