Zachary Byron Helm sets up his booth at the 2011 Denver County Fair.
Hey makers of pies, potions, pinatas and Peeps dioramas: You?ve got a little longer to register your creations online for the Denver County Fair?s bajillion competitions.
There?s a contest for molded gelatin desserts. Artist trading cards. Fishing flies. And robots, shoes and preserved food. Plus all the usual county-fair categories you?d expect.
That new deadline for online entries for the ?Blue Ribbon Competitions? is Tuesday. But if you?re not an advance-planning type of person, there?ll still be plenty of opportunity to win ribbons in the fair?s live competitions, such as pie eating, the Social Media Smackdown, Supper Hollerin? and the High Rollers Adult Big Wheel Races. The fair itself is Aug. 10-12 at the National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St.
Last year?s first fair had headliners Devo. This year, the lineup mines the 303, 720 and maybe the 970: Wheelchair Sports Camp; Fiction is Fun; Jimbo Darville & the Truckadours; Mile High Banjo Society; and Total Ghost, among others. The Tribute to Tribute Bands line-up includes The West (a three-piece with an Elvis Costello fixation); Journey Girls (a mother-daughter Journey tribute) and Jennifer?s Body (a Courtney Love/Hole tribute outfit). And then there?s Ukulele Loki?s Gadabout Orchestra.
Pie judging at the 2011 Denver County Fair
Even Dora the Explorer will turn up on Aug. 12 at the kids pavilion from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Magic Cyclops ? yes, he of the 11,000 air guitars and ?American Idol? fame - will not only perform, he?s signed up to DJ the Zombie Dance Party Aug. 11. Drag queen Nuclia Waste, last year?s Miss Denver County Fair, will MC this year?s pageant to hand down her crown.
Organizers Dana Cain and Tracy Weil said they?ve tried to bump up what worked (a lot, they believe; 90 percent of survey respondents said they?d be back) and fix what folks critcized last year (mainly, the food and the heat). Carnival rides will be in an indoor arena, and a food-truck roundup will keep revelers fueled. Morning chow lines will include Andrew Novick?s X-Treme Pancake Breakfast Aug. 11 (10 a.m.-1 p.m., an hour longer than last year) and his X-Treme Breakfast Burritos Aug. 12 (same times).
Cain?s favorite new element this year is the Geek Pavilion, home to live Scrabble and other contests, robot battles, and an Unsinkable Molly Brown Dunk Tank hosted by the Colorado Steampunks and the Molly Brown House Museum (which not only approved of the idea, but helped fund the tank rental).
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