Today-Monday. Downtown Denver will be extra delicious this holiday weekend as A Taste of Colorado takes over Civic Center Park. The four-day feast features chow from more than 50 Colorado restaurants, dishing up everything from tacos to falafel to fondue. The Taste is about more than food, though: Live entertainment, arts-and-crafts vendors and a [...]

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, A Taste of Colorado will be held over Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 3 – Sept. 6, in Civic Center Park of Downtown Denver and includes FREE admission.
In addition to the always-delicious food booths, there will be plenty of music, magic, clowns and puppets on the [...]

The Butterfly Pavilion’s famed tarantula Rosie has some competition.
Venture into the world of the tarantula at the Butterfly Pavilion during the world premiere of their new exhibit, Legend of Tarantula, starting Labor Day weekend.
Discover how these versatile arachnids go far beyond the dangerous, scary image given to them by Hollywood, and learn the true value [...]

Lots of mothers will tell you their lives changed forever the day their child was born. That was true for me, too, but then just nine days later, my life changed again.
That was the day my daughter died.
I didn’t expect to get pregnant. After years of being told my husband, Dan, and I could not [...]

Saturday. Lafayette will be rolling in peaches during the 2010 Peach Festival. The day-long celebration salutes one of Colorado’s sweetest cash crops, the juicy peach, with peach pies, peach smoothies, peach cobblers and more. More than 30,000 pounds of fresh peaches will be trucked in from Palisade, too. Snag one and settle in for live [...]

Denver’s kids just got healthier!
The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC), HealthONE’s “pediatric hospital within a hospital,” will mark the grand opening of a campus expansion at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center Aug. 19-22 and will begin treating patients Aug. 31. Grand Opening activities include:
Kaleidoscope Ball: Through the Eyes of a Child
What: The Kaleidoscope Ball is [...]

Denver Botanic Gardens is now the home of a $4 million garden designed for children.
Janet Mordecai, through the Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation, donated the funds for a 3-acre exploring garden, and before construction began, she went on a nationwide tour of children’s gardens.
“She would say, ‘The kids like this, but not this,’ and then [...]