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It’s been more than five years, but I can still remember feeling the hot flash that coursed through my body the moment I realized I had barely escaped being scammed out of $1,000. The ruse had been so persuasive, so meticulously crafted, so professional—yet more than a sense of relief, I felt embarrassed. I was also very, very angry. It was that unpleasant experience, and a few others before and after it, that made me understand, even just a little bit, how Danielle Shoots, Regan Byrd, Brenda Herrera Moreno, and so many other Coloradans likely felt when they began to comprehend the level of deception they say they encountered at the hands of a person they thought they could trust—a man who went by the name Aaron Clark. In this…
When the Illinois Holocaust Museum asked John Pregulman if he’d photograph a group of Holocaust survivors, the former fashion and dance photographer turned investment banker discovered that his subjects’ biggest fear was being forgotten. So John set out to document as many survivors as he could, a mission that would lead to an even bigger calling after John photographed a woman in Orlando, Florida, with the help of his now wife, Amy Pregulman. “Like most grandmothers, she wanted to feed me after I took her picture,” John says, “but when she opened her fridge, there was nothing in it.” Research revealed that around a third of Holocaust survivors in the United States live in poverty (or nearly so), inspiring the couple to found Kavod in 2015. Last year, the Denver-based…
From 2019 to 2020, Colorado’s GDP remained static at $397 billion, leading many financial prognosticators to foresee a recession. They were wrong. Over the next two years, the Centennial State’s economy leapfrogged the pandemic, high inflation, and a war in Ukraine on its way to 24 percent growth. Now, in 2024, economists are predicting that the country will avoid a recession but finally experience a slowdown. So we spoke with local experts to find tips for weathering an idling economy—just in case the pundits are right this time. › Perfect Your Cooking Skills Although Denver’s inflation was higher than the national average this past September (5.4 percent to 3.7 percent, respectively), Bill Craighead, program director of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs’ Economic Forum, expects prices to level off in…
Each episode of HGTV’s Rico To The Rescue starts the same way. Footage of crushed concrete piles, half-demolished walls, and exposed plumbing plays while a dejected Denver-area homeowner explains that the chaos is due to a dodgy contractor. Enter the reality show’s protagonist, local home restoration expert Rico León, who, alongside interior designer Poonam Moore, saves the botched renovation. Securing a spot on the small screen was the result of León’s own disaster turned blessing. A Pittsburgh native, León landed in Denver in 2018 when his car broke down en route to Los Angeles. He decided to stay and began working in emergency restoration and construction. It didn’t take long for him to spot a new business endeavor. “There were a lot of contractors who meant well and were good…
After serving in the Iraq War, Sean Azzariti came home to Denver in 2005 with PTSD. Although Colorado had medical marijuana at the time, he couldn’t purchase it to treat that illness because PTSD wasn’t recognized under the state statute. The omission inspired Azzariti to champion pot for everyone. He was such a passionate advocate, in fact, that the framers of Amendment 64 arranged for Azzariti to be the first person in U.S. history to buy state-sanctioned recreational weed when Colorado commenced sales in January 2014. Ten years later, we spoke with Azzariti, now a chemist for a cannabis company, about the trip legal marijuana has taken after his historic score. 5280: You’ve been enmeshed in the cannabis scene since the beginning. How has it changed? Sean Azzariti: Colorado used…
