The holidays have you edgy already?
A sure cure opens at 6 tonight at 158 Fillmore — the wildest, most fantastical, fantasyland of a window display you have ever seen. If this installation from artist Lonnie Hanzon and the Museum of Outdoor Arts doesn’t make you grin, well then, you are a Grinch.
The window display goes on for more than 100 feet, and it tells a story, like a children’s book come alive, as you move south on Fillmore Plaza.
Titled “Magical Holiday Machines: The Wondrous Keep of Emry Gweldig,” the display is filled with machines that ease the stress of the holidays. There is the waiting-in-line helmet, the holiday pressure cooker, the resolution shredder, the no-guilt machine, the joy juicer, the comfort cannon, and the bliss bed where you can count your sheep and your blessings. And of course it has a final message — but I’ll leave it for you to discover yourself.
At the reveal tonight, Ukulele Loki and the Gadabout Orchestra will entertain, and HGTV will tape for its Dec. 14 look at America’s six best window displays.
This is all free, friends, running 10 a.m. to midnight through Jan. 4.
Hoops and hockey
Landmark is the place to kick off your holiday charity.
Nugget’s star Kenyon Martin has just started his foundation with the Giving Back Fund — helping single moms and their children in Denver, Dallas and Cincinnati. He will launch the foundation Dec. 8 at Jing Restaurant in Landmark.
And former Avalanche player Dan Hinote‘s Heroes Ornament Party gets going Tuesday night at Lime @ Landmark. Hinote’s Heroes helps children and families battling cancer. The Av’s John-Michael Liles will emcee along with fellow players.
Wasn’t that Elle?
Supermodel Elle MacPherson might be in Aspen this Christmas, but we’d never know it.
“It’s all so wonderful,” she tells Aspen Peak magazine of the swank ski hamlet. “People are so warm. They remember me year after year.”
That’s a shocker.
“I’m not particularly an Aspenite in the social sense,” she continues. “People who have seen me skiing in Aspen don’t normally see me in the evenings. I do first tracks at 8 a.m., ski until 4 p.m. — without stopping. Then I go have some sushi and go to bed. I’m not a great skier; I’m an enthusiastic skier.”
City spirit
Jimmy Dolan is managing partner at Fort Collins’ Texas Roadhouse — and he’s on “Deal or No Deal” tonight — along with his seven siblings, mom and wife. Was he a dopey dealer? “I walked the line, but I wasn’t stupid,” he tells me . . . Get ready for your extreme makeover. Ty Pennington comes to the Denver Home Show March 19-22 . . . To celebrate Denver’s 150th birthday, Saturday is a free day at Colorado History Museum, Denver Zoo, Denver Botanic Gardens, Museum of Contemporary Art . . . Sez who: “Let us beware of common sense, inspiration and evidence.” Charles Baudelaire
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