- The Colorado Plateau is a huge, outdoor playground in southwest Colorado and three neighboring states. It has an abundance of national and state parks, monuments, and wilderness areas. Bill Haggerty's new guidebook, "Discovering the Colorado Plateau," reveals the hidden wonders.
- With the fall apple harvest underway, it's cider season! Pilgrims drank the stuff like water. Prohibition nearly snuffed it out. And more recently, artisanal hard cider -- a boozy cousin of apple juice -- has proliferated, with cideries popping up across Colorado-- meeting the demand for this farm-to-table beverage.
- This is the story of an apple scavenger hunt.
- Miles and miles of bike trails weave through the Grand Valley and cycling events draw locals and tourists alike. But you don't even have to enjoy riding to get in on this one -- a bike opera. "One Bike" is an opera based on a book by Grand Junction bike shop owner Chris Brown. Local music educator Scott Betts turned Brown's story into what he calls a folk/jazz opera.
- A unique piece of land in Colorado's most remote county will be preserved for the public. We first talked about this "island escape" in December when Hinsdale County was raising money to buy an archipelago from a private owner. That purchase is now official and the county's working on next steps.
- Back in the day, an annual pinto bean recipe contest in Cortez culminated in the crowning of a Pinto Bean Queen.
- Cyclists are usually focused on what's ahead -- on the road or the trail. But Grand Junction bike store owner and avid cyclist Chris Brown prefers to look backwards. He is a cycling history buff. He has a bicycle museum in his Brown Cycles shop, and this year he published a historical fiction book called 'Bicycle Junction.' It takes readers through 140 years of the Grand Valley's cycling-related past. As 2020 comes to a close, we are revisiting interviews with creative innovators in Colorado.
- The sale is slated to close on Dec. 15.
- Heading into Thanksgiving, we revisit our 2019 conversation with the chef at Zolo Grill in Boulder, about how to add green chiles into the traditional holiday recipes. Zolo Grill closes permanently on Wednesday, November 25.
- Being wounded by an anti-tank grenade in Iraq was tough. But rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic was even more of a challenge. Denver native and Marine veteran Evan Stratton is a Purple Heart recipient who spent 50 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes rowing earlier this year, before pandemic-distancing, with three other vets, from the Canary Islands to Antigua. They did this to bring attention to veterans' mental health and the need to stay active and engaged after leaving the military. Stratton spoke with Ryan Warner in February about "Fight Oar Die."
- The hand-painted curtains and sets had been moldering in the attic under layers of coal and bat guano dust for more than a century. Then a theater historian found the motherlode.
- When heavy smoke settles over vines, as it did recently during the Pine Gulch Fire, it can cause something called “smoke taint” that can impact the taste of wine. Miranda Ulmer is a Colorado State University Extension viticulture specialist. She is hoping for the best as she surveys vineyards around the Grand Valley for possible smoke damage.
- Highs and lows on a first day of school remade by the pandemic.
