TODAY
UP IN THE AIR
Snowmass Balloon Festival
Snowmass Village/Snowmass Ski Area; 970-925-1663,
Brilliantly colored balloons play against a backdrop of changing leaves in the final day of the 32nd annual balloon festival here. Balloons launch from the Snowmass softball fields on Brush Creek Road. This morning’s competition runs from 7 to 9 p.m., with pilots skimming low over golf course water hazards to shy tennis balls into large floating tubes.
FOR THE WEEK
MONDAY – Birds of Egypt | Ellen LeBlanc lectures on the significance of birds in religion, mythology, economics and society at the Egyptian Study Soceity’s monthly meeting. Free. | 7 p.m., Ricketson Auditorium, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver
TUESDAY – International Talk Like a Pirate Day | Avast, ye locked-landlubbers! Show us yer sea dog pirattitude! Here’s a link if ye need help,and it’ll even trrrranslate English into buccaneer lingo so’s ye won’t sound like a cabin boy. | TalkLikeAPirate.com
FRIDAY – Wyoming bluegrass musicians Anne and Pete Sibley. | Wyoming bluegrass musicians in the tradition of Mollie and Tim O’Brien; celebrated for their clawhammer banjo work. | 7 p.m., Little Church in the Pines, 414 Gold Run Road, Salina; 303-444-0134
FRIDAY through Sept. 23 – Warbirds Over the Rockies air show| Watch more than 200 radio-controlled aircraft take to the skies, plus flyovers by full- sized vintage aircraft.| 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Love Air Field, Loveland. Tickets $5 for adults; free to ages 16 and under; more online at
FRIDAY through Sept. 23 – Mystical Pagosa|Paging all sensitive New Age guys and females: This New Age fair offer readers (palm, aura, etc.), bodyworkers, holistic products, crystals, seminars and products.| 1 to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 to 7 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 23, Archuleta County Fairgrounds. Admission: $3; 800-707-3707
SATURDAY – Steamboat Brewers’ Festival| Sample the hand-crafted brews from 18 Colorado breweries, while the kids taste-test brewed root beer. Food and crafts, too | Noon to 4 p.m., Torian Plum Plaza at Steamboat ski area base. Tickets ($25 in advance) include a souvenir glass and six tasting tokens; more online at
