Girls rock
Tellerpalooza/Morey- palooza, Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver;
Put the fun in “fundraiser.”
The groovy girl headliners include Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck (Westword’s Best of Denver 2006 Singer/ Songwriter), Autumn Film, and the Dead Sinatras. Other acts include The Panic, a high school band, Denver School of the Arts’ hip- hop A Club, and Tellerpalooza staple The Reals. Don’t like the music? There’s karaoke downstairs. Tickets are $15 each or $50 for a family four-pack. Proceeds benefit Teller Elementary School and Morey Middle School of Denver.
Pint Size Helper
“Beer Drinker’s Guide to Colorado,” available at the Tattered Cover bookstores in the Denver metro area; Poor Richard’s Book Store, 320 N. Tejon St., Colorado Springs; Kinfolk’s, 946 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs; and online at
Happy brew year!
A microbrew goes a long way toward mitigating the pain of buying gas for a summer road trip. Mike Laur’s useful map of Colorado’s 101 brewpubs, breweries and microbreweries shows where to find the best suds in the state. The Front Range I-25 corridor is brimming with breweries, but mountain towns be representin’, too, with five listings between Breckenridge and Silverthorne, and four in Durango.
Voluntourism
Give Back Getaways, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Bachelor Gulch/Vail and Denver; giveback
Doing good by doing well.
Sign up for the hotel’s Give Back Getaways program, and you’ll get chauffeured to and from the work site, plus get a box lunch and earn your eco-bona fides as a voluntourist. Upcoming Colorado projects include Boulder Prairie Restoration.
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, due to a reporting error, it listed an incorrect price for the four-pack of tickets to the TellerPalooza fundraising event at the Mercury Cafe. A four-pack costs $50.
