Muddy Buddy!

Coming up is the 2008 Muddy Buddy Ride & Run!  Basically, you ride your bike and then switch and run - both through a pit of yucky fantastic mud. There is a better description on site, but expect obstacle courses and lots of mud. It’s a national event but it will be in Boulder on August 17th.  You have to register by the 14th. Your money goes to a good cause: Challenged Athletes Foundation. If you don’t have someone to donate to yet, here’s one option. Also, there’s a mini muddy buddy for kids.

Dragon Boat Festival

This weekend check out the 8th annual Dragon Boat Festival at Sloan’s Lake. 10 am to 7 pm both days. I went last year and it was surprisingly very well attended with tons of tents and activities. You can park at Invesco and grab a shuttle over as it will be hard to find legal parking in the area.

From the site: A window to the Pan Asian world, this diverse weekend festival is the only one of its kind in the United States. It showcases an array of traditional and contemporary performing artists, cultural customs and cuisine from Asia and the Pacific, eclectic and exotic shopping opportunities in the Marketplace, in addition to two days of competitive dragon boat racing.

Since its debut in 2001, the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival has grown from 15,000 to a record 105,000 attendees in 2007 of various ages and origins. Visitors come from across the Front Range, the state and the country to participate in this annual summer event.

CultureMob: Denver

Just stumbled upon a beta site: CultureMob. And, they have a Denver section! The site features events of any kind - and you can add your own events to the site. Right now not a ton of stuff other than movies on there - but it looks like it could be promising if it took off.

South Broadway/INDYINK Event

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Went to INDYINK (84 S. Broadway) this weekend on South Broadway, and thought I’d post a couple of their events. The first is their gallery opening featuring beer and art, coming up on this upcoming rescheduled first Friday, and then a grand “re”-opening on the 11th.

Also, not until September is the Plastisol event - right now is a call for artists. Submit your t-shirts:

2008 Cherry Creek Arts Festival

This weekend, among other Fourth of July activities, is the annual Cherry Creek arts Festival! Held in Cherry Creek North this is a pretty good gathering of arts in Denver and has been around for quite some time. Unlike some of the smaller festivals held downtown that don’t have a lot of variety or top of the line artists, if you are serious about art, you’ll find some good stuff here. If you just enjoying browsing but don’t have the pockets for art collecting - don’t worry there’ll plenty for you, too.

Arts Festival Hours:
Thursday, July 3 7:00pm to 10:00pm: Artist Preview Event: Clayton St Only
Friday, July 4 10:00am to 8:00pm
Saturday, July 5 10:00am to 8:00pm (Fireworks night)
Sunday, July 6 10:00am to 6:00pm

Super Fresh Block Party

On the fax this week, Super Fresh Block Party. 6pm to 12am, local shops will open plus live music, fashion shows, roller derby girls, and food:

Made it to the block party? Here are some pics from the Fabric Lab and a couple from Denver Fashionista Brandi Shigley’s blog.

Free Concert this weekend!

Stop by the SoCo Music Experience this Saturday at the Coors Field Central Parking Lot (Wazee and Park Ave) starting at 2 p.m. to see headliner Gnarls Barkley and other bands including Blonde Redhead, Bassnectar, Dead Confederate and Eagle Seagull.

Denver Egotist Turns One

Check it out!

Music Festivals!

Denver has not one, but TWO music festivals this year that are packed full of great bands:
Mile High Music Festival
July 19th and 20th, 2008, Dick’s Stadium
2-day tickets: $150
5 stages, sponsored by SanDisk and put on with AEG.
Lineup includes Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, O.A.R. (Of A Revolution), Spoon, Jason Mraz, Citizen Cope, Lupe Fiasco, Gavin Degraw, Josh Ritter, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Black Crowes, Flogging Molly, Colbie Caillat, OneRepublic, The Roots, Flobots, Rose Hill Drive, and more!

Monolith Festival
September 13th and 14th, 2008, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 50 artists on 5 stages, 2-day tickets: $110
Featuring Devotchka, Silversun Pickups, Vampire Weekend, Mickey Avalon, Atmosphere, CSS, The Kills, etc.

Monolith founders Matt Fecher (South Park Music Festival) and Josh Baker (Midwest Music Summit) are co-producing the event with AEG Live. Last year’s inaugural Monolith Festival featured the Flaming Lips, the Decemberists, Kings Of Leon, Cake and Spoon, among others.
Check out the Festival blog also.

Fun, Free and Fabulous

Denver’s 33rd PrideFest, the 7th largest in the nation put on by GLBT Denver is this weekend at Civic Center Park or check out the Parade on Sunday on the Fax (Colfax) to the Park. More info here and here.