TODAY
Year of the Rooster
Colorado State Fair in Pueblo
Through Sept. 5 coloradostatefair.com
The Queen of the Kitchen has been crowned and the parade is over, but the Colorado State Fair really can’t be considered open until the roosters crow for the blue ribbon in the small-animal building. The covers come off the cages at noon, and 25 or more birds will be judged for both the quality and the content of their crows. “They look at the form and the colored feathers that pop out on their necks when they crow,” says livestock manager Jeanne Robison. “Stance means a lot, as far as how the vocalization comes out.” For her part, Robison runs hot and cold on the cock-a-doodle-doo. “It depends on what time of day it is when they’re crowing,” she says with a laugh.
MORE FOR TODAY
NOON Canine and companion look-alike contest | 4th annual Dog Daze of Summit Festival | Burning Stones Plaza in The Village at Copper Mountain |
caninepartnersoftherockies.org or 970-262-2929
4 P.M. Opus 5 Wind Quintet | Summer Reflections Concert Series | free | Chapel of Peace, Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery, 7777 W. 29th Ave., Wheat Ridge | 303-797-4468
7:30 P.M. Scottish songster Ed Miller | Ageless ballads, the songs of Robert Burns and tunes from the modern Scottish folk repertoire | $12 | The La Veta Inn, 103 West Ryus, La Veta | 719-742-3700
7:30 P.M. Best of Manhattan Short Film Festival 2004 | $8.50 admission, or $5.50 for Denver Film Society members | Starz FilmCenter, 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver | 303-820-FILM
DO IT
THIS WEEK
THURSDAY Andy Warhol’s Dream America | Opening for 100 screen prints from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collection | Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs | 719-634-5581
FRIDAYLast chance this summer to see Mary Jane Duran evoke the spirit of the Unsinkable Molly Brown | Healy House Museum, 912 Harrison Ave., Leadville | Reservations: 719-486-0487
SATURDAY The Rat’s Hole Custom Bike Show | See some of the hottest one-of-a-kind bikes on Earth. Part of Thunder in the Rockies motorcycle rally, through Sept. 4 | The Ranch in Loveland |
thunderintherockies.com
NEXT WEEKEND’S EVENT
Up, up and away
Colorado Balloon Classic
Sept. 3-5, Memorial Park in Colorado Springs balloonclassic.com
The 29th annual Colorado Balloon Classic features all the expected morning mass ascensions and evening hot-air balloon glows, but look for pilot John Ninomiya flying harnessed to a few dozen helium-filled latex balloons to be the jaw-dropper of the weekend. He’ll bag Colorado in his “States of Enlightenment” quest to fly in all 50 states Saturday at 7 a.m., at the Rose Bowl, near Pikes Peak and Hancock avenues.
