John Wenzel
The Denver Post
Denver, CO, United States
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City Park Jazz 2023 reveals full lineup, dates for outdoor summer concerts
City Park Jazz 2023’s 10-week run brings food trucks, vendors and thousands of blanket- and cooler-toting residents to the area around City Park Pavilion. → Read More
Sober seating bill for Colorado sports, concert venues would set national precedent
The growing sober movement is deeply underserved at public events, the bill’s sponsors said. → Read More
Oscars 2023 preview: Denver’s “Fire of Love” producer on his historic, Disney-sized nominations
Will “Fire of Love” or “Navalny” win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2023? Either way, Denver producer Shane Boris wins. → Read More
New concert announcements: How to get tickets to Lionel Richie, Macklemore, Snoop Dogg, Bonnie Raitt and more
Denver has started the first week of March with an avalanche of new concert announcements, including local and returning favorites at the city’s biggest indoor venues. → Read More
Denver Botanic Gardens announces 2023 Summer Concert Series lineup
If the 2023 Summer Concert Series at Denver Botanic Gardens looks a bit deeper as compared with previous years, it’s because of the emphasis on diversity. → Read More
Much-loved, family-owned Elvis Cinemas shutters all three locations around Denver
The Elvis Cinemas chain, which showed affordable, second-run movies at its family-run theaters in Denver, Littleton and Arvada, has closed for good after more than two decades in business. → Read More
303 Day Guide: Free, cheap and family friendly events for Friday, March 3, in Denver
Denver's 14th annual 303 Day arrives with fewer events than last year, but lots of free, family friendly and cheap fun to be had, including beer specials and live music. → Read More
FlyteCo Brewing’s 4th birthday, Rateliff covers Nilsson, adventure-film fest, and more things to do in Denver this weekend
Local brewery birthdays, Women’s History Month and a musical premiere are all on tap for this week. → Read More
“The Last of Us” is just the latest apocalypse story set, but not filmed, in Colorado
It’s been a banner decade for video games that depict Colorado as a blood-soaked landscape of zombies, foreign military invasions and robot dinosaurs. → Read More
Denver’s loudest 6-piece street band is ready to show their metal — and their meddle
The NOLA-style band continues to evolve with a pop/hip hop single for 303 Day on March 3 → Read More
Dogsledding 101, the Boulder Film Fest and more things to do in Denver this weekend
Denver metro area critic’s picks for the week of Friday, Feb. 24, through Thursday, March 2. → Read More
Find this tamale and Mexican-bakery wonderland on Larimer Street
It’s a visual and olfactory treat just to walk through the door, let alone order something so fresh that it barely had time to sit still. → Read More
Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA talks about his first-ever ballet with the Colorado Symphony
Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA is world premiering his acclaimed multi-genre work "A Ballet Through Mud" with Colorado Symphony as part of Denver's Imagination Artist concert series → Read More
Here’s where Denver and Boulder film buffs go to see movies
Here are Denver's favorite movie theaters, as chosen by metro-area arts and culture leaders like Keith Garcia, David Zuckerman, Wende Curtis, Lisa Kennedy, and they include Sie FilmCenter, Mayan, Alamo Drafthouse, new AMC → Read More
What to do in Denver this week: A tiny Mardi Gras parade, getting high at Banff, kid’s jazz and theater
Denver metro area Best Bets for the week of Friday, Feb. 17, through Thursday, Feb. 23. → Read More
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” shows the MCU’s cards, and it’s not pretty
The latest MCU film, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” unsubtly lays out the road map for the entire next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And there’s not much to get ex… → Read More
Denver’s newest, biggest city park is a strip of land along DIA’s Peña Boulevard
Scott Gilmore used to sneak into Rocky Mountain National Arsenal back when it was one of the most polluted patches of land in the country. Now he’s connecting it to Denver parks. → Read More
Mile High Puppy Bowl, Valentine’s Flea, Black History Month, and more things to do this weekend
Metro area Best Bets for the week ahead include a very cute Super Bowl event, Black film and free music, and something to bring home for Valentine’s Day. → Read More
Nature photographer John Fielder donating life’s work to History Colorado
More than 5,000 of John Fielder’s best photographs will enter the public domain thanks a contract with History Colorado → Read More
Denver’s largest urban park adding $8 million play area, restoring historic waterway
Denver officials on Tuesday will break ground on an outdoor playground and education area that restores native plants and a historic waterway to Denver's City Park, called Nature Play, with Denver Museums of Nature & Science → Read More