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Strange but true transplant stories from the past year prove that truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

Lyft has unveiled the inaugural 2016 Lyftie Awards for Denver, crowning the most popular destinations for Lyft riders in the Mile High City. Familiar spots took the top honors in six categories, with lower downtown cementing itself as the city’s most trafficked neighborhood. And the winners are… Most-Visited Restaurant Avanti…

News that Rocky Mountain National Park’s visitor numbers are headed for another record-busting year may be a cause for celebration in some quarters, but it’s also an occasion for groans and trepidation among those who wonder if the park’s most precious features can survive its ever-growing popularity.

For the tenth year running, the Sawaya Law Firm will pick up the New Year’s Eve tab for your cab ride home. It will actually pay your fare tonight, as well — the program runs through January 2. If you grab a cab any night over the next few days…

Many of the issues that dominated local headlines in 2015, including homelessness, the rising cost of housing and a steady influx of transplants, continued to be hot topics this year. But from an unpredictable, insane election to the media frenzy over the twentieth anniversary of JonBenét Ramsey’s death, 2016 threw…

Officially, Aspen sits in Colorado’s Pitkin County, but in reality it sits in a little reality of its own creation, where modest homes go for pornographically immodest prices, where celebrities live but tend not to be seen, where money flows like melting snow, but definitely doesn’t tend to trickle down to the person waiting on your table or pouring your beer. Aspen does not fit into Colorado, not really. Colorado fits around Aspen. Colorado is Aspen’s venue. Aspen is, always, the star.But as we know, stars can be bitchy. What makes the good folks of Aspen grumble? Well, for starters, the universal truth that money can’t buy happiness. But aside from that? These eight.

There’s an old Chinese curse (or so it’s said) that goes like this: “May you live in interesting times.” The saying is apocryphal, of course, and, like chop suey and fortune cookies, may not be authentically Asian in origin. But the point stands: 2016 was too damn interesting for words. Traditionally, we make resolutions for the betterment of ourselves and our lives in the coming year: lose weight, stop smoking, eat more vegetables, make America great again, stop the rise of authoritarianism, whatever. This year, there are things that we in Colorado can resolve to do that will make everything — our state, our neighborhoods and our quality of life — better. Happy New Year, and here’s to 2017 being refreshingly unremarkable. Or at least remarkable for all the right reasons. Here are our top ten resolutions to help make it so.