*** STAR RATING (out of 4) | Kid nip
By Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post Film Critic
Although “Puss in Boots​” is about a cat, it’s more a lark than a purrfect spinoff of the “Shrek” franchise.
If that pun made you wince, get ready for more from this breezily entertaining flick, featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas​, Salma [...]

So your little one can now get off the chairlift without panicking, make a big, curvy path down a gentle slope and stretch out the time between cocoa breaks.
Or maybe your fifth-grader is ready to try out racing and is looking for a team experience.
Or perhaps your teenage snowboarder has been begging to get into [...]

Saturday-Monday. The Children’s Museum of Denver turns into spook central for the three-day “Trick or Treat Street” festival. Activities will be happening all over the museum, inside and out—storytellers, magic shows, a “Mad Monster Lab” and lots of arts-and-crafts activities. Kids are encouraged to wear their costumes, naturally, and go on a trick-or-treat run at [...]

What’s scarier? Ghoulish Halloween masks or getting ready for a conference with your child’s teacher? Well, I suppose it depends on your child and how he or she is behaving in class. And it depends upon your relationship with your child’s teacher, and whether you see eye-to-eye.
Not to sound like a braggart, but my [...]

Surely you’ve had this fantasy: A crew of dedicated, passionate, madly skilled landscaping experts pulls up to your yard with truckloads of plans and plants.
Then they wreak style, savvy, and sense upon your struggling plot.
For free.
For Donna Curtis, Mike Walker and their 18-month-old son, Evan, the fantasy came true

Saturday and Sunday. The “T-rex Encounter” exhibit adds a little extra fun this weekend at the “Cretaceous Dinosaur Carnival” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Special activities will be set up throughout the exhibit, including a dino-art station, a puppet show and a miniature “dig” for dinosaur bones. Kids can make their own [...]

When I was a kid (yes, it begins that way), I went to school in a small town with 20 people in an elementary school of about 100 students, and then our elementary combined with the other elementary school in the next town for middle and high school, and my graduating class was composed of [...]

Aim to be different from the average American, who eats only two servings of vegetables a day — and counts French fries as a vegetable (they really don’t count).
Fall is a great time to fill at least a quarter of your plate — the recommended servings — with fresh, colorful, tasty vegetables. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, [...]

On the lawn in front of stately Denver East High School, Isaiah Hendrix reached out and, with the back of his hand, lightly tapped his brother, Kadeem. “He means a lot to me,” Isaiah said. “I love him.”
A few minutes later, Kadeem said of Isaiah, “He means everything to me.”
Isaiah is a senior tailback, Kadeem [...]

With a box full of carrots and a hankering for something vaguely exotic, Mary-Claire van Leunen turned to her computer for a recipe.
“I looked for ‘Turkish carrots,’ and I found it easily; in fact, I found half a dozen,” said the retired Seattle software researcher.
Almost everyone’s done it — fired up a search engine to [...]