Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2019 i 5280 Magazine

“Compass has managed to attract and retain the top 10% of real estate agents in the country, and I’m proud to be surrounded by such talent.” Lori Abbey “Since joining Compass and utilizing the technology of coming soon marketing and concierge, our team has seen continued growth and a streamlined process, which has directly and exponentially impacted our clients.” Kristen Abell “With the ability to update our sellers’ homes before the sale with Compass Concierge, we offer more than the competition and net our sellers more money.” The Nelson Team Zac Nelson & Kathy Nelson “Compass’ mission is “to help everyone find their place in the world,” from clients to agents to staff. I love affiliating with a brokerage that values my experience as much as that of my clients.”…

BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN Photographer Denver lensman Benjamin Rasmussen lives just five minutes from the Grizzly Rose, a 30-year-old gathering place for the city’s two-stepping community. But he’d never passed through its cherry red doors until 5280 asked him to photograph the venue for “The Last Honky-Tonk” (page 94). “I was surprised,” Rasmussen says. “The crowd isn’t a bunch of hipsters who think it’s quaint or ironic. Some of the patrons have been going for decades.” To capture a feeling of intimacy, Rasmussen shot simple portraits of longtime Grizzly Rosers alongside high-energy photos of dancing couples and mechanical bull riders. “It’s about making quiet images in frenetic settings,” he says. Rasmussen’s work has also appeared in Vanity Fair and Time. DENISE MICKELSEN Food Editor When food editor Denise Mickelsen began planning this…

When Fannie Mae Duncan (pictured) opened the Cotton Club’s doors in the early 1950s, she wanted to bring top-notch entertainment to Colorado Springs. She succeeded—the venue often hosted musicians such as Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington before it closed in 1975—but it was her “everyone welcome” policy, inviting both black and white audiences to shows in an otherwise segregated community, that transformed the city. Duncan will be memorialized as a catalyst for peaceful integration in Colorado Springs on October 26, when Fort Collins sculptor Lori Pandy unveils a life-size bronze likeness of Duncan (complete with her signature four-inch heels) in front of the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts. As the city’s first statue of an African American woman, the sculpture underscores another issue: Only 10 percent of outdoor…

1 After witnessing the Sand Creek Massacre, Cavalry Private Amos C. Miksch testified to the attack’s brutality. The Miksch-Helmer Cabin, which he later built on 160 acres of land, still stands close to mile three near Chatfield State Park. 2 Fall is the best time to eat plums from the once-farmed, now-wild fruit trees that line the canal from mile 14 to 34. (The downside to this section? Goat head thorns. Keep a patch kit handy in case one punctures your bike tire.) 3 Around mile 29, spot the colorful cluster of ceramic birds placed in a cottonwood tree by an unknown artist. 4 The conservancy’s strategy to preserve the trail includes updating the mile markers, a project that will be completed in 2020. (Mileages on this page reflect current…

Amber Hage-Ali has never been one to shy away from death. As a kid hiking in her native Ohio, she collected plants and insects, arranging them into snapshots of nature inside glass containers. Most fascinating to her, though, were tiny reminders of former lives: bones. Hage-Ali incorporated rodent skulls and vertebrae into her little worlds but kept the “terroriums” to herself, friends, and family members, assuming they’d be too gruesome for public viewing. Even after continuing to make them as an adult, Hage-Ali, now 30, needed the encouragement of her boyfriend, Ian Johnson, a taxidermist she met after moving to Colorado in 2017, to realize others might want these delicate juxtapositions of decay and regrowth in their homes. Once the couple found success at markets and on Etsy, Hage-Ali and…

IN 1989, WHILE MILLI Vanilli was blaming it on the rain and Cher was turning back time, a little-known Oklahoman named Garth Brooks was feeling much too young to feel so damn old inside a brand-new honky-tonk in industrial north Denver. The Grizzly Rose had just opened and was one of the first clubs in America to book Brooks. “This is kind of where it started,” Brooks told reporters before his performance at Empower Field at Mile High this past June. Both Brooks and the Rose—as it’s affectionately called—rode America’s obsession with line dancing and country music through the ’90s. By the end of that decade, Brooks owned more than 20 number one hits and Denver boasted about half a dozen country music clubs. Today the Rose is, arguably, the…

IT ONLY TOOK 1.7 SECONDS. The Ford Taurus was northbound at 65 mph. It lost control, crossed the median, ejected its driver, became airborne, then crashed into the windshield of a southbound HVAC service van. The impact instantly killed the van driver and injured his co-worker in the passenger seat. First responders smelled alcohol on the breath of the Taurus driver. Her blood test result was positive for alcohol. Felony charges were filed against her alleging careless driving causing death—aggravated by DUI. The wrongful death case on behalf of the family of the van driver would appear simple and straightforward. Make a claim. Settle it quickly. Case closed. However, to get the best outcome for our clients, the van driver’s widow and their 2-month old baby, would be complicated and…

Two years ago, the Denver Nuggets’ training staff was struggling with an influx of data. An explosion of technology—all those wearables and apps—had produced a bevy of numbers about players’ performances. However, sprint-speed information gathered by one app was uploaded to an Excel spreadsheet, while the wearable that tracked heart rate only sent figures to a specific website. Having to toggle between various databases made it challenging to get everyone on the same page to make informed decisions about athletes’ health. 100-64 The Nuggets’ regular-season record after the team began using Smartabase full time That changed in 2018 when the Nuggets began using Smartabase full time. A software program created by Australian analytics company Fusion Sport—which has its North American headquarters in Boulder—Smartabase takes statistics about players’ fitness and well-being…

NATIVE AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY American Indian antiquities fill the upper level of this Civic Center neighborhood shop, including a room brimming with intricate textiles. Downstairs, find jewelry, pottery, and paintings by contemporary Native American artists. Don’t miss the “parfleches” (rawhide bags and containers) made and painted by Southern Ute tribe member Debra Box, whose work appeared in Dances With Wolves. nativeamericantradingco.com INDIGENOUS FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL In its 16th year, the fest (October 10 to 14) showcases the work of native filmmakers and artists at venues across Denver. The headlining movie, Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen, documents the life of late Māori director and producer Merata Mita. “It’s about an indigenous woman breaking down barriers in her career,” Murdoch says. “The story inspires my cooking.” kuvo.org DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS…

Chile-spiced dried mango. Yogurt-covered blueberries. Crispy plantain chips. These are not items you’d expect from a company called the Women’s Bean Project (WBP), but the Denver-based nonprofit has had 30 years to expand its horizons. In 1989, founder Jossy Eyre used $500 of her own money to launch a soup-mix business that would also train and empower chronically unemployed women. Since then, the WBP has graduated over 1,000 students—many experiencing homelessness, transitioning out of incarceration, or recovering from substance abuse—from its social enterprise program. Participants gain job and life skills, mentorship, and paid work experience assembling soup and chili mixes, baked-good kits, and snacks (available online, at local Safeways, and regional Whole Foods Markets). We’re filling our packs with the WBP’s latest creations, which not only include those blueberries, mangoes,…

WHITE PIE 1702 Humboldt St. 303-862-5323 whitepie.com THE DRAW: New Haven–inspired pizzas, excellent fresh pastas, well-composed drinks THE DRAWBACK: Salads need work NOISE LEVEL: Moderate DON’T MISS: Pizzas (especially the white, Fuggetaboutit, and pepperoni), arancini, lasagna, gnocchi, chicken Parmesan A few years ago, I became obsessed with seeing how thin I could make my pizza crusts. After stretching and resting the dough, I would drape it over my fists and stretch it even farther until translucent, as if I were making strudel. What emerged from the oven was blistered, black on the bottom, and brittle to its edges. Was it even pizza? I suppose so: baked dough, stuff on top. But you could also argue that it was nothing more than fancy crackers and that I had lost my marbles.…

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Ask the guy sitting next to you at the bar if he prefers the high he gets from Northern Lights or Sour Diesel, and he’ll likely answer you as easily as if you’d asked whether he likes IPAs or Pilsners better. That’s how it is here in the promised land of weed. We know our cannabis—or, at least, we know (and love) the dreamy euphoria that comes from our friend marijuana, a version of cannabis replete with tetrahy-drocannabinol (THC). Perhaps not surprisingly, we’ve been much less chummy with marijuana’s straitlaced cousin, industrial hemp. That relationship is changing, though, because when Amendment 64 passed in 2012, some Coloradans saw an opportunity to revive a crop the U.S.government had essentially declared illegal more than seven decades earlier. Hemp, after all, is a…

In the same way farmers breed corn to be sweeter, plant breeders can coax the cannabis plant away from THC-laden marijuana into low-THC hemp. But it’s as much an art as it is a science, especially because research into hemp genetics stalled when the plant was basically banned in the 1930s. “It’s not like you can walk into True Value and buy CBD hemp seeds,” says Margaret MacKenzie of Collbran’s Salt Creek Hemp. That means farmers are on their own when it comes to learning how to select for traits that will deliver the desired end product, which, in Colorado, is fiber and grain about 30 percent of the time and CBD approximately 70 percent of the time. Hemp For Fiber & Grain For Americans who’ve grown up believing cotton…

On the second day I visited Balloon Boy’s father, he was standing in the back of a pickup truck, inflating balloons and letting the family dog bite them. That, perhaps, was the least bizarre part of my visit. During my time with Richard Heene, his wife, and their three sons, I was shown a video of the kids’ heavy metal band, the Heene Boyz; I got a demonstration of Richard’s back-scratcher, which he was selling online for $24.99; and I held a battery-operated fan encased in a small plastic box that men could shove down their pants to cool their genitals. “I want to sell that one to Tractor Supply,” Richard tells me. “Farmers sweat a lot.” He calls it the BlowJab. It’s roughly two hours from Manhattan, but New…

[ FROM THE EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ] Growing Green As we head toward another volatile election year and talk of a global economic slowdown becomes more prevalent, there’s a burgeoning industry in Colorado that—at least for now—appears to be immune not only to shortsighted partisanship, but also to the whims of the markets. If the first so-called green rush happened after the legalization of medical marijuana and the second came after the legalization of recreational weed, one could dub the recent explosion of the hemp business in the Centennial State green rush number three. Hemp, the nonintoxicating cannabis sibling of marijuana, may have been legalized in a 2018 federal farm bill, but the DEA still considers cannabis compounds, such as THC and CBD, Schedule I substances. That legal gray area hasn’t…

That more Monet doesn’t always mean more problems. Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, an exhibit featuring paintings from the artist, visits the Denver Art Museum from October 21 to February 2. The Colorado Department of Transportation’s assurance that the sinkhole on U.S. 36 near Westminster should be fixed this month. Your favorite Pepsi Center moments. The home of the Avalanche and Nuggets turns 20 on October 1. (Our hearts are still going on about the facility’s first show, a Celine Dion concert.) How at least applying to colleges is getting cheaper. The Colorado Department of Higher Education and local universities will waive application fees for in-state students on October 15.…

When he was seven, Charlie Craven lost all of his father’s fishing tackle during a single day of staggeringly wayward casts. The elder Craven punished young Charlie by buying him a fly-tying kit and telling him to replace the equipment. Thus began the career of “maybe the most versatile, productive tier ever,” according to Dave Student, a fly specialist at Louisville’s Umpqua Feather Merchants, the Nike of fly sellers. Craven got his first job tying in middle school, and the Northglenn native started inventing his own designs while working as a fishing guide in college. His creations often repurpose materials in surprising ways. For example, Craven mimicked the ribs of a midge fly—a favorite autumn snack of lake-dwelling trout—with Super Hair, a crinkled nylon filament mostly used to snag saltwater…

Joel Fredrickson wasn’t shopping for a side hustle when he wandered into a camping store during a recent trip to Nashville. Then an employee complimented his Micro Grid hoodie from Melanzana, a small outdoor apparel company based more than 1,000 miles away in Leadville. “You know you can buy those and sell them online for more money,” she told him. “People are doing that nowadays.” Fredrickson, a physical therapist based in Englewood, didn’t follow her advice. But plenty of others have. Melanzana’s fleeces—available only in Leadville, at the brand’s lone store—have essentially become the Beanie Babies of the adventure world. Out-of-staters post in Facebook groups begging locals to ship them the company’s hand-sewn products in exchange for a $10 premium. On eBay, shoppers pay $50 to $100 more than the…

“I was a hospice nurse until I was 27. I asked people who were dying, How are you so at peace? They would tell me, Oh honey, I got to live my dream—whatever that was. For me, that was stand-up comedy. At the time, I was living in Honolulu. This new club had opened, and they were holding tryouts. I was like, OK, you have to do this. It was the best two minutes of my life, and they hired me right on the spot.” “The Easy Bake Oven thing comes up a lot in my comedy. I did a competition recently in Rapid City, South Dakota, and the buzz was some woman did an entire set about an Easy Bake Oven. (It was me.) When I write, I find…

URBAN BURMA Rice noodle dishes may be the star attraction at 37-year-old Siri Tan’s Burmese food stall, but don’t overlook the rest of the menu, which includes expertly fried and ultra-flaky curried vegetable and potato samosas and crunchy, earthy “laphet thoke” (fermented tea leaf salad), which is a riot of textures. The “nan gyi dok,” though, is the true object of our affection: thick, slippery noodles (similar in width and consistency to udon) coated in a rich chicken curry and topped with cilantro, a lime wedge, half of a custardy hardboiled egg, and crispy fried onions. JASMINE SYRIAN FOOD When the Alnouri family emigrated from Damascus, Syria, to Aurora two years ago, they didn’t speak more than a few words of English. Today, Mohamad and his parents run their own…

Q House City Park $$$ Of all the food I tasted during 600-some restaurant meals in 2019, chef Christopher Lin’s “lu rou fan”–inspired braised pork rice at year-old Q House was possibly the most craveable and comforting. The Momofuku alum is a whiz with rice (and carbs in general), transforming each grain into a perfectly tender—never mushy—morsel. Studded with pork belly and tangy pickled mustard greens, that dish draws me back to Q House again and again. With it sitting at the center of the table, the other items shown here illustrate how I’d round out meal 601. “A lot of chefs look at fusion as smashing foods together, but Norman Van Aken [of Norman’s in Orlando, Florida] taught me to look at it as an organic melding of different…

If you haven’t noticed, Coloradans don’t much care what the folks in Washington, D.C., have to say about…well…most things. So, much as it did with marijuana, the Centennial State has been making its own rules when it comes to hemp, which has positioned our rectangular plot of fertile ground at the vanguard of the trend. Five years ago, no one in Colorado was (legally) sowing hemp seeds. But during the 2019 growing season, roughly 2,600 farmers registered more than 80,000 acres and 12 million square feet of greenhouse space with the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) to propagate hemp. Those numbers make Colorado one of the nation’s leading producers of low-THC cannabis, the majority of which is raised for CBD. Our lead over the CBD-producing competition—aka, other U.S. states—is no…

Laden with rocks and claylike in its consistency, the soil on this two-acre plot of land near Fort Collins doesn’t look particularly fertile to the untrained eye. Zane Kunau knows its richness, though. For the past several years, 35-year-old Zane and his wife, 37-year-old Kristen, have been digging in this dirt. Today, a Saturday in mid-June, they’re at it again, planting their fifth crop of hemp. As Kristen liberates another 12-inch-tall clone from its temporary plastic pot and plops it into a pre-dug hole in the ground, she smiles and then coos at the tiny sproutling. “Grow strong, little plant,” she says. “Thrive.” The charming incantation has been working well for the Kunaus. Freida Farms, the name of their company, has so far succeeded in what might be generously called…

The regulatory infrastructure for the national hemp industry is sorely lacking, which means CBD users need to do their due diligence, even if they live in the Centennial State. We asked Thuy Vu, director of operations and regulatory affairs for Evergreen-based hemp company Hammer Enterprises and former foodborne illness, outbreak, and marijuana investigator for the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, what steps Coloradans should take to make sure they’re purchasing quality products. May 31, 2019 Date that the FDA held its first public hearings on the safety and efficacy of hemp-derived cannabidiol products. 5280: We know the FDA and USDA are playing catchup with the newly legal hemp sector—what should consumers do to protect themselves in the meantime? Thuy Vu: We all need to pay attention to sourcing and…

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