Saturday
All wet, all fun
WATER PARK|Ready for a wet and wild summer? Check out Hyland Hills Water World, the nation’s largest water park. Its 64 acres feature a whopping 43 attractions with more than 2 miles of water slides. Now in its 29th year, the park offers rides for every stripe, from the lazy river to the six-story Revolution ride, a tube conveyor that takes riders to the top of a tower.|Opens Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.|1800 W. 89th Ave. in Federal Heights, $24.95-$29.95, 303-427-7873 or waterworldcolorado.com.
Duet specialists
CHAMBER MUSIC|Many of classical music’s greatest composers wrote pieces for the intimate combination of cello and violin. The Zephyr Duo, which specializes in such duets, will perform examples by Beethoven, Handel and Ravel for the final concert of Englewood Arts’ 2006-07 season. The twosome is composed of violinist Allegra Wermuth and cellist Judith McIntyre, both members of the Colorado Symphony.|2 p.m. Saturday|Hampden Hall, Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, $10 adults and $5 students 18 and younger, 303-806-8196
Celebrity send-up
DRAG SHOW|La Cage Aux Fowl’s “Demented Divas” continues this weekend, a Las Vegas-style comedy drag show designed to tickle as much as it assaults sensibilities. The company’s newest production, “Half Baked and Fully Toasted,” pokes fun at celebrities by sending up their love of food and booze. As their website says, “This group of bearded drag queens makes Bigfoot look like an orphaned pussycat.”| 8 p.m. Saturday|Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1600 Arapahoe St., $20-$25, reservations recommended, 303-293-0075 or lannies.com.
The week
Road pictures
FILM|To quote Willie Nelson, movies just can’t wait to get on the road again. The Denver Public Library and film critic Walter Chaw begin “Detours,” a five-week series of road movies. This week’s excursion: “Lost in America,” written and directed by Albert Brooks in which a yuppie couple (Brooks and Julie Hagerty) hit the highways. |6:30 p.m. Tuesday| Central Library, Level B2 conference center, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, free, 720-865-1111.
Golden green thumbs
GARDENING|Here’s a great way to step into summer: The Foothills Art Center will hold its Spring Gardening Day next week, the first of what officials hope will be an annual event. Meet other green thumbs while you plant flowers – no experience necessary – and enjoy refreshments under the sun.|Tuesday, 9 a.m.-noon|809 15th St. in Golden, free, RSVP by today, 303-279-3922 or foothillsartcenter.org.
The weekend
Ceramic exhibit
ART|Time is running out to see “Breaking the Mold: The Virginia Vogel Mattern Collection of Contemporary Native American Art.” The show is one of the three major inaugural exhibitions in the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building, which opened in October. It features 163 objects – primarily ceramic pots – most dating from 1990 to 2003. Represented are 115 artists from 15 of the Southwestern pueblos as well as such native communities as the Navajo, Choctaw and Lakota.|Through June 3|Denver Art Museum, West 13th Avenue between Bannock Street and Broadway, free with regular museum admission, 720-865-5000 or denverartmuseum.org.
Laramie show
ART|”Resonance From the Past,” an exhibition recently presented at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., goes on view this weekend in Laramie. The show encompasses 100 African works from the New Orleans Museum of Art, including masks, figures, reliefs, ceramics and beadwork.|Saturday- Aug. 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Mondays-Saturdays|University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie; free; 307-766-6622 or uwyo.edu/artmuseum.
