Denver Post: Living

Dear Amy: I became friends with a co-worker, “Marilee,” two years ago. We developed a great friendship. I recently invited another girl, “Trina,” into our friend group. Trina does not work with us, but we have other common interests.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

“We the People” surveys 25 years of artist Nari Ward’s work, and the exhibition has been traveling the country for well over a year, but it is impossible to see the retrospective’s latest incarnation through anything other than the filter of the past six weeks, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the country.

Brace yourselves: The heat will be on and turned up this month. Expect consistent 90-plus temperatures for a good while.
My garden maintenance plans call for less time in the heat and more quality time in the garden getting done what needs to get done.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

“Close your eyes. Picture yourself walking into a place in Five Points, surrounded by all Black bodies. How would you feel?”
Ali Duncan is a Denver-based yoga practitioner and wellness studio owner, and when she says these words to white students, she notices something.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

I learned the secret to making the best, crunchiest fruit crumble over two decades ago. And I subsequently ignored it.
A pastry chef friend shared the technique. Instead of sprinkling the raw crumbs on top of the fruit, where they absorb the juices and turn a little mushy on their undersides, he spread them out in a pan and baked them separately, until crisp and cookielike.

Colorado is a regular hotbed of dinosaur activity — or at least it was an eon or so ago when dinosaurs existed — which means our state has more unique dinosaur-related activities for kids, families and dino-loving adults than hadrosaurs had teeth.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Britta Erickson made it through 2019 in one piece, and she’s hoping the same for 2020.
“I didn’t expect to be in the interim executive director role at Denver Film for a year, and definitely didn’t expect to be in it during a pandemic,” said Erickson, who’s also director of the Denver Film Festival.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Amy: After some false starts, our 20-year-old son is ready to go to college. He’s retaken some community college classes he originally failed, and gotten mostly A’s and B’s.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Amy: Three months ago, I started dating a woman I’ve been very good friends with for two years.
She has a dog she adopted from a shelter 10 years ago.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It only took a few seconds for Paul Custer’s bike to be stolen in broad daylight, with the thief using it as the getaway vehicle.
It was lunchtime in a Denver neighborhood.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share