Scream 4 Less at the 13th Floor haunted house on Sunday. Brave guests can learn just why the 13th floor is so often omitted from building plans – if they make it through to tell the tale – with this four-pack special. The special includes four general admission tickets, four sodas and a popcorn for $79. Tickets can only be purchased at www.secure.interactiveticketing.com/1.6/ac2d6e/?promo=Scream4Less15#/select. (General admission tickets are typically $25.99 each.)

Hailed by Fangoria Magazine as “the #1 scariest haunted attraction in the U.S.,” the 13th Floor haunted house will take guests through a frightening tour of horror through Nov. 7. Brave guests will learn just why the 13th floor is so often omitted from building plans – if they make it through to tell the tale. New features including the Hallow House, Feral Moon and Undead: What Lies Beneath add excitement for all visitors, even those returning again and again.

For more information, go to www.13thfloorhauntedhouse.com.

Have you met our Blacktie-Colorado.com stars?

Please come to our meet and greet from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lime restaurant downtown in the Pavilions shopping center. Lime restaurant co-owner and local chanteuse Pam Savage Sims will be singing and there is great food and drink.

Since it’s beginning Blacktie has interviewed more than 450 philanthropists from all over the state.

Every two years, Blacktie throws a party to honor these folks and to award the Georgia R. Imhoff Volunteer Extraordinaire Aware.  This year, Pam Savage Sims and Curt Sims, owners of Lime Restaurant at the Pavilions are providing their space and food and drink for this event. Entrance cost for Have You Met personalities is $20 and $40 for those who haven’t been discovered yet.  Tickets include free food and one drink. Registration at blacktie-colorado.com.

The Republic of Tea, leading purveyor of premium teas, is announcing its first-ever pop-up tea shop at Whole Foods Market’s Belmar location in Lakewood from Friday through Sunday. The Republic of Tea’s entire collection of 300 premium teas and herbs will be available for purchase. Shoppers are invited explore the catalog, sip, and learn more about The Republic of Tea brand, which embodies the “Sip by Sip, Rather than Gulp By Gulp” lifestyle.

The Republic of Tea’s pop-up tea shop at the Belmar Whole Foods Market will be framed by a display of specialty tea tins, with flavors ranging from the new Sonoma Teas collection (made from fine wine grape skins) and buzz-worthy HiCAF tea line, to classics including Ginger Peach Black Tea and The People’s Green Tea, as well as festive holiday varieties. The Republic of Tea’s Ministers will be available to guide guests through the numerous premium tea offerings, while steeping teapots of featured teas for shoppers to sip and savor. The Republic of Tea’s featured teas, as well as select sipware, will be available for purchase. A special gift with purchase will be given away during pop-up shop hours.

“Whole Foods Market is thrilled to be partnering with The Republic of Tea on this venture,” said David McCormick, grocery coordinator for Whole Foods Market, Rocky Mountain Region. “We feel it is our responsibility to showcase amazing suppliers committed to responsible sourcing like The Republic of Tea. They have so many wonderful teas to offer, and we are grateful to have this opportunity to share them with our customers. From tea enthusiasts, to those just a bit curious about tea, we’ll have something special for everyone.”

The Ministers of The Republic of Tea will be on-site at the Belmar Whole Foods Market from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The Whole Foods Market Belmar is located at 444 S. Wadsworth Blvd. www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/belmar. The Republic of Tea will have three additional pop-up shops in Colorado, with dates to be determined, at Whole Foods Market’s locations in South Denver (Tamarac), Southglenn and Boulder (Pearl Street).

There is no better time to create family memories than during the holiday season in Colorado. Across the state, cities and towns ring in the holidays with annual celebrations amidst snow-capped mountains and illuminated main streets. Below is a sampling of unforgettable holiday events and winter vacation offerings from across Colorado. For more information, visit www.colorado.com/articles/winter-events-colorado.

Lights of December Parade (Boulder) Beginning at 6 p.m. on Dec. 5, Boulder’s 28th hometown parade will travel through an illuminated downtown. The parade will include marching bands, floats created by local groups and businesses, decorated fire engines and of course, a grand finale appearance by Santa. After the parade, many downtown shops will stay open to satisfy visitors’ gift shopping needs.

Gold Camp Christmas (Cripple Creek) Holiday light displays will decorate this historic town’s mine head frames the entire month of December. Guests can opt for a self-guided driving tour or a guided tour via shuttle. The main event occurs on the weekend of Dec. 12 when families can partake in activities such as gift making, ice-skating around the Christmas tree, gingerbread ornament decorating, marshmallow roasting and free hot chocolate and cider.

Olde Golden Christmas Candlelight Walk (Golden) On Dec. 4, walk with candles down Golden’s main street for the Olde Golden Christmas Candlelight Walk. After the walk, a fireworks show will light up the night in conjunction with miles of lights throughout downtown and Clear Creek. The Clear Creek History Park will host live reindeer as well as a number of other kid-friendly activities.

Downtown Denver Grand Illumination (Denver) A countdown will begin shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 when Denver’s recently renovated Union Station will begin the lighting ceremony that will brighten downtown all the way to the City and County building. Colored floodlights will keep Denver lit until the end of December where guests can find various festive activities throughout downtown such as the ice skating rink at Skyline Park.

For more information or a copy of the 2015 Colorado Official State Vacation Guide, visit www.COLORADO.com or call 1-800-COLORADO. Follow Colorado on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Foursquare, Flickr,Tumblr and YouTube.

Eavesdropping on two customers at Macy’s Cherry Creek: “Wow, they’ve already got Christmas decorations out.”

“Does Thanksgiving know about that?”

There’s a reason that Hideaway Kitchen + Bar earned its name. It’s seriously hidden away in a strip mall way up on Genesee Mountain.

But tucked into that strip center is an oasis of cuisine and cocktails that is a treasure cherished by locals yet little known to Front Range dwellers.

But the PR princesses at DPP Communications know how to garner attention for their client. They use Uber to transport Denver-based media members to quarterly menu tastings. Brilliant!

Hence, media types gathered at Hideaway (just up the road a piece from The Chart House) to sample the new fall menu from the culinary genius of Chef Nick Shankland, a 25-year-old with an older man’s resume (Colt & Gray, Old Major).

Shankland delighted our palates with a meal consisting of smaller portions of fall menu additions, including wine poached pear with blue cheese and sliced toasted almonds, tuna tartare and Chesapeake Bay fried oyster, braised pork belly, pork loin with mashed sweet potatoes, HK+B slider and a dessert combo of a chocolate banana pancake (from the brunch menu) and pumpkin “cobbler.”

Each course was paired with a hand-crafted cocktail.

If you’re stuck on I-70, pull off and check out the hidden Hideaway. For more information, go to www.hideawaykitchen.com.

Superstar entertainer, actor and comedian Kevin Hart has added a Loveland date to his North American arena tour on Nov. 24 at the Budweiser Events Center. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Promoted by Live Nation, The WHAT NOW? TOUR is the biggest comedy tour in history.  It kicked off in April and will ultimately take the award-winning comedian to more than 45 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada – including dates at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden as well as a stadium date at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.

Since his career began Hart has worked non-stop and in 2015, he has already released two movies.  Hart can currently be seen in “The Wedding Ringer” and he starred opposite Will Farrell in “Get Hard”. In 2016, Hart will star in “Ride Along 2″, the sequel to last year’s $100 million blockbuster hit.

Tickets are $125, $79.50, $69.50 and $49.50 plus applicable service charges. For tickets, go to www.ComcastTix.com, www.livenation.com, www.whatnowtour.com, the Budweiser Events Center Box Office or call 877-544-8499.

JAAMM Fest, a Denver art and music festival starts today. The festival kicks off with New York Times best-selling author and architect Charles Belfoure as he does a community reading of his award winning novel “The Paris Architect.”

The community reading will take place in the Elaine Wolf Theater at the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center, 350 S. Dahlia St.

Reserve your tickets at www.maccjcc.org/jaamm-festival/.

Colorado’s first Postino WineCafé opened on recently in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood, taking up residence in the iconic Denver Book Binding Company building at 2715 17th St. Postino is the award-winning four-location concept that was started in Arizona, and the new LoHi location is the first outside the state, inspired by the owners’ close friendship with the partners in Snooze.

Postino serves a compact menu of bruschetta boards, from-scratch soups, salads and panini sandwiches. The concept’s foundation is an eclectic and approachable wine list alongside simple food sourced and prepared with local ingredients and complemented by the urban-cool vibe inside the renovated space.

The simple menu with complex flavors offers choices such as the Autostrada Panini, with sopresatta, Italian ham, cappicola, mortadella, provolone, arugula and tomato with a spicy pepper relish and the Prosciutto with Brie Panini, featuring prosciutto, triple cream brie, fig jam and arugula simply dressed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.  The stars of the designed-for-sharing- menu, however, are the Bruschetta Boards, with offerings ranging from brie and apples with fig spread to burrata, bacon, arugula and tomato, alongside tomato jam and fresh sheeps milk cheese and salami with pesto.

Postino’s process of transforming historically relevant buildings into modern wine cafes is a cornerstone of the brand. The restored and revitalized Denver Book Binding building is an open and airy space that blurs the lines between the indoors and outdoors.  Guest can cozy up inside an intimate booth, settle in at the expansive indoor/outdoor bar, sip in the sun on the oversized outdoor sofas or meet friends at a communal table, all while soaking in the vintage furnishings and colorful pop-culture artwork.

The LoHi renovated book-binding space tells the story of its history with period furnishings, artwork, and furniture, and celebrates the present through a modern menu with ingredients from local purveyors including City Bakery, Infinite Monkey Theorem, and Colorado brewers including Avery, Crooked Stave, Elevation, Great Divide, Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Odell, Ska and Upslope.

Postino serves brunch on the weekend, $20 Mondays and Tuesdays (after 8 p.m., any house bottle of wine and bruschetta for $20) and their version of an “All Day Happy Hour” – $5 wines by the glass and pitchers of beer from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., seven days a week.

For more information, go to www.postinowinecafe.com.