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Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey is taking it back to the beginning. The whiskey maker, which was founded in 2004 and has often been billed as the first new distillery to open in Colorado since Prohibition, plans to debut a new tasting room, Stranahan’s Whiskey Lodge, sometime this winter in Aspen, according to the company. This “marks our first outpost beyond our Denver distillery and tasting room, and it is being designed to be the ideal environment for fans, already made and new, to experience our award-winning American single malt whiskies – and to say thank you to those who helped start it all,” the company, which is now owned by beverage giant Proximo Spirits, added. Stranahan’s was co-founded by longtime Aspen resident, millionaire, physicist and entrepreneur George Stranahan and former volunteer Aspen firefighter Jess Graber.

Cecelia Bull Bear has been making quillwork art for as long as she can remember. “I learned from my grandmother, Ethel Black Crow, and my aunt, Rose Spotted Eagle, when I was real young,” the 76-year-old Denver-based Oglala Lakota artist said. “I’ve been doing it all my life.” Quillwork is an art form that uses porcupine quills to embroider clothing and make jewelry, and it is one of the oldest artistic traditions practiced by Indigenous North Americans, mostly in the northern plains of what is now the U.

The startup De-Ice uses tape and currents to heat up the surface of an airplane. When he was in grad school at MIT, Alex Bratianu-Badea got stuck on a plane at Boston Logan Airport that had to be de-iced, delaying the flight. As he watched how the process worked, he wondered if there was a better way to do it.

The dating app giant is launching a $1 million social impact fund to tackle the loneliness epidemic that’s plaguing its Gen Z users. Hinge wants you to get off of its app and foster platonic relationships. Read Full Story

On this week’s episode of the Leaders in Innovation podcast, Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital’s cofounder, discusses how he views the rapidly accelerating technology space—and how it can be used for good. Inventions like electricity and microwaves that we take for granted seemed otherworldly not too long ago. Taking a chance on new technology is part of venture firm Lux Capital ideology: “We believe before others understand.”Read Full Story