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Baby, it’s cold out Frozen Dead Guy Days
10 a.m.-5 p.m., downtown Nederland
If you missed the cryonics parade and the polar plunge yesterday, you can still get in on the frozen fun at Nederland’s most famous festival all day today. There’s a market, frozen-turkey bowling and the chance to freeze your brain for fun and prizes chugging a Slurpee. The fun winds down around 5 p.m., when organizers hand out popsicles and everyone wanders around the town circle, admiring the snow sculpture for the last time. Free.
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10 A.M.-5 P.M. Ice Fest | The University of Colorado is taking a somewhat more sober look at ice, in celebration of the International Polar Year, during which scientists from 63 countries will spend 24 months on climate-related research, studying ice, oceans, ecosystems and the atmosphere. Whew. Today, the weekend-long celebration winds up with a youth summit, followed by presentations on Boulder and campus plans to tackle global warming locally at 1 p.m. Booths and demonstrations go on all day, and “The Thing From Another World,” a 1951 cult classic about a flying saucer landing on the North Pole, screens at 7 p.m. | ATLAS Building, near Broadway and Euclid, Boulder | cires.colorado.edu/events/icefest
1:30 P.M. Get wet | Colorado Water Garden Society general meeting, featuring Colorado State University professor Whitney Cranshaw. Free with Denver Botanic Gardens membership or admission. | 1005 York St., Denver | coloradowatergarden society.org
2 P.M. Multiplication by Division | Learn to revive plants and restore order to your border garden in a 90-minute class at Echter’s Garden Center, taught by perennial manager Gay Bechir and horticulture specialist Harriett McMillan. | West 52nd Avenue and Garrison Street, Arvada | 303-424-7979.
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THROUGH FRIDAY Ahh, Ireland! | Denver photographer Michael Nulty explores the Irish landscape and cityscape in an exhibition hanging at Manny’s Underground Cafe through Friday. The pictures are grouped thematically, linking good and evil, position, translation, isolation, memory and time. Through Saturday. | 1836 Blake St., Denver | 303-308-0110 or mannysunderground.com
TUESDAY Ahh, Romance! | Opera 101 previews two Verdi operas on the Central City Opera/Opera Colorado slate this season, “La Traviata” and “A Masked Ball,” 6 p.m. Free. | Denver Public Library Central Branch, Broadway and 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver | operacolorado.org.
WEDNESDAY Clyfford Still and His Gallerists | Clyfford Still Museum director Dean Sobel talks about Peggy Guggenheim and Betty Parsons, 6 p.m. Free. | Walnut Foundry, 3002 Walnut St., Denver | clyffordstillmuseum .org or 720-865-4317
THURSDAY-SUNDAY Spring Home & Patio Show | Check out the “celebrity patios” reflecting the tastes of Denver notables, including Mayor John Hickenlooper, chanteuse Lannie Garrett, dancer Cleo Parker Robinson and Frontier Airlines chief Jeff Potter. Noon-7 p.m. Thursday; noon-8:30 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $8. | Stadium Arena, National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver | bigasall outdoors.com
FRIDAY Opera’s Greatest Hits II | Central City Opera and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra present best-loved opera overtures, arias, duets and ensembles, 7:30 p.m. at Boettcher Concert Hall. Tickets $15-$67.50 at coloradosymphony.org or at Ticketmaster. | Denver Center for Performing Arts, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver | 303-623-7876
FRIDAY-SATURDAY Irish at Altitude | Snowmass Village puts on the green, starting with a concert by the Coyote Gospel Band and Fireworks, and continuing all day Saturday with the Colorado Youth Pipe & Drum Band marching and the Colorado Youth Dancers performing traditional Irish jigs. You’ll know the spot when you see it: Fanny Hill will be decorated with a giant green shamrock. Free. | Snowmass Village | snowmasspress.com/stpat or 800-SNOWMASS
SATURDAY Asia Day Festival | The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado hosts its sixth annual celebration of Asian culture with martial arts demonstrations, dance, demonstrations of traditional arts and crafts, and plenty of kids activities and food. 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. | Fleming Law Building, Kittredge Loop Road, near Broadway, Boulder | 303-735- 5312 or colorado.edu/cas/ asiaday.html
