4:01 pm, Apr 25, 2013
It’s Saturday morning and you’re still rubbing sleep from your eyes when your cell phone rings. It’s your real estate agent. You exchange a few pleasantries before he gets to the point: Are you interested in selling your house? It’s an odd question, considering you haven’t told him you’ve even thought about putting a sign in your front yard. And,...
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3:39 pm, Apr 25, 2013
COLORADO SPRINGSThe Ride: Cheyenne CañonDistance: 11.4 miles round-tripTime: 1 hour or lessDifficulty: HardNearly every cyclist living in or around Colorado Springs, including international pros and riders training at the U.S. Olympic Complex, uses this climb to test his or her fitness level. Anything under 20 minutes qualifies a rider as a “...
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2:56 pm, Apr 25, 2013
Read more about Colorado's most dangerous jobs:Jobs: Who Does That For a Living? Sports: Eight Seconds to Glory Business: Dying to Work Sneak Peek: Colorado's Extreme JobsOr continue to our May feature, Risky Business. High AnxietyOperating the Royal Gorge Tram _____Name Bob CuppAge 70Title Tram senior operator, Royal...
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2:47 pm, Apr 25, 2013
Krystal Ryan was tired. Not work-tired, when your eyes start to burn. Or mom-tired, when your shoulders ache and your neck feels hollow. The 34-year-old mother of two was tired in a way she couldn’t sleep her way out of. She’d tried, but her 5-foot-7-inch frame had stopped doing what she wanted it to. Her nose ran constantly. Her teeth ached. By...
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2:14 pm, Apr 25, 2013
Two-wheeled commuters have long been frustrated by Denver’s one-way streets and disjointed cycling routes. The good news? The city continues to add safe options for cyclists on the road. Here’s how central Denver’s system of dedicated bike lanes and marked shared lanes (often used on streets too narrow for full bike lanes) has grown over the past...
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4:47 pm, Apr 24, 2013
April 1, 2011: My brain is not in cahoots with my body. This knowledge has come to me late in life. I naively thought they’d work together, since each semi-depends upon the other for the overall happiness of the creature known as Laura. The body needs to sleep, but the brain is all too willing—indeed, it diabolically wishes—to thwart that which it...
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4:37 pm, Apr 24, 2013
I’m standing thigh-deep in the translucent green waters of Colorado’s Gunnison River. Precambrian cliffs tower a thousand feet overhead, where the daily cycle of light and shadow plays out in a Crayola-like display of ochre, umber, sienna, rust, and slate. Here, at the bottom of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, my companions and I have miles and...
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1:25 pm, Mar 27, 2013
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12:51 pm, Mar 27, 2013
During the past year, Colorado has worked its way to the center of the country’s ongoing immigration debate, a rather impolite discussion about the mismatch between what the federal government says our immigration laws are, how those laws are enforced, and how states must deal with the resulting realities. As the state with the 17th-highest...
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11:30 am, Mar 27, 2013
In desperate need of the perfect trinket for a housewarming? In dire straits trying to find the cutest baby gift for the couple who has everything? Just want a new dress for a cocktail party? No matter where you live, we’ve got you covered with a rundown of splurge-worthy boutiques in and around Denver. Consider it our gift to you. _____CHERRY...
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6:43 am, Mar 27, 2013
Morning in the desert. Sunlight peeks over brush and boulders and ignites the canyon walls in brilliant swaths of orange and red. Will LaFever has been stranded alone on southern Utah’s Escalante River for nearly a month. The water is perhaps the only thing keeping him alive. Bordering on starvation and delirious from a lack of sleep, he is on his...
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6:25 am, Mar 27, 2013
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5:30 am, Mar 27, 2013
On April 20, 1999, Craig Scott was applying hair gel when his older sister, Rachel, called to him from the kitchen: “C’mon! We’re going to be late!” As they climbed into her red Acura and headed to Columbine High School, their annoyance was mutual. The siblings loved each other but were...different. Craig was 16, an athlete who tried to fit in...
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4:37 pm, Mar 20, 2013
Architect Mike Moore likes to see the world through his clients’ eyes. So when his firm, Tres Birds Workshop, was commissioned to design the new office for 3i—a Denver biotech company that develops optical microscopes—he asked to see the microscopes’ images. What he saw (airy, circular cells) held the answer to one of the project’s biggest...
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4:31 pm, Mar 20, 2013
Traditional design has a boring rep: The gabled rooflines, the carved wood millwork, the tailored upholstery—it all feels so earnest. But this house in Denver’s Bonnie Brae neighborhood proves that a home can have classic good looks and a little edgy glamour, too. “It’s in the details that you find youth,” says interior designer Beth Armijo,...
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