2:07 pm, May 22, 2012
The Selection Process How the Top Dentists List is CreatedThis list is excerpted from the 2012 topDentists list, a database that is created from peer evaluations and includes listings for more than 500 dentists and specialists in Colorado alone. To compile this list, topDentists asked dentists and specialists a personal question: “If you had...
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1:32 pm, May 22, 2012
5280.com Exclusive Watch writer Robert Sanchez swim against her and view a slideshow of images here. On a cool January night, more than a dozen preteen girls crowded a staircase above a hallway that led to the Olympic-size pool inside the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus. The girls...
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12:17 pm, May 22, 2012
ROCK CLIMBING: Still Learning Clear Creek Canyon West of Golden Sweeping vistas extend for miles as you approach Clear Creek Canyon on U.S. 6 heading west, where you’ll find a solid mix of easy and advanced routes. Using an area-specific guidebook (you can pick up Clear Creek Canyon Rock Climbs [2008] by Darren Mabe at any local...
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5:24 pm, May 21, 2012
The State of New Mexico has coined the phrase “Land of Enchantment.” (Seriously. It’s printed on the state quarter.) But most Coloradans who travel south on I-25 don’t venture past Santa Fe to Albuquerque to find out what else might be enchanting about our neighbor to the south. Perhaps this is the result of a pervasive impression that Albuquerque...
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2:09 am, Apr 23, 2012
On any given night, ask your friends, colleagues, or neighbors what they’re doing and where they’re going, and chances are the word “Highlands” will be part of the answer. Maybe they’ll be dining on pork steamed bao at the hotter-than-hot Linger, or grabbing a Negroni at the hipper-than-hip Williams & Graham. Maybe they’ll be canoodling over...
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1:32 am, Apr 23, 2012
5280.com Exclusive: Images from May's Back at the Ranch.Take authentic ranch living, add upscale accommodations, chef-prepared cuisine, and countless outdoor activities and adventures, and you’ve got the makings of a Western guest ranch. Escape to one of these six dreamy destinations for a taste of the Old West—and the good life.4UR RanchCreede,...
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11:46 pm, Apr 22, 2012
Ask a Colorado gardener about cultivating a backyard paradise and they’ll quickly point out the challenges of growing in this high-altitude, arid climate. The biggest obstacle, though, may simply be the competition. No, we’re not talking about your neighbor’s perfectly manicured lawn. It’s the fourteeners, wildflower meadows, aspen groves, and...
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11:35 pm, Apr 22, 2012
5280.com Exclusive: Images from May's Den Masters.The sun has risen, but it’s still early enough that the city is cast in shadows when I meet Toshihiro and Yasuhiro Kizaki, of Sushi Den and Izakaya Den, in the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Yasu, the older of the two brothers, rolls down his car window and instructs me...
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11:10 pm, Apr 22, 2012
John Malone—Liberty Media chairman, Coloradan, and conservationist—owns about 2 million acres of land in the United States, which is more than anyone in the country. And the 71-year-old media mogul, who is worth $5.1 billion according to Forbes magazine, isn't done yet. "We'll keep adding," Malone says, "as long as they represent decent...
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9:39 pm, Apr 22, 2012
No one really enjoys boxing up books, but recently I found myself doing just that, happily, in a small duplex in Denver. I was there to help some friends, who needed to move themselves and their books. You may have helped friends move, but probably not like this, because my friends are the proud caretakers of about 30,000 volumes.To put it mildly...
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9:32 pm, Apr 22, 2012
The unmistakable sounds of jazz pierce the sweltering late-summer air. In one smoky club, saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young trade riffs with trumpeter Buck Clayton in between breathy verses sung by Helen Humes, while the great Count Basie holds court in the lounge. Across the street, Duke Ellington revs up his legendary orchestra. Down...
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11:33 pm, Mar 28, 2012
CASE STUDY: Back in Action On July 16, 2011—about halfway into the Colorado Rapids’MLS Cup–defending season—leading scorer Conor Casey tore his Achilles tendon. The rare injury ended Casey’s season. Here’s how he’s returning to playing form. Conor Casey laid chest-down on a medical exam table deep inside Seattle’s CenturyLink Field...
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10:14 pm, Mar 28, 2012
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12:25 pm, Mar 28, 2012
In March 2009, Alfredo Conovilca-Matamoros left his native Peru for a promising job as a sheepherder in western Colorado. Peru has an established sheep industry, and his new employer, like many American ranchers, was seeking workers with the esoteric know-how so crucial to herding and caring for sheep. Conovilca-Matamoros came to the United...
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4:15 pm, Mar 27, 2012
BEFORE AND AFTER: Solid InvestmentThis West Washington Park duplex (pictured above) was purchased by property investor Andrew Johnsen via 8z Platinum Partners. Together with his brother, architect Roger Johnsen—the duo owns architectural and interior design company Jtwo Design and Development—he strategically knocked out walls ...
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