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Archives for November 2017
The Go Play Denver Gift Guide
Here at Go Play Denver, we think experiences make the best gifts, but we also understand the desire to wrap something up. Here are some unique gift ideas in both categories. Continue Reading
What’s Open on Thanksgiving?
Happy Thanksgiving! Should you find yourself needing to get out of the house and away from the kitchen, here's a handy list (though not exhaustive) of popular destinations that are OPEN on Thanksgiving and a list of those that are not. OPEN: Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS is only closed 1 day a year: December 25), Denver Zoo (they’re open every day of the year!) and Southwest Rink at Skyline Park (open 11a - 6p). CLOSED: All branches of the Denver Public Library (also note that Continue Reading
Witty, Weird and Wonderful
An instant Buntport classic! “Edgar Allan Poe Is Dead and So Is My Cat” has everything including a Poe-obsessed 40-year-old man who lives in his sister’s basement, a house without a proper door, an awkward cat funeral, an abundance of Poe references, cheesy literary t-shirts, a “suit with anecdotes” and of course extremely hilarious moments that leave you gasping for breath as you laugh so hard you cry. We loved it and think you should see it. Tickets are $18 online and $20 at the door. Shown Continue Reading
Things to Do in Denver: Active Types
Coloradans love to be active, so your active visiting relatives will have no trouble finding ways to get out and move. If you're not up for a drive to the mountains, here are some ways to keep those active types entertained while staying within the Denver city limits. Continue Reading
Art Augmented
Now you see it, now you don't! Way more than some tech gimmick, the new augmented reality (AR) tool available at the Clyfford Still Museum as part of their current exhibition "Still & Art" gives visitors fresh context and perspective on artists and works that may have influenced Still. Visitors can use one of the phablets to zoom in on these virtual works by simply walking toward the wall and even examine the texture of the paint by moving the device around. A fascinating (and really fun!) Continue Reading
Dreams Delivered
With the Dream Delivery Service, Mathias Svalina writes and delivers dreams to subscribers every day for a month. To nearby subscribers, Svalina hand-delivers the dreams—brief surrealist narratives he writes & encloses in small pink envelopes–to their doors, biking through the empty streets of Denver before dawn. Svalina started the Dream Delivery Service 2014, hoping to devise a new sort of relationship with a reader, a new kind of reading intimacy. In addition to his delivery service, Continue Reading