Spamtastic
Crazy Tasty Spam Appetizer Recipe contest, Colorado State Fair, 719-404-2080, colorado
Cue the “Spam Song”
The annual SPAM recipe contest focuses on appetizers this year. Past winners include a spicy Hawaiian Spam sandwich, Spam muffins and cunning Spam “sushi” Musubi Man fashioned with gingerbread cookie-cutters. Two categories: Adult (grand prize: trip to Spam Jam 2009 in Waikiki) and youth ($2,000 prize).
Armchair Hiking
“Colorado’s San Juan Mountains,” by Grant Collier, $12.95,
Walking in a path well worn
by his photographer great-greatgrandfather, shooter Grant Collier’s second book of contemporary Colorado scenics accented by images taken in the 1880s by Joseph Collier is out just in time for your summer staycation.
Walk like a democrat
Mayor Speer’s Denver: A Historic Walking Tour, noon-1 p.m. July 30. Free. Meet behind the D&F Tower at Skyline Park, 16th and Arapahoe streets, Denver. /dnc/skyline.shtml
Tour downtown, and get a hint about the City Beautiful Movement
on an hour-long walking tour to discuss the 1908 Democratic National Convention, Mayor Robert Speer and Denver at the turn of the 20th century. Led by Metro State University history instructor Kevin E. Rucker, part of the school’s “Countdown to the 2008 Democratic National Convention” Wednesday lecture series.
