AWARDS
3:05 pm, Feb 24, 2012
5280 Named as a Finalist for 10 City and Regional Magazine Awards
This week, we learned that 5280 was named as a finalist for 10 City and Regional Magazine awards. We decided to round-up the finalists in one spot for you. Happy reading!1. Personality Profile: The Right to Live by Julie Dugdale2. Feature Story: Rewrite by Robert Sanchez3. Feature Story: The Fire Next Door by Robert Sanchez4. Writer of the... MORE
2:55 pm, Dec 28, 2011
The Saddlemaker
The Saddlemaker from 5280 on Vimeo.This video was a finalist for the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media.  Read more about Jesse Smith here.  MORE
10:13 pm, Nov 23, 2011
Direct Fail
This article was a finalist for the 2012 National Magazine Awards in the public interest category. It was also a finalist for a 2012 City and Regional Magazine Award in the civic journalism category. Sixteen-year-old Gary Flakes didn’t want to go to the police station, but his dad—his namesake, the career soldier—thought it was for the... MORE
5:32 pm, Aug 26, 2011
The Fire Next Door
This article was a finalist finalist for a 2012 City and Regional Magazine Award in the feature category. It also was part of Robert Sanchez's finalist portfolio for CRMA's writer-of-the-year. September 6, 2010, 10 a.m. Emerson Gulch Road Rodrigo Moraga fumbled with the iPhone in his pants pocket as he reached the top of the hillside and saw... MORE
2:26 pm, Jun 23, 2011
The Horse Whisperer
Tony Brunetti first pet a horse when his family was on a day trip to upstate New York, far from their bustling tenement in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. Tony was just five or six years old at the time, and a group of five horsemen stopped to let the wide-eyed boy have a closer look. “I felt the muscle and the bone and the hair... MORE
3:03 pm, May 27, 2011
The Last Resort
On a crisp, sunny day in February, Mike Jackson rockets up the slope of Battle Mountain on a snowmobile, sliding around lodgepole pine trees, leaving clouds of exhaust in his wake. He stops often, pointing out areas he’d like to take a chainsaw to, so he can unveil the ski resort that he—and so many others—see hidden in the virgin terrain. He... MORE
6:37 am, Apr 30, 2011
Rewrite
This article was a finalist for the 2012 Livingston Award for Young Journalists. It also was a finalist for a 2012 City and Regional Magazine Award in the feature category and was part of Robert Sanchez's finalist portfolio for CRMA's writer-of-the-year. Todd Stansfield is awake, just barely. A sedative enters his bloodstream through a needle... MORE
1:02 am, Dec 21, 2010
The Right To Live
Story hour is set to begin in the sunny children’s corner of the Boulder Public Library. About 15 kids, rosy-cheeked from the early March chill and bundled in miniature Crocs and North Face fleeces, cluster around a bright yellow rocking chair. Doting moms and dads sit cross-legged on the floor and stay within arm’s reach of their offspring to... MORE
9:06 pm, Nov 23, 2010
Unwanted
The baby Gabriel* had been crying—screaming really—for two hours, and it seemed like there was nothing Erika Righter could do about it. She tried rocking the eight-month-old baby in her arms. She tried cooing in his ear while holding him close and breathing in his smell, that mix of sweat and baby powder. Of course, she had felt his forehead and... MORE
6:47 am, Aug 29, 2010
The Education of Ms. Barsallo
This article was a finalist for the 2011 Livingston Award for Young Journalists. It was also a finalist for a 2011 City and Reginal Magazine Award in the civic journalism category. It will be included in the book Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists to be published in the fall of 2012.   Cigarette butts dot the... MORE
7:09 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Wing Men
Covert Operations Top: An F-16 banks away from the KC-135's refueling boom after a successful training exercise over terrain near La Veta, Colorado. Middle: Patrick Plonski, an airman with the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, operates the tanker's boom. Bottom: Very few people ever see the cockpit of a KC-135 tanker—the... MORE
7:09 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Power Broken
On the evening of August 25, 2008, the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Tamayo was the place to be. The pricey Mexican restaurant on the corner of 14th and Larimer streets, with a canopied rooftop deck and stunning view of the Pepsi Center, was the site of an exclusive convention kickoff party. It was filled with local and... MORE
7:09 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Gone
This article was a finalist for a 2011 City and Regional Magazine Association award in the feature writing category.It hasn't snowed in days, but the chill and wind remain. Randy Hansen is in no hurry to leave the warmth of his car, but he feels compelled. He scans the desolate expanse outside his car window: a seemingly endless open field of... MORE
7:09 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Low On 02
This article was a finalist for the 2010 National Magazine Awards in the personal service category.As the highest state in the Lower 48, Colorado sells altitude. It's what we've got that others want—which is why people come from all over to ski down our mountains, camp near our alpine lakes, and climb our fourteeners. Not that we blame them; we... MORE
7:08 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Out in the Cold
Click here to find links to the government agencies that oversee and participate in the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA), former Rocky Flats manager and undersecretary of Energy Robert G. Card, and the science of dose reconstruction. Judy Padilla was the last person you'd have pegged as a bomb builder. Five... MORE