Samantha Alviani

Chilean author Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim with her best-selling first novel, The House of the Spirits. From there she went on to write twenty more works in her native Spanish, everything from Zorro to Island Beneath the Sea, which have have sold a total of more than sixty million...

The Winter Park Carnival pays homage to Mary Jane, a legendary madam who resided in the area toward the end of the nineteenth century and is the namesake for Mary Jane Mountain. And this year’s 38th-birthday bash, which kicks off at the Yager House at Devil’s Thumb Ranch and continues...

Colorado has become home to a flourishing craft culture -- first with breweries, and now with an increasing number of distillers. From potato vodka and botanical-packed gins, rye whiskey and whiskey made with experimental grains, to the more niche spirits like absinthe and creme de violette, the range of offerings...

Feisty Spirits is the first distillery in Fort Collins, operating a still (named Aphrodite) that produces an interesting, often experimental lineup of whiskeys (and more) on "fermentation row," as Feisty team member Alex Mackewich affectionately calls it. After all, Funkwerks and Fort Collins Brewery are only a stone's throw away...

Colorado Cider Company, one of the state's cider pioneers, was founded by Brad and Kathe Page in 2011. Now, they are celebrating their success with an expansion that has enabled the cidery to triple its annual production capacity from 25,000 gallons to 75,000 gallons, and includes four new 2,100-gallon tanks...