- With the flip of a pandemic switch, a theater in Grand Lake went dark last year, and lost 20,000 customers. Michael Querio, is executive artistic director of Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater, which brings a bit of Broadway to the mountains. He is working to bring live theater back, hopefully in June.
- Millete Birhanemaskel's parents fled civil war in Ethiopia decades ago, while other family members stayed behind. Now war rages again in their home province, Tigray. Many of Birkhanemaskel's relatives have been displaced. Others are completely unaccounted for. Birhanemaskel, who owns a Denver coffee shop, recently visited Sudanese refugee camps in hopes of learning more about her family's whereabouts and about the war.