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Richard Stites lays pictures of his dead son on the family's dining room table. Here's a shot of Nolan Edward Stites when he was 7: a fair-skinned cowlick of a kid aiming a .22-caliber rifle in the woods. An avid outdoorsman, Richard couldn't wait to teach his boy to shoot and survive in the wild. And here's a shot of teenage Nolan with his rifle... MORE
Easy access to the mountains isn't the only thing keeping us in Denver, it's the city itself - and Denver, it's been a good year! In our annual quest for the best of the best, we turned over more than a few rocks hunting down new reader-friendly services, sampling hundreds of metro-area menus, shopping ourselves broke at new shops, and keeping an... MORE
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“When we started out, we were living on $75 a day and eating Top Ramen, sleeping in the bar most of the time,” Phil Bianchi says of opening Quixote’s True Blue in 1996. “When we made it through the first month and paid rent, we high-fived and jumped around. Then we had to worry about the next month.”This uphill battle to keep Quixote’s alive... MORE
Out in the Open:How to Make the Most of Your Urban Balcony For most, city living means learning the economy of small spaces. However, when you couple space limitations with the fact that Colorado enjoys more sunshine than the Sunshine State, it’s no wonder many loft owners are eyeing their balconies as valuable outdoor real estate. As we head into... MORE
Neighborhoods provide a city’s texture, and Denver is especially blessed in that regard. But while Washington Park, Cherry Creek North, Old Towne Arvada, and Applewood are well-known across the metro area, they’re only the first chapter in a more interesting story.Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover that these neighborhoods are, in fact, made... MORE
Location, location, location. For most people, the neighborhood where you buy a home is as important (if not more so) than the actual home itself. (You can renovate a house, but it’s much tougher to renovate the neighborhood.) We selected a variety of neighborhoods throughout the metro area and have posted their vital stats here. Whether your top... MORE
The real estate agents are calling it a buyer’s market. The newspapers say prices are flattening out and homes are taking longer to sell, leaving buyers with many more options. Sounds good to me. I’m a buyer, we’ve got some money to spend, and we definitely need a bigger place. Plus, my boyfriend and I just got engaged, so it would seem like the... MORE