The Colorado Symphony plays free tonight in City Park. 7/3, 7 p.m. They're also playing at Red Rocks on Sunday, 7/5.

UPDATE: Red Rocks was full to capacity last night to hear the symphony play. The overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla," "An Outdoor Overture," by Copland and the Overture to "The Barber of Seville" and the Finale of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 were on the program. Good stuff! Plus popular stuff like 1812 Overture, Copland's "Hoedown" (the conductor turned around and said, "Beef. It's what's for dinner. ... I just wanted to help out those people who were thinking, 'Where do I know that song.'") and Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No. 3, from Bach (The conductor called the G string the naughty string. He was pretty goofy all night. He even turned around and took a picture of everyone sitting in the audience at Red Rocks _ all 9,000+ of us. He said, OK, could everyone on the sides just move in to the center... ) Sponsors handed out free granola bars, lip balm and bug spray. Big night of free. There's more to come: On Friday, 7/17, at 10 a.m. at Boettcher Concert Hall downtown, there will be performances of new works from emerging composers. Then on Thursday, 7/23, the symphony will play for free at Cheesman Park. Looks like they're playing the overture to Russlan and Ludmilla again but also Dvorak's Slavonic Dances and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Opus 36.

There's a candlelight vigil tonight, 7/3, for Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the journalists imprisoned in North Korea. The vigil starts at 8:30 p.m. at Civic Center Park, on the side near the Denver Art Museum.

Fireworks tonight and tomorrow over Coors Field for July 4, after the Rockies games.

UPDATE: The Rockies lost the game, but the fireworks show was great. People in the Rockpile got the best deal of the night: They sat in center field for $4, but at the end of the game, people in center and left field got to move down ONTO THE GRASS! to watch the fireworks being set off behind the scoreboard! PC says it's the best lawn he's ever sat on. TP took his shoes off to enjoy it. It was a long show, set to music, with 48,000 or so people in the stadium watching.