Josiah Hesse

He smelled of animal hide, which was heady and pungent.... Then he touched my face with the pads of his black fingers." — Cum For Bigfoot When her daughter left for college in 2010, the forty-year-old Parker housewife decided it was time to pursue her dream of writing romance novels...

Similar to the stories of the many African-Americans who fought in WWII, the role of black cowboys and cowgirls in the American West has been largely whitewashed from history. Today this tradition has been not only unearthed, but preserved, in the Martin Luther King Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo, taking place...

Describing the “personality” of a neighborhood without sounding like a pompous academic can be tricky. But for local artist Robert Bell and the folks at MegaFauna art and clothing store, the temptation to articulate what makes our city’s streets so vibrant and eclectic was too tempting. “In the Denver landscape,...

On January 1, 2014, Colorado will become the first state to sell recreational marijuana. As revealed in the following profiles of three local ganjapreneurs, pot is big business -- and the (green) rush is on. •••••••••••• Kayvan Khalatbari, Pot Pioneer I've always been drawn to creative people who are a...

You want to rest up before New Year’s Eve, but you’re too full of anticipation to endure boredom. So what better way to fill that awkward gap than with a witty Christmas flick that you don’t have to feel guilty about? After a string of top-shelf comedy films, the Boulder...