Art by Carlos Fresquez.
I’m a Denver native who snuck away for seven years to live in San Francisco until circumstances called me back. A lot of people thought I was plain out of my mind to come back here, where the culture just doesn’t engulf the city like that famous San Franciscan fog. But I found myself explaining again and again that you have to hit Denver’s cultural communities like you hit a vein of gold ore: They exist, richly, in wildly creative pockets -- but you have to fin