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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4:00 pm, Mar 20, 2013
The first thing you notice when you walk into the home of Tim Macdonald and Jodi Blomberg is the whirl of twigs and branches that gracefully hangs over the kitchen island. When Macdonald, an attorney, and Blomberg, a mathematician, bought their Seventh Avenue Historic District house—a circa-1895 Queen Anne/Tudor hybrid—they had distinct ideas for...
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3:25 pm, Mar 20, 2013
Like many couples who’ve been married 32 years, Jim Logan and Sherry Wiggins make an excellent collaborative team. And because they’re both tremendously artistic—he, a nationally recognized green architect, and she, a locally celebrated artist and sculptor—the results of their teamwork can be striking. Take their newly constructed Boulder home: an...
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3:09 pm, Mar 20, 2013
Eager to start renovations on their newly purchased historic Boulder house, Alexandra and Grant Besser began the herculean task of clearing out the previous owners’ belongings. The home had been in the same Boulder family for 90 years, and it was sold to the Bessers with everything in it. Knee-deep in clutter, they made an exciting discovery....
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2:42 pm, Mar 20, 2013
Call it curiosity. Nosiness. Voyeurism. There’s something fabulously indulgent about peeking into interior designers’ own homes and seeing if their real-life spaces are as gorgeous as the ones they design. Andrea Monath Schumacher’s home in Bow Mar delivers. The 2,800-square-foot mid-century ranch is the quintessential representation of her work,...
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