Jewish Deli Bike Tour
Sunday. The Jewish Community Center of Denver is putting on the fourth annual Jewish Deli Bike Tour, a determinedly casual bicycle ride with stops at Jewish delis and bagel shops along the way. This year’s East Side Classic tour is Sunday, Sept. 7, with organizers offering two routes of varying lengths.
The full tour is a 15-mile round trip that begins in the morning at JCC Denver (350 S. Dahlia St., Denver) and will stop up to six times, ending at about 3:30 p.m. A shorter “Mishpocheh” Family tour will bike to at least two stops and end around 11 a.m. (Children are not allowed on the full tour.) JCC Denver is selling tickets at different tiers. Visit its website (jccdenver.org/event/jdbt) to buy tickets and reserve a spot.
If you miss this one, don’t worry: The event has gotten so big they’ve added another tour — on Sunday, Oct. 5 — that visits bagel shops in west Denver. — Miguel Otárola
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CrimeCon 2025
Friday-Sunday. A convention dedicated to true-crime stories, grisly police-procedural TV shows, chilling/thrilling murder podcasts, detective work and other ephemera is set for the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center this weekend. The Friday, Sept. 5-Sunday, Sept. 7, event known as CrimeCon will also feature speakers, themed sessions, and “Law & Order: SVU” star/legendary rapper Ice-T.
The standard, all-weekend ticket costs $399, and single-day passes range from $109-$189. 6700 N. Gaylord Rockies Blvd. in Aurora. crimecon.com — John Wenzel
Shadows Gather exhibit
Friday-Oct. 31. Photographer and artist Shadows Gather has arguably cornered the market on chronicling the sparkling, gritty, lusty denizens of Denver’s nightlife, and the popularity of her recent exhibit at Meow Wolf Denver proved as much. It’s now being followed by a full-archive exhibition at Boulder’s East Window Gallery. The show, which opens Friday, Sept. 5, and runs through Oct. 31, is based around Fujifilm Instax photographs — or instant photos in the vein of Polaroids — that afford a visceral immediacy to her artistic snaps of the queer, DIY and underground party scenes in the city.
“This is the largest Instax nightlife archive ever exhibited; thousands of portraits, six years of underground culture, finally seen all at once,” wrote the artist on her website. An opening reception takes place 7-9 p.m. on Friday at 550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 in Boulder, with a live performance on Sept. 20. Visit shadowsgather.com or eastwindow.org for more. — John Wenzel
Tree and shrub sale
Friday-Saturday. Denver nonprofit The Park People is hosting a Fall Tree & Shrub Sale on Friday, Sept. 5, and Saturday, Sept. 6, “distributing hundreds of unique and hard-to-find species at wholesale prices,” according to organizers. That includes “tailored concierge service to help folks pick out the right tree for their yard.”
Anyone can purchase a tree, they noted, which means you don’t need to be a Denver resident. All species have limited availability and are first-come, first-served. Sales run 10 a.m.-noon both days at 450 Decatur St. in Denver. $50-$175 for trees, with cash, checks and credit cards accepted. Visit theparkpeople.org for more details. — John Wenzel