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Deals: Summer reading program, library’s used book sale and more
Reading rewards Barnes & Noble’s Summer Reading Program rewards kids with a free book, after they’ve taken eight literary adventures. With help from their parents, kids keep track of the books they’ve read in an “Imagination’s Destination Reading Journal.” Once the list is completed, readers in grade one through six can take it to any participating location and pick out their well-deserved reward from a limited selection of children’s books through Sept. 2. tinyurl.com/noblekids Drink up art The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (1485 Delgany St., 303-298-7554) hopes to entice more visitors with its just-launched “Museum-Quality Drinking,” a mix of discounted admission, premium cocktails and live music in the rooftop garden. Through...
Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Maya Exhibit Goes Back in Time
I’m feeling very kid-in-a-candy-store as I push through the door into “Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed,” a massive exhibit in the new wing of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The familiar, mysterious forms of limestone steps and jaguar masks come into focus as I turn the corner and begin my journey. I travel to the Maya region often — to Belize, Guatemala and parts of Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras. Each archaeological site in these countries is unique: Tikal’s steep temples in the highlands, Chichén Itzá’s wide ballcourt in the Yucatan; Copán, the Athens of the Classic Period kingdoms (A.D. 250-900). Each place has its own history, style, energy and purpose, and to see them all in one place and in relation to each other is a rare archaeological smorg...
