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Love Colorado Style

Here on the Front Range, the conventional wisdom is that the couple that plays together stays together. But is it true? 

Final Roundup

Despite increasing public pressure to ban the practice, thousands of Colorado’s horses will end their lives not out to pasture but on foreign dinner plates. Unless some determined rescuers—and their unlikely allies—can save them.

Magic Ingredient: Beef

When other crops are under snow, you can still buy Colorado-grown meat.

In My Kitchen: Chris Myer, Lodo Restaurant Group

As the owner of the Lodo Restaurant Group, 43-year-old Chris Myers is no stranger to a busy kitchen. But with two small children at home, Chris and his wife, Patty, a native of Mazatlán, Mexico, look for healthy and simple solutions that fit their busy schedules.

This Man Thinks You’re Fat

Michael Karolchyk has built his unorthodox fitness brand by offending nearly everyone. He calls himself the health conscience of America, but is he really trying to help you, or is he more interested in helping himself?

Perfecting Pleasantville

In many ways, Cherry Creek North represents the best of Denver. So why are the neighborhood’s leaders so consumed with making it even better?

Back to the Future

One Hilltop couple proves that, sometimes, all your home needs is a little face-lift.

A Time to Change

A milestone birthday. A major promotion. A hectic life as a caregiver, wife, mother, and volunteer. Patti Bennett needed a big change, fast. Here, her stunning transformation, plus our experts’ best makeover advice that anyone can use.

Web Exclusive: A Time to Change

You’ve read the story of how 5280 helped Patti Bennett get her new look. Now see her thoughts on how the transformation went and how she sees her “new” self.

Chips Barry: Water Wrangler

Denver enjoys some of the nation’s cleanest drinking water, thanks to Hamlet “Chips” J. Barry III, manager of Denver Water for the past 17 years. Here, the 64-year-old Denver native and Theodore Roosevelt look-alike expounds on family, global warming, and water usage in the West.

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