Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2021 i 5280 Magazine

When people look back on important milestones in their lives, they often attach ancillary details to those moments in their minds. They remember who was president when they graduated high school. They know what the number one song on the radio was the year they met their significant others. In my case, I connect my life’s wayposts to magazines. As this edition of 5280 hits newsstands, I can look back 20 years and recall the cover of the August/September 2001 issue I picked up the day I arrived in Denver as a 22-year-old aspiring journalist. Six weeks later, 5280’s founder, Dan Brogan, gave me a small desk, outfitted with a very large, teal iMac G3, and the chance to learn how to be a reporter, writer, and editor. Twenty years…

Boredom may not be solely to blame for your mini home makeover mid-quarantine: Denverite Allie Sutterer theorizes some simply craved environs that felt more personal. “You want your home to be the place you feel most authentically yourself,” she says. Convinced antiques deliver more character than IKEA, Sutterer started Star Power Vintage, an Instagram account where she sells thrifted decor, in summer 2020. Sutterer isn’t the only secondhand curator to grow in the past year: Instagram store Here in Heaven opened up a shop in Capitol Hill in April, and RiNo’s Meek Vintage recently debuted a second location in Country Club. We asked the owners about styles making a resurgence so you can suss out which best suits you. ART DECO This style gained prominence during the Roaring ’20s and…

“Did you see those mulberry, cherry, and peach trees? They’re bursting,” says Beverly Grant, who is practically bursting herself—from excitement—as she points toward the row of bushes that mark the southern edge of Mo’ Betta Green’s first urban farm, a 5,000-square-foot lot on a quiet, residential corner in Cole. “I look at fruit trees and berry bushes; that’s legacy farming. They’ll be there long after [we’re gone],” Grant says. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving.” Grant’s gift to her hometown is about more than a few plants, though. Born and raised in the area between Five Points and Park Hill, the Denverite has spent the past 11 years working to increase access to local, organic, and healthy food. Grant founded Mo’ Betta Green in 2010 as a farmers’ market…

Although it’s a small plot of land compared with the average farm, PVCF’s Dixon Station received an appraised development value of $620,000. That $620,000 is the easement’s initial worth—a dollar value that PVCF likely cannot recoup if it ever decides to sell the conserved land. Due to an open space preservation tax program, however, Larimer County paid PVCF $150,000. Then, thanks to a bill passed this past spring, the co-op qualified for a tax credit of 90 percent on the remaining $470,000, or about $423,000. If the application for the credit is approved, the “donated” value—a dollar number PVCF theoretically gave up to conserve the land—will shrink to $47,000. Most of the time, small-scale farmers in Colorado choose to sell the tax credits privately or via a brokerage at a…

55 The percentage by which calls and texts to Colorado Crisis Services increased in 2020 over the previous three years. In October alone, 24,821 people made a request for assistance. 30.8 Percentage of Colorado adults who said they experienced symptoms of anxiety and/or depression at some point during spring 2021. 59 The percentage by which fatal drug overdoses increased in Colorado during 2020, compared with the average for the previous five years. Health officials say isolation brought on by the pandemic was a contributing factor in the massive jump.…

If you need immediate aid… Call Colorado Crisis Services at 1-844-493-TALK (8255) or text “TALK” to 38255. If you need help with substance abuse problems… Visit cowellness recovery.org, a resource from the state’s Office of Behavioral Health that walks you through what treatment might look like and how to pick a provider that best suits you. If you are an older adult looking for connection… Reach out to the Telephone Buddy program, which is funded by the Colorado Gerontological Society and connects people ages 60 and up with volunteers who will call to check in one to two times a week. If you are trying to understand what your health insurance might cover… Call the Colorado chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Law Line at 303-321-3104 to get…

THE STATE Governor Jared Polis “An estimated one million Coloradans live with a behavioral health condition, and we know the compounding traumas of last year have only worsened [things]. We need a system that can deliver timely, affordable, and responsive services.” Stimulus Funding Polis and Colorado Democrats committed to spending $400 million from the latest COVID-19 federal relief package on mental and behavioral health solutions. At press time, specific details about how the money would be allocated remained limited. Behavioral Health Administration Polis signed a bill in April to create a government entity that manages all the state’s behavioral health initiatives. The Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), which will begin operating in July 2022, was designed after a task force found that Colorado funded 75 different behavioral health programs that were…

Why didn’t you choose my doctor? We don’t pick the docs—Denver physicians do. For the past 27 years, 5280 has surveyed doctors and asked them, specialty by specialty, which metro-area physicians they would trust to treat themselves and their families. Our theory is that medical professionals are best qualified to judge other medical professionals. The ballot is posted on 5280.com from the end of January to mid-March each year. Every metro-area doctor with a valid Colorado medical license can fill it out. Once the doctor hits “save,” the votes are entered into our database and tallied. So doesn’t that make it one big popularity contest? In some respects, yes. We hope that doctors give us careful, responsible answers, but there’s little we can do to stop them from recommending their…

1 SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE, STEP ASIDE: As a general rule, mountain bikers should yield to foot traffic and all trail users should yield to horses. But before you deputize yourself, consider this: Jhung recommends yielding based on effort, and in certain situations, it’s much easier for a runner to stop than a cyclist. If it’s possible for you to move off the trail, find a nice rock to stand on and think about all the karma points you’re racking up. 2 MIND YOUR BUSINESS: Nature calls every runner at some point. When number one rings, get out of sight—and at least 200 feet (about 70 steps) from the trail and water sources—by stepping on rocks, grass, or dirt instead of moss and wildflowers. If it’s number two? Go the same distance,…

ACHIEVE NIRVANA Roche describes flow as “when your normal level of consciousness isn’t the one driving your actions. It requires lots of effort at first, then none at all, and it’s definitely the pot of gold waiting at the end of the rainbow for any runner, not just professionals.” This byproduct of proper training sounds difficult—even unobtainable—but trust us: You’ll know it when you feel it. GO TO THE MOUNTAINTOP After three to four weeks of consistent running, it’s time for hill strides. Simply run an incline at a fast clip for 10 to 30 seconds and then run easily (or walk) for a minute or two. The training technique prevents your progress from stagnating and, as you conquer more and more workouts, convinces your brain that you—yes, you—are a…

Sarah Banks Associate Photo Editor Banks, a seasoned trail runner, captured images for and co-wrote “The 5280 Beginner’s Guide To Trail Running” (page 80). ON MAKING HER FRIENDS MODELS: ”I met almost all of the people I photographed for this story (and my husband!) through the Denver Trail Runners group. It felt important to show real runners instead of models.” BIGGEST PET PEEVE: ”Rude mountain bikers. But putting my pride aside and yielding if I can, which I wrote about, is something I’ve taken to heart, and it’s given me a lot more peace on the trails.” GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: “Finishing the Silverton Ultra Dirty, a 60K ultramarathon, in 2019, after a hard fall around mile 25.” ON 5280 • COM Top Of The Town: Readers’ Choice Awards Once again, 5280…

1 SCHOOL’S OUT FOR…LONGER The Denver Public Schools (DPS) board voted to start classes on August 23, a week later than usual, so that students don’t have to sweat it out (55 DPS schools lack air conditioning) during the hottest time of the year. The vacation extension comes with a downside, though: Those learning days will be tacked on at the end of the academic year. 2 HALTING AN EDUCATOR EXODUS Low pay, resource scarcity, and COVID-19-related challenges led 40 percent of Colorado Education Association members to say they’re considering leaving the profession, which would deepen the state’s teacher shortage. A new Colorado law bolsters recruitment efforts by directing the Department of Education to publicize teacher preparation programs, but with wages unlikely to increase, experts say retaining talent might be…

To spend a few hours with potter and sculptor Kazu Oba is to more deeply contemplate the purpose-filled existence of everyday objects. As I write, a small, cone-shaped porcelain sake cup of Oba’s making, glazed in streaky shades of sandy ochre, mustard, and chestnut, sits on my desk. It’s beautiful, sure, but now, after meeting Oba, I feel a fresh obligation to the thing: not merely to admire it but to use it. It occurs to me that he has turned me into a mystic, perceiving a latent energy in this object, an active expectation of use. Japanese-born Oba lives in an unremarkable house on a street in Lafayette. As you pull up, though, indications of arty business are rampant. From a steel structure shaped like a large swing set…

THE PROBLEM: Acute physical symptoms can be caused by underlying issues with mental well-being, but treatment often only focuses on immediate bodily complications. POSSIBLE SOLUTION: HealthOne opened one of the country’s first urgent care facilities with behavioral health outpatient services onsite this past May in Littleton. The behavioral health side of the practice will be mostly used for group counseling, not unlike the services offered at the health system’s other wellness clinics. If someone comes into urgent care with a prolonged stomachache, though, the on-call nurses and doctors can ask a mental health professional next door for a consult. That way, they can treat both the stomach problem and the anxiety that might be causing it. EXPERT TAKE: “People keep trying to silo emotions from physical health,” says Cindy Meyer,…

ADDICTION MEDICINE Susan Calcaterra UNIVERSITY 1635 Aurora Court, Sixth Floor Aurora 80045 720-848-2300 Alexis Carrington-Ford UNIVERSITY 1693 N. Quentin St. Aurora 80045 877-999-0538 Kaylin Klie DENVER HEALTH 667 Bannock St., Pavilion K Denver 80204 303-436-6000 Julie Taub DENVER HEALTH 777 Bannock St., Pavilion A Denver 80204 303-436-4949 ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY Joseph P. Cannavo ST. JOSEPH, GOOD SAMARITAN, LUTHERAN 10350 E. Dakota Ave. Denver 80247 303-338-4545 Christian Thurstone DENVER HEALTH 667 Bannock St., Pavilion K Denver 80204 303-436-6000 ADOLESCENT MEDICINE David W. Kaplan CHILDREN’S 860 Potomac Circle Aurora 80011 720-777-6131 Nicholas C. Kyriazi CHILDREN’S, SKY RIDGE 206 W. County Line Road, Suite 110 Highlands Ranch 80129 303-791-9999 Amy E. Sass CHILDREN’S 860 Potomac Circle Aurora 80011 720-777-6131 ADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Joseph D. Kay CHILDREN’S, UNIVERSITY 13123 E. 16th Ave. Aurora 80045…

✖ Mountain lions: Never approach a cougar, but don’t run, either; you don’t want it to think you’re prey. Rather, act like a threat by speaking in a firm voice and making yourself as large as possible. If a mountain lion does attack, fight back and go for the eyes. These animals don’t like a challenge. ✖ Black bears: You might have been told to ball up and play dead in the event of a bear encounter. That’s good advice for grizzlies—which have been considered locally extinct since 1951. Like mountain lions, our less aggressive black bears likely won’t square up to a threat, so get big and loud. (Just to be safe, though, avoid known black bear habitats at dawn and dusk; that’s when they are the most lively.)…

The Colorado River Basin is drying out. The watershed has been gripped by a historic drought for two decades, and flows in its namesake river have dropped by 20 percent over the past century. Conditions are so dire that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is expected to issue the federal government’s first water shortage declaration this month, which will prompt cuts to supplies across the Southwest. But folks whose lives are tied to one of the basin’s tributaries in northwestern Colorado aren’t standing by idly. In September 2019, more than 20 regional partners from throughout the Yampa River Valley, including recreation-focused businesses, farmers, nonprofits, and municipalities, joined forces to create the Yampa River Fund. Powered by a nearly $4 million endowment, the fund is doing what individual actors cannot: financing…

Denver’s fiercest fashion assassin, Rocco Lawson, is determined to break down what’s left of the gender binary. Their weapon of choice: makeup, which in today’s (and certainly tomorrow’s) world has expanded beyond the social confines of female beautification to a radical form of self-love and expression for everyone. On behalf of the cosmetically curious, we sought out the Wilhelmina Denver model and University of Colorado Boulder student to learn the basics of beating your mug for any occasion. STEP ONE Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Primer ($40) What: Primer is a moisturizer that minimizes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. How: Put enough product on your fingers to rub into your entire face, and pay close attention to wrinkles and dark circles under your eyes. Why: It makes your skin…

Set in small-town Idaho, Stephen Graham Jones’ newest tale, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, unfolds through the eyes of an Indigenous teenager obsessed with the world of slasher films. Jones, the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, is known for recasting the horror genre through Native characters and contemporary political twists. In this novel, for example, gentrification is the gore; the affluent are the preferred victims. And the final girl—i.e., the last woman left to confront the killer, typically an innocent cheerleader type—is nonwhite and aware of herself as a sexual being. Ahead of the book’s August 31 release, we spoke with the author about his impact on the slasher genre and upending the virgin-as-heroine trope. 5280: How do your characters reimagine the politics of…

The list of major events 18-year-old Ashley O’Day feels like she missed because of the pandemic is long. “I didn’t get a prom. I didn’t take the SAT. I couldn’t get my license for like four months after I was supposed to,” she says. Instead, O’Day (pictured), who graduated from Jeffco Virtual Academy in May, spent almost all of 2020 completing homework assignments online and casting about for other ways to fill the repetitive days. She rarely saw friends and stopped going to therapy because she didn’t like virtual counseling. “It’s hard being alone with your thoughts all day, every day,” she says. “I lost a sense of self and purpose.” O’Day is far from the only Colorado kid grappling with the emotional downsides of distance learning and social isolation.…

5280: Had there been any recent, meaningful progress made to fix Colorado’s broken mental health care system before March 2020? Atchity: Some changes had been made, but it wasn’t necessarily the best situation. We were near the bottom of most rankings for mental health care. We didn’t have enough resources for the number of people who needed help. I think the most notable change was in 2019, when Colorado passed the [Behavioral Health Care Coverage Modernization Act], which basically said insurance companies have to cover behavioral health costs on par with how they cover physical health, things like surgical costs. We still have some struggles implementing it, but that was an important step. Have you seen the pandemic shift people’s thinking about mental health? There has been a lot more…

AURORA – The Medical Center of Aurora—HealthOne AVISTA – Avista Adventist Hospital—Centura Health CASTLE ROCK – Castle Rock Adventist Hospital—Centura Health CHILDREN’S – Children’s Hospital Colorado DENVER HEALTH – Denver Health Medical Center GOOD SAMARITAN – Good Samaritan Medical Center—SCL Health HIGHLANDS RANCH – UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital—UCHealth LITTLETON – Littleton Adventist Hospital—Centura Health LUTHERAN – Lutheran Medical Center—SCL Health NATIONAL JEWISH – National Jewish Health NORTH SUBURBAN – North Suburban Medical Center—HealthOne ORTHOCOLORADO – OrthoColorado Hospital—Centura Health PARKER – Parker Adventist Hospital—Centura Health PORTER – Porter Adventist Hospital—Centura Health PRESBYTERIAN/ST. LUKE’S – Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center—HealthOne RMHC – Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center—HealthOne ROSE – Rose Medical Center—HealthOne SKY RIDGE – Sky Ridge Medical Center—HealthOne ST. ANTHONY – St. Anthony Hospital—Centura Health ST. ANTHONY…

TRAILTINOS Basics: Founded in June 2020, Trailtinos meets every other Sunday around 8:30 a.m. for group runs; times and locations can be found on Facebook and Instagram. Purpose: “This is a very white sport,” co-founder Victor Fallon says. “We wanted to create some diversity, so we started a simple group run for people of color.” Size: Five to 15 people Who should come: BIPOC runners of all abilities. “Right now, we’re keeping it to people of color,” Fallon says. “But eventually we want to open it to everyone.” Off off-road activities: The group often meets at a Hispanic-owned restaurant, such as Cultura Chocolate in Westwood, goes for a run, then heads back to the eatery for breakfast or coffee. FRONT RANGE CROSS COUNTRY (FRXC) Basics: FRXC, born in 2015, meets…

“I ran the Leadville Trail 100 and DNFed at mile 86. It was not a cute DNF. I was struggling to maintain consciousness. It had been a struggle to eat. I was hypothermic. I was just sitting, struggling to cry, on the side of the trail, watching like 100 people run past me while I was waiting for search and rescue. It stings because you’re embarrassed. I really thought that by finishing a 100-mile race, I would finally see myself as a trail runner or an ultrarunner and I would be welcomed into some amazing club. Finally, my value as an athlete would be apparent and obvious. It became super clear that that was not going to happen. What’s so weird is that it was definitely one of the best…

PRICE KEY (Average Entrée) ■ UNDER $ 10 ■ $$ $ 11 TO $15 ■ $$$ $ 16 TO $ 5 ■ $$$$ $ 26 AND HIGHER. SYMBOL KEY NEW Indicates a restaurant featured in 5280 for the first time (though not necessarily a restaurant that has just opened). 25 BEST Indicates inclusion in 5280’s 2019 list of Denver’s best restaurants; we did not release a 2020 list due to COVID-19 disruptions and closures. These selections are at the discretion of 5280 editors and are subject to change. A Adobo at First Draft RiNo / Latin-Asian Chef Blaine Baggao draws inspiration from his Filipino heritage and childhood in Roswell, New Mexico, to produce Latin-Asian specialties inside First Draft Taproom & Kitchen. 1309 26th St., 720-520-7869. Lunch, Dinner 25 BEST Annette…

Peter Heller’s new thriller, The Guide, out August 24, is set at a boutique fly-fishing lodge near Crested Butte, where the mountains are beautiful, the trout are tricky, the rivers are cold, and a pandemic lurks. Heller’s invented world, however, may be more believable to Coloradans than the Denver-based novelist and former expedition kayaker’s strangerthan-fiction real life. Can you guess which of these water-based adventures are true and which are fantasy? FACT OR FICTION? 1 The Japanese government once issued an arrest warrant for Heller and actress Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, Nashville) for their roles in the award-winning documentary The Cove. The crime? Paddling surfboards into a small bay, where local fishermen were actively killing pilot whales, to protest the slaughter. 2 After being dropped off in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains at…