Innehållsförteckning för June 2023 från 5280 Magazine

FROM THE EDITOR Life’s Soundtrack The first time I recall hearing a fiddle, I was eight or nine years old. The overalls-clad musician with a scraggly gray beard was straddling a stool and chopping away with his bow. He and his bandmates—one of whom was playing the spoons, the other working a washboard—were part of the Vandalia Gathering, a celebration of folklife in Charleston, West Virginia, that’s been around since 1977. It’s probably been 35 years since that day, but I can still hear the old-timey squawking of that fiddle. Three years before the birth of the Vandalia Gathering, a group of long-haired Colorado hippies with a penchant for pickin’ staged the first iteration of what would become one of the most legendary annual musical events in history: the Telluride…

Stepping off bustling Welton Street and into the Marigold, a bar meets plant shop that opened in March, feels like entering a lush oasis. But the shoppable pothos and monsteras aren’t the only things that make this sun-filled spot refreshing. Instead of adding to the roster of whiskey-heavy bars around town, co-owners Genevieve Shifrin and Sudhir Kudva—part of the eight-person group behind local concepts such as Gold Point and the Matchbox—built the menu around inventive gin cocktails. “There’s so much more out there other than Tanqueray and Bombay,” Kudva says. “We’re trying to get people to explore.” Although other liquors (and beer and wine) are available, we recommend sampling a few of the Marigold’s 20 versions of the versatile botanical spirit in a flight. Of course, visitors could also simply…

For 50 years, most Americans believed the right to an abortion was settled law. Most Americans also think that equal protection, as ruled by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, is permanent and that innocence until proven guilty, buttressed by Taylor v. Kentucky in 1978, is here to stay. “Based on what the Supreme Court did with Roe,” says Dani Newsum, director of strategic partnerships for Cobalt, a Colorado-based reproductive-rights advocacy group, “we’d be crazy to think they won’t trash other ‘settled law.’” In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Newsum is concerned about one liberty in particular: the freedom of movement between states, which was defined by Corfield v. Coryell as a constitutional right in 1823 and again by Crandall v. Nevada in…

ON THE MEMORY CARD ”The bass player for Stephen Kellogg‘s band, Kit Karlson, once stripped down to his boxers and ran around the festival while security tried, and failed, to stop him, thinking he was some crazed fan. The crowd went berserk!” THIS YEAR’S GOAL ”I want to focus (no pun intended) on getting some creative shots I’ve been thinking about over the years, like a group shot of the crowd from on top of the band shell stage.”…

THE (NAKED) STEAM KIT Sure, this three-dimensional puzzle meets construction kit from Longmont-based Zometool is expensive, but a toy that tricks your kids into learning about geometry, fractals, and the atomic structure of matter is priceless. $340 COLORFUL COLORADO COLORING JOURNAL More than just a coloring book, this title by Boulder artist Amanda Lenz pairs each of its 65 illustrations with an inspirational quote, details about the plants and animals featured, and enough white space for your budding artist to expand the scene. $15 YOUNG ARTIST SERIES NECK GAITER Town Hall, a Steamboat Springs–based kids apparel company, partnered with Denver’s Phunkshun to manufacture this 92-percent-recycled-material gaiter in-state using a 2021 design by Reese Davidoff, then a fifth grader at Steamboat’s Soda Creek Elementary. $20 SPACETEAM With just five minutes per…

When Taste of Haiti, Denver’s only Haitian restaurant, closed in 2019, Farah-Jane Jean Pierre took the matter—and batter—into her own hands. Using the culinary degree she earned in New Jersey after immigrating there in 2010, Jean Pierre started perfecting recipes for comfort foods from her home country in her own kitchen, eventually selling them at pop-ups in 2021. Fritay Haitian Cuisine, which evolved into a food truck a few months later, specializes in fritay (pronounced “free-tie”), an assortment of fried foods popular in the island nation. “There’s a vendor at every corner in Port-au-Prince,” says Jean Pierre, who owns the business with her husband, François Zannou. After taking a break at the end of 2022 to welcome their first child, the couple is back on the road slinging, among other…

The bird is striking: creamy gray body, square-tipped tail feathers, and a black slash at the back of its neck. My 13-year-old son expands the feathered accordion of its wing. “Isn’t it beautiful?” he says, admiring the Eurasian collared dove he’s just killed with his BB gun. He unzips the bird with a sharp knife, fingers out the viscera, and tugs off the feathered coat. I smell the particular, though not unpleasant, scent of internal organs: sharp and earthy. The head and innards go to our chickens, but the tiny, dark gumdrop heart is left under the ribcage, a delicacy for the hunter. We plunge the whole, undressed bird into a marinade glittered with diced garlic. We’ve been hosting birds since buying our 1950s ranch-style house in Durango’s Tupperware Heights…

■ Abortion is not restricted based on gestational age. ■ Qualified health care professionals—not just physicians—can perform abortions. ■ The 2022 Reproductive Health Equity Act codified a person’s right to use or refuse contraception and to continue or end a pregnancy; the act declared that a fetus does not have independent rights under state law. ■ The state provides protections from harassment and physical harm for anyone entering an abortion clinic. ■ Passed in April, the Protections For Accessing Reproductive Health Care bill protects patients, providers, and assistors of politically targeted health care—including abortion—from interstate criminal justice threats. This bill shields these individuals from criminal prosecution and imprisonment; court summons, subpoenas, and arrests; interstate investigations, divulging information, or assistance with investigations; and professional delicensing. ■ Passed in April, the Deceptive…

STEP 1 Make an appointment on justthepill.com. You’ll watch a short video, provide personal information, give your medical history, and complete some consent forms. STEP 2 If you live in a restricted state, you’ll have to get yourself to an area in Colorado served by Just The Pill’s delivery van. Once inside Colorado’s borders, you’ll need to do a 15-minute telehealth appointment with a Just The Pill–approved health care professional from wherever you can access Wi-Fi (many clients do this at a hotel). STEP 3 After the telehealth appointment, during which the clinician will explain how to take and what to expect from the medication, Just The Pill will let you know where the van—staffed by Just The Pill employees—will be parked. You’ll be given a pin code to access…

In a state where anti-abortion ballot initiatives have been soundly defeated in 2008, 2010, 2014, and 2020, abortion-rights advocates are ready to try their hands at taking their agenda to Coloradans in 2024. “Colorado can be a leader in this area,” says Karen Middleton, president of Cobalt. “We’re already talking with other states, like Kansas and Michigan, and giving them a copy of our plans.” /// Those plans include asking Colorado voters to approve two changes to the state constitution. The first would be to ask them to overturn a 1984 amendment that cut off public funds for abortion care, a law that impacts public employees such as teachers and firefighters. “This amendment is a relic of days gone by,” Middleton says. “It disproportionately affects the people who work for…

Track Records Two iconic acts—Hazel Miller and Big Head Todd and the Monsters—retrace their interwoven careers ahead of their induction into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. June 10 won’t be the first time that guitar licks from Big Head Todd and the Monsters and vocals from Hazel Miller reverberate off the walls of Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But their return to the venue will be a special one for the longtime collaborators: The blues-rock quartet and the 69-year-old R&B singer are both being inducted into the on-site Colorado Music Hall of Fame that night. Ahead of their show/ceremony, we asked the honorees to chart their vaunted careers.…

The response to Denver’s electric bike incentive program has been nothing short of, ahem, shocking. Since the initiative’s launch in April 2022, more than 5,000 residents have snagged rebates, and these aren’t just for pleasure trips. Ride Report, a tech company based in Portland, Oregon, that helps local governments manage mobility projects, surveyed new e-bike owners in Denver and found that in the project’s first nine months, riders pedaled an average of 26 miles each week and replaced 3.4 round trips that they would have otherwise done by car. Across all rebate users, that’s enough to replace 100,000 vehicle miles every seven days. Given that success, you could excuse other governmental entities for stealing the idea: Even the Washington Post exclaimed that the program could be a national model for…

Much like the appetites of Colorado diners, Mary Nguyen’s preferences have changed since the early 2000s. That’s why, in 2013, the chef-restaurateur switched from cooking Asian food to offering cafe cuisine at Olive & Finch, which debuted a spinoff concept called Little Finch on the 16th Street Mall in January. “I would say my career has just evolved, as have my tastes,” Nguyen says. “I’m gonna take a leap and say that Denver has also evolved.” If you’ve been a mile-high resident for more than a hot minute, you likely remember Uptown’s Parallel Seventeen, where the Centennial State native served gussied-up versions of Vietnamese specialties, and Englewood’s Street Kitchen Asian Bistro, its suburban counterpart. The eateries—which opened in 2005 and 2011, respectively, when high-end Asian cuisine wasn’t common in town—moved…

CampV NATURITA, COLORADO Distance From Denver 338 miles Accommodation Jupe I’ve never been to Burning Man. But lying on CampV’s floating dock in my swimsuit while EDM blared through speakers onshore and people danced barefoot, I got a sense of what the annual Nevada festival might be like. The similarity in vibe wasn’t all that surprising: Natalie Binder, one of the founders of CampV, a two-year-old outdoor retreat in Naturita, says she was inspired to build community and energize people in this rural part of Colorado through art. Our accommodation for the weekend certainly was creative: a futuristic-looking Jupe (basically a rectangular, elevated tent) made of Baltic birch and wrapped in canvas. It sat among five other Jupes, 12 cabins, four luxury tents, three Airstreams, and RV and tent sites…

The National Network of Abortion Funds exists to connect people who have unwanted or unviable pregnancies with organizations that can help offset the financial outlays. The network suggests calling your insurance carrier to see if it covers some costs; making an appointment at a clinic and letting clinic staffers know you’re looking for financial assistance; determining what you can cover for the procedure and for travel on your own; searching for abortion funds in the state where your procedure will take place as well as any funds that might exist in your home state, if it’s not the same; and searching for abortion funds that provide assistance nationwide. In Colorado, Cobalt Abortion Fund, the Colorado Doula Project, and the Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center offer varying levels of financial assistance…

For more than 20 years, U.S. clinicians have used a two-drug regimen—mifepristone and misoprostol—to induce at-home abortions in early pregnancy. The combo of drugs has been shown to be between 95 and 99 percent effective and has a 99 percent safety record (better than either Tylenol or Viagra). Despite that, rulings in April from a Texas judge and a federal appeals court could ultimately force changes to the drug’s accessibility and usage, which the FDA had been working to expand over the past seven years. At press time, mifepristone could still be distributed via mail, could still be used after seven weeks of pregnancy, could still be prescribed via telemedicine, and could still be prescribed by a clinician other than a physician. That all could change, though. /// If mifepristone…

One of the goals of Colorado’s Deceptive Trade Practice Pregnancy-related Service bill that Governor Jared Polis signed in April was to declare the administration of abortion pill reversal as unprofessional conduct. However, the law contains an amendment that requires the state medical, nursing, and pharmacy boards to evaluate the practice of abortion pill reversal by October 1; the state says it will not enforce the ban until the boards make their determination. On the day the bill became law, Englewood-based Bella Health and Wellness, a Catholic health care clinic, filed suit in U.S. District Court, saying the law infringes upon staffers’ First Amendment rights. The judge granted a temporary exemption for Bella Health and Wellness but not for other pregnancy crisis centers. That exemption was rescinded on April 28 by…

PRICE KEY (Average Entrée) $ UNDER $15 ▪ $$ $16 TO $20 ▪ $$$ $21 TO $30 ▪ $$$$ $31 AND HIGHER. SYMBOL KEY NEW Indicates a restaurant featured in 5280 for the first time (though not necessarily a restaurant that has just opened). 25 BEST Indicates inclusion in 5280’s 2022 list of Denver’s best restaurants. These selections are at the discretion of 5280 editors and are subject to change. A 25 BEST A5 Steakhouse $$$$ LoDo / Steak House The team behind Forget Me Not and Tap and Burger offers a refreshing chophouse experience with a stellar lineup of steaks in a hip, delightfully funky bar and dining room. Reservations accepted. 1600 15th St., 303-623-0534. Dinner Acreage by Stem Ciders $$ Lafayette / Seasonal Stem Ciders’ ciderhouse and eatery…