16. I Heart Denver
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (720) 317-2328
Description: This unique store features local artwork, with 70 percent of each sale going back to the artist or designer. Offering a wide range of items from hand-printed T-shirts and stationery to original art, the store’s stock changes frequently, making I Heart Denver a popular place to find gifts and home-decorating items.
17. Old Santa Fe Pottery
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 871-9434
Address: 2485 S. Santa Fe Dr.
Description: Old Santa Fe Pottery houses two rows of shops filled with Southwestern decorative items, Oaxacan wood carvings, painted Talavera ceramics, furniture, rugs, and all sorts of pottery. You’ll enjoy a pretty central courtyard reminiscent of a Mexican village.
18. The Bookies
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 759-1117
Address: 4315 E. Mississippi Ave.
Description: Though The Bookies is primarily known for its great children’s selection, it also carries most best-seller titles, too. Better yet, every book is sold at a discount of at least 15 percent. (The discount does not apply to educational and teacher resource books.)
19. Gallagher Books
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 756-5821
Address: 1498 S. Broadway
Description: Located on Denver’s famed antiques row, Gallagher Books is a member of the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association. The shop features rare and out-of-print books, books and posters on WWI and WWII, fine binding, and other specialty items.
20. Murder by the Book
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 871-9401
Address: 1574 S. Pearl St.
Description: Murder by the Book, a cozy store in a former home, specializes in new and used mystery novels and crime fiction. If your kids love mysteries, check out the children’s selections.
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Address: 2526 E. Colfax Ave.
22. Boyer’s Coffee Company
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 289-3345, (800) 452-5282
Address: 7295 N. Washington St.
Description: Boyer’s, a Denver-based coffee roaster and packager, offers its coffee and related items at lower-than-supermarket prices. Its warehouse store is open to the public weekdays only.
23. Djuna
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 355-3500
Address: 899 N. Broadway
Description: This locally owned furniture store offers an eclectic collection of vintage-inspired furnishings, fine art, antiques, elegant linens and fabrics, and much more. It’s a big place and worth spending an hour or two browsing.
24. European Mart
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 321-7144
Address: 5225 Leetsdale Dr.
Description: When you’re in the mood for Hungarian salami, smoked fish, Danish cheeses, or hearty sausage, the European Mart is the place to stop. Filled with eastern European delicacies—meats, fish, candies, cookies—this shop is the real thing. The Russian owners are helpful and eager to please, and the food is great.
25. For Heaven’s Sake
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 964-9339
Address: 4383 Tennyson St.
Description: This New Age gift and book shop in the Berkeley neighborhood area offers a wide array of products such as candles, crystals, books, music, and the increasingly popular “lucky bamboo.” The store also sponsors in-house events and classes, including a monthly Psychic Fair, which features palm and tarot readings among other events.
26. IKEA
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 768-9164
Address: 9800 E. IKEA Way
Description: Although it’s a chain, IKEA has few locations in the middle of the country. Wildly popular for its inexpensive, functional furnishings, IKEA has something for every room in the home.
27. The Outlets at Loveland
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (970) 663-1717
Description: With 82 stores, The Outlets at Loveland include the standard offering of clothes and kitchenware. Though there is no food court on-site, several restaurants are within walking distance.
28. Denver Center Attractions
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 893-4000 (information)
Description: Broadway musical hits such as Big River, Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Les Miserables, and the pre-Broadway engagement of Disney’s Little Mermaid make Denver Center Attractions a preferred stop on the touring circuit. The division is also known for its own productions of cabaret musicals including Forever Plaid and Denver’s longest-running production, Always . . . Patsy Cline.
29. Denver Center Theatre Company
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 893-4000 (information)
Description: The Denver Center Theatre Company, recipient of the 1998 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, is the region’s largest resident professional theater company and features an 11-play season, including traditional and contemporary drama and world premieres. Its shows are performed in the Stage, Space, Ricketson and Jones theaters, all part of the overall Performing Arts Complex.
30. Colorado Symphony Orchestra
City: Denver, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (303) 623-7876
Description: The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, with 80 members, plays classical music and popular classics in Boettcher Concert Hall during its season, which lasts from September to May. Each season there are also several low-priced Sunday-afternoon concerts.