Thirty-one years ago, Colorado’s Gary Hart launched his presidential campaign at Red Rocks. It ended about three weeks later in scandal. Best remembered for the punchline of a boat named “Monkey Business,” Hart’s 1988 presidential bid gets a new look in the movie, “The Front Runner,” that opens Friday in Denver. The film recounts the […]
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Is Denver’s contemporary architecture killing us?
In the not too distant future, a Colorado architect believes, someone will enter a novel, contemporary building designed with odd angles and sharp points, one of those places created to be “exciting” and “unusual,” and have a heart attack. And, this architect contends, as neuroscience advances and our understanding of neuroaesthetics deepens, the courts of […]
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Wine, peaches and CBD: Hemp fills gaps in the Western Slope’s orchards and vineyards
PALISADE – Ribbons of fruit trees and grapevines run across hillsides under the rocky folds of iconic Mount Garfield, the place where legendarily good Colorado peaches grow. Now another crop — hemp — is sending up green spikes in the midst of all that fruit. Dozens of Palisade-area growers are grabbing hold of the lucrative […]
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Climate change could double the cost of beer. We are not kidding.
The risk of climate change just hit the cooler: Serious global warming is a threat to beer. An analysis by a group of international researchers shows the availability of beer declining and its price going up in the face of drought and heat, potentially doubling the cost of a six-pack of cold ones at exactly […]
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Nobody looked twice at the old Denver building that stored a fortune in vintage Porsches — until its turn for redevelopment came
For years, the low building on the corner of 22nd and California streets covered an entire half-block with a structure that barely warranted a second glance. It was a bland mash-up of what used to be three distinct buildings, long since connected to create an 18,000-square-foot space while its exterior brick, devoid of identifying signs, […]
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Why Maker Faire Denver — a celebration of the city’s curiosity and ingenuity — got a makeover
Not long after last year’s Maker Faire Denver, Dan Griner got a call from Elise VanDyne, the seemingly indefatigable leader of the annual creative event for the past five years. Griner, an industrial designer, had just moved back to Denver after living in India. He was happy to connect with his old friend. “She cold-called […]
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A Gap commercial sparked partner dancing’s revival. Now blues dancers in Colorado are trying to reclaim a style lost in the frenzy.
Grey Ruffin had a vision for Denver to become a center of education around blues dance history, culture and style last year, when he took over as an organizer of one of Colorado’s largest blues dancing venues at the city’s Mercury Cafe. But first, he had to untangle the painful confusion and miseducation that wound […]
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Colorado is due for a new state park, but officials hope it won’t take 27 years to develop like the last one
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Colorado is growing at a rapid clip, yet only two new state parks have opened in the past dozen years. The newest, Staunton State Park, opened southwest of Denver in 2013 — 27 years after about half of the park’s rugged, mountainous acreage was donated to the state. Colorado Parks and Wildlife […]
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Great American Beer Festival makes New England IPA an official style — but it can’t end the haze debate
The most coveted medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival competition are hazy. For the first time, the Brewers Association will award medals at the festival Sept. 22 in downtown Denver for hazy pale ales, hazy IPAs and hazy double IPAs after creating new categories and guidelines for the styles earlier this year. The […]
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What’s new at GABF 2018? A whole new format, for one
The Great American Beer Festival will see major changes and the addition of new attractions when it returns to Colorado next week. One thing that won’t change: the beer. More than 4,000 different beers from more than 800 breweries are expected to pour at the Colorado Convention Center for the three-day event, Sept. 20-22. For […]